diy vertical garden aquaponics | More Silos to Test

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diy vertical garden aquaponics

Testing few more silos tubes for my Silos Growbed system, cut few blanks to make the necessary silo pots.

These silos are made for 12" growbed, above are 8" blanks for it. Manage to get 28 blanks from one uPVC tube.

Not going to be over ambitious here, simple plants will do.

Will sow some other plants like tomatoes and eggplant etc.

Due to lack of space in growbed, silos are place within existing growbed.

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diy aquaponics garden | Kailan Need Urgent Transplanting

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Kailan long overdue to be transplanted, had time to do it today.

All seedling removed from their pots, a bit thin for my liking but it will do and hope theyll recover.

Some are planted in the potted gutter growbed set and majority are place in the CRAFTS set.

Cluster of four, just in case some didnt make it.

To ensure that seedling is not damage it is recommended that the growbed is flooded. This will ensure the hydroton are easily handle.

Once done you can start the siphon operation by putting the enclosure bell back on. Now I just has to wait for them to be ready for picking.

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diy aquaponics how to | Silos Growbed Flood Drain Aquaponics

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What is Silos Growbed.

This is the term that Im going to use to describe the potted media base flood & drain aquaponics. It is a mouthful to say and giving it a short name will be easier for me. Furthermore its good to be able to identify a planting method by a reference term.

What I am trying to do now, it making the aquaponics less costly and more efficient, thats the reason for the gutter growbed flood & drain system that I am currently experimenting. Taking a step further, why not make a new style by using cylindrical tubes or containers that is filled with media and stick it into a flood and drain system.

The container can stand in either media or on its own in a flood & drain water. Each containers for ease of reference I called it a Silo from that tall cylindrical silos or those missile silos. Each functioning silos is a mini growbed on it own and thus will be treated like any growbed.

There are 3 type of silos.

1. Growth Silos, this is a silos that have plants growing in it.
2. Dormant Silos, is a silos filled with media in the flood and drain system without any plants. This is to provide a ready planting area and also to increase media surface area.
3. Blank Silos, this is an empty silos that being use to take up space within a growbed in order to provide support for other silos or to gain access to certain area in the growbed.

Figure below is a simplified diagram of the Silos Growbed System

For trial I am using 4 inches uPVC pipes with its venting cowl as a silo unit. Each of this unit will take up space within a growbed or a gutter system, if gap are required they could be filled with a Dormant or Blank Silos.

Silos are filled with hydroton initially up to the strainer top.

Plants, I am testing and use the existing cili plant as a trial and Basil from cuttings. Once the plants or cutting has been place inside the silos, top up hydroton to full.

Testing Basil from cuttings apart from cili transplant.

Cili below, these are old plants that I redo to these silos.

I do not have a dedicated growbed for the Silos, temporarily I place it in the present set.

This is a trial, there will be areas that I need to look at, for example the tube size and using media filled silos with only water on the outside. This style are suitable for plants like Tomatoes, where they dont have rhizomes and tubers constrain by the silo tubes.

Updates 26 July 2015

Silo Clips

• A clip that I made to hold the silos together, so that it can be individually work on without much disturbance to the other free standing silos within a growbed.

The whole idea of this experiment is to make aquaponics cheaper and easier to do. Ill update the progress, 

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