New light arrived and new little Veg area for 2, possibly 4 plants, is up and running 
I’m not holding out a lot of hope for these cuttings. The moms are 5 weeks into flower, and I was able to find a branch on each that was directly under another, so no harm in cutting it away. Cleaned up a few spots with my clippers, coated in rooter and in they went. Fingers crossed 
looking great on the aquaponics indoor grow! my aquaponics systems are outside in my garden area (total of 3 IBC totes (Sump with some goldfish, Main Fish tank with catfish, and 3 grow beds))
I have not yet grown canna for a full grow season in them, but transplanted some cuttings i took from my tent grow into them late in the season, the plants produced well (for the little amount of veg time they had) and the bud has been excellent from them.
on a side note if you ever need any resource for improving the system, or different ways to grow in aquaponics style systems, I highly recommend Rob Bob’s channel on youtube.
Oh nice, I’d love to do an outdoor one, but we have racoons and rats bloody everywhere, and my wife would rather not have “an ugly 55 gallon barrel in my yard” (I don’t entirely blame her, lol). I’m still working on her for a raised bed, but rat crap in a bed of strawberries… 🤷.
I’ve had some fun with aquaponics over the years… I was moving once, and moved my growing plant in an emptied dishwasher, raised on a truck bed, with one of those big yellow topped bins full of water and fish. The whole thing was dwc’d with a pump in the grow bin in the dishwasher to move water 
. The best part, I didn’t miss a light cycle, hahahaha.
Rob has definitely been a huge influence, I WISH I could build a garden like he has… I’m stoked to see what his new farm is going to be like!
I sort of like my ugly 55 gallon drums. 
I forgot to mention, but used Rob’s design for an all in one system for two drums that stay up on our deck. They currently have a pineapple plant in one and some flowering herbs in the other (not that herb). They do really well with simple leafy greens (bok / pak - choi, lettuce, celery, etc)
here is a better look at my larger system out in the garden(also modeled on Rob’s systems)
A huge side benefit, I sometimes get to use water from the system, to feed plants out in the container garden.
It gives a nice little nutrient burst, as well as perfect ph levels (my well water is very very alkaline coming out of the hose)
Question for you… The white stand pipe with the blue lid in your grow bed of the 55g, is that just your standpipe return?
Your big system is wiiicked… You should do another vid and talk through it what you have where, and why 
. I’d be curious to know more about that massive catfish too, haha
Honestly tho, once you grow weed in an aquaponics system once, and you find the only thing you’re having to do for your plants is feed fish… No mixing of anything, no watering schedules… You’ll never go back . I’d be totally down to get into the design with you too, I’ve built everything from stealth grows in a fridge to designing and starting the build of a full commercial warehouse .
I would be very interested to learn about and see all those designs. Im sure the whole OG community would also find it interesting.
All my pics from then are over the 13mb limit, I’ll throw some more up when I get to my computer in a bit 
Yes, exactly, using a simple bell siphon design that Rob Bob has on his vid’s.
During summer time I had the system running completely on solar, but as the season changed i really wasn’t getting enough light to keep the system running long enough. So ended up getting some super cheap 200-300 gph plug in pumps, i just let them run all the time now.
am currently working to try and meet folks of a similar mindset, and share the knowledge and experience that i have, sort of a WWOOF traveling thing, God willing am certainly looking forward to it.
The big system really is its own ecosystem, worms in the gravel, snails and other aquatic critters in the water, and the fish. Honestly I am a firm believer in the Law of Conservation of energy, so enjoyed putting in more work up front, knowing that i had a nearly maint free system that would last a long time.
I will do a thorough step by step walk-thru of the system when i can. will post it up here when its done.
How did you find the noise with the bell syphon? I had one setup initially in a little outdoor grow I built (I’ll post pics when I’m done this joint ), but my landlords at the time asked me to take it all down because it was louder than their conversation in their backyard, lol. So, I switches mine to a constant flow… It’s almost a dwc style, but with water constantly moving.
I didn’t catch that it was solar at first (volume was down so I didn’t wake the Mrs), but when I showed her later we both agreed, that was really cool!
I’m always down for a virtual meetup, and I’m definitely down to share design ideas!
My first grow…
I had no idea what I was doing, so I started playing with water pressure to see what kind of pump would keep water moving, but not overflow the grow buckets.
On the outlet for the buckets, I had a lower drain to drop the water level, an upper drain to keep a higher water level, and an “oh crap, too much flow!” drain… those came in handy more often than I care to admit, lol
The bottom of the fridge is all plumbed and ready to go. The freezer is prepped to be a little nursery for popping beans 
I had no idea how many fish I was going to need, how much water… I was clueless, but determined.
Trying to keep the fish from falling into the next garbage can down with all the biomedia, and pumps in this one
Some green onions in the back… regrown from the roots of store bought, the taste was like nothing I’ve ever had before. Store bought is bland junk in comparison. Also the peppers from the seeds above, coming along nicely. And some root pron
A pic with the lights installed. Up to this point I had been using a light from an aquarium mounted to the roof of the fridge compartment. These light strips are straight from Wish, and they did incredibly well!
A good shot of how I had the lights setup. I found it was getting really hot, if you look in the top back left corner of the fridge you’ll see the first of many different fans I tried.
I had lots of good growth
First beans are doing well!
Plants are looking great. At this point I was starting to figure out that plants need fans for branch strength… I had speaker wire holding branches up to the top, lol.
Doh! A male. I did get a female in this grow as well, but was out of town when the male popped, so I ended up with a TON of xtreme haze seeds, not a bad thing
Looks great!
I love the GSD attitude! “Get Shit Done!” Alot of us tend to overthink.
Agreed, nothing wrong with some planning and strategizing… but when its time to get 'er did, innovation is king.
I have pics of a few more grow setups, including a veggie one I built for my mom with 6" pipe (which we promptly tore down 3 weeks later and built her a system for weed, lol)… But I ended up rebuilding a computer last night before I could post this first build… I should be able to get the others up here today .
Each of them started with a, “well sh*t, how am I gonna get THIS to work now” lol.
here is the detailed walkthru you asked for.
Wow man, wicked walkthrough!! Thank you!
I’ve yet to build one that I intentionally built a full solids removal like you have, that’s really cool. I have a part to an in-house vacuum system that I’m dying to try for that one day, lol.
Really, awesome walkthrough. I guess I’m weird, I could watch the water pouring out of those tanks all day and never really get bored… Especially after indulging in what can be grown in it 
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