Is my water to warm for plants..?

[Chris]

I live on a sub tropical island, it’s June and not yet summer. My water temperature is already 30 Deg C!

Will the plants suffer with such warm water..?

Should I consider a cooling device to bring the water temperature down..?

I’m currently cycling my system and don’t yet have fish or plants.

Chris

[rfeiller]

welcome Chris to the forum

[Chris]

Thank you and everyone for the warm welcome...

[drdreww]

Hey chris, what is the gallon capacity of your system? Do you have of it buried / shaded / insulated ? What are your average temps day and night?

[Chris]

Hey chris, what is the gallon capacity of your system? Do you have of it buried / shaded / insulated ? What are your average temps day and night?

The system holds about a 100 litres. The water temperature seems to be quite stable day and night.

I have so photo's at http://www.deedsnotwords.co.uk

[rfeiller]

It's human nature to always try to grow or have what is not natural, hence the high utility bills. In soil that is bombarded by desert heat and sun, tomatoes, chiles, asparagus squashes loved the 100f plus temperatures. I wasn'doing aauaponics at the time but the temps didn't hurt the plants one bit. Couldn'gdow lettuce, kale, broccoli, or cauliflower, but ironically Brussels sprouts did great. I'd would 't hessitate to try the ones mentioned. Humidity may be more if an issue.

[rfeiller]

Urbanfarmer has a thread a out summer plants in Florida that might help.

[Chris]

It's human nature to always try to grow or have what is not natural, hence the high utility bills. In soil that is bombarded by desert heat and sun, tomatoes, chiles, asparagus squashes loved the 100f plus temperatures. I wasn'doing aauaponics at the time but the temps didn't hurt the plants one bit. Couldn'gdow lettuce, kale, broccoli, or cauliflower, but ironically Brussels sprouts did great. I'd would 't hessitate to try the ones mentioned. Humidity may be more if an issue.

Thanks for that. I guess it's quite obvious when you think of plants growing in hotter climates. I love sprouts! I'll give them a go if I can find seeds. They have scary controls on seed imports in Taiwan (They may execute me for illegal sprout seed smuggling if I try to sneak seeds in).

Humidity is a nightmare here! My whole life is going mouldy! I'm not sure i understand the implications for aquaponics, please could you expand..?

[Chris]

Urbanfarmer has a thread a out summer plants in Florida that might help.

Thank you. I will check this thread out...

[urbanfarmer]

June, Central FL, What do you plant?