"Everglades" landrace tomatoes do well in Florida (where most others die in the summer). They might tolerate the greenhouse better, though they are somewhat between currant and cherry tomatoes and might not be as easy to market in New England.
I would put a 2 inch net cup on the drain and cover it with some rocks for a filter and fill the rest up with perlite.. The roots grow different in perlite, it doesn't get out of control and fill the bucket.
@@Bigelowbrook I came across this while looking at design inspiration for a system I'm working on now. I look forward to the Jeb insanity with the tipping.. I might try to modify the basic mechanism to be encased in a black ABS and light sealed. Aaah algae.. is a fiend and a friend..
At the rate things are going under ground aquaponics might be a thing soon. There is interest in two area, Frist space race, living of planet, second earth survivalist, both wants to be able to grow food in a safe environment away from dangerous elements. For me I'm curious if it could become a more cost effective way for growing food for oneself year-round.
hi mate, i think you are going about this the wrong way, being aquaponics and all the organic solids you don't want all that hassle with drip lines etc, far to much hassle. consider a constant flow media beds, low as possible with only about 2 inch of media in the bed, lie your dwc beds you already have, but with river stone it it, now you can duel root zone the pots or better buckets, drill lots of holes in the bottom, paint strainer, then about 2 inch of river course river sand, the some 50/50 Sade cloth then 2 ich of pet moss or coco coir, another piece of shade cloth, now you can file the rest of the bucket with a good quality mixture of compost, soil etc, now your tomatoes will be in heaven, with all the nutrients it loves and now can send roots all the way down the media, watch em grow now
@@Bigelowbrook yes and no, look into duel root zone , and you will see them with large pots on top of 2 inch plus polyurethane and the may i mentioned, the ones on soil grow more hand of fruit, so one set up, its just repeat each year.. some just have a large pot with a large hole in the bottom, shade cloth, sand shade cloth then soil, sitting onto of rafts, the plants grow huge masses of roots through he soils down into the water, i never do Dutch buckets with aquaponics, breaks to many simple rules, im currently running small pots with a net cup drilled in the bottom, some sand the soil with strawberry's in cool very cool way to grow strawberry's also red cabbage in the same system man they grow huge this way
Cool teeter totter water spreader idea, thank you for sharing it.
Your content is always phenomenal. You're an outstanding practitioner of aquaponics and a service to the greater aquaponics community.
I hope one day I can tinker with systems like these and just see what I can figure out. I really like your channel.
"Everglades" landrace tomatoes do well in Florida (where most others die in the summer). They might tolerate the greenhouse better, though they are somewhat between currant and cherry tomatoes and might not be as easy to market in New England.
I would put a 2 inch net cup on the drain and cover it with some rocks for a filter and fill the rest up with perlite.. The roots grow different in perlite, it doesn't get out of control and fill the bucket.
Have you considered using solar screen over the top your greenhouse to help keep it cool?
do you think the tipper toppers would eventually fail with the algae buildup?
Yup! I already had to clean the algae out of one of them. At some point maybe I'll make little covers for them.
@@Bigelowbrook I came across this while looking at design inspiration for a system I'm working on now.
I look forward to the Jeb insanity with the tipping.. I might try to modify the basic mechanism to be encased in a black ABS and light sealed. Aaah algae.. is a fiend and a friend..
Have you thought about making an air pruning root system into your beto buckets?
I've never seen timber rot (Midwest). Interesting.
Have you tried perforrated buckets, like Air-Pot or similar ?
I've seen other Dutch bucket systems where the plants were pruned of leaves below any fruit (indeterminate plants). What is your thought on this?
I do that with my plants
Put the feed system on a timer
At the rate things are going under ground aquaponics might be a thing soon. There is interest in two area, Frist space race, living of planet, second earth survivalist, both wants to be able to grow food in a safe environment away from dangerous elements. For me I'm curious if it could become a more cost effective way for growing food for oneself year-round.
Sorry.. how many times a day do you water?? How many minutes each time???
2 minutes of watering every 15 minutes
@@Bigelowbrook Really... as far as I know, too much watering causes root rot
我认为不需要往根部浇水，植物的根会找水源，不需要很近。
深水水培的水温更稳定
For all the trouble hydro tomatoes don't have any flavor compared to other methods
you're trying the wrong tomatoes....
hi mate, i think you are going about this the wrong way, being aquaponics and all the organic solids you don't want all that hassle with drip lines etc, far to much hassle. consider a constant flow media beds, low as possible with only about 2 inch of media in the bed, lie your dwc beds you already have, but with river stone it it, now you can duel root zone the pots or better buckets, drill lots of holes in the bottom, paint strainer, then about 2 inch of river course river sand, the some 50/50 Sade cloth then 2 ich of pet moss or coco coir, another piece of shade cloth, now you can file the rest of the bucket with a good quality mixture of compost, soil etc, now your tomatoes will be in heaven, with all the nutrients it loves and now can send roots all the way down the media, watch em grow now
That's way too much effort. ;) It's easier to just put them in DWC and not deal with any media at all.
@@Bigelowbrook yes and no, look into duel root zone , and you will see them with large pots on top of 2 inch plus polyurethane and the may i mentioned, the ones on soil grow more hand of fruit, so one set up, its just repeat each year.. some just have a large pot with a large hole in the bottom, shade cloth, sand shade cloth then soil, sitting onto of rafts, the plants grow huge masses of roots through he soils down into the water, i never do Dutch buckets with aquaponics, breaks to many simple rules, im currently running small pots with a net cup drilled in the bottom, some sand the soil with strawberry's in cool very cool way to grow strawberry's also red cabbage in the same system man they grow huge this way
Boop
put them in a airconditioned truck.........