On this update I am going to write how my plants are doing as well as list some of the issues I am encountering and how I could prevent them.
These spots on the edge of the leaves I think are also an effect of too many nutrients.
I also read in a book that for the plants with smaller seeds you can just plant them in some wet hydroton that you keep moist. I tried it and it worked really good. I initially had been starting them in plant starter grow blocks but it was really hard to transplant and then the stem kind of drooped over for a while like in the picture below.
One of the problems I had with my actual system was how I placed the water line tubing. I placed attached it to the end of the PVC pipe by a hole in the cap like in the picture above. The problem with this is that sometimes when the water is shooting out really fas it can start to leak though the net cup that the first plant is planted in.I fixed it by cutting out a piece of a plastic cup and hot glueing it to the inside top of the pipe, that way it will hit the piece of plastic and go straight to the bottom of the pipe.It is working really good.If I made my system again I would drill the hole in the top of the pipe cap so that it would just hit the bottom in the first place.The picture below shows the piece of plastic I glued on the inside.
Other then those issues everything else seems to be doing really well. Here are some pictures I took today.
Great post William! Very informative. Glad you are learning something from this.
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ReplyDeleteThis is awesome. Many years back, for my first science fair, I did a hydroponics project. It was a cool project. I grew some controls in soil and charted the growth differences. A few years later, I had an after school internship at the Pittsburgh Water Treatment plant studying Legionella. They were both great learning experiences. Have fun with this.
Santina
That sounds really cool!
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