Melons, Fruit Trees & Aquaponics - Backyard Farm & Aquaponic Update
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- Melons, Fruit Trees & Aquaponics - Backyard Farm & Aquaponics Update
Hey folks. Wasn't able to finish editing this weeks planned clip due to hardware issues so decided to film a quick update for you all to enjoy.
Will have the planned clip posted by this time next week if all goes well.
Hope you enjoyed the clip & your gardens are booming.
Cheers all,
Rob
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I ran an aquaponics in my backyard on goldfish for about 6 months, got good herbs for my kitchen, Lost a Long and exhausting battle with slugs and spiders,(I'm arachnophobic) I just didn't have the room for ducks! But i learned so much from it. I know i want to have a little homestead, i want my kids to be able to run around and feel what freedom is, without my having to worry about people up to no good like you find here in the city. And i want to be able to build the big system i have been planning and replanning for years. So far we have managed to relocate to the general aria of the country we want land in, now the search begins. ^_^ If I want to build a forever home it has to be perfect.
Interesting! I heard somewhere that if a tree is "worried" that it might die it will put more of its energy reserves into fruiting to ensure its ultimate survival through seeds. Don't know if that's true, but it would explain why the Tahitian Lime holds onto its fruit better when it's neglected a bit, and why it feels there's no need to expend the effort to produce fruit when it's regularly well fed.
yes greenery is greatly appreciated! the constant snow removal gets old fast lol
I love seeing everything green there! We aren't under any snow, but most things are brown here right now in the southern US.
thx Rob, Lots of diversity there, makes me itchy for spring.
Hey Rob
Thanks for the walk around. We recently had tree work done as well. 5 poplars between 60' and 100' tall. Was fun watching the guys cut them down, writing the cheque.... not so much.
Take care mate, stay hydrated
Cheers from Canuckistan
Jeff
Hey Jeff. Will be mulching the trees along the fence line here again very soon.
Hope you're getting everything sorted for this coming season. Have you folks thawed out yet.
As you can see I'm playing a bit of catch up with missed comments. 😕
Love your videos Rob, thanks for the good content, keep em coming my friend.
Gidday Rob, temps have been radical, no doubt about that. Thanks for getting back to me on my video about the 28 spotted Lady Beetle.
I have had to hold back sowing microgreens too, waiting for cooler temps this Autumn
I hope it goes well at the docs next week for your back!
Happy Gardening
Marty Ware (Micro Farmer)
Looks good as usual Rob. Always an inspiration for me. I need it right now. Got a lot of things coming up to do. Hope I can get to them all.
Hi Jay.
Hope all's well with you mate.
Beautiful 💕💕💕
Thanks 😁😁👍
Thanks Rob! Enjoyed another one!
Paw paw FTW lol. I been learning a lot from you! about to start my own system. hopefully I would do videos.
Great video Rob.Thank you for sharing.Cheers. (:
Thanks Rob!
Great video as always Rob, thanks.
Awesome video! I love Melons!
Snow whats that :) Thanks for sharing :)
regarding sick fish,I breed fish and if a fish is sick ,I isolate the fish into a seperate small tank to treat.Way easier,and only a small amount of salt or medicine needed,and it helps raising the water temp depending on problem...way harder to heat thousands of litres
Thanks for the tour Rob, enjoyed it as always.
Nice plot round up... I have fruit envy watching your vids... our season here in the UK gonna start in about a month or two, just wish it was warm enough and long enough to grow something more exotic, videos are available if anyone's interested.
like your tour - get external drive store extra files & videos on and free up your disk and get rid of down loads clean your cookies extra space and you would be easier to edit videos
What a beautiful melon, I wonder if we get them here in NZ
please make more video i love watch it
Bob i have been looking at using mulching for heating up the aquaponics system AND the greenhouse.
Might check it out.
Have seen folks also leave black barrels full of water in their greenhouses to act as heat batteries. 👍
Cheers James.
Hi Rob, once again a great video, is liked. Tell me something; Of the 3 tanks with k1, the water goes to a sump, where does a bomb throw to the beds? And from the beds, the water goes where? If you can respond, thank you.
Hi mate & sorry I missed this. This is a spilt flow system so the water is sent from the sump tank into the grow beds, bio filter & fish tanks.
Hope that helps mate & your system is going well.
Cheers.
Rob!
You've managed to teach your plants to cluck as well??!!
How do you manage it? 😂
Great tour Rob. Is it getting about time for your veges to be winding down getting ready for winter.?
Winter?...average winter temp in our region of Australia (I live less than an hour drive from Rob)..is 16C (60.8F)...area is sub tropics...wet and dry season.
It's been so long since I've checked comments on some clips that yes, we're coming back into winter mate but are planting out instead. :D ;)
We grow far more through our winter than the warm seasons.
Cheers Rick.
Great update as always Rob! Are you still planning on getting the chickens? I've heard that mushroom herb is high in Ca and would probably be a good self-harvest crop to plant for the 'chooks'? Cheers!
Still no chooks here. B & I have decided that they will have to wait until after the house renovations are finished.
Sorry for taking over a year to respond :D :/
Cheers.
Hey rob just checking if you know where I can get my hands on some banana seeds from mate tia 😀😀
Bunnings sell them now I think. 👍 Backyard Bananas up in Tully are where we got ours.
Cheers mate.
Hi Bob, I have just had a huge Leyland Cypress hedge taken down from around my property. I am going to give the bigger wood away for firewood. Can I use the smaller stuff for mulch ?
Is a bit to late but I can'rt see why you couldn't Glyn.
Sorry for taking so long to respond.
Boron helps citrus hold the fruit until maturity.
Thank you, nice share. SOAD lead vocal promote green planet
Hi Rob. I saw a video where you mentioned a pineapple that is fruiting and that it puts out Pups. I have a pineapple that is in fruit at the moment that has a couple of pups growing from just under the fruit. How do I go about replanting these after i harvest the fruit. Do I just treat it like the head of the fruit and twist them off or is there another method. Thanks mate hope to hear from you soon. Dave.
This is insane. You have a lot of stuff in your system. Do you use fertilizers beside the fish waste and how many fishes are there in the system?
There were around 40 silver perch in that system when this clip was filmed. This system is no more but rebuilt parts of it into a smaller system housing 30 Jade perch. 👍
This playlist has all the clips I've shot on it so far if you want to suss it out.
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Some calcium & potassium are required but can be added as pH buffers which helps some.
Have needed to add in iron in the past but the levels are all fine in the new system so far.
Cheers.
Do you think the salt is building up in the beds due to evaporation? Better a few plants than the fish and like you said you can always take some water out. Might be worth flushing the beds with the fresh water as you fill it just my thoughts mate.
He had to add salt because his fish were showing signs of the lack of it, in the form of sores.
Yes I know but it would stay in the beds as the water evaporates. He said he was going to lower the salt content by draining some off and diluting the system. But I think it could have built up in the clay as he bumped the salt right up.
I ended up dumping some of the water & replacing it with fresh to reused the levels Dave. I think the extra rain that over flowed the system through summer also helped in reducing the levels.
Sorry it took so long to reply mate.
Cheers.
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Hi Bob
I noticed you have tubs what kind of fruits trees coud i grow in tubs as we are renting ATM so want to take every plant with us in time thanks?
Sorry for taking so long to reply.
Most dwarf fruit trees can be grown in containers. Air pruning pouches or tubs will allow the plant to grow a healthier root system than a plastic pot if that helps you out at all.
Cheers.
Really an impressive variety, but quite a few have up and died, can you talk about how to deal with those in your next videos?
Some of your plants have died?
Could I use steel drums as grow beds and line the inside with tile (mosaic tile) and out?
Probably not a good idea as the limestone in the grout may upset the water pH.
We call it paw paw in trinidad
Ehhh..... If you're having salt issues, you should occasionally dose sugar or alcohol.
I'd dose directly into the gravel beds immediately after they stop siphoning. The sugar/alcohol will cause a bacterial bloom, which will drop the dissolved oxygen, so don't do it too close to the return to fish. The plants can tolerate some amount of time in anaerobic conditions.
The fixed carbon (sugar/alcohol) causes the bacteria to take up the salt(s) to fuel their growth.
Other than feeding the fish is there any other nutrients that need to be put into the Aquaponic system. My lettuce looks pale. It maybe the wrong fish food.
Could also be low Nitrate levels. Have you tested the levels recently?
Low iron levels can also cause interveinal chlorosis which is a yellowing between the green veins of the leaves. Low magnesium can also cause yellowing but I haven't seen that be the cause as much as low nitrate & iron levels.
HTH some.
@@RobsAquaponics thanks not sure on tests. How to test? I can test ph with pool test kit but others problem. To get test kit a bit of a issue currently unless natural way. I live in Zimbabwe.
My reply was bit hurried as about to leave for work. Home now . I have about 70 ltr fish tub. A swirl bucket and another 70 ltr sump. I pump water into 100mm pipe and back to fish plus tee to one grow bed but very shallow. I have one tilapia (had six but others jumped out of tub.) I’ve recently added to the two lettuce plants one tomato and some strawberry plants. If I could send some photos. I have a 200 ltr drum I’m planning to use. For fish and get a few more fish. All in a 2m x 3m home made greenhouse. Been up since July last year.
@@alexdalton5963 Hey Alex. I'd say you just don't have enough nitrate in the system. Best test kit you could get would be the "API Freshwater Test Kit" which I know is for sale in South Africa. Not sure about Zimbabwe through sorry. I also think you will need more bio filtration for the waste. 25L of 20mm rock is recommended for every fish you want to grow out to 500G.
Hope that helps some.
Im trying to get one from uk. Cost may be issue. We can't just ordee and pay. Us$ is very hard to get and through banks may lose it. Sorting another way. Bio filter can do i have sort of already but just hand full of stones in shallow tray just above sump bucket
Why did you not treat the sick fish separately from the system.
I had nowhere else to keep them isolated + it would of been more stressful on them trying to find which couple out of 40 or so fish needed to be treated.
Cheers. 👍
Green pawpaw's seeds are good to kill parasite, rite ?
I hadn't heard that before but will look it up now.Cheers.
Where does the salt come from. Can it be avoided and how? Thanks
The fish got some kind of diseases and Rob try to treat them with salting the water. Of course this is apart of aquaponics, so the salt goes to the plants and some plant really doesn't like the amount of salt in water.
Thanks a lot. Not been online recently
Luckily I only lost a few. Ended up harvesting the rest a few weeks back.
Sorry for taking so long to respond.
Thanks Shidah Izumi.
I live in the Northern Hemisphere. We don't have snow :/ Europe that is.
kkkkkkkk...hi my friend, i live in Brazil...it's fire noooooow!!!
how do you deal with the salt on the large containers?
I removed some of the water from the aquaponics & replaced it with new salt free water. Sorry it took so long to respond.
Cheers
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Paw paws are a different fruit here in North America, but most Americans and Canadians have never had one: www.livescience.com/34669-what-is-a-paw-paw.html
They go bad faster than a banana! But they taste great.
For some reason folks from the British commonwealth countries call papayas paw paw. Not quite sure why that is.
Cheers.
This is Australia mate! It's pronounced oreegahno, oregano!
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Why is the melon covered with cloth?
Because of pests?
We had the Queensland fruit flies sting them so they need to be protected until the skin hardens up a bit.
Sorry for taking so long to respond.
Cheers.
hey does anyone have figures in terms of crop yields using an aquaponics system
The commercial guys have it down pat but I haven't bothered to keep tabs on ours Shane.
Cheers.
Why not add worms to grow beds and shrimp in separate tank
Hey Ronald Have compost worms throughout the whole aquaponics system. 👍 Will be adding small shrimp in the future but want to rebuild the system before they go in.
Cheers.
2:22 spider or gecko?... running and hiding under barell
That would be a Gecko Huber. 👍😀 Nice catch mate.
Cheers.
I subbed 2 years ago i think? always wanted to start something.
And im building your blue barellsystem these days! ... and my name is Robert and my Wifes name... Bianca
and im trying Aquaponics... in the backyard of my Restaurant... but in Austria... not australia :-)
wish me some luck! but i think i dont need it... ive seen all your Videos :-)
Cheers Robert
@@huberheinrich3921 Well that's a coincidence 😃 What sort of fish can you use there?
All the best to you both.
Hi Thank you.
We will try out Goldfish first because we dont know about the temps in the summer at that location in the garden. Very sunny at midday till sunset. that could be too much sunhrs a day for just round about 350 400 l. im a little bit worried about water temps. Next year we will try catfish and harvest them at the end of the season.
I now scaled up to 6 barrels. 2 for the fish with smaler side opening and a big scale plumming,
so they can swim between the barrels and have enough space to do their thing :-) swim and eat.
Im thinking all the time of raising the water only in 2 barrels to provide them more space. maybe with an overflow... but i think im starting to overengineering it :-)
keep it simple as you always say.
Its not a perfect spot in the garden and we have to do some prep work for next years location on the old Garden Barns roof. Its about 8 m2 and build out of concrete. But i dont want to risk anythink and we will rework the roof with some new steelwork an concrete. safety first. that spot has morning and evening sun and shade of an old ?needle? tree during the hot time a day.and that will be one of the ibc tanks. we will see how this years location will work. but for the first time it will be awesome i think :-)
My english is not the best but i think u know what i want to say :-)
Cheers Robert
your hat gives me anxiety...cool video though!
This man looks like Fidel Castro
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