I am LOVING IT. Mainly because I get to have fish, even if I don't get to see them often, but you wanna get me geeking out HARD on something, present me with fish. What do you want to know, specifically? You will, of course, have to account for lighting if you're going inside, but it's not like that's never been done before, yeah?
If you're on Facebook there are
many really good groups dedicated to AP, and more than a few have others who are doing cannabis in AP. There are a few tweaks for cannabis that most AP folks don't like to use, I'm using them because we have volume on our side, I have extensive aquatic experience and I know a little bit about organic farming on top of that, so I'm using things like Sea-90, MicroHume, dry MaxiCrop (instead of liquid extract), bone and blood meal, rock dusts and so on, INSTEAD of relying solely on the fish and what they're being fed to provide nutrients.
There's actually a LOT to say about the whole process... where do I start? Here, let's start with a video I made when we first set the system up. It's still going strong, we had a fish kill in July when temps were very hot and we disturbed an anaerobic area (victims of our own success, as it were) when a tomato plant grew so hard that it clogged the circulation through one of the beds.
Yesterday I harvested about 3lbs of mint, which I deleafed and smashed into a jar then covered with grain alcohol for my own organic mint extract while the hubster
@pinegrovedave harvested about HALF the basil and made I don't know how many pints of pesto. Salad greens, kale, pickling cucumbers (I went for relish this time, the basement's filled with Dave's pickles that are years old, we eat a lot more relish, with relish, than pickles, so...!), grapefruit-sized cantaloupes that are SO incredibly sweet, oh my God. What else? Rainbow chard is TAKING OFF. The peppers didn't do well, I feel it's because I probably didn't have enough Ca in the system.
Well, fuckity, I've gotten to rambling and forgot to put up the vids. The first video is an overview of the system as it was during filming. We've added onto the system four more split barrels that I'm using for some cannabis, but I started them *very* late so they're all about a foot high and trying to flower (I experiment with something every year I think... nope, yep, every year). Second video I made with our GoPro and put to music. Ok, I'm putting up three videos. The first one, an update from June and then the music video.