A Revolutionary New Method of Growing Taro (Kalo)
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Hoocho showcases a Revolutionary New Method of Growing Taro (Kalo)
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Happy Hydroponicing!
Yay good to see you back
You are a brilliant scientist. I love seeing the things you’ve gotten up to. Have you ever considered saltwater hydroponics? There are plants like seagrapes rosemary prickly pear and common reed that would take well to saltwater hydroponics and especially to sandponics.
In hawaii the traditional method is growing them in what are effectively flooded rice terraces . So should have zero issues with too much water imo
9:00 Hoocho saw his life flash before his eyes. You never know what could randomly swoop down on your head or pop out of a shrub in Australia lol
Heads up. Person from Hawaii. The name is pronounced. Kah low. Not Kay low. Just an FYI
You missed a trick here. Show people how to cook them too as it not common outside of Asia etc
Another good video,thankHoocho
So impressive as always, love this system!
Great video, thank you. Can you put fishes in the water? Greetings from Aruba.
Water is too shallow, I would think. Would get too hot in the sun. If mosquitoes are a concern, I’d add in a mosquito float. They work and are safe for pretty much everything except the larvae.
I think Medakas might work.
Hola!
Thank you for the 🍑 cakes you always show at various angles 😅
Jokes apart, I prepare Taro with spices and a squeeze of lime juice and I grow the one with the black veins which isn’t that high in oxalates.
Even the leaves are a delicacy steam with chickpea flours and spices and then fried to make snacks here in Maharashtra, India.
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Caribbean people call it dasheen. Quick tip, peal and freeze them in manageable cubes. The texture is not affected by the freezing process and can keep well frozen for some time once they are protected from freezer burn. Delicious in so many applications 🙌🏻
I have a very similar setup to grow eddo taro, but it is a shallow nature pond with fish and frogs. Very effective!
I think the variety of taro you are using is actually xanthasoma sagittifolium and not colocasia escualenta which is the true kalo. They have different growth patterns, leaves, and growing conditions requirements. The kind you are growing cannot be in deep standing water or the corms will rot (the depth you are using is fantastic). Colocasia can be grown in deeper water conditions like the lo’i kalo system.
Great video, great idea!
Seems like a lot of extra work and expense just to water from the bottom. drip line and drippers are cheap and easy to set up.
Lol drop bear good show mate
Very interesting look at a plant that I was not familiar with. Thanks. 😃 I often accidentally drown my plants so this sounds like something that I should grow. 😂
Hoocho, would you take me on baord for a few days to learn things. I’d sponsor everything myself XD
I had a fungus gnat problem in my outdoor system early this spring. I had a chat with Grok about it, and was recommended to use mosquito dunks. The instructions were to fill a five gallon bucket with water, and crumble about a quarter of a dunk into it, and let it sit 24 hours. Then distribute the dunk water to my buckets (sort of a Dutch bucket system) to saturate the first two inches of media (peat moss/perlite). Anyway doing that a few times solved the gnat issue. Mosquito dunks use a bacteria to kill insects I believe in their larval stage which is apparently safe in hydroponic systems. My reservoir is under the house in a 64 gallon tote with a lid so it doesn’t get mosquitos in it, and stays cool. I grew bush beans, a few tomato varieties, and ground cherries this season on the same reservoir this year. It’s always a balancing act with EC and lots of rain this season, but I still had great results.
Those bigs ones are called Tania in Trinidad and Tobago