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AQUAPONICS BUN LONG TARO CULTIVATION Windward Community College Aquaponic Research Lab October 2011 – May 2012 TEAM MAHALO •  Clyde Tamaru, CTAHR •  Kai Fox, CTAHR •  RuthEllen Klinger-Bowen, CTAHR •  Kathy McGovern Hopkins, CTAHR •  Vanessa Lum, Americorp Intern/WCC •  WCC Aquaponics 193v Class •  Adam Park, CTAHR •  Ted Radovich & Jari Sugano, CTAHR Data Collec*on  Grow media:   Black Cinder, Red Cinder, Clay   Balls (Hydroton)  pH Remedia.on:   Plant Growth/Media   comparisons  Commercial Outcomes:    Commercial Farmer    Consumer Applica*on Taro, Colocasia esculenta   Family: Araceae  Genus: Colocasia  Species: Esculenta  Taro variety known locally as Bun  Long, or Chinese Taro.  Used for both leaf and corm, in dishes  like squid luau, laulau, palasami,  lupulu.   IRETA Pub No 14/87 pg.4 Trial 1 Approach  Grow Media comparison  •  Water Quality monitoring (weekly) DO, TDS, Temp. Ammonia,  Nitrite, Nitrate  •  pH remedia*on (weekly) alterna*ng KOH, Ca(OH) 2  •  Leaf Harvest ‐  frequency once every 10 days  •  Media Leaching Analysis  Leaf Quality/Farm Yield/Commercial    •  Leaf Harvest   •  Taste/comparison trials u*lizing tradi*onal luau leaf recipes  •  Corm harvest – Taro Chip taste/comparison trials  •  Keiki (sucker shoot) produc*on. Number of Adult Plants Harvested per  Treatment Total Weight of Adult Plants per  Treatment Mean Corm Weight Per Treatment Number of Keiki per Makua Plant  A  B  B Number of Keiki per Makua Plant

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Aquaponic Research Lab. October 2011 – May WCC Aquaponics 193v Class. • Adam Park, CTAHR Data Collection Analysis (on-going). • Commercial
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