Growing Duckweed

[ViperDove]

Have anyone here grown duckweed? These fast growing plant has very high protein content and can be use to supplement animal feed. Please share your experience about duckweed.

 

[firelily99]

I've never heard of it, does it go by any other name? I'm interested in learning more about it.

 

[ViperDove]

I've never heard of it, does it go by any other name? I'm interested in learning more about it.

I don't know any other name for it. I don't even think there is an alternate name for it. If you're interested in it, just google it and you'll get a lot of info about it. I've read much of the theory and now I'm looking at practicalizing.

 

[zigs]

I found some growing on a spring at the end of the Lleyn Peninsular, there were no streams nearby where it could have come from so it must have come in stuck to a duck or similar bird.

Only takes one small plant, it'll divide and cover the surface of a pond, but it blocks the sunlight so starves anything else growing under the water, turning it stagnant.