Bioponics explained; Nutrients, microbes, square foot yield, viability!

[@Taipou]

Hi David. Thanks for your sharing your efforts and making the video. I was expecting to learn more about bioponics, as the title suggested. As a beginner, I didn't get a lot out of it, TBH (no offense!). I'd love to learn more about bioponics, so if you'd create a video in which you explain how to do it myself and how it compares to other methods, I'd definitely watch it! Thanks again and keep up the good work.

[@chaimaebensar6507]

Good evening sir, did you find any information about bioponics? Would you share it with me plz. Thank you

[@chriswesley594]

Great chard, but - how do you know those roots are inter-connecting and exchanging messages like a human neural system? ?Looks to me like they're inter-mingling in a small space because they're growing.

[@bioponics]

BALUŠKA, F., MANCUSO, S., VOLKMANN, D. & BARLOW, P., Root apices as plant command centres: the unique “brain-like” status of the root apex transition zone. Biologia, Bratislava, 59/Suppl. 13: 7-19, 2004; ISSN 0006- 3088. Although plants are generally immobile and lack the most obvious brain activities of animals and humans, they are not only able to show all the attributes of intelligent behaviour but they are also equipped with neuronal molecules, especially synaptotagmins and glutamate/glycine-gated glutamate receptors. Recent advances in plant cell biology allowed identification of plant synapses transporting the plant-specific neurotransmitter-like molecule, auxin. This suggests that synaptic communication is not limited to animals and humans but seems to be widespread throughout plant tissues. Root apices seated at the anterior pole of the plant body show many features which allow us to propose that they, especially their transition zones, act in some way as “brainlike” command centres. The opposite posterior pole harbours sexual organs and is specialized for plant reproduction. Last but not least, we propose that vascular tissues represent highways for plant nervous activity allowing rapid exchange of information between the growing points of above-ground organs and the “brain-like” zones in the root apices. Key words: actin, action potentials, auxin, intelligence, books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=DBuPKhFjjz0C&oi=fnd&pg=PA19&dq=plant+roots+neural+vascular+network&ots=32nVhFhu_E&sig=ZCgQW-RY70QQfZXg_eGnYJOfXL0#v=onepage&q&f=false

[@chloecorrigan8631]

What bags are you using for biofiltration? Is that filtering out the dissolved organic carbon? The holes looked too big for that just at a glance :)

[@MatthewByrd]

David how are you making your fertilizers on site? I'm trying to find a video about that but I'm not seeing it. Thanks for these vids!!!

[@thedepthsofjoy]

I found how you can make your own on the Bioponica instagram. Scroll down a decent amount to find it. instagram.com/bioponica/

[@trevorhickman6075]

The fertilizer is the lechate extract from the worm compost that he mentions at 7:10. The nutrients come from the decomposition of organic matter in the compost

[@MrGurushit]

Great videos. Keep it up.

[@alejandroarenas1654]

What spacing do you recommend for the chard between on plant and another?

[@SuperBrokenWindows]

I can't claim to be an expert on this, but I think the limiting factor would be air movement. If placed too close together both roots and foliage would fail to have adequate air moving over them, putting them at risk of root rot or foliar fungal disease.

[@federinik77]

What kind of pipes do you use to build the beds?

[@bioponics]

These are culverts, drainage ditches.

[@cheeseface99]

How do you avoid root rot?

[@bioponics]

The water level falls below the upper two inches of roots. This oxygenates the roots. Otherwise we keep water flow rate pretty high. Seems to do the trick.