Hydroponics

Anyone have experience?

 

yea i smoke em all the time

 

Not the kind of experience that should be discussed on a public forum.

But we do grow some blooming plants hydroponically at work. It's rather expensive though.

 

agree... does that count... i dont know.are you trying to grow?.... try wikiing it

 

The local heady shop here called "Planet K" has TONS of books on hydroponic grows, i'm sure most head shops do.

 

hydroponics is so yesterday.. one word,,"aquaponics"..

 

you have no idea what im talking about do you??

 

oh, I know about that too, I'm looking at tanks using tilapia and their shit for nutrient for lettuce.

but first I've gotta get the basics down, also have to find out if tilapia need sunlight (thinking about burying the tanks so that they take up less actual space, and so I can put normal hydroponic shelves over them)

the big problem there is that I don't really eat fish, or anything that comes out of water except tuna, and almost nothing grows in salt water.

edit: could also just use rainbow trout, catch some shitty farmed fish and re-release them as good farmed fish

 

sell the fish. especially if ya decide to go the trout route. they are plate size in six months.on the flip side there are a lot of fish that take as long as 18 months to grow to plate size.so what to do with the fish really doesnt have to be a problem,especially on a small scale.

as far as underground tanks, there are several varieties of fish that do fine in total or near total darkness.google cistern or stock tank fish.

 

Well, I mean, it's not hard to get farmed trout here that are eight inches long, I'm about twenty minutes from "world class trout fishing" so, it would be less than that to get them to "plate size (as they probably already are) just maintaining them at an adequate size, getting them healthy, and finding someone to buy them (and bothering with the health department)

 

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finished the first of hopefully many hydroponic planters today.

had to sterilize it (chlorox) and rinse it a couple times, and tomorrow, it's ready for prime time, have a tomato, basil, watermelon, and we're leaving a slot open for a pumpkin

 

lol....they work!

 

tilapia :drool5:

 

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well, that's a good two stages from now, but any specific ideas regarding what to do with them once I've gotten all I can out of a particular fish?

 

send them to me, that would be fine.

you could raise a fish that has a higher market value, tilapia is one of the cheaper fish around here, though I love them because they are sustainably harvested and always very fresh.

 

Well, right now all I care about is figuring something out, I understand people use tilapia because they are easy, easy is good for figuring shit out.

this is the first test garden to figure out what kinds of plants work best for us, we're going to take stuff out as it gets too big, as it reacts badly to nutrients that work well for other stuff, etc. and get the basic hydroponic stuff working first

then expand that

then move that into a more attractive footprint, then, hopefully move to a more aquaculture thing.

 

Well keep me posted, seriously. I think it's a SPLENDID idea... I love gardening and have always wanted to study horticulture.

 

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