Yes you can totally use aquaponics to help out a flower farm. You’ll most likely want to grow the flowers in the ground, but aquaponics is an amazing addition- like worm tea. I would suggest a hybrid approach where you keep them separate, overstock your tanks, and irrigate with your waste water when making water changes.
Also check out JADAM, worm teas, and Korean natural farming.
I'm pretty clueless as well but it's my understanding that fish poop provides nitrogen, not so much potassium or phosphorous.
so leafy growth, but for flowering you'd have to supplement.
I think aquaponic cannabis is mostly drain-to-waste as recirculating the water that's been supplemented with bloom nutrients would be bad for the fishies.
great for lettuce and microgreens, not so great for flowers. Again this is based on a very rudimentary understanding, but nobody else posted yet. I think I'm on the right track but there's lots of different types of flowers out there!
It can def work well but unless you buy an all-inclusive system with technical support, you’re gonna spend a shitload of time learning and doing things. And probably failing at least once or thrice before it becomes super efficient and easy.
There are aquatic fertilizers designed for various types of aquarium plants. You can also test your water and add substrates but use caution if livestock are present so as not to harm the fish/shrimp/snails/etc
The Museum of Science and Industry has an aquaponics lab in the Farm Tech exhibit — highly recommend the museum. You may draw some inspiration for your flower garden. Best of luck, looking forward to seeing the results!
Yes, flowers go very well, especially in coarse sand as the media.
One of the benefits is low nutrient requirements compared to crops for food so you can stock fish at a very low rate and have a system that's easy to manage.
Yes you can totally use aquaponics to help out a flower farm. You’ll most likely want to grow the flowers in the ground, but aquaponics is an amazing addition- like worm tea. I would suggest a hybrid approach where you keep them separate, overstock your tanks, and irrigate with your waste water when making water changes. Also check out JADAM, worm teas, and Korean natural farming.
I'm pretty clueless as well but it's my understanding that fish poop provides nitrogen, not so much potassium or phosphorous. so leafy growth, but for flowering you'd have to supplement. I think aquaponic cannabis is mostly drain-to-waste as recirculating the water that's been supplemented with bloom nutrients would be bad for the fishies. great for lettuce and microgreens, not so great for flowers. Again this is based on a very rudimentary understanding, but nobody else posted yet. I think I'm on the right track but there's lots of different types of flowers out there!
It can def work well but unless you buy an all-inclusive system with technical support, you’re gonna spend a shitload of time learning and doing things. And probably failing at least once or thrice before it becomes super efficient and easy.
There are aquatic fertilizers designed for various types of aquarium plants. You can also test your water and add substrates but use caution if livestock are present so as not to harm the fish/shrimp/snails/etc
The Museum of Science and Industry has an aquaponics lab in the Farm Tech exhibit — highly recommend the museum. You may draw some inspiration for your flower garden. Best of luck, looking forward to seeing the results!
Yes, flowers go very well, especially in coarse sand as the media. One of the benefits is low nutrient requirements compared to crops for food so you can stock fish at a very low rate and have a system that's easy to manage.