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hydroponics works!

markmahlum
14 years ago

I have harvested the first two crops of lettuce from my hydroponics set up over the last week. Wow! Best lettuce ever! Beautiful and delicious. They were in solution for 33 days after planting them as very small seedlings.

All of this with only sunlight and the cloudiest winter ever seen by me in this area.

I planted a similar sized pot of the same lettuce variety in soil medium one month earlier and they took 3 weeks longer than the hydroponics lettuce and were of lower quality.

I've only changed the solution once (11 plants in 9 gallons). I'm planning to expand the amount amount I grow hydroponically and currently am experimenting with spinach, parsley, cilantro, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and pole beans all in hydroponics.

Thanks for everyone's advice.

Mark

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