Hi Guys Growing duckweed seems like a no brainer, so I looked around my neighborhood. No one grows it or puts a value on it. Some interesting research I found it is 43% crude protein, and out put from one hectare, is around 20 tones dry weight per year Bearing in mind that the protean content of animal protean feed is 18-24%.,priced at 5-7k kip a kg, it sounds like a much better feed type for animals. Have you ever heard of Aquaponics? As you buy fish for your restaurant, maybe you could set up such a system on some of Nee Nee's land. That way you could rightly claim your fish is as fresh as is possible.
Again, great info there Chris. I was led to believe it was used just as animal feed, but with a quick search after reading your comment, it has good nutritional and medicinal benefits to humans also. Maybe this is why the price is a little higher than I expected 🤔 40+% protein is huge 👌
Some small beta fish added to each pond eat the mosquito larvae and their small amount of fish waste is like fertilizer to the plants... but regardless you'll have phenomenal mosquito control
What spread you have there in Vientiane Todd and Neenee. A beautiful home . Lots of room to grow what you want. The drone shots were extraordinary. Well Done!👍👍 Harriet and Jim from Richmond, Va.
The tricky thing about growing duckweed is it's super easy to grow, fast growing and sometimes it just won't grow. I haven't heard of anyone figuring out why. Saw a video of an expat farmer in the Philippines who built several long ponds for duckweed. Some grew, most struggled. Two guys in Thailand struggled to grow it. One thought it got too much sun. It seems to grow best when it's unwanted, and worse when trying to grow it.
Your sense of humour cracks me up mate, "all i wanted was a yes or no" had me in stitches. The drone footage is looking crisp as well. Love the vids, keep up the good work!
🤗🙏🏼! Beautiful neighborhood, not too crowded in that area. Thank you for the interesting subject, can’t wait to see when the retainers are full of the duck weeds. I hope we get to see the harvesting as well. Take care.
Yeah that duckweed grows massive in the right conditions…it’s an asexual plant so all others come from a single parent….she was probably collecting the fronds with buds on them that hang from a parent frond….not really a root but it’s under water….the fronds can be used to populate other ponds…
Hi Todd,,great drone shots,,that new drone was worth the bucks. Super good shots. The muthaduckin' duckweed idea is great.even here ,noone I know would turn down 1800 dollars a month. Hope it works as planned,,Ttyl,,,Marlon
Wow what a great venture and man can they work fast. Love the drone footage Todd. Oh and you have the same effect on me as you do Kevin, I scream at the top of my lungs for about 30 seconds when I first see you in a video. Weird man weird. Cheers!!!
It makes perfect sense to move your company to Laos. You can export your products to China across the borders faster and cheaper by railway. China has one billion people living there. It is the largest market in the world. Look at the map. Laos and China are neighbors.
Hey Todd: You could still put one of the pools in your yard - skip the cow🔔 & forget digging deeper - Use it for Skimboard practice mate! You haven’t been skateboarding much these days 😉🤩 👍🏽 you & Neenee keep up the good work❣️
My guess scaling up the duckweed production on a large flat surface they could probably use some aeration. Nothing fancy but say about 10 household fish tank aeration pumps with tubing and stones would go a long way if even to hinder the competing growth of algae and “scum”....
Just thinking if they needed to section the pond of into sections for any reason, they could string some of them pool noodles across them.....field crabs wont get in and hole the plastic liner will they ?
The new drone video is poppin'! I never heard of duckweed until this video and so I did some searching on the weed. Amazing stuff! I am reading about people drinking this herb tea and using it in foods. Now I am curious as to why I have never heard of this herb until now with all of its protein and minerals. I am wondering though, is the smell a problem being so close to the house? Looks like your neighbor's fishery ( I'm guessing that's what that is at 19:30) is doing well.
My thoughts exactly Fred. If this stuff is so versatile, why do we not see more of it. As to the smell.. what smell, there is none. Another interesting thing that others were concerned about, mosquitoes. It's also known as mosquito fern, as it prevents mosquitoes from accessing the water to lay eggs 👌
Kop chai Todd and Neenee. I'll show to Noi and Poon out at our house in Ban Nong Boua. Poon is breeding Gops but this looks good too! Me still stuck at Vangtat. Maybe home to VTE is 3 weeks!
Hi Guys, Yes, seems a good thing ,duckweed venture ( supply and demand ) . I'm just wondering ,those ponds look like mosquito City,right up close to the house . I know out the back back there seems to be water lying around anyway . Kenno ..West Aust
azolla fern spp.? Duckweed (genus Lemnia) smallest flowering plants? Water meal smallest of all duckweed not as edible, size of sesame seeds... as in a Big Mac 2 whole beef patties....on a sesame seed bun.🍔
Just curious for an id of actual plants. Going to be on your family's restaurant menu? If I am able to visit Laos in near future, then I will try your food there. Thanks for the incredible drone views and interesting narratives.
Don’t want to drone on about how clean the roofs are there, nice to you helped out thought you were going to leaf it to them ,you looked like a duck out of water.
Very impressive the speed they are getting it all up and running. I just hope the mossies don't think it's a heaven sent breeding ground in all that cow shit water! Anyway what do I know? I'm sure you've all thought of that. The new drone sure does the business 👍👍😊
100% of unbelievable business ventures on social media always have the same format. Step 1. First few days...crazy potential. Step 2. No future updates as the business is quietly forgotten.
Maybe should sell to China and send it on the train. Wonder how much they get for duck weed in China. The average worker in Lao gets between $150 to $200 a month? That would be $5 to $7 a day. That’s cheaper than some of the other countries around you isn’t it? Wow! I did not think it was that low.
Hi Guys Growing duckweed seems like a no brainer, so I looked around my neighborhood. No one grows it or puts a value on it. Some interesting research I found it is 43% crude protein, and out put from one hectare, is around 20 tones dry weight per year Bearing in mind that the protean content of animal protean feed is 18-24%.,priced at 5-7k kip a kg, it sounds like a much better feed type for animals. Have you ever heard of Aquaponics? As you buy fish for your restaurant, maybe you could set up such a system on some of Nee Nee's land. That way you could rightly claim your fish is as fresh as is possible.
Again, great info there Chris. I was led to believe it was used just as animal feed, but with a quick search after reading your comment, it has good nutritional and medicinal benefits to humans also. Maybe this is why the price is a little higher than I expected 🤔
40+% protein is huge 👌
@@NowinLao Trust the Lao to know a good thing when they see/eat it.
Great info Chris
@@NowinLaoI wanted to know where to sell the duckweed.
Thank you ✌🏼🇩🇰
@@bubbajones8061 advertise it on FB
Some small beta fish added to each pond eat the mosquito larvae and their small amount of fish waste is like fertilizer to the plants... but regardless you'll have phenomenal mosquito control
Todd's Duck Weed Empire! Good one. Easy money after start-up.
There's always been good $$$$ in growing weed Todd! But I must confess, I didn't know ducks smoked it too!!!!!!
Lao ducks love a choof mate 😝👍
@@NowinLao LMAO
Drone working well great viewing
What spread you have there in Vientiane Todd and Neenee. A beautiful home . Lots of room to grow what you want. The drone shots were extraordinary. Well Done!👍👍 Harriet and Jim from Richmond, Va.
With Laos low population, you have plenty of room to spread out. It's a very quiet place to live if you ask me.
Nice relaxing watching great drone footage and listening to Angus and Julia. Good work funny man.
The tricky thing about growing duckweed is it's super easy to grow, fast growing and sometimes it just won't grow. I haven't heard of anyone figuring out why. Saw a video of an expat farmer in the Philippines who built several long ponds for duckweed. Some grew, most struggled. Two guys in Thailand struggled to grow it. One thought it got too much sun. It seems to grow best when it's unwanted, and worse when trying to grow it.
Your sense of humour cracks me up mate, "all i wanted was a yes or no" had me in stitches.
The drone footage is looking crisp as well.
Love the vids, keep up the good work!
1:35 you need to go back and fly thorough the building
great track for drone shots the stones soo cool. Angus and Julia stone
Glad you liked 👍
🤗🙏🏼!
Beautiful neighborhood, not too crowded in that area.
Thank you for the interesting subject, can’t wait to see when the retainers are full of the duck weeds. I hope we get to see the harvesting as well.
Take care.
Update on this more...I want to see it all full and compacted in the water
I have
and an amazing side hustle too, thanks for sharing that!
Living the life , very nice big living area.
Cool Good Luck
Yeah that duckweed grows massive in the right conditions…it’s an asexual plant so all others come from a single parent….she was probably collecting the fronds with buds on them that hang from a parent frond….not really a root but it’s under water….the fronds can be used to populate other ponds…
UV rays can perish the plastic in time....good idea to cover it some how...stop light
I like the drone shots; duck weed; cow dung.
sok dii der!
Great video man love the drone footage.
As neene said $3.00 a kilo that's a good side Business, great thinking your lovely wife is
Lovin' the new dron🛸🚀awesome work🙏🏻
Can’t wait for Laos to open again. I will come visit!!! Miss Laos 🇱🇦
Hi Todd&Neenee, "Hit the Duckweed." in my ecoponds.
Hi Todd,,great drone shots,,that new drone was worth the bucks. Super good shots. The muthaduckin' duckweed idea is great.even here ,noone I know would turn down 1800 dollars a month. Hope it works as planned,,Ttyl,,,Marlon
Wow what a great venture and man can they work fast. Love the drone footage Todd. Oh and you have the same effect on me as you do Kevin, I scream at the top of my lungs for about 30 seconds when I first see you in a video. Weird man weird. Cheers!!!
Sometimes I worry about you man 😐
😝👍
@@NowinLao hahahahaha me too.
I like you guys house, the colors are really pretty.
Hi Todd&Neenee, Duckweed is definitely way to go in my eco-fsrm.
Hi Todd, Duckweed tasted like cabbage to me...very nutritional I am led to believe.
Great footage T
- you are in the right place
Weed duck 🦆 is going to go off 👌
Great intro song brother.
Gonna take you for a ride on a big jet plane 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Cheers mate.. found a couple of good remixes of that 👌
Thanks for finishing the middle lao tour... Ixna on the cia and usa flogging... Good show sir... Thanks...
Not finished, still more to come 👌😁
@@NowinLao Curses... Foiled again...
G'day mate love when you film in the yard being a tropical gardener was wondering if you could give us a tour your garden
Great video!!!. i am interested in starting a business venture in laos so any more information you got or ideas i'd love to see.
Those duck weed spots look like a condo for mosquitos Todd .. great ingenuity for making money but think about what will come
Love a good duck 😆weed cheers 👍👍👍👍👍
How do they use duckweed???
I'm curious if that wont bring more mosquitos.....
Maybe if they trim the tree back a little it will grow faster in the middle area
One day when Laos is open for business....I may want to move my company there. The weather would be PERFECT!
It makes perfect sense to move your company to Laos. You can export your products to China across the borders faster and cheaper by railway. China has one billion people living there. It is the largest market in the world. Look at the map. Laos and China are neighbors.
Hey Todd: You could still put one of the pools in your yard - skip the cow🔔 & forget digging deeper - Use it for Skimboard practice mate! You haven’t been skateboarding much these days 😉🤩 👍🏽 you & Neenee keep up the good work❣️
My guess scaling up the duckweed production on a large flat surface they could probably use some aeration. Nothing fancy but say about 10 household fish tank aeration pumps with tubing and stones would go a long way if even to hinder the competing growth of algae and “scum”....
Just thinking if they needed to section the pond of into sections for any reason, they could string some of them pool noodles across them.....field crabs wont get in and hole the plastic liner will they ?
Great idea mate 👌
The new drone video is poppin'! I never heard of duckweed until this video and so I did some searching on the weed. Amazing stuff! I am reading about people drinking this herb tea and using it in foods. Now I am curious as to why I have never heard of this herb until now with all of its protein and minerals. I am wondering though, is the smell a problem being so close to the house? Looks like your neighbor's fishery ( I'm guessing that's what that is at 19:30) is doing well.
My thoughts exactly Fred. If this stuff is so versatile, why do we not see more of it. As to the smell.. what smell, there is none. Another interesting thing that others were concerned about, mosquitoes. It's also known as mosquito fern, as it prevents mosquitoes from accessing the water to lay eggs 👌
@@NowinLao Never would have thought that there would be no unpleasant smell. 👍
Kop chai Todd and Neenee. I'll show to Noi and Poon out at our house in Ban Nong Boua. Poon is breeding Gops but this looks good too! Me still stuck at Vangtat. Maybe home to VTE is 3 weeks!
Gops (frogs) are great with duckweed. Their tadpoles eat the mosquito eggs 👌
Awesome, safe travels 🙏
@@NowinLao Great i will pass that on. Might have to hire land from next door. My wife loves concrete....
Lovely home just stumbled across your videos ! Do you own property where you have your house?
Awesome drone shot in the beginning…looked like you were pretty far out from base…did u program that flight path or was it by sight?
The drone seems to have a very long range, its much better than mine :!
Poor Neerla caught with her dress up. You could have edited that out! 😂
Hi Guys, Yes, seems a good thing ,duckweed venture ( supply and demand ) . I'm just wondering ,those ponds look like mosquito City,right up close to the house . I know out the back back there seems to be water lying around anyway .
Kenno ..West Aust
Duckweed is actually used in ponds to prevent mosquitoes. They can't lay their eggs when you have a good covering of duckweed 👌
@@NowinLao ok good stuff
1800 in some parts of 🇺🇸 is good
azolla fern spp.? Duckweed (genus Lemnia) smallest flowering plants? Water meal smallest of all duckweed not as edible, size of sesame seeds... as in a Big Mac 2 whole beef patties....on a sesame seed bun.🍔
Just curious for an id of actual plants. Going to be on your family's restaurant menu? If I am able to visit Laos in near future, then I will try your food there. Thanks for the incredible drone views and interesting narratives.
Todd, U S dollars change for Lao kip get more at this moment right $1= 12,000 kip?
Throw some guppies in the ponds....Could even breed them.
easy money
Todd, Can we fly the Drone in the city?
How's the covid19 issue there coming along? Its still crazy as ever here in the states
Laos😊❤❤
Don’t want to drone on about how clean the roofs are there, nice to you helped out thought you were going to leaf it to them ,you looked like a duck out of water.
Very impressive the speed they are getting it all up and running. I just hope the mossies don't think it's a heaven sent breeding ground in all that cow shit water! Anyway what do I know? I'm sure you've all thought of that. The new drone sure does the business 👍👍😊
Awesome drone intro and accompanying music. Would be really cool to have flown your drone straight through the unfinished apartment !
ສະບາຍດີ 🙏🇱🇦
Who buys the duckweed there? I would like to get some information maybe it can help my family that are still there make some additional money
Mainly people with livestock and are looking to start grow it for themselves as a feed supplement 👌
what is the benefit of duck weed?
As feed for livestock. Chickens, ducks, pigs etc
100% of unbelievable business ventures on social media always have the same format.
Step 1. First few days...crazy potential.
Step 2. No future updates as the business is quietly forgotten.
A long way to go and do business in this poor country, Laos!🙏
Yeah.. I came here just to grow duckweed 😐
🤔🤔🤔☺☺😉🙂😇
Is it true Laos is reopening soon
Kind of odd to buy chicken feed for $3/kg to grow a chicken that sells for $2/kg. Many kg of feed to grow 1 kg of chicken.
💯🔥💙👍
I was thinking of a small bit of organic farming to supply restaurants or hotels... and maybe some crypto mining. lol
Maybe should sell to China and send it on the train. Wonder how much they get for duck weed in China. The average worker in Lao gets between $150 to $200 a month? That would be $5 to $7 a day. That’s cheaper than some of the other countries around you isn’t it? Wow! I did not think it was that low.
$3/kg for duckweed. Guess who else is building ponds to grow duckweed? Everyone. I wonder what the price will be in a month?
I must admit, it doesn't seem right does it.. but at the moment, that's what it's selling for.
Who said only Sydney siders like red roof's
First
Duckweed?
🇦🇺🍺🤟🙏
Can of worms for sure. You got a twenty minute answer. 😖
I'm pretty sure it was a yes 🤔 555
I have no idea what you're doing. Duck Weed? Okay.....
That's a shit load there haha.
that's cow cow poo poo water