Dee and Wynne comment on Aquaponics Kickstarter
Taken at Dee’s Aquaonics System and Greenhouse. Shows Dee Harvesting a load of lettuce to take to the local food bank because her system is growing lettuce f…
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Joseph Perry,
So far the days are still cool outside. But yes, it’s been sunny and without ventilation, the plants would fry. Check out the vents at each end of the greenhouse in the videos, they open automatically when the inside temperature gets above 85F. Sometimes peak hits 90, then drops when vents open and remains stable at around 85….vents open more if T tries to go up, so T stays pinned at 85 with bright sun. Plan to grow all summer, w/ water mist cooling, we’ll see,
rt
woodfirepower
April 21, 2013 at 10:14 am
Hello, Macspud28………..We just now introduced the fish. Up to now, to grow the lettuce, we’ve added worm castings, Maxi crop kelp, iron chelate (many aquaponics tend to lack iron so we just added some). And to cycle the system to get ready for the fish, we have been adding ammonia, just pure straight ammonia in water as a concentrate. Now that the fish are in, we stopped adding ammonia, let ammonia and nitrite levels drop to zero, then added the babies. Now we will add organic food.
rt
woodfirepower
April 21, 2013 at 10:47 am
What are you feeding the fish?
macspud28
April 21, 2013 at 11:16 am
Doesn’t the greenhouse get too hot about now for lettuce?
joseph perry
April 21, 2013 at 11:36 am