Harvesting Aquaponic Potatoes!
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2019
- Well guys, after 3 months this is what I got from my attempt at growing Aquaponic potatoes. Please let me know what you think I should do to make this experience better otherwise enjoy the video:)
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plant them the way you did but add more clay balls to the very top of the container/system as they grow. or lay weed barrier around the stalks as they grow to shield them from the sun, but still add the clay balls to the top of the plastic.
The tubers do not need to be below your planting media. You just need to control your lighting. You can grow Irish potatoes in a misting chamber as long you can shield the tubers from light. A mulch of some type, ie, pine straw laid on top of your media as long as the water level is kept a few inches below the surface should work or a couple of layers of heavy shade cloth, or something like a tarp or panda plastic stretched over bed with holes in it to allow the tops of the plants grow on top of it.
I would grow the potatoes exactly as if you were using soil. 4-5" base layer for the seed ...as leaves are produced ...Add more grow medium ...do this until you reach the Top edge of your container. Then put down a layer of burlap or straw to keep the light out.
That is how I do it. My container's ...halved (width) 55 gal barrel ...harvest an average of 40lbs per ...I have four.
In an Aquaponic system?
Dude ever hear about Ruth Stout's System? basically you prepare the soil with fertilizer a season before and plant the vegetables by covering them with hay, or leaves, or anything that doesn’t decompose too quickly can also be used. And they grow A LOT.
So you have the rich soil(the gravel), why not try to put enough gravel for the potatoes to take the nutrients from the water and then cover it with hay and forget until it is time to harvest?
Read about the method and see what you think.
awesome, always wondered about this and I love hydroton. Just for fun I would LOVE to see this done with the medium sitting inside a screen that would allow the pebbles through but not the potatoes. When its time to harvest pull up the screen liner (no easy feat, would have to be sturdy and you would need a hoist/vibrator) and you are left with potatoes. Awesome channel, thanks for all the info!
I've seen other people do this successfully. Do the exact same thing you did, but, instead of have the bed fill and empty, just do a continuous flow system so that the water is flowing at the level of the clay balls. Then, as the green grows, add about 3-4 inches of clay balls to the top.
Hi, just checking in to see whether you have expanded and what your experience is where it comes to the pump you bought 2 or 3 years ago
I think your main problem is that the light was getting into the clay balls. Maybe using just a light layer of clay balls, then the seed potatoes, and then putting straw on top to make sure the tubers stay covered at all times would work.
That was a great potatoes harvest you go there 👍👍
Thanks Mick!! My sweet potatoes came out really good:)
Perhaps you could have added a tarp to the top with holes cut through for the plants, but blocking light to the roots
Cover with a layer of black plastic, like a large garbage bag. Make tiny slits where you want the plant to grow out of, and transplant through the slit you cut, this will also cut down on the little bit of evaporation you might normally get.
I always cut the green skin off and I've been just fine eating the rest of the potato. Just saying. Love your content. Thanks!
I hear you my friend:) Just trying to make sure I don't have any issues. Thanks for the support as well!
Hydroton pebbles are an integral part of my systems but in this type of bed I always put a sheet of black membrane over the top, cut holes in and plant through the holes. The membrane keeps the sun out because the pebbles let way too much light in down to a good few inches. A simple dark sheet across the top and you're done. No more green spuds.
Very interesting
try a 55gal barrel....rockwool on top...inside the barrel you have racks to catch the spuds without damaging the roots allowing them to grow up to 3ft deep iside the barrel.
I wonder if lining the top with something to help keep the greenness down?
Do exactly as you said layer more media in top potatoes grow up ans need to be shaded from the sun that's why bucket growing works so well
Have you thought of using grow bags with soil in the AP system for potatoes? They Hydroton can be aggressive on the developing potatoes. Just a thought.
I actually have and the results were not very good. With anything I think it just needs adjusting. This would have worked really well if I had covered the potatoes better. I got an awesome harvest of sweet potatoes from that same grow bed:)
Is this why they do that mounding technique in soil
I would like to see the experiment with constant flow, staring with less media and filling up over time. I guess (yes, curious guess) that it wold work. Some occasional short flooding or dripping from the top might help to since the clay doesn't hold water *that* good.
(still guessing, totally not in the know here)
Thanks for sharing. Potatoes seem to be the tricky crop to master in AP. This is interesting and I hope you try again, if not for yield, then for growing knowledge.
Growing in wisdom is very valuable so I should be trying again:)
Love your content, hope this didn’t bring you down too much. Just remember this was your first try next time will be better! One question though is their any kind of material/plant that you could to your fish tanks that would give your system more nutrients? That way if you were to be gone the system would be more self sufficient? But hey man keep up the great work!
Thank you for the encouragement:) I’m not sure if there is a well rounded fish feed that could supply all the nutrients that the plants would need. I don’t think there is. You could make a dispenser and have it dispense set amounts of different nutrients that the plants need on a timer along with the food. I 3D printed a fish feeder that I’m still working on:)
i've eaten green potatoes all my life and i'm as healthy as anyone and i'm 64 years old.
You and your family have summer plans ? I've noticed you aren't doing videos the same hope your well Matt
Try a finer grow medium as well as hilling the grow medium
That is a good idea but that may cause other issues.
Did you quit trying APs potatoes?
Crazy ironic that you mentioned you own a street sweeping business, I just sold my small 3 truck operation and moved across country.
I would think a dutch bucket style top(ish) water system, with a media something like rice or barley hulls would be most successful... ;)
Can you use those green ones as compost? Or can you replant them?
Use the green ones as seed potatoes.
Good piece on potatoes. I think the idea of adding to the top would be good but looks like the light is going around the media and penetrating to much. It might work to put down strips of 6 mill black plastic cutting out moon shapes where the plant. I say strips so it can be lifted for inspection and for adding more media.
Yeah, I think you are right:) May try that this next season!
Yeah, I think you are right:) May try that this next season!
How come the worms don't eat the actual crop?
If you only grow them at night that should eliminate the green ones
Ummm... Noted😂👍🏼
Not gonna lie, I had some HowToBasic flashbacks at the beginning of the video.
Ha ha ha!! I should have started punching the potatoes!
You should've put dried grass around the potatoes to prevent a lot of lighting at the base of the plants.
I cannot put too much grass and stuff around them because this is an Aquaponic system.
If you were to use the green ones as seed patatoes and try again we'd get to learn with you. What if you studied up what nutrients potatoes use and, tried beefing those nutrients up in your system ? If you were to try it again what if you used a micro irrigation system ? Would get the water all over the top in a natural way.
All good ideas. Do you understand how this system works? Water comes up from the bottom so the water is there:) If I watered from the top algae would grow and eat up the nutrients.
@@homefarmideas I never thought about Algae growth... novice mistake I was suggesting the opposite that way potatoes never likely see light
Keep your chin up and keep the taters covered. Maybe some of that weed barrier black ground cover stuff would work???
There is another idea! I like that one:)
I'm watching this a year later and thought black shade cloth or black weed cloth to keep light out. Off to watch sweet potato video.
Can the green taters be used as seeds for next year? It would be a shame if they went to waste.
Yes:)
Why do you have to cover them with hay?
Do you mean to cover the roots to maintain moisture and keep potatoes from exposing to sunlight or do you want to cover the plant?
No body is talking about nutrient solutios ?
I used to haul truck loads of spoiled potatoes. 50 or so tons at a time for cattle feed. Rotten taters are soooo gross.
sorry - ur brave --honest nice video.
No one died from eating green exposed potatoes. I’m from South Korea and we farm potatoes. We eat the green exposed potatoes and nothing happens for centuries. If you don’t like them don’t eat but I’m just telling no one will die as you told us sir.
And I’m here wondering what a aguaman Tupac potato is...
Aquaponic potatoes are just normal potatoes but they are grown without dirt:) They are grown in nutrient rich water. I have fish in a tank and their poop is the plants food.
Home Farm Ideas Ahhhh..... Ty, I love learning new things (and I guess in this case a new potato!). When did you come up with this idea?
not very successful and the splits in them are from too much water, they grow too fast and split then heal over
Whoever told you that you can't eat green potatoes? What a waste! Peel the green off! What's not green is edible potato!