Time for A Booster

Sign of nutrient deficiency in few plants, it's time to fix that before it start to affect more plants.

Chili plant above the young leaves has a bit of lighter shades of green. This is enough for me to take some preventive measures.

Pucuk Manis plant above to has similar symtom. Will need to add epson salt as chlorofyll booster and Chelated Iron as Fe Booster.

Epsom salt available from pharmacy and Chelated Iron from argriculture shops or some ACE outlets.

In #gutterbed I use one of the pots filled with hydroton at water level and few scoops of Epsom Salt and Chelated Fe is added.

This will slowly dissolve in water and be absorbed by the plants.

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Aquaponics Tips - Chelated Iron

Chelated Iron like Fe 13% EDTA are use in agriculture as a supplement to ensure yellowing leaves don't occur and enhance production of chlorophyll in leaves. They can be use as a foliar spray either on its own or mixed with common pesticide. It can also be administered through fertigation solution.

Fe EDTA in aquaponics we add to growbed either to the growbed or the fish tank. I would recommend the earlier since it will not be directly available to the fish in it undissolved form that those hungry fishes think it's fish food.

How much to add? As home setup I must say, I add only as much as it's required. They are extensive post in forums about how much to add with volume of water in your system etc but I don't bothered about it.

In aquaponics, water is constantly circulating so like ammonia in the fish tank iron will be continuously circulated in the system and the plants will uses as it needs. It is not like the foliar or fertigation method that may be excessive hence wastage upon application.

I have four growbeds in this CRAFTS setup, I put one tablespoon into each growbed at the water inlet. Usually it will be enough, nothing is wasted since it will be circulating in the system.

This particular Fe EDTA works from ph range of 2 to 8. Most of my aquaponics set the ph is about 6.7 to 7.3, so it should work.

Ok.. that the small tips.

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EDTA Fe

Got my EDTA Fe few weeks ago at Nine Top Trading

My strawberry plant was showing sign of iron deficiency as below.

The plants not that healthy.

That was two weeks ago on 12th Nov, today its show sign of recovery with encouraging result.

It is still not as green as it should but nevertheless it is good to see some progress made after applying the EDTA Fe even some says that Aquaponics water is too high in ph that EDTA will not work.

My advise to those that are too concern about EDTA Fe is  - Don't read too much, practice then you will not get confuse over the information overload.

Aquaponics - Iron

Comparison on these 2 photos showing, vegetable cutting from my earlier setup and present.

Above is the present setup Water Celery, show healthy growth.

This one are from my previous setup. The different is yellowing leaves in the later picture this is due to lack of Iron, the present setup I'm using nails and Iron rods to provide Iron to the plants.