Hi Guys Growing duckweed seems like a no brainer, so I looked around my neighborhood. No one grows it or puts a value on it. Some interesting research I found it is 43% crude protein, and out put from one hectare, is around 20 tones dry weight per year Bearing in mind that the protean content of animal protean feed is 18-24%.,priced at 5-7k kip a kg, it sounds like a much better feed type for animals. Have you ever heard of Aquaponics? As you buy fish for your restaurant, maybe you could set up such a system on some of Nee Nee's land. That way you could rightly claim your fish is as fresh as is possible.

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Again, great info there Chris. I was led to believe it was used just as animal feed, but with a quick search after reading your comment, it has good nutritional and medicinal benefits to humans also. Maybe this is why the price is a little higher than I expected 🤔 40+% protein is huge 👌

@chrisperkins7331

2 жыл бұрын

@@NowinLao Trust the Lao to know a good thing when they see/eat it.

@lostinasia3685

2 жыл бұрын

Great info Chris

@bubbajones8061

2 ай бұрын

​@@NowinLaoI wanted to know where to sell the duckweed. Thank you ✌🏼🇩🇰

@NowinLao

2 ай бұрын

@@bubbajones8061 advertise it on FB

Some small beta fish added to each pond eat the mosquito larvae and their small amount of fish waste is like fertilizer to the plants... but regardless you'll have phenomenal mosquito control

Todd's Duck Weed Empire! Good one. Easy money after start-up.

The tricky thing about growing duckweed is it's super easy to grow, fast growing and sometimes it just won't grow. I haven't heard of anyone figuring out why. Saw a video of an expat farmer in the Philippines who built several long ponds for duckweed. Some grew, most struggled. Two guys in Thailand struggled to grow it. One thought it got too much sun. It seems to grow best when it's unwanted, and worse when trying to grow it.

There's always been good $$$$ in growing weed Todd! But I must confess, I didn't know ducks smoked it too!!!!!!

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Lao ducks love a choof mate 😝👍

@MalMilligan

2 жыл бұрын

@@NowinLao LMAO

What spread you have there in Vientiane Todd and Neenee. A beautiful home . Lots of room to grow what you want. The drone shots were extraordinary. Well Done!👍👍 Harriet and Jim from Richmond, Va.

@OS253

2 жыл бұрын

With Laos low population, you have plenty of room to spread out. It's a very quiet place to live if you ask me.

Drone working well great viewing

Yeah that duckweed grows massive in the right conditions…it’s an asexual plant so all others come from a single parent….she was probably collecting the fronds with buds on them that hang from a parent frond….not really a root but it’s under water….the fronds can be used to populate other ponds…

Your sense of humour cracks me up mate, "all i wanted was a yes or no" had me in stitches. The drone footage is looking crisp as well. Love the vids, keep up the good work!

🤗🙏🏼! Beautiful neighborhood, not too crowded in that area. Thank you for the interesting subject, can’t wait to see when the retainers are full of the duck weeds. I hope we get to see the harvesting as well. Take care.

As neene said $3.00 a kilo that's a good side Business, great thinking your lovely wife is

I like the drone shots; duck weed; cow dung. sok dii der!

and an amazing side hustle too, thanks for sharing that!

Living the life , very nice big living area.

Great video man love the drone footage.

Cool Good Luck

Great footage T - you are in the right place Weed duck 🦆 is going to go off 👌

Lovin' the new dron🛸🚀awesome work🙏🏻

great track for drone shots the stones soo cool. Angus and Julia stone

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked 👍

Can’t wait for Laos to open again. I will come visit!!! Miss Laos 🇱🇦

Kind of odd to buy chicken feed for $3/kg to grow a chicken that sells for $2/kg. Many kg of feed to grow 1 kg of chicken.

Nice relaxing watching great drone footage and listening to Angus and Julia. Good work funny man.

UV rays can perish the plastic in time....good idea to cover it some how...stop light

Hi Todd&Neenee, Duckweed is definitely way to go in my eco-fsrm.

Update on this more...I want to see it all full and compacted in the water

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

I have

Hi Todd&Neenee, "Hit the Duckweed." in my ecoponds.

Poor Neerla caught with her dress up. You could have edited that out! 😂

Those duck weed spots look like a condo for mosquitos Todd .. great ingenuity for making money but think about what will come

I like you guys house, the colors are really pretty.

Hi Todd,,great drone shots,,that new drone was worth the bucks. Super good shots. The muthaduckin' duckweed idea is great.even here ,noone I know would turn down 1800 dollars a month. Hope it works as planned,,Ttyl,,,Marlon

Great intro song brother. Gonna take you for a ride on a big jet plane 🙏🙏🙏🙏

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate.. found a couple of good remixes of that 👌

Great video!!!. i am interested in starting a business venture in laos so any more information you got or ideas i'd love to see.

1:35 you need to go back and fly thorough the building

Hi Todd, Duckweed tasted like cabbage to me...very nutritional I am led to believe.

Love a good duck 😆weed cheers 👍👍👍👍👍

Wow what a great venture and man can they work fast. Love the drone footage Todd. Oh and you have the same effect on me as you do Kevin, I scream at the top of my lungs for about 30 seconds when I first see you in a video. Weird man weird. Cheers!!!

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes I worry about you man 😐 😝👍

@ftkinsella

2 жыл бұрын

@@NowinLao hahahahaha me too.

One day when Laos is open for business....I may want to move my company there. The weather would be PERFECT!

@OS253

2 жыл бұрын

It makes perfect sense to move your company to Laos. You can export your products to China across the borders faster and cheaper by railway. China has one billion people living there. It is the largest market in the world. Look at the map. Laos and China are neighbors.

Maybe if they trim the tree back a little it will grow faster in the middle area

Hey Todd: You could still put one of the pools in your yard - skip the cow🔔 & forget digging deeper - Use it for Skimboard practice mate! You haven’t been skateboarding much these days 😉🤩 👍🏽 you & Neenee keep up the good work❣️

@chrissonnenschein6634

2 жыл бұрын

My guess scaling up the duckweed production on a large flat surface they could probably use some aeration. Nothing fancy but say about 10 household fish tank aeration pumps with tubing and stones would go a long way if even to hinder the competing growth of algae and “scum”....

100% of unbelievable business ventures on social media always have the same format. Step 1. First few days...crazy potential. Step 2. No future updates as the business is quietly forgotten.

G'day mate love when you film in the yard being a tropical gardener was wondering if you could give us a tour your garden

Very impressive the speed they are getting it all up and running. I just hope the mossies don't think it's a heaven sent breeding ground in all that cow shit water! Anyway what do I know? I'm sure you've all thought of that. The new drone sure does the business 👍👍😊

Don’t want to drone on about how clean the roofs are there, nice to you helped out thought you were going to leaf it to them ,you looked like a duck out of water.

Throw some guppies in the ponds....Could even breed them.

How do they use duckweed???

I'm curious if that wont bring more mosquitos.....

Thanks for finishing the middle lao tour... Ixna on the cia and usa flogging... Good show sir... Thanks...

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Not finished, still more to come 👌😁

@jamesborchardt3737

2 жыл бұрын

@@NowinLao Curses... Foiled again...

Todd, U S dollars change for Lao kip get more at this moment right $1= 12,000 kip?

A long way to go and do business in this poor country, Laos!🙏

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah.. I came here just to grow duckweed 😐

First

Maybe should sell to China and send it on the train. Wonder how much they get for duck weed in China. The average worker in Lao gets between $150 to $200 a month? That would be $5 to $7 a day. That’s cheaper than some of the other countries around you isn’t it? Wow! I did not think it was that low.

ສະບາຍດີ 🙏🇱🇦

Kop chai Todd and Neenee. I'll show to Noi and Poon out at our house in Ban Nong Boua. Poon is breeding Gops but this looks good too! Me still stuck at Vangtat. Maybe home to VTE is 3 weeks!

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Gops (frogs) are great with duckweed. Their tadpoles eat the mosquito eggs 👌 Awesome, safe travels 🙏

@karaoke832

2 жыл бұрын

@@NowinLao Great i will pass that on. Might have to hire land from next door. My wife loves concrete....

azolla fern spp.? Duckweed (genus Lemnia) smallest flowering plants? Water meal smallest of all duckweed not as edible, size of sesame seeds... as in a Big Mac 2 whole beef patties....on a sesame seed bun.🍔

@johnoneill6535

2 жыл бұрын

Just curious for an id of actual plants. Going to be on your family's restaurant menu? If I am able to visit Laos in near future, then I will try your food there. Thanks for the incredible drone views and interesting narratives.

1800 in some parts of 🇺🇸 is good

💯🔥💙👍

I was thinking of a small bit of organic farming to supply restaurants or hotels... and maybe some crypto mining. lol

Awesome drone shot in the beginning…looked like you were pretty far out from base…did u program that flight path or was it by sight?

@lostinasia3685

2 жыл бұрын

The drone seems to have a very long range, its much better than mine :!

Lovely home just stumbled across your videos ! Do you own property where you have your house?

easy money

Laos😊❤❤

The new drone video is poppin'! I never heard of duckweed until this video and so I did some searching on the weed. Amazing stuff! I am reading about people drinking this herb tea and using it in foods. Now I am curious as to why I have never heard of this herb until now with all of its protein and minerals. I am wondering though, is the smell a problem being so close to the house? Looks like your neighbor's fishery ( I'm guessing that's what that is at 19:30) is doing well.

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly Fred. If this stuff is so versatile, why do we not see more of it. As to the smell.. what smell, there is none. Another interesting thing that others were concerned about, mosquitoes. It's also known as mosquito fern, as it prevents mosquitoes from accessing the water to lay eggs 👌

@Fredroc57

2 жыл бұрын

@@NowinLao Never would have thought that there would be no unpleasant smell. 👍

Just thinking if they needed to section the pond of into sections for any reason, they could string some of them pool noodles across them.....field crabs wont get in and hole the plastic liner will they ?

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Great idea mate 👌

$3/kg for duckweed. Guess who else is building ponds to grow duckweed? Everyone. I wonder what the price will be in a month?

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

I must admit, it doesn't seem right does it.. but at the moment, that's what it's selling for.

Todd, Can we fly the Drone in the city?

How's the covid19 issue there coming along? Its still crazy as ever here in the states

Hi Guys, Yes, seems a good thing ,duckweed venture ( supply and demand ) . I'm just wondering ,those ponds look like mosquito City,right up close to the house . I know out the back back there seems to be water lying around anyway . Kenno ..West Aust

@NowinLao

2 ай бұрын

Duckweed is actually used in ponds to prevent mosquitoes. They can't lay their eggs when you have a good covering of duckweed 👌

@user-fw1pt9ru5i

2 ай бұрын

@@NowinLao ok good stuff

Awesome drone intro and accompanying music. Would be really cool to have flown your drone straight through the unfinished apartment !

Who buys the duckweed there? I would like to get some information maybe it can help my family that are still there make some additional money

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Mainly people with livestock and are looking to start grow it for themselves as a feed supplement 👌

🤔🤔🤔☺☺😉🙂😇

Is it true Laos is reopening soon

what is the benefit of duck weed?

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

As feed for livestock. Chickens, ducks, pigs etc

Who said only Sydney siders like red roof's

🇦🇺🍺🤟🙏

Can of worms for sure. You got a twenty minute answer. 😖

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure it was a yes 🤔 555

That's a shit load there haha.

I have no idea what you're doing. Duck Weed? Okay.....

Duckweed?

that's cow cow poo poo water