Aquaponics : French Bean

I think the timing is good as current French bean's production is declining. We have about two out of four we sowed few weeks back.

Aquaponics : Growbed Seven - Sword Bean

One and the only... Should pull this off.

Aquaponics : Growbed Five - Now We Are Confused..

Looks like Squash to me... Let's observe for few more weeks.

Update 30/12/16 - alright. Confirm it is a Squash.. The Chinese Squash we planted previously. 

Aquaponics : Growbed Eight - Japanese Cucumbers

Giving additional support for Japanese Cucumbers @Growbed Eight, they will be climbing in a week.

Aquaponics : Growbed Two - Squash - Will we survive this season?

Looks like we are facing the same issue as previous season... Rotten fruit...

Update : Yap... Have chopped the fruit off this afternoon.

Aquaponics : Reaching 2017....

Went for a breakaway and let the systems run without supervision for two days, so far so good..  Still looks like a tiny farm and not a jungle as before... Yes,  we are reaching the end of 2016... Let's pray for peace ahead.... Peace in mind... Peace! In Mandarin, 祝您平安！

Aquaponics : Getting Crowded From This Point of View

Hoping all will grow strong and increase our load in term of kilogram in the coming months.

Aquaponics : How Funny...

Based on the observation on the fruits and flowers, we have a thought that those plants in growbed Two are actually... Pumpkins. .. And not the winter gourds. If so,  we are currently having four 🎃 growing in the main system. Let's observe for few more weeks. 

Aquaponics : Reaching the roof

Most of the plants here are reaching the roof, cross our fingers that they gonna stay strong and be productive... 

Aquaponics : Water Pumps

These pumps were swapped out from the system few months back and awaiting to be service/clean.

Am still finding the 'motivation' to clean or servicing pumps... Aquaponics really need discipline to make it work.

Aquaponics : Flowering & Fruiting

Cherry tomato in growbed one and Two... Flowering and fruiting... 

Cucumber in growbed Three...flowering and fruiting.. Not sure if it is gonna make it... 

Flowering...and fruiting..  Winter gourds in growbed Two... 

Aquaponics : One inch Venturi Gun

Setup another venturi gun for the 1kl/h pump just to test out if that pump will deliver good results. 

Put it in action.... 

Aquaponics : Squash @Growbed Two

Two Pumpkins here... Climbing....

The cherry tomato... Surviving...

Aquaponics : Growbed One

The French Beans are in production. Anyway, not as frequent maybe we should plant more.. Let's double it up in the coming season.

Good to see that,  cherry tomato is leaning on them for support. It should be in production in two weeks.

Aquaponics : Oh.. Pumpkin.. Pumpkins @Growbed Four

Stay strong another 3 months to go...

Aquaponics : Growbed Three

Looks like the Mulberry is not gonna make it after the second branch got trimmed off.

The Cucumber is flowering... But looks like it is too old.

Aquaponics : Growbed Five

If you observe carefully enough, you should be able to spot which direction is our premise facing...

The winter gourd from growbed Five...

Aquaponics : Growbed Six

My favorite passion fruits... Climb...! Passion.... Climb...!

Aquaponics : The Chapperlang Growbed Seven

Have moved the sword bean to this growbed during replacement of growbed eight. We might just pull this sword bean in coming weeks as it is not growing as expected. The rest will be lettuce, Okra, cabbage and cherry tomatoes.

Aquaponics : Growbed Nine

Some says it is a good idea to place some bigger rocks in the growbed; however, from what we have observed these rocks are actually the culprit of siphon clogging. In future, we might consider to place an outer 4-inch pipe for flexibility of moving the leca in the bottom of growbed.

Aquaponics : Japanese Cucumbers @Growbed Eight

Good to see there are growing strong in the newly setup growbed eight.

Aquaponics : Weekly Update

Looks like will need another month to have all grown up and produce...

Will give out what is in each of the growbed in coming posts...

Take note that, most of our posts are pre-scheduled, thus, expect older news/updates...

Aquaponics : Growbed Eight and Nine

Alright. Today we gonna swap the small growbed eight to the standard size blue tune we have extra. 




More leca are needed for sure. Lucky enough got them from a friend here. 




Here is the extra blue tube we get from the previous gutter system. 




The affnan's siphon.. Make sure you get the vent cap with smaller holes as recently we found that the leca we bought have the mixture of smaller  and normal size in it. The bigger holes will create additional task for your operation in the long run. Trust us on this.  😅 




Mount it up and ready to go. 




Alright.  Mission accomplished. 

Aquaponics : Squash - Transplant shock?

12 hours after the transplant....

We should follow the advice... Transplant in the evening... 




Looks like it was dehydrated...anyway, it's back in action after we sprayed it with water,  put on shading and let it be for another 12 hours. 

Aquaponics : Squash - Relocated to Growbed Four

Have both relocated to Growbed Four easier than expected, as we observed there were challenge in growbed eight on water pump.

Aquaponics : Stop seeding for a month

Yap. As mentioned previously that It might be the time for us to stop seeding for a month...

After this... As my aunt was mentioned about Japanese Cucumber...

Aquaponics : Gutter System

Yes! still having the four gutters eating dust... Maybe we gonna rebuild them, imitating NFT, in one or two months... ; however,  have no idea how far it will go... No long term plan as of now. 


Guess!!!  what is on my mind? Thinking of replacing the growbed eight to the bigger blue tube. 




My favorite view on the roof.. 

Aquaponics : Growbed Three

It's about time to relocate it.  Just wondering where it should be relocated to... 



Hmmm... Growbed Three,  it is gonna be. 



It might be the time for us to stop seeding for a month... 

Aquaponics : Squash

Alright.  Sprouted! Let's relocate them coming week to growbed Four.

Believe that,  the tomatoes didn't make it... Must be flushed by the heavy downpour. 

Getting ready to be transplant....

Aquaponics : Yap! It is still alive

Feeling thankful that Our crayfish is still alive... 

Aquaponics : Growbed Four - Clean up

As usual...




Pull it off in 5mins...to pull it off easily..flood the growbed. 




Cleaned.. Ready and waiting... Squash 🎃  will be here coming week. 

Aquaponics : Let's Wrap up For November 2016

We are still maintaining the momentum;however,  we expect lesser for the coming month as it is monsoon season now.... Raining almost everyday in our area.

Currently,  in production,  Okra, French Bean and lettuce. 

Aquaponics : Got Bean?

Hey hey.... Got beans.... Heard that, the frequency of harvesting them matters.....