Growing Sweet Potato In Aquaponics - 2!!

[@JC-ly8pz]

Do you have a video on how to build that hydroponic system? It looks like I could build that with old palates

[@RudraRasa]

crazy stuff

[@victoriao1828]

Awesome video. Those little ones make great soups and stews.

[@joellandry8407]

Thank you very much. I enjoyed the video. I have always been under the assumption that sweet potatoes in aquaponics was a no-no. Not possible. Now I see the reality and wow - what a harvest for just one main plant. This summer I will try my hand at this project. Again, thanks.

[@brandonterry6194]

GRATITUDE💥🥔💥

[@homefarmideas]

A grateful heart leads to contentment😊🙌🏼

[@ayindetaylor8423]

You just gained a new sub...

[@TinaBooski]

Amen for what you said. We need to grow our own, and yes we are being poisoned. Thank you for sharing. Also I am a beginner, I live in the city, but i will not let that stop me. I made my 1st mistake by planting greens in the fall, inside my house. I have a remarkable amount of seeds left to plant, harvest, sell and donate. I'm growing sweet potatoes shoots but it was a project to see how it works. I'm never giving up on this. I love how they grow and you helped so kindly, when you said bury the shoots. Thank you,and blessing on your growing of food. May you have a blessed harvest. GOD 1ST and our harvest will stand the test of time. AMEN. My love sent to you.

[@apsutton336]

How did yours grow I'm about to start growing some with sea water as I'm near the sea 😇👍🙏

[@hagutubu]

Try trimming the vines instead of allowing it to grow out of the box. Sweet potatoe roots will grow big if leaves and vines are trimmed down. But do not trim the vines that already shoot roots. Trim only the vines that have no roots. We've discovered that sweet potatoe plants that have luscious looking leaves do not produce as much potatoes than those their leaves look staunched. Looks can be deceiving. Healthy looking sweet potatoe plant just by the looks of leaves and healthy vines means the plant is absorbing more nutrients in the leaves and vines, but does not pass to the potato hence tiny or skinny potatoes.

[@learningtolovethephilippines]

This is awesome work! Thanks for posting it. Kinda inspired me to jump on Aquaponics.

[@tersta1]

That buried vine trick was amazing. Look at all those sweet potatoes. It almost looks like you could grow that on, if you had a longer season or were growing indoors. I'm giving some thought to trying an indoor pan of sweet potatoes under lights. I think I would use dirt though, just to avoid the nutrient deficiency issues. All I have is one slip off one sweet potato. I need to make it last until next summer to plant out, so I just need to keep that slip alive and growing over winter. Thanks for the video. Your experience is a valuable lesson for viewers.

[@homefarmideas]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts:) I like helping others! It really blesses me!

[@shannongilbert8312]

I liked the started to end of this!

[@christinajambrisak8884]

I am just learning about aquaponic gardening and I’m enjoying your videos 👍🏼 I would of not even thought about planting spuds this way but, hey! It worked! Thanks for sharing!

[@homefarmideas]

Thanks!! It’s all about experimentation and fun for me:)

[@cushionofair]

Great vid , thanks for the time you put in .One suggestion is to lay the vines in a spiral pattern to make the most of the space .

[@surefiremushroomsmicrogreens]

Word on the street that any vining plant will do that when you burry it. Try doing it with tomato’s. Had a indeterminate Repuzule cherry tomato plant grow 20ft this year! Happy growing my friend!

[@delaguitara]

Thank you so much for that! It´s stuff like this that gives me so much faith in humanity. I really appreciate your contribution. Two thumbs up, Five stars and a very big high five *****

[@Rosalinda626]

Them sweet potato leafs are so nutritious. Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) leaves are loaded with various nutrients, vitamins, dietary fiber, and essential fatty acids. It has great amount of protein, minerals Vitamin B, Beta carotene, Lutein and antioxidants. However, that polyphenols are important antioxidants in sweet potato leaves.

[@GreenWitchHomestead]

I know it's to late now. But did you know you can eat the leaves too. They are a real good steamed green.

[@homefarmideas]

Yep, I actually didn’t know you can eat the leaves! To me they taste like spinach and they have the same texture:) They were very good!

[@hagutubu]

Cut sweet potatoe vine tips (3-4 leaves), stir fry garlic and onions in olive oil and add the sweet potatoe tips with 3-4 leaves last

[@simplejoy3772]

We cultivate them for the leaves not the tubers.

[@jdwilsun]

@@simplejoy3772 Me too!!!!! hahahhaha Its the main part!

[@meeshroom]

Sweet!!! Great videos. Thanks for sharing! I’m new to hydroponics and love sweet potatoes. Have grown them in coffee sacks in the past, but this looks like much more fun!!

[@homefarmideas]

This is actually a aquaponic system:) I basically get a lot of the nutrients from fish and pump the water through my whole system back to the fifth. I do add a few things to the water like magnesium, potassium, and iron but for the most part the fish feed all my plants. This was my first time going sweet potatoes and I have to say it was a very easy drive to grow and fun!

[@kjvacp]

@@homefarmideas what kind of fish do you use?

[@richardfeiller4286]

I planted a sweet potato several yrs ago in a continuous flow bed with aquaponics. It took over 16 ft of grow beds. Potatoes were delicious. Won’t do it again because to literally choked out most other plants in the grow beds.

[@bembemly6807]

Nice job 👍

[@KENNETHFRANCISRODRIGUES]

Thank you Sir. Great advice for practical farmers.

[@martinbguk]

Great share. I'll be planting sweet potatoes in my AP system once I've built it for sure

[@homefarmideas]

Fun stuff:)

[@SCUBADUDESMITTY]

FIRST TIME ?-- dude, thanx for sharing, I have learned alot to prepare for MY first time !-- FYI-- I will be keeping my little ones to make a mash and distill some fine adult beverage material !

[@Emeraldwitch30]

Oh it would be fun to grow two types and get flowers and cross thrm for fun to see what you get from the seeds. I love the leaves and the few taters I get

[@keithbennett6422]

love the video thanks so much for sharing. One question, being outdoor aquaponics, how do you stop the tank from filling up with rain and diluting the nutrient level. I have outdoor hydroponics and I built a rain shelter, thanks in advance

[@plumberlance]

Can't wait to start one. Very inspiring.

[@homefarmideas]

It’s fun:)

[@shawntron38]

Haven't seen your other videos though how to the sweet potatoes get nutrients? Do you have fish or crustaceans you feed?

[@HBasiri]

Very interesting! Did you use hoagland solution in regular concentration?

[@davidpruitt3982]

Great video, I never knew that one could grow sweet potatoes this way.

[@homefarmideas]

I seen a guy here on KZbin throw some in his AP system and it seem to work out OK so I want to try it myself but be more focused on growing the sweet potato only. The dude’s channel is Rob Bob:) He does great videos on AP systems.

[@davidpruitt3982]

@@homefarmideas I subscribed to him a few days ago. I am going to have a go at hydroponic dutch buckets this spring,got some lettuce and a few other things inside doing the Kratky method.

[@homefarmideas]

I did some videos on how I built my Dutch buckets for my AP system that you can see here on this playlist. kzbin.info/aero/PLvauaFZJqCU-Zlh2t-p7OTwyLpWboQylX

[@homefarmideas]

Here are some of the results of what I grew in my dutch buckets. kzbin.info/aero/PLvauaFZJqCU_q0BPBryzVUP7_o1QE-XbB

[@m.dakotaforgione5817]

This is fantastic!!! I am looking at converting a large part of my basement to a hydroponic grow and want both potatoes and carrots as well as all of the other standards. Did you do a second crop!

[@indianblanket2990]

Good video!

[@micksbackyardaquaponics1408]

I've got the same thing growing in my Aquaponic and it sin to like it in there and have a happy new year and 2019 👍👍

[@homefarmideas]

Really? Are you getting it on video? I would love to see because I always get a little bits of information from different people:)

[@joshuaparramore5303]

What materials did you use to build that AP system? I want to build one but don’t know where to start.

[@scorpyawdeborah2561]

i love your video thank you🥺🙏🏼

[@Cupid_gamer745]

Wow I will definitely built one that you made ..is there a fish in your aquaponic?I'd love to see some of you video cheers thumbs up.

[@Gtwannabe]

What liquid combo mix/solution do you use?

[@Alphlax0850]

Awesome video really learn a lot from your video and after watching it was inspire to make my own aquaponic for my home fish tank.

[@homefarmideas]

Awesome!!

[@MrRed-bk9xn]

What kind of nutrients did you use? Did you have to flush and if so how long? Thanks

[@atlastobin7837]

Didn’t know you could do this, super cool Thank you for experimenting.

[@bigggietallls15331]

great video! thank you!

[@theliansin6516]

Sweet potato leave is edible too.. take the young leaves.

[@nimeshaniroshan6843]

Can we cultivate only within the aquwaponic system without adding external nutrients

[@bebekmaduraasli6718]

I can't wait to try after watching your video. I see a lot of vegetative greens where imo are not significantly contributing to the potatos. Doesn't it need some trimming?

[@homefarmideas]

Yes it definitely needed trimming but I wanted to see what was going to happen if I just let it grow:)

[@christ4edwoods207]

Thanks I learned plenty.

[@homefarmideas]

Thank you:)

[@deadfred821]

Very nice yield. I might just give this a try....

[@homefarmideas]

It was a fun project:) I had the vines going down into a root pouch and got a really good harvest as well. Soil and aquapoincs. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4bdpauwnaadgKc

[@legendary3773]

i love sweet potatoes, but i might just throw them in an outside project. I might grab a trashcan and see if i can manufacture a glorius sweet potatoe mini farm inside the trashcan for my potatoes that way. Unless i can get some easy freebies on craigslist for bins. I only have 4 smaller style growbeds though. trying to think of what to put inside of it.

[@tilapiastore8515]

W0W Matt, thats great!! Happy New Year!

[@homefarmideas]

Happy new year bro:)

[@edmondenterprisesgrouphold3782]

Nice that's for the showing

[@homefarmideas]

No problem:)

[@starwarsman2709]

Can you shovel out or turn bed through filter like lift up bed dump through were only thing left is sweet potatoes and vines roots then if in production of growing sweet potatoes as job then add beads again and would have worms unless you strained the medium to get quality quantity of worms and sweet potatoes with clean clay beads to make more or other veggies could you do that if possible ?

[@steppydaddy972]

Awesome

[@leoncaddle7]

great intro music makes for great harvest!❤️

[@Mr.Saephan503]

I thought it would be all rotted cause of the water but you're the first person I seen growing them in a aquaponic system.

[@homefarmideas]

They grew really good!

[@TutorialHidroponik]

happy new year 2019, sweet potato look clean with hydroton 😍😍😍

[@homefarmideas]

Came out nice and clean:) Happy New Year!

[@steppydaddy972]

Hey. How high is your water level?

[@kevinmatthews2620]

brill video there, just 1 question though ,what dosing/time setting did you have on the aquaponic system, seems to provided good results anyway,loving sweet potatoes here in the uk ,i gonna have to start growing my own rather than gettting from supermarkets tho keep up the good work

[@huyusay4157]

were is the grass ?

[@lizaheyrana7631]

Why fertilizer did u mix in the water.. thanks

[@edwalsh18]

Hey man, thanks for sharing the video. Nice harvest! One observation I have is that it looks like where you buried the branch, there were more spuds but smaller in size. The areas where you did not bury, they were larger in size but fewer in quantity. Maybe the amount of green above "ground" per spud is proportional to it's size. Might be something to watch for next time? Also, please report back on how they tasted. Thanks again!

[@homefarmideas]

Actually, where I planted the original spud they were bigger. I think I did some small follow-ups on my Instagram page. Maybe follow? Instagram.com/homefarmideas

[@mariadelourdeslirateixeira7704]

Potato very good, I lake.

[@MasterofNone365]

Pretty sweet! See what I did there? lol. Good job Matt!

[@homefarmideas]

Yeah🤣😂👍🏼

[@TheRealXoph]

How much was the AP set up?

[@biendarra1]

so many little potatoes. It is obvious that nutrients are missing here. Try it with wurmtee who tolerates the fish. very interesting video especially concerning the variety of potatoes.

[@homefarmideas]

wurmtee? Is that an actual product? I can reach out to the company and I’m sure they would sponsor the video. I actually got the potato from an organic grocery store. If you see some of my older videos you will see I got it from the grocery store.

[@lordhellsreach3552]

I think he ment worm tea what about comfrey tea might help not sure with fish but could be ok. Going to try sweet potatoes in the green house this year first time

[@homefarmideas]

I was thinking he was saying worm tea but I wasn’t sure so I thought I would ask. I did add red wigglers (about 1000) to this girl bed so the worm tea is there. They eat around the root systems and old leaves in this bed and they also poop. The water flooding and draining makes it water soluble.

[@camel0147]

Constant flow or flood and drain?

[@homefarmideas]

To be honest a little bit of both. I did flood and drain in the beginning to get the roots to stretch down then I did constant flow with the routes for long enough for the majority of the time of growing. I did in the end switch back to flood and drain though:)

[@homefarmideas]

“roots”

[@mohamedabdelaziz7257]

What is the small brown soil

[@homefarmideas]

It’s not soil, those are clay balls. Water fills up the container and then drains every 15 minutes. These clay balls just hold plants in place and hold bacteria that’s beneficial to plants.

[@rickyd1126]

So I see that someone has touched on a method. From a slips end to your start point you should trim leaves then bury slips. Leave leafs on end of slip. The start point should be pulled up within 4-5 months after planting this way your newer slips do not have to fight for food. Or you could do what I'm doing in soil. Only use really long slips and lay them on their side not up and down. Still trim leaves keeping two to three on the end of slip. Plant bed in halves two months apart and keep them trimmed back. All those leaves are stealing food. Pull up first half after 4-5 months second half in 2-3 months after. Keep several long slips in glass vase as decoration trim as needed stir-fry or steam leaves. Next season repeat and enjoy tuber leaves year round and tuber for whole year also remember they keep for 6 months out of the soil so this means that you could be ready to pull up your first harvest the next year before you run out of last years. God bless and please share.

[@homefarmideas]

Thanks for the feedback Ricky:) Maybe follow me on Instagram as well or join our Facebook group. www.Instagram.com/homefarmideas - facebook.com/groups/homefarmideas

[@legendary3773]

i had a buddy explain a process to me, cut a sweet potatoes up to put in a glass of water to root to slips, cut the slips off and leave the potatoes making infinite slips. whiile you can plant slips constantly. Although the price of those clay pebbles is attrocious to me. especially for a vegetable that i love yet can grow in a trash can possibly.

[@codyjamessingleton5098]

Hey man i just realized something from your video that will help us both harvest more. So when you buried the branch you encouraged root growth. The potato is how the plant stores extra nutrients. I think when you have a bunch of vines shooting off right after they root, if you cut them from the main stock it will encourage growing larger potatoes because you would disconnect the shoots from its resources. Recap: 1. Burry vines 2. Cut them from main plant when they root. 3. You can always allow some of the plant to spread while you harvest the older parts. 1 plant can make an infinite amount of sweet potatoes if you keep the cycle going burying the vines and cutting them from main stock.

[@aumurtochaudhury7613]

what's the song in the background?

[@frankcompston5065]

Why would you throw away those smaller ones on the vine? They’re just as good lol

[@nunyabisnass1141]

I pick off the flowers. I dont know if it actually does anything, but my reasoning is that i want the plant to focus on the tubers, not flowers.

[@thomasblak1600]

how often do you water

[@homefarmideas]

There is no soil in these grow beds so they fill up every 15 minutes then they drain.

[@apsutton336]

Leaves are edible highly nutritious Sea water I'm about to try

[@stevepethel6843]

😂very interesting

[@johnoneill6535]

where is the beef or fish rather?

[@PaulHeinrichs1]

16:34 whoah, creeper finger of the dead! Sure theres not a body in there or some demon child?

[@bryanst.martin7134]

Nice work. But the music was horrible. Before placing it in your video, listen to it for thirty minutes straight. If it's annoying to you by then, think of those having to listen through it to hear you. Like your effort. Not the noise.

[@homefarmideas]

I’m not making these videos for people to like them. I’m just doing what I want:)

[@arlenenazaireable]

its too early to be harvested.

[@drthomason7043]

You can eat the leabez6

[@eddieroche6082]

$400 growbed $40 worth of potatoes

[@homefarmideas]

Years and years of use👊🏼🖐🏼🎤 Thank beyond the season.

[@scottwascher8567]

Theres always someone who has to think negatively...

[@glynmozzie2143]

THe music is highly repetitive...annoying....like hanging on the phone ...great vid though.

[@ahmednawaz8051]

Wastage of time only