has anyone here invested in Aqauponic farms or are willing to?
Aquaponics -Meme or the next Bitcoin?
Alexander Ramirez
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Ayden Russell
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Logan Martinez
I was interested in growing microgreens for a while
Evan Cruz
This shit is great. We could break the top limit on max world pop by the billions for all the space we could save up with this.
But what do you mean invest, though? World still has plenty of empty land and this isnt exactly profitable as of right now. Maybe if you live on the frozen tundra up north.
Jaxon Lee
I've seen a few YT videos of people doing it, seems like you'd need a very reliable group to offload (much more difficult with covid restaurant shenanigans) and completely dependant on source for seed since being 'microgreens' it doesn't sound like you could produce your own seed. How much research did you do into it?
Aquaponics/permaculture including fish/fowl farming has always been an attractive idea to me or possibly vertical farming. Just sucks I'm too far north to do it reliably without depending heavily on the power grid for lighting.
Logan Sanchez
I earn my living of hyrdroponic gardening weed legally. Never thought of aeroponic beyond making cuttings
Jayden Baker
Aquaponics is similar but different from aeroponincs. How long have you had your hydroponic operation? Region of operation?
Samuel Roberts
Chase Thomas
aquaponics is a joke. thats the fish one my dude. the pic looks more like hydro. however, hydro doesn't produce more as much as it really just helps produce quicker. Now, aeroponics on the other hand is dope af. helps the roots of most plants take in nutrients quicker and helps them grow more in the same time. For the best aeroponics though you really need a good pump, misters, and a good filtration system so you don't have to deal with clogged misters. with that you should be good to go. personally, i like having a vertical set up with pvc pipes for easy gravity collection. I grow about 30-40 cabbages in a 3x4 area vertically in about 70-100 days. I mainly sell to family and friends though since i don't want to have to deal with the hassle of going down to farmers markets. Honestly, once word gets around though you can easily build up clients. People will always opt for the cheaper and healthier if its more convenient. I'm actually growing microgreens and have a list of customers who are basically just waiting for me to finally have consistent stock. My first delivery batch is in 2 weeks. wish me luck anons.
Nathaniel Peterson
you can also run a setup similar to the picture with larger bins and have aeroponics potatoes. they eventually breed exponentially so unless you have stupid tall bins and can deal with 10,000 potatoes/week eventually i'd advice against it.
Cameron Bailey
Good luck bro. I'm interested in gardening myself so this is pretty neat.
Josiah Harris
ok so you dont know what aquaponics means
Mason Parker
This sounds pretty great, do the potatoes have to be supported or do they just hang by the root system?
Angel Rodriguez
You can charge the big bucks for microgreens. Are they easy for you to grow?
Jackson Cox
Cool I'll be keeping an eye on these guys
Jeremiah Martinez
I built a small aquaponics farm to grow cherry tomatoes when I lived overseas. I wanted to hook it up to solar and go completely off grid but moved back beforehand. Wanna try doing aeroponics in a proper building as well. Don't know much about investing in it. It's more about being sustainable desu
Elijah Morales
Aerophonics is the future and is the choosen tech by NASA too.
aerophonics provide up to 96% water savings. best yields.
ama im in this for 9 years. hydro aero what ever you need to know ive tries it all.
Carson Anderson
>We could break the top limit on max world pop by the billions
Why would you want that?
World is already overpopulated and it is hell
Nolan Lopez
please share link/resources to read more about this.
How do you regulate the temperature, water, nutirents, etc....
Do you buy products like Tower Garden or build your own stuff?
Also how feasible and realistic is it
Jackson Hernandez
why should this be relevant?
Lucas Hill
are aeroponic systems expensive to build?
Michael King
its literally the future of food fag. Being self sustainable able to grow your own shit without any chemicals added to it and not trusting your capitalistic overlords
Jaxon Johnson
not a meme, but expensive
Samuel Hernandez
that depends but yes i would say its the most expensive way. depends on the nunber of nozzles you gonna run. each plant needs 2 nozzles. these are special extremly fine nozzles that produce a low micron droplet that is lighter than mist. these are not cheap per se.
you also need high pressure. about 100psi to produce this fine fine mist. if the droplet size is more than 30 microns you might as well run hydro. they need to be replaced every month or so because the salts eventually block the nozzle.
you premix a solution and you have a tank which the pumps siphon through. solenoids and a high quality recycle timer is needed (capable of resolutions of 1 second on/off, look at sentinel DRT for example).
it is feasible but it would be rather complex if large scale is required.
you build your own system.
the problems are : roots hang in the air. if your timer dies or solution is empty or too acidic. your plant dies in minutes. it has no protective medium around the roots.
benefits are: extreme water savings. higher yield and shorter grow time if done properly. you dont deal with dirt.
you save space. the more yield you need the more space you can save because the roots can hang in a sealed chamber which doesnt need to have water, pump or a medium (earth). so very small form factor which can be multiplied.
it would be expensive if compared to any other method yes.
Alexander Russell
You can save a bit of cash doing it for yourself, but if you want to make money you need to find a high value crop that people actually want, and a way to get it to them. That is, not something like potatoes, but something that costs more per Oz.
Christopher Allen
thanks
Michael Torres
what advantage is this over land farming? that pic looks like its too crowded to grow large. i work for a farm and will be buying my own land soon. pic related my pants after a day of work, it wasnt raining.
Owen Lopez
Elon Musk's brother is involved in this.
Lucas Brooks
Do you have any experience or opinions with aquaponics/permaculture?
Kayden Moore
ponics, not phonics.
there's an awesome farm on youtube. can't find it right now, but this is similar yet on a much, much less impressive scale...
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some guy has a massive room with an automated hydro watering system. what he has done though is to incorporate a massive fish tank into this system, so what happens is the fish shit in the water feeds the plants, and he gets nutrients for the cost of feeding the fish. wish i could find the link, it's a really amazing setup.
Noah Garcia
Can you just dissolve the salts/mineral buildup from those fine misters you'd mentioned easily and simply rotate hardware relatively cheaply vs purchasing brand new every time they get clogged, so it really just ends up being startup costs?
Jason Powell
I’m in California. Yeah I know that’s why I would use it to make clones, but not for flowering. Besides quality improves with soil because of all the nutrients.