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    You know somewhere around here to get Tilapia fry?

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    another garden bump, considering the season.

    One thing that my reading has created concern about... and something I have noticed... is that late in the season my tomato leaves start turning yellow, and they slow down in production. From what I read... they are getting too much water. and considering I find them growing roots right through the pail into the bottom pail; this makes sense. I'm thinking about adding a tight, but strong steel screen in the top pail to stop the roots from tunneling into the bottom pail... thoughts?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sniper-T View Post
    another garden bump, considering the season.

    One thing that my reading has created concern about... and something I have noticed... is that late in the season my tomato leaves start turning yellow, and they slow down in production. From what I read... they are getting too much water. and considering I find them growing roots right through the pail into the bottom pail; this makes sense. I'm thinking about adding a tight, but strong steel screen in the top pail to stop the roots from tunneling into the bottom pail... thoughts?
    As much as I like the maintenance level and self watering on a global bucket, I have had terrible luck with maters in them. Like really big plants, and little production. Maybe figure out a way to put a drain plug in the bottom bucket for when you DON'T want it to have a reservoir at the bottom?
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    Did the Global Buckets/Water trough idea last year. It does really good. Let me pull up some photos.
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    I've never used these buckets before. But from what I have saw on You Tube doing research on auqa/hydroponics it appears that most all them have huge root masses that go well into the water resevior. Granted most stuff was not tomatos. Not knowing what I'm discussing maybe the ponics systems don't have issues with water since all nutrients are there. Dirt could well be different. OTOH it could be a nutrient deficit. I grew a couple of maters in large pots in our kitchen over the winter. The plants looked decent, but they quit producing much earlier than I expected. I'm pretty sure I failed to add enough nutrients to the pots.

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    [IMG][/IMG]

    This is after it got started. All BUT the Tomatillos were germinated from seeds.

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    This was more toward the start.

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    These are the water troughs that hold the water that the buckets sit on.

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    These are net cups that allow the water to be wicked (pulled) up into the bucket of dirt. No roots in this system ever grew into the water.

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    These are net cups that allow the water to be wicked (pulled) up into the bucket of dirt. No roots in this system ever grew into the water.

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    And here I moved them so the corn and tomatillos had sun.
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    One heck of a set up. Very nice.

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    It supported 41 5 gallon buckets on 6 water troughs. Each trough held 7 5 gallon buckets and held 5 gallons of water. And I will set them up again this year.
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    I bought a small starter aquaponics system that I highly recommend from which I learned most of the process. The next goal on my prepper list is to create one of these systems shown in this video as best I can - absolutely loved the video!!

    For those of you who want to start slow and learn a little before diving in:

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    You will enjoy the results of your effort in AP. If you have any questions Helo or I can provide info or find answers for you. If you are interested I am running a FB page for indoor AP System builds. Mine has been running now for about 3 years in the basement since I live in CO. Short growing season and it gets to cold to have an outdoor systems unless you invest heavily.


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