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I'm planning a home growing system combining aquaponics and aeroponics and am trying to understand if I can find another use of the aquaponic water setup and specifically for aeroponic systems with either misters or sprinklers.

Do you have experience with such hybrid systems?

Thanks in advance!

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  • Why do you think misters/sprinklers will add to your system? Please be careful thinking NUTRIENTS are food for your plants. They are not and need careful consideration. High humidity/moisture is a surefire way to get fungus among us. Have you great FANS? – stormy Mar 2 '17 at 2:22
  • @stormy, my logic was that an aeroponic system uses a water tank in which you need to add the nutrients and then the water pump would move the water (which contains nutrients) either to the bottom of the aeroponic growing container where you have a mister dispersing the water into the root area or you have a system with sprinklers which directly water the roots.And since I already would create a nutrient rich water with aquaponics, is it possible to use the aquaponics water for my aeroponics roots? (This is related to my other question about ph levels) – kr3t3n Mar 2 '17 at 9:56
  • Oh now I understand better. My oh so immature opinion or knee jerk reaction would be to minimize RECYCLING. Keeping your plants on a few completely separate systems would be far more safe. One of the down sides that worries me cause I am a soil gardener, is how easy disease or problems once in one plant are spread. Wait until one of these others who do this stuff regularly give you an answer. 'Nutrient' rich is better stated chemically enhanced with possible unknowns...YOU are in control of the chemistry and to recycle chemicals makes it even more difficult to KNOW what your plants get... – stormy Mar 2 '17 at 17:50
  • You are right, I am not experienced and pest and disease control are things I am still clueless about. Theoretically, pests should not be a big problem as the system will be almost completely isolated. Diseases, however, would probably be a problem of the same magnitude. – kr3t3n Mar 3 '17 at 9:40
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The problem with using aquaponic water is that it is full of solids and fines. These have to be filtered out otherwise your emitters are going to rapidly block up. If you can filter it, I don't see an issue for using aquaponic water for an aeroponic system.

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  • Thank you Graham Chiu! That was my thinking as well. I am planning to use filters and already have a couple of ideas on how to make the water clean enough for the aeroponic system. However, I think it might be a bit easier using a fogger instead of sprinkler system. – kr3t3n Mar 4 '17 at 8:58
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I am using the aquaponics system nutrients water in a vertical grow tower by supplying the nutrient water by pump. The water drips from top of the tower along inside walls and taken up by the plant roots. I have grown the largest heads of lettuce and chives , compared with gravel bed and deep water culture DWC. Really pleased with this method

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  • Any chance of a diagram or photo of your system Keifer? – user27864 Apr 13 '20 at 11:15

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