23 Jun
Semi-hydroponics lettuce – Day 23
This batch of lettuces (local, butterhead, buttercrunch and iceberg) all get the full morning sun, and my bright table light at night.
Melaleuca alternifolia seedlings
They are taking a VERY long time to grow fast!
Chocolate mint
And, from the kindness of Rummi’s heart, she gave me some free cuttings from the choc mint bunch [...]
10 Jun
Red spider mites
I finally went Petunia’s method and spent over two hours soaping all my mints down and then rinsing them off. They’re a bit limp now, but will perk up soon.
Gonna repeat this over the weekend.
High Brix Farming
After reading Kelmund’s thread on high brix farming, I went to put about two tablespoonfuls of raw [...]
31 May
Pak choy experiment
So the results are as such:
1. Pure hydro solution – only one pak choy turned out good. The other was stunted;
2. Semi-hydro – both pak choys turned out the best
3. Water reservoir – not good for veggies.
Maybe because the sun is shifting positions or something, but that’s not really the case – the [...]
15 Apr
Sharp-leaf spinach
Cleared two hydroponic bottles of sharp-leaf spinach plants because they were so deformed by the red spider mites’ attacks. Kept one bottle and one vermiculite one.
The picture shows a leaf scarred by the mites.
Butterhead and local lettuces
Harvested since they got toppled from their hydroponics bottles by the wind and rain anyway.
Piper sarmentosum
Pruned the piper [...]
12 Apr
Sometimes, left alone to grow on their own, plants seem to grow a lot more happily and a lot lusher than if we were to fuss over them every tiny bit. That’s the lesson I’ve learnt.
Of course, I still do the almost-daily checks for pests and stuff, but generally, my regieme is to water once [...]
7 Apr
Harvested my hydroponics butterhead lettuce today. It looked really lush.
It’s now sitting in a bowl of water to soak and dilute any taste of bitterness in case the heat had made it bitter.
Washed the bottle thoroughly of the algae built up. It’s now clean and ready for the next hydroponics use.
The roots. A bit overgrown [...]
31 Mar
First butterhead lettuce to be placed in pure hydro solution has grown even more lush than before. Its leaves are flopping here and there, making it messy. But it’s cute, nonetheless.
What intrigues me is that even though I’ve placed all the hydroponics plants together, most of the others have red spider mites attached to them. [...]
28 Mar
I currently have four lettuces in pure hydroponics solution – two butterheads, and two local lettuces.
The two butterheads were sown at the same time. The first one was transferred to pure hydroponics solution and given about four hours of noon sun everyday (or when there’s no storm); the second was transferred to a net pot [...]
26 Mar
Choy sum transferred from leca/vermiculite mix in net pots to pure hydroponics solution. I got tired of them flopping over. And oh, they got attacked by red spider mites. After which I tortured the mites by spraying COLD water on them.
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Sharp-leaf spinach are growing well, or as well as they can grow [...]
24 Mar
One of the batches of spinach seedlings.
What are making me exceptionally pleased about hydroponics are these few things:
1. Fast growth rate – as compared with my spinach seedlings in the soil before I’d culled them, these hydro seedlings are much healthier. Their leaves do not yellow from nutrient deficiency, like the soil seedlings suffered [...]
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