Hydroponic hops

[Danscraftbeer]

Good fish food from the Hatchery of the fish. Glenwaters.
Silver Perch. With some Tandanus Catfish in the mix.
I sometimes tweak it with tiny doses of iron of chelate, Calcium minerals with Lime or Dolamite that also help keep the pH up and that don't naturally occur. Or a nutrient that needs a pep up like soluble Sulphate of Potash for heavy fruiting plants like tomatoes, Cucumbers, Zucchini, Eggplants, Flowering! etc. but its a tiny amount like 1 tablespoon to a 1800 litre system no more than once a fortnight if I recall...
Any additions are well diluted with rain water then trickle syphoned into the system through a 4mm hose so its real slow release with top up water so not to stress the fishies etc.

My thinking is that with hydroponics etc it is the oxygen aeration and the regular free running of the water that's the steroids.

If any plant in my system needs some Sulphate of Potash then its just the tiny amount that you add for just that plant/plants needs.
Its just final polish really. Read your plants.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

I have read quite a lot about aquaponics but the closest I have got to using fish waste is to going fishing determined to kill the carp I catch and spread the carcasses around the vegetable beds,trouble is I can never bring myself to kill them.
With the auto pot system the nutrient is delivered by the Venturi effect, but even using the nutrient solution the pH has to be raised (if using rainwater) to around 7 for the plants to take up the nutrient.
It will be interesting to see what effect of a rhizome in a pot has after a few years, are they removed from the pot and cut up and replant a small section?

 

[Danscraftbeer]

It will be interesting to see what effect of a rhizome in a pot has after a few years, are they removed from the pot and cut up and replant a small section?

I think that will be the case for me after this season. Otherwise the root system/or crown just gets bigger every year taking up more and more subterranean area. With aquaponics, same with hydroponics one small cutting can probably put out as much as a big crown anyway I think. That stem base got to that size in 4 months from a cutting. Its the same size now but lots of side shoots that spread out around it this seasons growth. I cut off heaps of shoots that were popping up a foot away from that main stem. It gets a bit out of control. Same with the wicking beds too. I guess I'll be another one in the position to off loading rhizomes this year.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Thats what happened when I grew mine hydroponically I had the root system climbing out all over the place, they are certainly 'searchers', as for the wicker beds I wonder if the rhizome could be controlled to go through a length of downpipe with holes drilled along the length for the roots to come out?