Nuts, fruit & avocadoes

[Sherry]

Has anyone tried to grow mangoes, citrus, nut trees?  Maybe this is a little extreme but I think it would be great to be able to grow items that are not regional as well as out if season.  I'm tried of the grocery store GMO bunk

Love to hear your info & hopefully success stories!

GBU!

[David Waite]

Sherry I know mangoes papaya and banana all go nuts in aquaponics but beware as they take up the whole bed. I tried a blackberry but my ph is just to high. I have a kiwi going and am hoping they do well. strawberrie also do well if your ph is 7.0 and your nitrates are up for fruiting. Go for it and keep us posted.

[Raychel A Watkins]

All of these trees you talk about are very large and you would have to have a sky high greenhouse if you live in cold country.  I had a papaya in a kind of grow bed did well was about 4 feet high the bed got over watered 2 days and the papaya rotted.  As David says the root system would clog up the world.  You could use the water from the fish to fertilize these trees as I do but in a system they are just too large.

[TCLynx]

Some very dwarf citrus might do ok for you.  I've got some meyer lemon cuttings in aquaponics and I know of people who have had some small tangerines and perhaps a kumquat would be an appropriate size tree for aquaponics.

 

I've done papaya and banana but as Raychel and David Noted, they can get too big for easy handling.  My supposedly Dwarf Banana plant grew over the roof and cracked a 100 gallon grow bed within about 6 months and of course they have hugely dense root systems so clogged the bed as well and after harvesting the bananas it was gut-busting work to remove the stump so I could repair the bed.

 

I would recommend doing research on dwarf varieties and if they will produce in the first year or two after planting, if not, then it may not be worth planting into prime aquaponic space.

[Sherry]

Thanks soooo much for the heads-up! I'll have to keep this for future record(I haven't actually started a system yet), but expect to within the next 6 months or so.  GOD BLESS YOU!

David Waite said:

Sherry I know mangoes papaya and banana all go nuts in aquaponics but beware as they take up the whole bed. I tried a blackberry but my ph is just to high. I have a kiwi going and am hoping they do well. strawberrie also do well if your ph is 7.0 and your nitrates are up for fruiting. Go for it and keep us posted.

[Sherry]

Hey, THANKS soooo much for your heads-up!  I'm just getting my 'feet wet' with this new type of agriculture.  I am totally amazed about Aquaponics & this super group of giving & sharing people! GOD BLESS YOU!

Raychel A Watkins said:

All of these trees you talk about are very large and you would have to have a sky high greenhouse if you live in cold country.  I had a papaya in a kind of grow bed did well was about 4 feet high the bed got over watered 2 days and the papaya rotted.  As David says the root system would clog up the world.  You could use the water from the fish to fertilize these trees as I do but in a system they are just too large.

[Sherry]

OH my goodness!  I've got soooo much to learn!  You must've been at this for a little while.  I'm just on the 'ground floor' of my adventure & have nothing to contribute back YET.  But I want to THANK YOU for sharing your precious insight & knowledge to help me fulfill this recently found new love.  I won't be able to start a system for another 6 months or so.  But I am as excited as yellow perch eyeing a duckweed!  Hee! Hee!   GOD BLESS YOU!

TCLynx said:

Some very dwarf citrus might do ok for you.  I've got some meyer lemon cuttings in aquaponics and I know of people who have had some small tangerines and perhaps a kumquat would be an appropriate size tree for aquaponics.

 

I've done papaya and banana but as Raychel and David Noted, they can get too big for easy handling.  My supposedly Dwarf Banana plant grew over the roof and cracked a 100 gallon grow bed within about 6 months and of course they have hugely dense root systems so clogged the bed as well and after harvesting the bananas it was gut-busting work to remove the stump so I could repair the bed.

 

I would recommend doing research on dwarf varieties and if they will produce in the first year or two after planting, if not, then it may not be worth planting into prime aquaponic space.

[TCLynx]

Oh Sherry, by the way, Aquaponics is addictive.

 

[David Waite]

:Yep another AA member. She has the desease. Poor girl all that lost sleep.