Aquaponic Gardening2024-03-29T05:30:07ZJim Fiskhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/JimFiskhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2796968410?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/group/threadjackers/forum/topic/listForContributor?groupUrl=threadjackers&user=0mm0cglxqchye&feed=yes&xn_auth=noColloidal Silvertag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-12-30:4778851:Topic:4261412012-12-30T22:10:49.977ZJim Fiskhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/JimFisk
<p><a href="http://www.united-academics.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/blue.png" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="http://www.united-academics.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/blue.png"></img></a> So, a highjacked water catchment thread here …</p>
<p><a href="http://www.united-academics.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/blue.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.united-academics.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/blue.png" class="align-center"/></a>So, a highjacked water catchment thread here <a href="http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/forum/topics/rainwater-collection-roofing-material?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A426223&xg_source=msg_com_forum">http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/forum/topics/rainwater-collection-roofing-material?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A426223&xg_source=msg_com_forum</a></p>
<p>spawned a discussion of Colloidal Silver, and quite rare and hard to believe, I have no strong opinion for nor against. </p>
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<p>Convince me, please.</p>
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<p>On the Nay front, medical science says that silver is not needed in diet, ineffective at treating ailments or preventing, and quite possibly may be toxic. </p>
<p><a href="http://nccam.nih.gov/health/silver">http://nccam.nih.gov/health/silver</a></p>
<p>On the Yay front, many health nuts I know swear by it's benefit.</p> So your cat's got bladder stones huh?tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-10-26:4778851:Topic:4115202012-10-26T15:54:35.073ZJim Fiskhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/JimFisk
<p>TC asked in another thread what my cat's diet had to do with my coming up with biological phosphate recovery...</p>
<p><a href="http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/forum/topics/floating-raft-bed-alternatives?xg_source=activity&id=4778851%3ATopic%3A136417&page=5#comments">http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/forum/topics/floating-raft-bed-alternatives?xg_source=activity&id=4778851%3ATopic%3A136417&page=5#comments</a></p>
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<p>So now you all have to listen to me…</p>
<p>TC asked in another thread what my cat's diet had to do with my coming up with biological phosphate recovery...</p>
<p><a href="http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/forum/topics/floating-raft-bed-alternatives?xg_source=activity&id=4778851%3ATopic%3A136417&page=5#comments">http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/forum/topics/floating-raft-bed-alternatives?xg_source=activity&id=4778851%3ATopic%3A136417&page=5#comments</a></p>
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<p>So now you all have to listen to me tell ya all about it...</p>
<p></p> KCl use in Aquaponicstag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-08-14:4778851:Topic:3829732012-08-14T23:26:04.541ZJim Fiskhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/JimFisk
<p>This is a thread jack from the comment section of <a href="http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/group/artificiallighting">http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/group/artificiallighting</a> . Here's the transcript from the sicko's Jon and Vlad, along with TCLynx and myself. (Read from the bottom.)</p>
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<p>This is a thread jack from the comment section of <a href="http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/group/artificiallighting">http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/group/artificiallighting</a> . Here's the transcript from the sicko's Jon and Vlad, along with TCLynx and myself. (Read from the bottom.)</p>
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<dd><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Vlad: TC, just out of curiosity...why do you say "in a pinch"? Don't folks salt their systems with NaCl for the chloride ions (tonic for the fish, mitigating nitrite poisoning blabla...)? Potassium chloride <em>seems</em> like a <em>grand</em> way to add K for the plants and provide some chloride ions for the fish at the same time...Is there any reason you know of that this would not be so?</p>
<p>(Jon, cue the music and put your ski mask on<img src="http://www.bkserv.net/images/Smile.gif"/> ...</p>
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<dd><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>TCLynx: Potassium Chloride can work to provide potassium in a pinch but for me if the pH is fine, I'll usually use some seaweed extract to also get trace elements along with the potassium.As to the tomatoes and flowering. Toms where I live are a spring and fall crop since summer is too darn hot. Now we usually don't get the super extreme heat but since I'm in a humid climate it doesn't usually cool off enough at night for good flower/fruit set during the extreme heat of summer. If you can keep the plant alive and well through the extreme heat, then once the temps come down a bit and you can get the right differential between night and day you should hopefully start seeing some tomato production.</p>
<p>Me: Jon, yes you could, but it's not as efficient as a K buffer. Ultimately, if your pH is good, then your nutrients are going to be absorbed better, which equals less deficiencies. I think, ultimately, if you're making your own nutrient solutions (hydroponic) then KCl would work. I guess it's cheaper to use Calcium Bicarbonate to buffer as well. Anyways, whatever works. </p>
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<dd><div class="xg_user_generated">Excellent. On the potassium issue, could one use potassium chloride? It certainly is cheap, just paid $12 for 50 lbs, and it's 51% K. Borderline threadjacking, here</div>
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</dl> Square Groupertag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-05-27:4778851:Topic:3419872012-05-27T19:48:58.008ZJim Fiskhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/JimFisk
So poor Jeremy asked for a little lighting advice, and look what happened.<br />
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From here: <a href="http://aquaponicscommunity.com/forum/topics/leggy-thin-and-or-lenky-plants?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A342132&xg_source=msg_com_forum">http://aquaponicscommunity.com/forum/topics/leggy-thin-and-or-lenky-plants?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A342132&xg_source=msg_com_forum</a><br />
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To here: Too funny, Vlad. Hiding your stuff from yourself. Hehe. That reminds me of a story, a bit of a threadjack,…
So poor Jeremy asked for a little lighting advice, and look what happened.<br />
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From here: <a href="http://aquaponicscommunity.com/forum/topics/leggy-thin-and-or-lenky-plants?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A342132&xg_source=msg_com_forum">http://aquaponicscommunity.com/forum/topics/leggy-thin-and-or-lenky-plants?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A342132&xg_source=msg_com_forum</a><br />
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To here: Too funny, Vlad. Hiding your stuff from yourself. Hehe. That reminds me of a story, a bit of a threadjack, but oh well. I was fishing in Baja, about half-way down the sea of Cortez a few years back, when we found floating in the water a bale of MJ. A whole bale, as in straw-bale sized, 20 numbered bags 1 kilo each. Now my buddy and I don't smoke, and even if I did, Mexico is not a place where a gringo wants to get caught with weed. The boat captain, a gringo named Mike living in Mexico, also no longer smoked, but he pulled 1 kilo out and kicked the rest back to sea. After fishing the morning and slaying the yellowtail, we made our way back to the lagoon (san lucas cove) to clean fish, where Mike radioed ahead to a Canadian snow-bird named Al, saying that we had caught a "square grouper". Al asked if we were "gonna keep it", mike said no, unless Al wanted to "eat it". Anyway, long story, but later that evening over fresh sushi and beer and campfire, Al explains that this was not the first "square grouper" he had found. A year prior, he had found a single kilo while beachcombing. Being paranoid of getting caught, and quite stoned at the time, he divied up the pot and stuffed it into a dozen jars and buried them all around the camping area at San Lucas cove, and then forgot were they were. Hilarious. So now every time he's jonesing, he walks around poking a rebar into the ground hoping to hit glass. He said he had found less than half of the total stash, which I still laugh at every time I think about it.<br />
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Sorry Jeremy. You can have your thread back. Aquaculture Vs. Hydroponics What To Start First?tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-02-24:4778851:Topic:2980272012-02-24T22:08:35.526ZJim Fiskhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/JimFisk
<p><span>Carey: Get you fish going and when things stabilize, add your hydroponics side of your system. The biggest problem most beginners face is rushing into things before the system is ready.</span></p>
<p>To which a sicko thread jacker<img src="http://www.bkserv.net/images/Grin.gif"/> replied: Carey, I think I should disagree with the aquaculture first side; the plants are the main attraction. So, I'm copying this over to the threadjackers page for future discussion. </p>
<p><span>Carey: Get you fish going and when things stabilize, add your hydroponics side of your system. The biggest problem most beginners face is rushing into things before the system is ready.</span></p>
<p>To which a sicko thread jacker<img src="http://www.bkserv.net/images/Grin.gif"/> replied: Carey, I think I should disagree with the aquaculture first side; the plants are the main attraction. So, I'm copying this over to the threadjackers page for future discussion. </p> Do you Uberman?tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-02-23:4778851:Topic:2970322012-02-23T15:11:51.351ZJim Fiskhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/JimFisk
<p>Uberman is name for a Polyphasic Sleep Cycle, where one sleeps for 15 minutes every 4 hours. </p>
<p>Dymaxion sleep is where on sleeps 30 minutes every 6 hours.</p>
<p>Everyman is a core nap of 2-4 hours, with 2-4 naps throughout the day</p>
<p><a class="xg_icon xg_icon-permalink" href="http://aquaponicscommunity.com/xn/detail/4778851:Comment:296762" name="4778851Comment296762" title="Permalink to this Reply"></a>Permalink Reply by …</p>
<p>Uberman is name for a Polyphasic Sleep Cycle, where one sleeps for 15 minutes every 4 hours. </p>
<p>Dymaxion sleep is where on sleeps 30 minutes every 6 hours.</p>
<p>Everyman is a core nap of 2-4 hours, with 2-4 naps throughout the day</p>
<p><a name="4778851Comment296762" href="http://aquaponicscommunity.com/xn/detail/4778851:Comment:296762" title="Permalink to this Reply" class="xg_icon xg_icon-permalink"></a>Permalink Reply by <a href="http://aquaponicscommunity.com/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=190qxqrxjrmxy" class="fn url">Carey Ma</a> <span class="timestamp">3 hours ago</span></p>
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<p>I've only had two paying jobs in my life and hope never to have one again. I started sleeping only four hours a night while I was in collage some thirty years ago. I did burn out about a decade ago but am back to four to six hours a night with naps during the day, whenever feel tired. There is always so much to do and learn, twenty four hours is just not enough. I use to wish I didn't need sleep. Data on Star-Trek is so lucky.</p>
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