Listen up, wheylets.While you pussies are wasting money on whey powder bullshit, I'm getting in the best shape of my life on shit i grow in a god damn aquarium.Duckweed. Yeah, that pond scum? Turns out it’s the highest protein per gram of any plant on earth. And it’s not some incomplete reddit basedboy protein either—it’s got the full amino profile like eggs and beef. Ancient Civilizations ate this shit up all the time. The ancient Chinese? the Romans? Powered by this shit.45–50% protein by dry weight, FULL of B12 (natural, not that fake fortified faggot shit), LOADED with omega-3s, iron, magnesium, and antioxidants. Doesn’t spike your estrogen like onions. Doesn’t clog your arteries like your cope "beef tallow" It grows literally anywhere with water and sunlight, is dirt cheap to buy (if you even want to buy it, lol), and piss easy to take care of.I’m talking about scooping up a handful from my grow tank, blending it into a shake, and getting 30g protein for free while you wage slaves are dropping $60 on ON Gold Standard.The best part? It’s digestible AF. None of that “plant protein bad” cope. Duckweed digests cleaner than whey—no gas, no bloat, just pure gains. Raw, bioavailable muscle fiber fuel. If you’re not duckweed-maxxing, you are weak. You are small. You are poor. You are a slave to GNC. Pond water chads will mog you into extinction.Stop coping.
>>76603824Hi. >>>/an/ fag here. I have a Walstad planted tank and I use duckweed for it. I've washed and eaten it - it has a slightly peppery taste. My parakeet loves it. It's not bad. My only problem with it is the texture, but in a blender it's okay.
>>76603824You stealing our stash, blud?
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>yields up to 28.5g per m^2 per daywtf? so a swimming pool can produce almost enough to live on? why dont homesteaders use this as chicken feed?
>>76603824Enjoy your kidney stones
>>76604708
>15% ash
>>76604718Enjoy your anti-nutrients
>>76603824>Duckweedholy shit I didn't knew about duckweedthat's fucking coolI tried growing Spirulina once, but failed miserablyalready got a bunch of nft hydroponic equipment so that should be easyjust ordered a few hundred seedwhat nutrients do you mix in?from my quick research I've read that they are quite sensible to low ironi'll definitely report in a few weeks>FULL of B12that b12 form sadly is not as easily availabledepends on geneticsbut in general, if you need to supplement B12, that won't be enough (even if it is on paper)
>>76604700>why dont homesteaders use this as chicken feed?some dobut feed is rarely a problem also many homesteaders are retards and resistance to any changeit's tested on commercial farms for cow / pig feed thoughespecially because duckweeds needs high nutrient water, which you can easily get but just throwing a bit of manure into a pondapparently in the hobby space it's mostly used for turtles and alike
>>76603824>is a mercury hyperaccumulatorTOP FUCKING KEK
>>76604841>Spirulinagrowing algae isnt like growing other plants, its not necessarily harder but you have to worry about other things. im sure you can google tutorials and try again if you care (its actually pretty easy)>nutrientsnot sure but i can tell you how you can knowget a cheapo brand of hydroponic shit and add a quater of whats on the bottle and dont take any of the water out after a month split your crops so they grow in two places, keep the old nutrient water the same but use new water for the new container do the same after two months and then 3 ect until the original nutrient water stops growing healthy crops. get some of this water and ship it to a company that can tell you whats in there (shouldnt be too expensive) and then buy a hydroponic solution brand with less of the nutrient thats accumulating
>>76604849>resistance to any changemakes sense, arent they notorious for being paranoid?>turtlesalso makes senseits their native food basically>>76604855literally just dont feed it mercury. mercury is an element, unless its fucking around with something nuclear it wont be getting any
>>76603824>>76604855>5ppm mercury and lead even with minimal environmental contamination>still bioaccumulates cadmium and arsenicyeah have fun poisoning yourself, even rice is safer than this
>>76604867Mercury is an environmental toxin, it's present in your soil and water right now, did you fail high school level enviro science or something?
>>76604876i didnt have an enviro science class but i have a shitload of experience with plants and some common senseif theres mercury in my water then why would i worry about it accumulating in my crop? im drinking the water already. also i live in a first world country, my town water is tested for mercury very regularly (i checked right now, >0.1ppm as of 2 days ago) there are also heavy metal ratings on basically every hydroponic solution and they are very easy to test for and remove (google "chelating agents")>soilits an aquatic plant you retard
This is like chlorine dioxide protocol, anons please do not do this you will have severe issues and get hurt likely worse
>>76604892>if theres mercury in my water then why would i worry about it accumulating in my crop?because "accumulation" means the duckweed is higher in concentration than the surrounding water, per the study.>also i live in a first world country, my town water is tested for mercury very regularly (i checked right now, >0.1ppm as of 2 days ago) And so your duckweed would be at 5ppm, per the study.>>soil>its an aquatic plant you retardCalling me a retard when you don't know how environmental contaminants work is pretty funny. Have fun being wrong I guess.
>>76604872don't add mercury or lead to the water used to grow it.problem solved.
>>76604918have fun with your pozzed greenhouse and triple distilled reverse osmosis charcoal filtered water, make sure you don't miss a single purification step.
>>76604904>bleach and aquatic vegetables are the same>>76604907oh shit sorry, did i say ppm? i meant ppbthe max legal amount in australia is 0.001 mg/L, thats about 4ppb being the max legal limit and my local supply is lower than thatanyway keep seething
>>76604946>anyway keep seethingyou can look up studies yourself instead of embarrassing yourself, you know that, right?
>>76604932reverse osmosis is enough to remove all heavy metal traces. something like this would indeed be farmed in a greenhouse with hydroponics, in the same way lettuce is. what the fuck are you thinking, eating it straight from the pond?
>>76604961>studiesthe minute i saw someone in this thread mention mercury i checked it out for myself. a 50x accumulation of my current town water is still much much lower than a tuna steak
>>76604856>do the same after two months and then 3 ect until the original nutrient water stops growing healthy crops. get some of this water and ship it to a company that can tell you whats in there (shouldnt be too expensive) and then buy a hydroponic solution brand with less of the nutrient thats accumulatingthat won't work...becausea) most plants only grow well for certain nutrient combinations, a surplus of the wrong nutrients actively harms or kills growthb) many plants suck up nutrients they don't need, worst case heavy metals, but others aren't great either and again it stuns growththere's a reason why getting the nutrients right is a big field of researchbut I found a few paper that describe duckweed growth optimizationsso I've got a few starting points>spirulina>its actually pretty easyyeah I know, just fucked up the temperature multiple times>>76604855I just looked up the tap water mercury values from last weak from my city water>03.09.2025 Quecksilber < 0,00005 mg/lthat is borderline undetectablethe mercury has to come from somewheremaybe the nutrient mix, but I doubt it will be a significant amount
>>76605003>surplus of the wrong nutrients actively harms or kills growththats the point, retardthe hydroponic solution will accumulate the nutrients that the plant picks less up. you split the crop so you dont have to buy more and youll still be growing some you didnt read it all...
>>76604932>charcoal is le dangerous filteraverage /fit/izen education
>>76605017Nobody said that though
>>76603824this sounds like LARP but I just might try it
>>76603824>15% ashwhat the FUCK does this mean
>>76603824Big if true.
duck weed lmao
