Finale for my part

I have moved to Hawaii so I have reached an end to operating my office aquaponic system. The system has been passed on to my family. It will be the first system that I built and is the first system that I have given away. I feel really good about being able to pass on aquaponics to another. I have realized that I like setting up systems. Odd, but satisfying. I never intended to donate it.  I have found pleasure in giving the system away as well. Perhaps I have a future in doing such a thing.

This is how I left my system. I relocated it underneath an east facing window to reduce supplemental light and to allow the rising sun to bask the plants.

Good luck!

Thank you for following this blog. In time I will achieve more, but for now I must focus on school so I can do this for a living.

Smoothness

The system is running nice and smoothly. No dramas so far. The fish are getting bigger and are becoming ferocious eaters. I am feeding them Aqueon goldfish flakes that I bought at PetCo. They seem to like it.

The tomatoes are weaving well along the chicken wire canopy I have given them. I haven't had to coax them much through the wire. These two plants seem to have vine like qualities and almost weave themselves. I am glad I don't have to harass them as much as I thought I would.

I have recently planted a habanero pepper into the right grow bed just to see how it goes. It would be nice to also fruit a pepper under a fluorescent.

I have added more pictures! The most current photos are at the bottom. Enjoy!

SCROG Added For Tomatoes

I have added a screen (made of 1" chicken wire and 1/2" PVC) above my tomato plants to create a canopy focused near my light. I am going to delicately weave the leaves of my tomato plants along the screen horizontally. I am trying to give the plants the maximum amount of light to their photosynthetic parts. Eventually I hope for the fruit to dangle below the screen for easy picking.

The carrots seem to benefit from this as well.