Basil Drying up - Aquaponic Gardening2024-03-29T15:36:22Zhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/forum/topics/basil-drying-up?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A264558&feed=yes&xn_auth=nowhy did you add fertilizer or…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-12-20:4778851:Comment:2675212011-12-20T18:46:28.998ZKatie Dhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/KatieD
<p>why did you add fertilizer or what kind? I thought you never added ferts (just additives) to an aquaponics system....???</p>
<p>why did you add fertilizer or what kind? I thought you never added ferts (just additives) to an aquaponics system....???</p> Why is the surface of the med…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-12-20:4778851:Comment:2675072011-12-20T14:55:41.278ZTCLynxhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/TCLynx
<p>Why is the surface of the media always wet? I would recommend adding more media or lowering the flood level.</p>
<p>What do your water tests say, why did you add fertilizer to an aquaponics system?</p>
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<p>If there is not enough aeration and water is sitting in the beds or flooding over the media, the tomatoes might be suffering from "wet feet" and infections that can come with it. In aquaponics most of those diseases are not a problem and plants usually don't start wilting from…</p>
<p>Why is the surface of the media always wet? I would recommend adding more media or lowering the flood level.</p>
<p>What do your water tests say, why did you add fertilizer to an aquaponics system?</p>
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<p>If there is not enough aeration and water is sitting in the beds or flooding over the media, the tomatoes might be suffering from "wet feet" and infections that can come with it. In aquaponics most of those diseases are not a problem and plants usually don't start wilting from over watering but since you added fertilizer, now you may be prone to problems that are common in hydroponics with strong fertilizer and plants drooping from over watering.</p> good day guys, i need some he…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-12-20:4778851:Comment:2674622011-12-20T14:28:34.549ZLauncelot Envergahttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/LauncelotEnverga
<p>good day guys, i need some help, my tomatoes wilt suddenly as in 1 morning i woke up they start wilting then before lunch time all of my tomatoes wilt. my system is 7 weeks old, 600L fish tank and 2 grow beds. i have assorted plants in my system but only the tomato have been damage. i did a research and the wilting looks like bacterial infection.<br></br>the ph was from 8+ down to 7.3 (7.7 - 7.3 in 2 days) in 7 weeks cycling process (as expected during cycling)<br></br><br></br>the situation before i…</p>
<p>good day guys, i need some help, my tomatoes wilt suddenly as in 1 morning i woke up they start wilting then before lunch time all of my tomatoes wilt. my system is 7 weeks old, 600L fish tank and 2 grow beds. i have assorted plants in my system but only the tomato have been damage. i did a research and the wilting looks like bacterial infection.<br/>the ph was from 8+ down to 7.3 (7.7 - 7.3 in 2 days) in 7 weeks cycling process (as expected during cycling)<br/><br/>the situation before i the incident happen:<br/><br/>1. the tomato plants are only 4 inches apart, there are some 3 tomato plants in exactly same place. (might be crowding the roots) <br/><br/>2. top gravel is always wet and moist.<br/>3. only 5 hrs of full sunlight.<br/>4. i put organic powder fertilizer 2 days before the incident. (drastically lower the ph from 7.7- 7.3 in 2 days) TDS- 155-245ppm in 2 days. but before i put the fertilizer there was 1 tomato plant that suffer from the wilting.<br/><br/>5. the tomato plants are starting to produce flowers.<br/>6. one expert told me its a bacterial melt, which occurs during the flowering stage of the tomato.<br/><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2772197945?profile=original"><img width="721" class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2772197945?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="721"/></a><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2772198305?profile=original"><img width="721" class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2772198305?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="721"/></a><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2772198390?profile=original"><img width="721" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2772198390?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="721"/></a></p> Well keep in mind also that t…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-12-13:4778851:Comment:2650572011-12-13T20:37:38.925ZVlad Jovanovichttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/VladJovanovic
<p>Well keep in mind also that the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service warns that "composting component needs to be sized on basis of carbon dioxide production. If sized to heat the greenhouse, the amount of carbon dioxide generated will be six times that needed for optimal CO2-enriched atmospheres. Nitrogen (ammonia) will be released, 50 times (what is) needed for optimal plant growth. When sized on basis of carbon dioxide, heat generated will be supplementary only, meeting…</p>
<p>Well keep in mind also that the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service warns that "composting component needs to be sized on basis of carbon dioxide production. If sized to heat the greenhouse, the amount of carbon dioxide generated will be six times that needed for optimal CO2-enriched atmospheres. Nitrogen (ammonia) will be released, 50 times (what is) needed for optimal plant growth. When sized on basis of carbon dioxide, heat generated will be supplementary only, meeting perhaps 15 percent of the energy needs. Excess nitrogen will still be a contaminant of the system". <span><br/><br/><br/></span></p> How much compost depends on t…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-12-13:4778851:Comment:2649502011-12-13T19:56:06.795ZKatie Dhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/KatieD
<p>How much compost depends on the size of the garden, the climate of the area, and the type of compost you use. But I pretty much said all that already.... :-)</p>
<p>How much compost depends on the size of the garden, the climate of the area, and the type of compost you use. But I pretty much said all that already.... :-)</p> I've experienced that. Ouch,…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-12-13:4778851:Comment:2648372011-12-13T01:56:37.295ZTCLynxhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/TCLynx
<p>I've experienced that. Ouch, makes even a young person think how terrible arthritis is.</p>
<p>I've experienced that. Ouch, makes even a young person think how terrible arthritis is.</p> ya good idea, i will probably…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-12-13:4778851:Comment:2648362011-12-13T01:44:28.936ZDanny Danielhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/DannyDaniel
<p>ya good idea, i will probably end up doing that for now. im sure the fish need the heat.</p>
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<p>last time the water was so cold that my hand was hurting just being in there for to long, when i was trying to fix the buckets surronding the pump.</p>
<p>ya good idea, i will probably end up doing that for now. im sure the fish need the heat.</p>
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<p>last time the water was so cold that my hand was hurting just being in there for to long, when i was trying to fix the buckets surronding the pump.</p> Instead of heating up the wat…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-12-13:4778851:Comment:2647682011-12-13T01:15:55.043ZTCLynxhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/TCLynx
<p>Instead of heating up the water every few days, you would be better off just using a smaller amount of heat constantly since the fish don't do so well with big swings in temperatures. Slow and stead is generally a better idea.</p>
<p>You can get stock tank heaters and similar things. Make sure you get things that are stainless steel as other metals will corrode and can leach bad things for the fish.</p>
<p>Instead of heating up the water every few days, you would be better off just using a smaller amount of heat constantly since the fish don't do so well with big swings in temperatures. Slow and stead is generally a better idea.</p>
<p>You can get stock tank heaters and similar things. Make sure you get things that are stainless steel as other metals will corrode and can leach bad things for the fish.</p> there is 2 greenhouses, one i…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-12-13:4778851:Comment:2647672011-12-13T01:10:40.867ZDanny Danielhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/DannyDaniel
<p>there is 2 greenhouses, one is bout 20x10x7 the other is little bigger then half that size.</p>
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<p>now that im looking more into it, heating with compost is not a bad idea but where am i gonna get all that compost lol.if i was doing something on a bigger scale and had farm animals and alot of compost, then it would not be a bad idea.</p>
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<p>the more i think about it the more i keep just going back to the idea of just heating up the water every few days atleast that will keep…</p>
<p>there is 2 greenhouses, one is bout 20x10x7 the other is little bigger then half that size.</p>
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<p>now that im looking more into it, heating with compost is not a bad idea but where am i gonna get all that compost lol.if i was doing something on a bigger scale and had farm animals and alot of compost, then it would not be a bad idea.</p>
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<p>the more i think about it the more i keep just going back to the idea of just heating up the water every few days atleast that will keep the system warm.</p>
<p></p> I took my greenhouse down, an…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-12-12:4778851:Comment:2646722011-12-12T23:43:21.899ZTCLynxhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/TCLynx
<p>I took my greenhouse down, and I'm in a hot climate so I had far more trouble with keeping things cool actually. During the winter I just grow seasonally appropriate plants and my fish are able to handle freezing temperatures as long as I stop feeding them when it gets too cool and keep the water from actually freezing over.</p>
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<p>I don't believe that compost is the only form of heating that gets used by growing power, they have some greenhouses with no additional heating other…</p>
<p>I took my greenhouse down, and I'm in a hot climate so I had far more trouble with keeping things cool actually. During the winter I just grow seasonally appropriate plants and my fish are able to handle freezing temperatures as long as I stop feeding them when it gets too cool and keep the water from actually freezing over.</p>
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<p>I don't believe that compost is the only form of heating that gets used by growing power, they have some greenhouses with no additional heating other than compost but those tend to grow cold weather crops like Kale which can survive snow and ice (at least that is what I saw last Christmas when I was up in the area and visited.)</p>
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<p>I'm only trying to make known to those who might not know better that you are not going to heat a 10 by 12 greenhouse with only the contents of a 2 foot by 2 foot by 2 foot patio compost bin or something like that. Also, if you have lots of near freezing weather, a bit of compost isn't going to make your single ply cold frame or hoop house type greenhouse a tropical paradise able to grow hot weather crops through the cold unless you have managed very big windrows and some extra thermal mass heat storage options to get you through the cold nights. The idea of using compost for heating comes up alot actually and I know people who have tried it (in a climate similar to my sub tropical climate) with piles smaller than Growing power's windrows and they decided it was away too much work, took up too much space, and didn't really give enough heat for long enough to justify trying to continue doing it. Now I know Danny's greenhouse isn't huge so I'm not sure how much space he can give up inside it to digging big holes for compost.</p>
<p>How big is the greenhouse Danny? Katie, how much compost and space would it take to keep that warm?</p>