HydroFarmer Here!

[HydroFarmer]

Hello Everybody,

 

I am a hydroponic farmer out of St. Louis. I specialize in sustainable agriculture and looking forward to learning a lot more from these threads!

[pamela]

hello HydroFarmer,

welcome!!!

[belovelife]

welcome

 

since your into hydro, have you heard of verticle farms

[christopher99]

I have gotten a lot of help from this forum related to hydroponic tips and ideas.

 

I thought I would share this. Not sure how long this link helpful for you.

 

http://www.rosebudmag.com/hydroponic-tips-ideas

[belovelife]

if you have ever heard of aquaponics, its where you farm fish and grow plants hydroponicly

 

i was wondering if you could farm lobster, if you did, what kind of plants would it efficiently feed

[JMJones0424]

i was wondering if you could farm lobster, if you did, what kind of plants would it efficiently feed

 

Do a google search for lobster aquaculture, there are a few attempts to farm lobster in a similar way to salt water fish.

 

The primary issue with matching lobster aquaculture to hydroponic plant production would be the fact that lobster live in cold seawater. The extremely high sodium content of the effluent would prohibit any normal hydroponic operation, even if you managed a way to deal with the different temperature needs. I suppose you could rig up some type of kelp farm around the lobster grow out seacages to process the waste and provide an economically useful byproduct. Perhaps terrestrial plants that grow in brackish marshes could be used in an aquaponic system using salt water, but I haven't ever seen such an operation.

[belovelife]

yea, i was thinking something like cranberries, but they grow in freshwater, and the temperature is not super difficult to get over, y9ou have to have a conversion chamber where bacterial release the nitrates from the ammonia

 

easy to heat up water transfer lines, even solar heating this way would work, cooling the water would be more of an energy draw in the long run