In a past video I followed the growing cycle of broccoli microgreens two ways, one in soil, and one on paper towels. In this new video I decided to leave out the soil comparison and just compare paper towels…. to paper towels…to paper towels. How much of a difference do the nutrients make AND is there a difference between two popular hydroponic solutions, the Masterblend Formula and the Grow Big solution from Fox farms. I hope you enjoy this fun comparison. Below are Amazon links to the products I used in this video:
Masterblend Formula: https://amzn.to/2CO3q38
Grow Big Hydroponic Solution: https://amzn.to/2GWbeRJ
Growing Trays with holes: https://amzn.to/2HYe4J1
Growing Trays without holes: https://amzn.to/2HVrc1k
I love your videos. They are a main reason why I started growing stuff. I just started harvesting my first Broccoli microgreens. Can you do a video showing how to properly harvest them when grown in dirt and paper towels? I am growing in seed start mix. What I did was cut them with scissors. Then I put them in a salad spinner and rinsed them several times. After most the seeds were gone I soaked them awhile in white vinegar water. Just to be safe I blanched them in boiling water before I ate them. That may be overkill but I would love to know how you prepare your microgreens for consumption. Thanks again for all your video help.
nice experiment..thank you for sharing !! I will be a copycat
How often in the 7 day period do you spray the sprouting trays with their respective nutrients. And if do you spray them do you wash off the nutrient solution at harvest before you eat the sprouts?
Costs? Tikki, are you able break it down to costs.. Which of the 2 products is more cost effective?
I also tried the paper vs soil ones. Clearly soil one won. Another big advantage of soil growing is that those sprouts are more juicy. Sprouts on papers are harder to keep the level of water or moisture.
Wow, Tikki, am I glad I found you! Thank you so, so much for the tutorials. Your instructions are very clear, logical, and complete. I really appreciate the time that you take to teach us about this. I’ve just started my first jar of sprouts, planning on graduating to micro greens soon, and you are my guru!
Hi Tikki! Have you done a side by side experiment with and without a cover on the sprouts? I don't recall seeing that and I'd love to see the results.
Nice video! How about comparing soil vs paper towel with nutrients? It would be nice!
Yes, but bigger may not mean better. After all commercial vegetables with added fertiliser is not healthier than the organic varieties. I imagine further tests would need to be conducted.
Braveo. Great experiment and very intelligently explained. I think it has convinced me to start adding a very dilute solution of organic hydro ferts to my broccoli sprouts (even though I grow on coco mats).
How about the watering ?
Cool video! Did you do a taste test?
When you blackout what should be temperature around?
Masterblend looks the best. Did you by any chance weighed. The three of them? It would have been interesting information.
Where do you order your seeds for the micro greens?
I think sprouts don't need extra nutrients but microgreens to. I think this also illustrates how plants will need more nutrients as they grow bigger.
Thanks for the work. Did you soak the seeds first? Did you do a daily spritz with each soution?
I love these micro-green experiments!
Smart lady, thank you
Great Video, thank you so much! The additional fertilizer at this stage might add too much nitrate to the microgreens, which could be a health hazard, what is your thoughts in this regard. Also how is the test quality?
I think I’d just stick to plain water with micro greens even if they don’t look as nice when harvesting them. I wouldn’t be interested in eating calcium nitrate, epsom salt or the other fertilizer nutrients that definitely stick on the stems and roots. People eat them for nutrition but not that kind of nutrition.
Broccoli seeds are too expensive. I only grow mustard microgreens cause the seeds are way less expensive. Plus you get the peppery flavor out of them. Next year, I will be growing more daikons and mustards just for their seeds so that I can grow microgreens without spending money buying seeds. Broccoli is difficult to grow and has a lot of pests, including aphids, slugs, snails, butterfly larva, …
Nice experiment…I really like the way you explain everything it's very big help and your voice nice to listen to..god bless