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Growing Cabbage, any Advice
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Posted by buster100 5IN (My Page) on Tue, Mar 24, 09 at 21:58
| I played around with hydroponics about 10 years ago. Then this week my son came home from 3rd grade with a cabbage plant, he is supposed to take care of it for 10 weeks and track it's growth. So I thought the two of us would have fun with growing this using Hydroponics.
Any advice to keep it healthy and our project successful is appreciated. First challenge has been to keep ph between 5.5 and 6.5. I did not remember that being such a challenge in the past. |
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RE: Growing Cabbage, any Advice
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| Brassicas like cabbage get leggy easy, so make sure it gets tons of light. |
RE: Growing Cabbage, any Advice
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Cabbage uses a lot of nitrates when it grows. This increases the pH of the nutrient. Depending how much nutrient the plant can access, it could cover a pH range of 5.5 to 6.5 in just a few days
I use 5% nitric acid to adjust the pH while compensating the loss of nitrates. |
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