A Community and Forum For Aquaponic Gardeners

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Helping each other to learn and grow big nutritious plants and fish to help feed the world.

Location: Phoenix
Members: 230
Latest Activity: Oct 7, 2019

Thank you all for joining my group, I hope to do a lot with all anyone interested. Please
tell me any event suggestions you would like us to do.

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Comment by Jeremy K on December 17, 2012 at 7:03pm: I built a greenhouse today for 1 of my tote gardens, 65" long by 52" wide and 48" long out of 1.25" PVC house shaped using 90 degree elbow as the apex of the roof, into 24" straight pipe, into 45 degree elbows down to 24" straight pipe to tee fittings connecting the bottom, and an extra section outside of the green house to make removing it a breeze.. Then my Dumbass ate one of mt habaneros that just turned orange.. Bad idea

Comment by Matt Miskinnis on December 15, 2012 at 5:22pm: well I must admit, loving the rain, not to mention that the rain has topped up my sump tank nicely ;-)

Comment by Bob Campbell on December 14, 2012 at 7:21pm: Roots do not grow down because of gravity.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/12/12/plants-in-spac...

Silly experiment... look at the upside down tomato baskets that are sold for the same answer. I wonder how much they spent on this experiment. But isn't it great to get total confirmation?

Sorry for the re-post but I hate misspelled words

Comment by Jacques L. on December 14, 2012 at 10:10am: @Sheri

Krikey! Those be some big fish!

@Matt

Your beds should do fine. Mine have been holding up since March fairly well and that was through the Monsoon season (they're also not painted).

Biggest issue that me and a friend are dealing with is the cooling of the water during the nights. My friend John's got himself a DIY solar water heater *envy*. While I myself am making do with a coupla large aquarium heaters.

Gonna get my greenhouse film up this weekend hopefully, see if that can't help insulate things a bit better and get the temps back up again.

Comment by Matt Miskinnis on December 13, 2012 at 10:31pm: I hope everyone is prepared for the rain. I'm going to see if my growbed can withstand rain ( I hope I painted it enough)

Comment by Matt Miskinnis on December 12, 2012 at 9:23pm: damn, that is so cool. Can't wait until my system is going!

Comment by Dr. George B. Brooks, Jr. on December 12, 2012 at 7:47pm: GREAT FISH SHERI!!!!!! How old were they?

Comment by Sheri Schmeckpeper on December 12, 2012 at 5:24pm: Bob, you're so right. The texture and flavor are SO much better than store-bought!

Comment by Sheri Schmeckpeper on December 12, 2012 at 5:23pm: Today's catch. We pulled out four to make room for smaller ones. We need to pull another 10 or so to get things in better balance.

This it the biggest of the four. 3 lbs 2 oz, 16 3/4", and 1 lb of filet.

Comment by Bob Campbell on December 12, 2012 at 11:44am: I ate my first home grown Tilapia this morning. I weighed 16 oz whole and the filets weighed 7oz. It's been many years since I fileted a fish, but it went very well. I cooked it in oil and only used a little salt. It seemed to be much softer and more tender than store bought, very similar to Dover Sole. .