3 Ways to Start Plants in an Aquaponic System 

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G'day!

First - "At the stupi... supermarket" xD New to the channel, and have loved the videos and content you bring out. Thanks for the work you do to promote a gardening life-style.

Hey from the USA. Your videos are great. We are just getting started and live watching you teach. Can definitely tell you live what you do. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

How can you not like a video with such a nice guy

Don't forget to click the subscribe button if you found the clip helpful & want to see how the beans & carrots turn out, bit.ly/Subscribe2Rob and share the clip around with family & friends if you think they'll enjoy it too. 🐟 🌱🍅 Cheers all & have a top one. 😊 Rob

I'm putting this out there for the fan's of Rob - who's selflessly given us a world of information and knowledge... so.. Who's been here long enough to celebrate Rob's beard?.. I've given at least 3-5 drinks to it over the years at X-mas I think lol. It's always something I personally notice in any vid.

Good day brother!!

Good day

good day from nz, those plants are looking good

I was worried about my seedlings having dirt on them. You really helped me with the planting method.

G-day Rob!

You've been a huge help over the last couple of months as I start up my system. Thanks a heap for all you do.

Thank you for sharing.

This man is fantastic

Thank you for the information.. You're the best brother.. God bless

Good Day.........!!!

I’m just starting out… Great information, thank you

Best content ever.

Mate that mini wicking seeder idea is what I’ve been looking for, thanks...

Thanks! I’ve learned a lot from this vid.

Sweet info, please keep it coming

Very clever ideas

Thank you for this!

Hey thanks for your time, I appreciate your knowledge.

Been wanting a video like this! Yay!

Thanks Rob. Excellent as usual

Thanks for your tips

Thank you for sharing this. You have given me ideas. 🔥🔥🔥

Thanks Rob. Some very helpful tips.

This was a wealth of information, thank you Rob

When seperating seedlings I've found doing it in the tub of water causes less friction between the roots. Great tips as always Rob, Happy growing

Good day Rob 👍🏾

Great video. Thanks

Amazing stuff! Ty so much!

Thank you rob for all your years of fantastic aquaponics videos. You encouraged me to build my own system around 6 years ago now and it is still going well providing loads of veg every year. Enjoy your "me" time and looking forward to your garden improvements. Peace and love from Northern Ireland

Good tips! I still start my lettuce in the gravel trays and transplant them into growgrips. The root crops like lettuce I usually just broadcast them into the bed and thin as necessary. For my tomatoes, I usually start them in late winter in soil pots and let them grow for a while until they can be put outdoors. Then rinse the soil off and move them into the DWC or media beds. 👍

Amazing info and content as always mate.

good-day

good stuff. aquaponics is fascinating.

Great video thanks for sharing

Great vid Rob. Thanks for all the info. Have a top week.

Thanks for sharing

I am finally going back into aquaponics. After ten years I find someone who knows and presents the info quickly with no fluff. Thanks

just completed my barrel and running great. Im a newbie and loving it. Thanks Mate.

Perfect timing for this video, I am at the planting stage now. Thanks Bob.

Rob, Thank you so much for all the videos, extremely helpful! May God bless your family with health happiness and a very successful garden. 👨🏼‍🌾🧑‍🌾

New to aquaponics so thanks. Very informative

Really appreciate your videos, much appreciated and Iearn so much

Great work Rob I admire your work and learn a lot from your videos.

I wish I could grow the Kang Kong as well as you! Mine is in one of your root pouches but it gets smashed by the spider mites so I'm lucky if I get a couple of leaves a week to eat!

Amazing... Great ideas for planting and the different varieties of plants we can grow. Best of all, it's all organic, no pesticides have to be used. Thank you so much!

great content !!

Love your videos. 👍❤😀

Very nice vid 👍👍just my bit...I make use of used teabags inside netcups for my seadlings making small slit one side. Once at size just tear bag to transplant. 😊

I'm about to start a massive aquaponics system in the Caribbean, hope I can call on you for some guidelines.

Great video! I am always taking your ideas man !!

Gday love your videos Planning on making a pond with a constant flow grow bed soon

Fico só no visual,top!

Good day mate

G'day m8. I enjoy your vids.

thanks

Great video always tons of information on this channel I hope to start doing more of this myself thanks for all the videos

Nice one mate 👍😊

Great vid Rob! Very informative as always. I'm keen to see how your beetroot seedlings grow out, mine were struggling for a long time and looked very sick with red blotchy leaves. I figured out it was either iron or manganese deficiency so I upped the iron to 2 ppm which helped a bit. Then I sprayed the leaves 3 times over 1 week period with 5g/L manganese sulfate, the beets really took off after that with healthy green leaves.

Thanks Rob, as usual informative and I did learn something new!: the onions (they looked like leeks) I will now harvest mine with the idea of propagation! I’m getting my fish this week! Found a hauler who is coming by with a load of bluegill fish! I do have a few minnows in the sump as my aquatic canaries, and they seem happy enough. This first year of plant growth has been mostly testing how plants behave. Making plans for next season on how to optimize their location in the greenhouse. Cheers! 🍻

Thank you for the video! I’m setting up a new aquaponinic tank and I’m going to start my peas before they go outside to the garden. I lost your channel for a while but I found it again 😎

Good videos

Awesome channel Rob! I hope to put together a system next year. I will be doing a greenhouse version in the Hot south Texas climate. (lots of shade cloth)

I have gleaned the most information from your videos and am now designing a greenhouse aquaponics for our back yard. I made a test run NFT feeding from my 37gal tank in my room using a 3ft long 2in pvc. It's hanging in my window and doing great! Thank you for taking the time and posting your results!

Rob awesome video mate this is helping a lot as I've been struggling to get going.

Haha the stuoid market had me craked

good day to you. thank you for making videos. they are so informative. i learn so much. from your videos. good job sir!! :) and also. im pretty focused on listening. ut then u said. stupid market. (that one hits.) hahah Lol.

enjoying your clips, looking into a DIYS Aquaponics system, that will help my gardening, I currently have 6 4x8 raised beds, a livestock water tank (no livestock), lots of trees, 2 small ponds, fruit trees(apple, pear, peach, fig) and thornless blackberries that I am working with, on 3 Acres in Arkansas, USA

your beard is looking fab!

Fantastic,, I wish to know more about the kind of water plus it's added supplement please! 🍀🌸🍀🌸

Thanks brother . It is most helpful and informative and educational demonstration. Helped me a lot . I will sure to follow and replicate your tips for my small indoor systems . Please do a video on inexpensive lights and led bulbs that can be used for indoor aquaponics system. Thanks again

im going to try my first aquaponics system here in central Florida. wish me luck

Rib I'm stealing this phrase from you, from now on its a stupid market not supermarket as I really don't like them for various reasons, awesome thanks Rob 😂😂

Thanks Rob. Didn't take your advice to heart and lost most of my sweet basil to an early frost up in the Texas panhandle. Now I'm faced with moving my media beds and sump to a place with some winter sunshine. Might have to put all of my media beds in a heated green house with grow lights considering the extended freezes we see here. My blue channel cats certainly were sluggish and wouldnt feed during the cold snap.

Lindo 😍

great vid Rob, would love Ohio Fish Rescue to see this

One of your videos just popped up while I was cooking and listening to RU-vid... The IBC Build.. Very interesting. I have never considered doing the Aquaponics.. Had a friend who tried the IBC with Talapia and the cold killed the fish.. I have not looked for cold water issues and how to avoid them, but, I brew my wine with Barrel heaters at 90 degrees F indoors, so, I could design something to play with during the off season.. Nice Videos. Great Explanations. I've been Binge watching.. Ha..Ha.. Learned more in a couple of hours, now, want to build something to see how it works.. I'll have to wait a bit, but, wanting a greenhouse pretty bad, so, will dedicate some space for a 55 gallon barrel kit (that was cute), and, grow some goldfish, maybe do some planting at the same time in soil beds in the greenhouse, do some comparisons and move up from there. I'm sure someone will want it when I upgrade.. :) Cheers Mate from Western NC on the banks of the Nantahala White Water River.. !!

oh goodie, so we can start directly on the clay ball. cuz tbh Im too lazy to transplant seedlings (they break easy) haha

Hi Rob, i have done cuttings of: fig, apple, sugarcane, monstera deliciosa, asthma plant, sweet potato, wasabi, red veined sorrel, watercress, god knows lots more, and brahmi, now brahmi dies in the ground here in winter frosts, but the aquaponics water keeps it warm enough, it suffers but doesn't die. plants that go nuts: tomato, sugarcane, water cress, mint, taro, beetroot, silverbeet any riverside / bog plant.

naice thnx

Where do you get the paint pelt

Wow! I’m so glad I subscribed to your channel recently! This video is exactly the step by step sort of instructional video ive been looking for!! I do have a couple of questions, I live in a condo and don’t have room for a large system like yours but I would like to grow some of my own vegetables in water with liquid fertilizer. My idea is to grow them in 4 litre containers (just because I have several on hand at the moment) My plan was to start my seeds off (pickling cucumbers) in a soil & coconut substrate mix in small soil bags and then once they have germinated and got a nice root going move them to the “hydroponic” growing environment. Questions: 1. Should I remove the soil mixture from the roots prior to transferring them to the hydroponic environment? My thought was because the roots grow out beyond the soil bags it wouldn’t be necessary? (That happened accidentally when I wasn’t checking often enough on my seedlings and before I knew it the roots had grown right through the bags.(bags are homemade from woven ground cover material that gardeners put down on their backyard gardens to prevent weeds from growing) 2. The 4L water containers are see through and I know that I want to prevent algae growth I’m thinking of wrapping them with foil with the shiny side out to reflect the heat from penetrating? I live in Canada and have some incredibly hot south facing windows where I plan on housing these. I thought foil would be the easiest to prevent all light from penetrating but also it will allow me to remove it to see how things are growing beneath the surface. I had thought of initially using the woven ground cover(I purchased an entire roll from amazon and got much more then I thought i was getting...lol!)but it allows light to penetrate it so I’m not sure if that would really inhibit algae growth? What do you suggest? I might also be able to put together a cardboard box that I could put the 4L bottle into and just allow the neck of the bottle to be sticking out? Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated. 3. I know this is quite a small environment to grow a potentially large plant and that I will be adding water to it daily. My plan is to have an additional 4L jug filled with water and liquid fertilizer sitting beside the plant so that it will be the exact same temperature to add to the plant. Should I pour the water in from the top or should I lift the bag with the plant in it up partially and pour the water in that way? Or does it really matter? 4. Do you think this will actually work and that I will actually get cucumbers? If it does my plan is to have several of these containers growing various kinds of larger vegetables that are the vine variety do you know if the roots continue to remain in water and continue to get enough fresh nutrient water everyday if the plant would continue to thrive or would it require a larger container? Anyway I’m up to the challenge and love experimenting so far I have been growing various lettuces and herbs and I even have a strawberry plant that has flowered which I hope will produce strawberries soon! I’m growing all of these on my “O’garden smart” but the size of the brackets and just the area for larger vines to grow aren’t larger enough for my pickling cucumber idea so that’s why I thought of hydroponics. Hopefully I’ll be able to turn my idea into something edible! Thanks again for sharing your video and if you happen to see my questions and are able to answer them, thank you in advance. Keep those videos coming! I love seeing all those roots and the incredible plants they grow!! Leanne from the soon to be great white north (hehehe just a little Canadian humour)🥰🇨🇦

Your garden looks amazing, I was wondering how do you keep possums out of it. Do you have any tips? Thanks

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Been watching ur vids for awhile. I owe u a few likes lol cheers

Annnnnnd here I was thinking how to put more plants into the flood and drain and you bring this out perfect timing. We had to fill our flood and drain mostly with strawberry plants. Mainly because I expected bare-rooted plants to put into net cups and they came fully planted and developed and couldn't make them fit. But I have a corner left I want to fill. Just debating what seeds to put in, while my girls would love more carrots (we already have a rainbow bed of them in soil), or maybe even beetroot (tho I have an experiment in the NFT with beetroot). I am not sure. Lettuce and spinach etc and pointless due to them filling my vertical towers lol. Choices choices

Can I put a garden canopy over the plants 6feet above the the plants and fish so no debris gets in it

G'Day. 👍I'd like to have a system but I get overwhelmed by just planning one. Bout as close as I can get is just get a fish tank and water with the fish water in soil.😂

Hello Rob from the states! Do you have a video on how to winterize your aquaponics? Do I need to worry about the water temp?? We get to 36F or or 2C?

Good tips Rob! You mentioned striking mulberrys, how successful are other fruiting plants e.g citrus? And is there an age or any types of plants that get too acclimatised to an Aqua system and wont survive being moved into soil?

thanks for your time Q/ is any seed grow in water? i mean remaining in water don’t kill the seed??

Good job how are you

Rob, I've had a system for 4 years. pH and other considerations are good. Fish are healthy. Water flows well to and from bed. System is in an enclosed greenhouse with temperature and air flow. Good grow lights. Lots of ladybugs. I can grow huge lush green plants but I get no fruit. I'm ready to quit. My husband said to ask my favorite teacher before quitting. Any thoughts, Teach?

Hello. How do I know if my grow bed is ready for planting.