Fish food for plants?
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dachieftan
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I've heard of people using the water from fish tanks but never fish food itself... Hmmmm this should be interesting
redneck shogun
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I don't use any of these personally but fish hydrolysate products that are recommended most in this forum are probably neptune's harvest and organic gem. Could do a search through the threads for it.
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What is in the Fish Food?
i remember breeder STEVE SOL used to use GUPPYponics..
Recycled water and nutes from fish waste... something like that , i will try and find it.. old Hightimes article..
EDIT!! http://hightimes.com/grow/agrossman/479
http://forum.grasscity.com/indoor-growing/378790-guppy-ponics-magical-project-nemo.html
Recycled water and nutes from fish waste... something like that , i will try and find it.. old Hightimes article..
EDIT!! http://hightimes.com/grow/agrossman/479
http://forum.grasscity.com/indoor-growing/378790-guppy-ponics-magical-project-nemo.html
http://hightimes.com/grow/agrossman/479
GUPPY-PONICS
What does it take to breed truly fine cannabis? It requires an acute sense of the universe and unwavering attention to detail. Of all the people I've met who consider themselves breeders of cannabis, none embrace the spirit of organics quite like Breeder Steve. Never one to follow the traditional path, Steve began experimenting with a technique he calls "guppy-ponics" to feed all his plants. Essentially bioponics (biological hydroponics), the name reflects the fact that all the nutrients Steve's plants need come from the water in fish tanks that have been stocked with guppies and other fish.
As fishes live, they eat, then poop. Over a short period of time, fish waste converts itself into all the essential nutrients plants need. Steve drains the water from his tanks to water the plants. Then he tops off the fish tanks and the process starts again. The plants themselves are not grown in one particular style. Steve has used this method to feed plants on ebb-and-flow tables and pots filled with grow rocks. He does prefer, as I do, large buckets filled with a high-grade soilless medium. After feeding a 4,000-watt room exclusively off a 90-gallon tank for over two years, Steve learned exactly how to make this system swim.
BREEDING SPICE [cont.]
Zen Grow-Master Steve explains: "Conventional aquarium wisdom dictates 1 inch of fish (measured head to tail) per gallon of water, but I've happily kept up to five times that amount, or 5 inches of fish per gallon. Feed the fish well using plenty of frozen and live food. Cheaper food like pellets and flakes leave their scent in the herb, so I recommend only occasional feedings with these products."
"How often do you feed the fish?" I asked.
"Every three days I put 100 feeder goldfish or guppies in the tank. That's a lot of fish emulsion, but filtered, not raw." Steve uses a wide assortment of life in his tanks. His collection is comprised mostly of cichlids, goldfish and guppies, but also a variety of algae-eaters and other assorted sweet-water tropicals. There are also plants, crawdads, crabs, shrimp, snails and eels. "Oscars are a fish that do well and grow large quickly, which is great for larger systems. They will eat a lot of fish--it's best to raise feeders for them. I have gone so far as to feed my Oscars an entire hamburger, which was gone in minutes. That's my idea of bioponics, to be able to drop in hot meat and a sesame seed bun and turn it into kind bud."
The conversion of a hamburger into fertilizer is all taken care of by nature. "It takes about 12 days for the nitrogen cycle to complete itself. The ammonia in the fish waste is converted to nitrite by aerobic bacteria (nitrosonomas). Then, by the colonization of another aerobic bacteria (nitrobacter), nitrite is converted to nitrate. Nature is perfect, if chaotic. The growth of these bacteria is virtually unstoppable anywhere the right conditions occur on Earth. The natural filter of water is plants. This cycle is the basis of life on our planet. The waste of aerobic bacteria is nutrient. It is not difficult to comprehend--have you seen the growth of plants by a rich pond?"
Rather than try to ascertain and then apply changing levels of nutrients during different growth phases, Steve ensures that a light amount of all nutrients is constantly available and never depleted, meaning he doesn't change his mix when he switches to flowering.
"The best method is to have all stages of growth feeding from one reservoir. This creates more of a balanced demand on the available [low] nutrient levels. This reservoir passes through the flowering room, then drains into the mother buckets for another filtering. This water also works great for clones. In the event of a larger ratio in flowering, I add a nylon sock stuffed with guanos, meals and naturally occurring minerals. This soon becomes a green log of algae with a dozen algae-eaters feeding furiously. This boosts the PPM as high as 400! It's usually around 350, but it doesn't mean much in bioponics."
Steve hopes to have a book with complete details about guppy-ponics out late this fall. During our visit there was one tank feeding a room with about 5000 watts. Unfortunately, most of the plants came down a few weeks before we arrived. The plants we did photograph were beautiful but had obviously been held over for our arrival. The proof is in the smoke, and I'll reiterate just this once: The cured Sweet Pink Grapefruit nugs were like candy.
What does it take to breed truly fine cannabis? It requires an acute sense of the universe and unwavering attention to detail. Of all the people I've met who consider themselves breeders of cannabis, none embrace the spirit of organics quite like Breeder Steve. Never one to follow the traditional path, Steve began experimenting with a technique he calls "guppy-ponics" to feed all his plants. Essentially bioponics (biological hydroponics), the name reflects the fact that all the nutrients Steve's plants need come from the water in fish tanks that have been stocked with guppies and other fish.
As fishes live, they eat, then poop. Over a short period of time, fish waste converts itself into all the essential nutrients plants need. Steve drains the water from his tanks to water the plants. Then he tops off the fish tanks and the process starts again. The plants themselves are not grown in one particular style. Steve has used this method to feed plants on ebb-and-flow tables and pots filled with grow rocks. He does prefer, as I do, large buckets filled with a high-grade soilless medium. After feeding a 4,000-watt room exclusively off a 90-gallon tank for over two years, Steve learned exactly how to make this system swim.
Zen Grow-Master Steve explains: "Conventional aquarium wisdom dictates 1 inch of fish (measured head to tail) per gallon of water, but I've happily kept up to five times that amount, or 5 inches of fish per gallon. Feed the fish well using plenty of frozen and live food. Cheaper food like pellets and flakes leave their scent in the herb, so I recommend only occasional feedings with these products."
"How often do you feed the fish?" I asked.
"Every three days I put 100 feeder goldfish or guppies in the tank. That's a lot of fish emulsion, but filtered, not raw." Steve uses a wide assortment of life in his tanks. His collection is comprised mostly of cichlids, goldfish and guppies, but also a variety of algae-eaters and other assorted sweet-water tropicals. There are also plants, crawdads, crabs, shrimp, snails and eels. "Oscars are a fish that do well and grow large quickly, which is great for larger systems. They will eat a lot of fish--it's best to raise feeders for them. I have gone so far as to feed my Oscars an entire hamburger, which was gone in minutes. That's my idea of bioponics, to be able to drop in hot meat and a sesame seed bun and turn it into kind bud."
The conversion of a hamburger into fertilizer is all taken care of by nature. "It takes about 12 days for the nitrogen cycle to complete itself. The ammonia in the fish waste is converted to nitrite by aerobic bacteria (nitrosonomas). Then, by the colonization of another aerobic bacteria (nitrobacter), nitrite is converted to nitrate. Nature is perfect, if chaotic. The growth of these bacteria is virtually unstoppable anywhere the right conditions occur on Earth. The natural filter of water is plants. This cycle is the basis of life on our planet. The waste of aerobic bacteria is nutrient. It is not difficult to comprehend--have you seen the growth of plants by a rich pond?"
Rather than try to ascertain and then apply changing levels of nutrients during different growth phases, Steve ensures that a light amount of all nutrients is constantly available and never depleted, meaning he doesn't change his mix when he switches to flowering.
"The best method is to have all stages of growth feeding from one reservoir. This creates more of a balanced demand on the available [low] nutrient levels. This reservoir passes through the flowering room
Steve hopes to have a book with complete details about guppy-ponics out late this fall. During our visit there was one tank feeding a room with about 5000 watts. Unfortunately, most of the plants came down a few weeks before we arrived. The plants we did photograph were beautiful but had obviously been held over for our arrival. The proof is in the smoke, and I'll reiterate just this once: The cured Sweet Pink Grapefruit nugs were like candy.
.good luck
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Rysam
All water for my plants comes out of my fish tank. I wouldnt use the food because that shit is expensive. My plants are healthy and vigorous. Veg is straight tank water, flower gets a shot of EJ bloom and molasses.
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