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This is a group for people who have any kinds of fish-less systems, but yet are not doing classical hydroponics. Where we can share what we have come to find about making-home made nutrients, oganic-hydro, pee-ponics, worm tea hydro, bio-ponics, home-made buffers, water chemistry or anything else that is perhaps inappropriate for fish. As well as experimenting and sharing results for things that might be alright for our aquatic critters.

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Warning... Much of what may be contained here may, or may not be a good idea to apply to a system populated with living, breathing, happy fish, crustaceans or any other aquatic life. So be smart...

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Comment by TCLynx on June 10, 2012 at 5:52pm: Actually I think it's phosphorus that the hydroponic fruiting nutrients switch to more heavily. Urine generally has plenty of nitrogen and phosphorus. The potassium and iron were the only things I needed to supplement when I was running pee ponics. I just used some chelated iron and maxicrop for the purpose.

Comment by Meir Lazar on June 10, 2012 at 9:24am: Hey everyone, so I've been using peeponics/bioponics for the last several months with some very good results, I've been growing only veggies that are leafy (cabbage, lettuce, kale, etc.) but I now I am growing a lot of fruiting veggies and I'm wondering what does a peeponic person do? I'm used to hydroponics, where you switch to a low (or no) nitrogen nutrient solution that is high in Potassium (when flowering or fruiting). I know that urine has a lot of Potassium in it, but it also has a lot of Nitrogen so do I need to do anything different? What are your thoughts?

Comment by TCLynx on May 1, 2012 at 2:48pm: If compost tea stinks, it was allowed to go anaerobic and that is not good. Just a little stir is probably not enough unless you goal is to simply make yourself gag by stirring up the stink.

Make your next batch using an aerator and use immediately, don't let it sit around after brewing.

Comment by Eric Warwick on April 30, 2012 at 5:01pm: @NTS Last I checked compost tea is not a living organism. However its has microrganisms in it that make it more potent than the nutrients it contians. What you've got is some anaerobic microrganisms that make it stink. You could try stiring it, or putting an airstone in it, or you could just dump it in the backyard. Try to keep it oxygenated next time, or use it quickly.

Comment by NTS on April 30, 2012 at 3:09pm: I think I might have found the problem. My compost tea stinks, I just read this means it is dead. Will stirring create enough oxygen to keep the tea alive?

Comment by Jon Parr on April 29, 2012 at 9:36am: Tell us more. Dual root zone method, soil or media, AP, flood and drain? Are you using only compost tea, or compost tea on addition to something? Are you using the tea for watering or foliar spray? How do you make your tea?

Comment by NTS on April 28, 2012 at 10:02am: I am using compost tea, and my plants are yellow and not growing very much.

Comment by David Schwinghamer on April 3, 2012 at 10:47pm: I ran across this product and want to know if anyone here know about it and how it works.

saltwater farms seaweed/fish fertilizer 3-2-2

Comment by Meir Lazar on March 29, 2012 at 10:38pm: Well I just finished a video on my system. It's a little long but hopefully informative. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEFyMQvLOJI

Feel free to comment, thanks!

Comment by TCLynx on March 22, 2012 at 6:08pm: I was gonna say, the aged urine in a bottle might spike a pH up to 9 but once diluted into the system I wouldn't expect to see more than a tiny bump up in pH which will quickly come down due to the nitrification. My pee ponics system pH came down just fine and continued on down until I buffered it.