So a good while back, I started learning about growing hydroponic lettuce. It's a great way to have lettuce year 'round, and living in Oklahoma, the heat is just blazing hot in the summer which affects lettuce grown outdoors. For a few cents and some time, I started doing it indoors. These are my results of the first grow. Hopefully, I'll have more to post in the near future.
I make my own fertilizer with 10g of Masterblend (tomato food), 10g of CalNit, and 5g Epsom salt...all mixed in a 5 gallon bucket of water. PH is around 6'ish.
Those are some great results!
What type of system are you using? Circulating or non circulating?
I'm growing tomatoes/peppers/cucs in a hydroponic system and I am going to build a lettuce/greens system. I started work on it, but met with some issues and it's on pause while I can figure out a way to finish it.
Thanks. Those were done with a non-circulating system; Kratky(sp?). I've paused my planting right now because I'm building a more vertical system right now which will be a continuous flow type system. Since you do tomatoes, one thing that has been successful for me with them was starting them indoors after I clipped the branch from a bigger plant. I used something like a Dutch bucket to get them going, then moved them outdoors into our garden. With my same fertilizer formula, those same plants have produce incredible amounts of cherry tomatoes for three years now. We have to give some away every year because of the amount.
I'm using dutch buckets for my tomatoes; they're grown indoors in my greenhouse; that;s a good tip for tomatoes, I'm always growing clones from a sideshoot when I need a quick new plant. The plants are so loaded right now :)
The vertical system I'm building for my greens is copied from the ubergro system on youtube.
Looks good - My goal is to start aquaponics and raise fish and plants in our greenhouse. Would love to see more posts showing your setup.
Thanks. I will be posting more soon.
Juicy looking lettuce, will look into hydroponics.
Thanks. They did taste delicious.
Holy Lettuce Batman!! That looks so good. I have always wanted to grow vegetables that way. Where would one get a hydroponic system? Are they expensive?
Thanks. I actually built my system, and many others do. I hope to post some pics of mine soon. I just got back from traveling and have to get things going again.