Growing Dahlias, Dahlia coccinea Cav., for Commercial Cut Flower Production in Aquaponics and AutoPots

Commercial floriculture is years behind food agriculture in the adoption of organic and sustainable practices enacts a heavy toll on environment, resulting excessive water usage, soil erosion, pesticide use, massive carbon footprint. In this study, Dahlias (D. Coccinea) were grown AutoPots fed by an established aquaponics system to explore sustainability environmental impacts commercial floriculture. starting from both tubers cuttings, for six month period, greenhouse setting, assessing bloom time, quality, stem count, tuber formation. bloomed typical time frame, compared field plants, quality blooms was equivalent grown, counts significantly lower than usage slightly decreased, dramatically formation not impacted. To date, first published evidence that can be aquaponics, benefits observed when growing via method, hindered high moisture conditions produced coupled aquaculture system.