diy fish tank for aquaponics | Equatorial Lowland Aquaponics Strawberry Project Facebook Pages

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diy fish tank for aquaponics

I had dedicate a Facebook page Equatorial Lowland Aquaponics Strawberry Project to separate my normal Aquaponics activity to this trial that I am doing to grow Strawberry in the Lowland Equator.

The link to the page is : Here
The Category of posting is : Here

Thank you.

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diy aquaponics grow bed | Equatorial Lowland Strawberry Project Journal 18th Sept 2014

06.45 in 18th, 20, 2014, Aquaponics, equatorial, installation, instruction, journal, lowland, mm, project, sept, strainerbell, strawberry

diy aquaponics grow bed

To get healthy Strawberry plants they requires strong roots, to get this the plant need to direct most of  its energy toward root growth. During first year of planting dont let the plant fruit.

All these flowers need to go, and its best to clip them off at earlier stage that this.

Runners like these above also has to go.

So flower buds has to be clipped.

All clipped so that the plants can concentrate getting good roots.

Runners clip to prevent new plants, I reserve two original plants to produce runners for propagating. Those plants are the base stock for my Strawberry plants.

I will let the plants grow for this next few months towards January or March then Ill trim all leaves to get new growth.

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diy aquaponics grow beds | Taste Test Start To Finish

23.26 in 2014, 6th, Aquaponics, equatorial, finish, journal, lowland, project, sept, start, strawberry, taste, test, to

diy aquaponics grow beds

On 10th Sept 2014 this plant I allow the flower to develop to see what happen, whether it can bear fruit in this hot lowland. 

To get the plant flowering is great news for me since as a known fact that Strawberry will have difficulties in flowering if exposed to temperature of greater that 28 degrees C.

On 21st September 2014 it form fruit and I was anxious to see its progress.

Not as large as the highland but to get it fruiting is a joy to see on 25th September 2014

Slowly changing color to a reddish pinkish Strawberryish.. :)

And finally today 28th September 2014, pick it for test taste.

Nice and firm, but should have waited another couple of days before picking.

 Not the usual Strawberry shape, may be due to this particular cultivar it is like that.

The flesh is firm and not watery as most Aquaponics, what ever it is I am overjoy for this and cant wait for next year when the plants are fully ready to bear fruits.

So it took 18 days from flower to picking time, more or less.


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diy aquaponics tilapia | Kaffir Lime Hi Five

00.03 in 17th, 2014, Aquaponics, equatorial, five, hi, journal, kaffir, lime, lowland, oct, project, strawberry

diy aquaponics tilapia

Kaffir Lime seedling sown last August has shown more progress. I placed them in individual pots so that they can grow till about 12 inches or so before redoing to another pot.

 It will be six months before they out grow this pots.

So here they are, the Kaffir Five..

Placing them high up on one of the old damaged growbed, away from pounding rain and extreme heat.



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diy aquaponics video | Planting Soursop

04.54 in 2014, 27th, Aquaponics, equatorial, journal, lowland, planting, project, sept, soursop, strawberry

diy aquaponics video

Durian Belanda, Soursop or Custard Apple as it is called is an evergreen tree from the rain forest. Three of its sapling were given to me and been standing to keep alive in my aquaponics growbed for few months.

Shifted from front to back and before it had its days I better plant it to soil, at least one of it.

This I do normal dirt planting there are two left, one I will use container with soil and another I will try Aquaponics.

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diy aquaponics systems | Equatorial Lowland Strawberry Project Journal 6th Sept 2014

15.29 in 2014, 6th, Aquaponics, equatorial, journal, lowland, project, sept, strawberry

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Few of the plants didnt make it after three weeks they died, four pots in all. Redo the plants, fill up one growbed with six pots and the other growbed left a couple to let them produce runners.

Its easy because I have the plants in pots, just remove from one growbed then replant to another. This way plants experience minimum transplanting shock. The pots I lower it further down to get as much water as possible to the roots.

The three pots was taken from this growbed which I left two since they are producing runners. Three runners produce from each of the parent plant. I will put those into pots to manage and transplant to another growbed.

This is how the runner looks like after about 2 weeks, with roots forming. Eventually all original plants will be replaced with these runners and then I will try to get them to grow.

More runners, this small with roots not established that well yet.

Another with more roots forming.

Parent plants with runners drooping down once the pot are lifted up.

The two parent plants each has three runners, removed from growbed for a redo. If it is not potted no way I can remove without damaging these plants.

Same runners planted to pot within the growbed. Once it has established I will move them to another growbed to start producing runners for that growbed.

With this style of planting, the runners has more chance to survive and they experience only minor transplanting shock.

Propagating Strawberry this way is so easy to do.

All these pots are not to be disturb otherwise the roots will not hold and plant may die, just leave them for another three weeks before doing any major work in the growbed area. Wait for them to produce about 5 or 6 mature leaves before cutting them from parent plant.

Only one runner not potted, because the umbilical is too short, I just let it grow next to the parent pot and once bigger, Ill transfer to pot after cutting it from the mother plant.

These Strawberry multiply very fast, and I guess all my growbed in the front will be fill up with strawberry plant before end of the year.

Thats it for the time being, will update how these Strawberry doing in my Equatorial Lowland Strawberry Project.

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23.25 in 2014, 27th, Aquaponics, bob, equatorial, journal, lowland, pants, project, sept, sponge, square, strawberry

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Looks good so far these Strawberry, finished making shades to the second and third growbed. The forth I left it temporarily vacant since I decide to put more plants within each growbed. This require me to let some of the plant to developed runners into young plants for the vacant growbed.

This time I use the electrical conduit PVC, they are cheaper and since the frame doesnt require much strength to hold those netting, its okay.

Apart from direct intense sunlight it is good for heavy down pour which if not protected from will damage plants. Those that are not familiar with Equatorial weather, what we have here is either very hot sun with high humidity or very heavy rain which pour cats and dogs. Either way youre screwed.. if no shades provided as protection.

Its time for one of the runner to be cut off from the mother plants, it has form much needed roots and should be able to survive on its own.

Cut the umbilical as close as possible to the mother plants so that she dont waste much of her energy trying to repair what is not important anymore.

Make another cut as close to the young plant, this plant can be left where it is. However in this case I need the space for another fresh pot since there is another runner developing and I want that to form into new plant.

That new plant I transfer to a nursery growbed, here the water level is adjusted to be high so that any new plants will have a head start in this hot weather. Once it has formed more roots I can then move it to the 4th growbed as a permanent home for it.

The mother plant was in the old plastic pot, changing it to the slotted pot will ensure better growth as roots formation is found to be better if there are more exposure to air. Before letting it produce another plant, it is best to get the pot change.

Its a quickie job and not much stress on the plants since we are doing it the Aquaponics methods. This is one of the original plants from the highland, so its good to see that it had survived the heat and even producing runners as above.

Back in its place, and one fresh pot standing by to catch the runner. I will need to trained it to be somewhere within the pot, using pots it is convenient to rotate the plant positioning the runner to a good landing. If this plant is directly in the growbed it will then be difficult to do.

One lone Strawberry is turning red, this is the one plant that I let it to fruit. Most of the flower I just clipped away but this plant I let it be. Just to see what developed from this experiment, 1st year plants need to get their roots strengthen first before they are allowed to flower other wise it may not be strong enough to bear fruit in the hot Equatorial climate.

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