{"id":123,"date":"2014-12-24T23:28:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T05:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/issyroo.org\/?p=123"},"modified":"2014-12-24T23:45:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T05:45:38","slug":"melding-hydroponics-and-aquaponics-a-winter-issyroo-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issyroo.org\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Melding Hydroponics and Aquaponics. A winter Issyroo project."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Winter Issyroo Experiment<\/b><\/div>\n
Part 1Here are some pictures of our new hybrid aquaponics rig going in. \u00a0Right now some conventional potted plants are on the stand, but by tomorrow evening we will have the unit all but completed. \u00a0It combines soil enrichment techniques, aquaponics, and vermicomposting in a small space and sports automatic controls. \u00a0Plant, cull, feed and harvest will be the only tasks, and these are vastly simplified.<\/p>\n

The first crop will be lettuce, radishes, and spinach with crops in \u00a0parallel bins on the shelves above and below. \u00a0bear in mind that the room these are in varies from 5-30C, just as a winter time greenhouse would. \u00a0Other test objectives include:<\/p>\n

1. Test the effectiveness of the LED full spectrum lights (7W draw!) as grow lights, comparing these to the sunlight coming in the south exposure window behind the rack.<\/p>\n

2. Test the hybrid\u00a0soil enrichment techniques, aquaponics, and vermicomposting system on a small scale before deploying a similar system in an enclosed greenhouse (scheduled spring 2015).<\/p>\n

3. Build and program the control system which will allow nearly unattended operation. \u00a0The system is intended to be transparent to the growing operation, only requiring the human touch on the plants.<\/p>\n

4. Create a fully documented, scalable, and open design which may be replicated allowing apartment dwellers to grow a fairly substantial amount of food in a very small space with minimal expense and effort.<\/p>\n

Yes, you read that right… \u00a0this is to be a fully documented open hardware project! \u00a0Stay tuned for updates both here on G+ as well as issyroo.org<\/a>,<\/p>\n

PS. Dear stoners… this project will be vastly disappointing to you. \u00a0Even though I live in Colorado, I don’t grow or use pot. \u00a0This is not to say these techniques won’t work for it, but I just don’t know and I won’t be finding out. \u00a0I don’t have anything against Cannabis, but we do Federal and State contracting and subcontracting. \u00a0I must test clean, and abide by federal laws. \u00a0Besides… \u00a0It’s just not my cup of tea… more for you! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Winter Issyroo Experiment Part 1Here are some pictures of our new hybrid aquaponics rig going in. \u00a0Right now some conventional potted plants are on the stand, but by tomorrow evening we will have the unit all but completed. \u00a0It combines soil enrichment techniques, aquaponics, and vermicomposting in a small space and sports automatic controls. \u00a0Plant, … Continue reading Melding Hydroponics and Aquaponics. A winter Issyroo project.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[17,7,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/issyroo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/issyroo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/issyroo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issyroo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issyroo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/issyroo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/issyroo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/issyroo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issyroo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issyroo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}