Aquaponic Goblin Grow 2017

Yeah, I'm cheating lol. the ground here is mostly clay and doesn't drain. Even the corn doesn't really like the soil. The only thing that seems to grow with any vigor is all the various forms of rye grass. I want to grow outside in the dirt but id have to bring in $10k worth of topsoil to get the garden beds above the clay. It rains so much here and low spots fill with water in a couple hours whenever it rains.

Last summer I started a composting pile using all the moldy hay that was sitting on concrete in the barn with the leaky roof, and the cows get fed in the barn so they make a tractor bucket of contributions a week. Plus the orchard clippings will go in there. Our food scraps are going into the worm farm, I have 12 trays and 3 are full so far. I add one a month it seems. This week I'm making a platform for the worm farms to hang near the ceiling so the runoff can go sraight into the plant water pump bucket pre filter and get mixed in there a drip at a time.

Hmmm...
-Rambles Mcguillocutty

So I think I was thinking about...right. So I am growing in soil. The aquaponics is more for my little clone factories, the vegetable garden and vegging the plants that will go outside in the spring. Being I'm limited to a total of 4 plants flowering or 10 if I get a med card, I'm working on developing multiple root systems from the same plant.

According to my biology degree from a non accredited online school of witchcraft, I can add a root system to every 30-60" of plant main stem before there becomes issues with nutrient availability simply because of the method of conveyance within the plant. That said such systems are entirely dependent on the size of the stem, which leads me to consider even longer veg times...oh the rabbit hole of scientific discovery. Down south a few, I've seen main stems the size of my fatty aging biceps, and I'm pretty sure the data collected re the previous was performed on much smaller plants.

Being I can't grow outside in the winter here, I created the quasi aquaponics system to provide the vegging environment too facilitate said "multiple root zone plants"

You can see in the pics the tower of buckets and the vertical abs pipe. Both are variants on the same concept. As the plant grows up, put the stem under the next bucket, or through the abs pipe to the other side. Once the growth zone is populated, the abs pipe is simply buried in the ground with the plant parts on either side of the row peak and the roots grow down from there, the abs pipe facilitates the watering transition via a simple 90 at the end. In the case of the buckets, the root balls are in hydroton filled cloth bags. The roots grow through the bag, so when it's populated I'll just lay the stack out in the garden and plant them in a row.

One plant, 4 root zones 30 or so inches apart...out in the great outdoors...has me curious enough to try it

Happy Growin'

Smoke break

Ps. Part two, plant plan...part one, soil plan

 

Fucking rabbits

Ate 8 of 10 of my month old cuttings I put out for sexing

 

And here I have been blaming my cat.....