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| About the Author Babu Sydney-NSW 26th February 2010 2:00pm #UserID: 3423 Posts: 1 View All Babu's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author John Mc1 Warnervale NSW 26th February 2010 3:28pm #UserID: 3373 Posts: 72 View All John Mc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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au0rey says... Hi John, will growing chillies become too expensive with hydroponics? Hi Babu, most of my chillies are in pots and they do well. But I do have one in the ground (almost died in bunnings but salvaged after I bought it home) and it is doing fantastic. Do you have pictures of your chilli plants? Maybe we can look at the leaves? My three chilli padis (really spicy tiny chillies) seemed sick in spring with black spots but have since exploded in growth and produced loads of chillies for me. All three crowded in a large pot and using premium potting mix...I didnt add any potash at all.
| About the Author melbourne 26th February 2010 5:11pm #UserID: 0 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
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John Mc says... Hi Babu, hope you don't mind me hijacking your thread but au0rey wanted to know more about hydroponics. I'll try and keep it short, sorry if I've trodden on any toes. Hi au0rey, You can make hydroponics as cheap as you like. Start with a pot filled with coco peat. You will have to find a hydro shop to buy the nutrient. Even bought nutrient is fairly inexpensive. Like, 2 x 1 litre bottles of concentrate is around $15 from memory. You use 4ml per litre of water. It gets cheaper by quantity. I personally make my own nutrient formula and use it on everything. Making the nutrient yourself is by far the cheapest. Formulating the nutrient myself costs me around $5 per 10 litres of concentrate. Those chillis you saw above were grown solely in hydro from a very small seedling. Those chillis would have grown equally well in a pot of coco peat. | About the Author John Mc1 Warnervale NSW 26th February 2010 9:15pm #UserID: 3373 Posts: 72 View All John Mc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Michael Wakeley 27th February 2010 12:45am #UserID: 1746 Posts: 178 View All Michael's Edible Fruit Trees |
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au0rey says... Hi John, ehh so so sorry I am not into hydroponics hehehe...just wondered if it turns out more costly than normal potting mix/soil planting that's all..and since you are telling me more...I am just wondering if hydroponics method is organic? Cos I am rather organic freak and hydroponics uses chemical fertilisers? Michael, no my chillies are not attacked at all. Maybe Melbourne's weather not good for fruit flies? We have got flies, butterflies and moths, but not fruit flies. | About the Author 27th February 2010 11:53am #UserID: 0 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
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John Mc says... Hi au0rey, As far as chemicals are concerned, yes you make up the nutrients out of chemical sounding names like calcium nitrate, magnesium sulphate (epsom salts)etc, but in the end, the plants are provided with the exact same molecule it needs regardless of origin. Because hydroponic nutrient is very weak compared to "normal" chemical fertilizers, you can (I don't)feed the plants each and every time you water and they absolutely love it. I suppliment this feeding with mulch and compost I make myself. I have a heavy duty mechanical mulcher that keeps me in plentiful supplies of the stuff. | About the Author John Mc1 Warnervale NSW 27th February 2010 3:47pm #UserID: 3373 Posts: 72 View All John Mc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author roborthudson Australia 16th January 2013 12:02am #UserID: 7571 Posts: 9 View All roborthudson's Edible Fruit Trees |
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