Eric LeVan5d ago

Basement garden is in full swing.

Purple tomatillos, 5 types of lettuce, cherry tomatoes and basil.

On deck: Sugar pumpkins, poblanos, tatsoi and chives.

Bonus: hydroponic spinach kratky experiment

#garden #gardening #grow #lettuce #tomatoes #seedling #seedlings #plantstadon #growlight #hydroponic #hydroponics #kratky #kratkymethod

BetterifyouneilMay 25
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Show threadMarta 🌿🍃May 20
I never got to this in my video because my approach radically changed since writing the script. It didn't exactly matter for the video itself, but I think it's a good advice.
Originally I thought that beginner #Kratky #hydroponics gardeners like me don't need to bother about EC, as leafy greens are tolerant (in my one-season experience, tomatoes are tolerant too). But should make effort to lower solution's pH to lettuce levels (around 5.8). Which is a struggle as I found pH meters to be drama queens, while my EC meter is more reliable.
That was before I studied recommended EC/pH tables a lot, and also ran an experiment on my surviving kale, and then learned that it applies to all brassicas: they actually _like_ higher pH, and also like much higher EC, so if you have 'a bit hard' water like mine, you can ignore pH, scale the nutrients up to reach EC 2-2.5 (using a reliable non-fussy device to check), and be a happy owner of a garden with kale, pak-choy, mizuna, mustard greens, and a number of other 'cabbages'.
I'm currently unsure why the 'hydroponic beginner default' is lettuce, while it's so much easier to grow brassicas.
This year's young mizuna and pak-choy say hello (with sorrel in the front bottle).
PrunebuttMay 17

Advice needed: How to combat mold indoors?

https://slrpnk.net/post/37907201

Advice needed: How to combat mold indoors? - SLRPNK

Hi! I’ve been running a kratky-experiment with some basil in a 3l yogurt bucket and stonewool/clay substrate. However, my household is quite succeptible to mold growth, so the substrate and the stone wool sadly received some white swaths. How do I prevent/fight this? Removing the plant from the stone wool is probably impossible. I already got some H2O2, but I’d need to be careful not to hit the stem. Do you have any mitigation strategies/ideas?

Marta 🌿🍃May 15

It took longer than expected, but my #hydroponics video about Kratky bottles with 3d-printed parts is ready.
I tried other bottles but these 2l milk jugs are perfect in having wide throats, being stable against winds (I grow plants on an open balcony), and the size is good. They also pack well side-by-side since the bottom is rectangular.
The current batch of seedlings shown in the video is already bottled, mostly, with basil just about to. I'm currently out of empty bottles, and still need to sprout the seeds for the big container too.

All the models are made in FreeCAD, all the animations — in Friction2D. The milk jugs are local :)
The original inspiration by Hoocho's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ZlpEUcQ90

#kratkyMethod #Kratky #FreeCAD #Friction2D #3dPrinting

DIY hydroponics with plastic bottles and 3D printing

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Ma Quest May 10

Water-Grown Herbs
https://bestplants.com/herbs-that-thrive-in-water/

#SolarPunkSunday #Herbs #Gardens #Gardening #HerbGardens #Hydroponics

15 Herbs That'll Thrive in Just a Mason Jar + Water

Forget everything you’ve heard about needing soil to grow herbs. The secret most plant experts won’t tell you is that many herbs thrive better in water than traditional dirt! I

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ConorMay 8
The two bigger Freakshow ladies are properly into flowering now. I'm just about out of **medication** so I didn't want to wait for the 4 smaller clones to get bigger.

I think these are effectively fogponic kratky. Wasn't really intentional but I'm pretty sure their roots are dipping into the nutrient reservoir (except Plant 3 which I'm keeping purely fogponic as an experiment).

#cannabis #fogponics #aeroponics #fogponic #hydroponics #growyourown
MarsMay 7

My favorite lawn flowers, currently still healthy in a small vase of water! I’m really impressed with how long these are lasting out of the ground.

#hydroponics #gardening #wildflowers

Show threadsollatMay 6

It’s tomato graduation day! Both pods have been decanted into seed starting soil.

Time to start a cucumber, I think.

#Gardening #SolarPunk #Hydroponics

Shaula EvansMay 3

In light of the projections about global food scarcity in the coming year (due to shipping disruptions, etc.), I'm looking at what I can do to produce more of my own food.

I'm certainly not going to be self-sufficient for food production.

But whatever I can do will save me some money & keep more food in the local food supply for my neighbours. I'm going to do what I can.

#Food #Gardening #Hydroponics