My cucumbers never fruited. Here is a few things of what went wrong. First I needed to thin out the blossoms to one every 12-18 inches per vine. Second the blossoms needed hand pollination. My vines were producing both female(ones with little cucumber) and male ones.
I am not taking this as a total failure though. The vines grew long and had a couple hundred blossoms on them. None of the fish died. The salad greens also flourished. No bugs or mosquitoes. So actually for a "proof of concept" design it works as it should.
Going forward I plan on expanding some of the systems. Automatic fish feeding, auto water top off and possibly a Arduino controller for light and temp monitoring. Eventually a pH prob and dousing pump to automatically control pH is planned. But in the meantime I will be planting some cherry tomatoes.
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