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Kuchai Overload
Kuchai or Garlic Chives that I planted just outgrowing their usage for a typical family of five. Time to take drastic measures to reduce their footprint in the growbed. I decide to make two pots into...
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Rosemary Surviving
Planted this in first week of July and after about two months it's looking good.Will plant another three pots to fill up the #guttergrowbed
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Aquaponics Tips - Shelter for Seedling or Cutting
This is a simple way to temporarily protect a new seedling or cutting from the elements. Use another pot to cover them, this way strong sunlight or heavy rain will not damage the plants. Slot in the...
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Aquaponics Tips - Seedling Transplant Make Easy
Seedling are fragile and they break easily. To reduce chances of damage while planting seedling, growbed should be flooded to make the hydroton more movable.For flood and drain growbed using siphon,...
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This tool I made during the days that I uses pebbles instead of hydroton in my growbed. Pebbles are very hard and heavy, they will damage seedling if we are not careful during planting.(Photo to be...
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Doing Few More Rosemary
My first trial of Rosemary fail, since its roots got water damage and I was at the time using pebbles as the media for planting. Recently manage to get encouraging result and this prompt me to try...
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Aquaponics Tips - Sowing Seeds
Many people has been asking me how do I sow seeds for Aquaponics, whether I sow them in soil or directly to growbed. Well it all depends on type of seeds, if it extremely small like Lettuce seeds I'll...
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Chilli Plants - Updates
Chillies plant in the gutter growbed are producing chillies. Monitoring them closely for fungal infection.Chillies plants are prone to fungal wilt, I had lost many chilli plants due to this. At the...
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Aquaponics Tips - Insecticide Application
Insect and caterpillar are a common threat in aquaponics setup just as in any garden. When you do aquaponics, some people automatically thought it is organic. To be honest aquaponics and Organic are...
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Aquaponics Tips - Chelated Iron
Chelated Iron like Fe 13% EDTA are use in agriculture as a supplement to ensure yellowing leaves don't occur and enhance production of chlorophyll in leaves. They can be use as a foliar spray either on...
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Aquaponics Tips - Too High Water In Growbed
What will happen if you have too high water level in the growbed?Initially high water level will cause higher evaporation and water will be use more due to this. To endure this don't happen it is...
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Lemon Grass Reposition
Earlier planted lemon grass in the gutter growbed, then I move it to the backyard set. Now it's time to put it back to the gutter set.I only have two pots of lemon grass and will need to plant another...
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Gandarusa Has To Go
This Gandarusa plant was requested by a friend for me to try out in aquaponics, I done flood and drain media base growbed and gutter growbed style and it do very well in both trial.It is time to say...
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Fixing A Leaky Gutter Growbed
Just noticed this morning water droplet from one of the #guttergrowbed, it's just about five drops per minute.Thro the leak is only five drop per minute, it enough to wet the floor, over time if not...
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Aquaponics Tips - Getting Rid of Creepy Crawlies
Slugs, millipede, centipede, ants and other crawlies can start to be comfortable in the growbed. How do we get rid of them ?On flood and drain media base aquaponics, I recommend to flood the growbed....
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Aquaponics Tips - Magnesium Sulphate
Magnesium Sulphate (MgSO4) or commonly known as Epsom Salt are use in agriculture to promote chlorophyll production. Certain plants like Tomatoes and Chili require magnesium for their better...
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Spearmint, what can you do with it ?
By accident I obtained a pot of spearmint and I don't think I have any usage for it. Done a trial planting in aquaponics and its do grow well.I use mint in either tea or eat raw, but that is peppermint...
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Fresh Tilapia Batch
Another batch bought from nearby nurseries fresh stocking, they are red tilapia fingerlings about 2" in length and I paid RM 20.00 (US $ 4.50) for a hundred.As usual for any new fish going into the...
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Single Barrel Gutter Growbed Set
Making a small single barrel #guttergrowbed set from surplus gutter. Six feet of gutter leftover from earlier set cut into two and endcapped.After hot glue the ends, do a leak check to ensure all in...
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Doing Rosemary Update
Last 20th September I planted few Rosemary cuttings in three pots, one didn't make it.The base plant still available and get few more cuttings to redo it.Progress with this plants is very slow.Together...
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