Aquaponics Grows Food Amazingly Fast!
We’ve found that everything grows two to three times faster than it would in the ground, and with far greater planting density. These photos tell the story.
Below is example of the incredibly rapid growth that plants undergo in our aquaponics system.
24 hours of growth in Bloomsdale Long-Standing Spinach and Peppercress.
 Spinach in foreground, peppercress behind, on 1/7/08. |
 Same plants, 24 hours later! |
The same plant: a Henderson’s Red Tomato, over the course of one week |
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 Two weeks from seed, 1/7/08. |
 1/11/08, four days later. |
 Three weeks from seed, 1/14/08. |
The crop was several hundred pounds of perfect, yummy tomatoes!
Fava roots, 12/21/07, just extending down from net pot into the water.
Fava Roots on 2/9/08.
Full production in our first system a year ago
Dryland Taro irrigated with system water
- Squash plants in foreground, and along the right side of photo, on 1/7/08.
Feeding Fish
Edible flowers
Whole fava plant, 1/7/08 (the raft is 2" thick), 17 days later.
Lettuce varieties
Rose and a tomato plant that gave 200 lbs of tomatoes in three months time.
Frilly Lettuce At Harvest
Same angle with squash in foreground, on 2/9/08; 33 days later, and I was picking 2 pound squash off a six-week old plant!
One of our white tilapia
One of our blue tilapia.
Blue tilapia fingerling.
