I wanted to see which would produce better results, growing lettuce hydroponically, or growing it in soil. I prefer hydroponics, its cleaner and much more forgiving, and I don’t have to remember to water the plants. We can go away for a week or two and the hydroponic lettuce does just fine without us (so does the basil!).
If you need a refresher on growing lettuce using hydroponics, please watch my video on the Kratky method:
https://youtu.be/2ezeP1VAEoc
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great video and enjoy your experiments, cannot wait to see more experiments.
Nice video. I grow both at able greenhouse. I like the set it and forget it method.
It's a bit spacey when Tikki's face appears in the lettuce.
Wow, amazing! Thank you, Tikki!
Do you think it's worth paintking your Mason jars or does the foil last long enough? Love your informative videos!
Thanks for sharing and great job. Why your lettuce different from what we in the stores? I mean in shape.
Great video. I am getting ready to try the Kratky method this week. Thanks for the comparison. Did you use a soil with fertilizer such as Miracle Grow??
Did you use hydroponic nutrients for both? Or just straight-up water for the plants in soil, (using the nutrients in the soil)?
Because your roots need to be in the dark not in the light.
It would be interesting to try different fertilizers. Say a 15-15-15 or other variations, depending on what plants you are growing, to get the taste and texture you want. The soil nutrients will vary too.
Nice video indeed.
Is there a difference re. taste?
Do you pH test the water for the hydroponic plants?
The roots in the hydrophobic were air prunce and did not grow well initially. If initial water level is higher, hydrophobic will out grow all the time.
Try the same again with Masterblend vs Soil.
What would happen if you used a soil-based system with worm-fed compost derived from kitchen waste and a drip feed water irrigation system from a header tank with dissolved nutrients see the following weblink that also uses capillary wicks to distribute water: https://www.autopot-southafrica.co.za/
Your soil lettuce needed a repot and your hydro would be much better if you used a big container with lots of pots with an air stone.
What kind of soil, what nutrients added? Hydro nutes? Water change intervals? Nice video but need more details.
Kratky method is not providing oxygen to roots. Lettuce grows 2x faster in oxygen rich hydroponic solution
Lmao light hurts roots. Simple, not even about algae.
No oxygen in the hydro at start you obviously should keep to what you know soil
Light in the roots
And bad nutrient soluțion
At 6 weeks the soil ones looked much better to me. The leaves were much wider and fuller on the soil ones. The hydroponic ones were greener but were all stringy with narrow leaves. They looked like weeds not lettuce.
Hmmm… Could you please try this again… with the Kratky jars covered from the start? Thank you.
You only mentioned you completed nutrients in hydroponics but never on the
Soil ones? I think its incomplete.
2021, ive recently started hydroponics experiments. The romaine lettuce in kratky nutrients is larger than the same lettuce i grew in soil. Looks healthy and happy. Thanks for videos, very informative. Today i started experiment, grow paris carrots on loofas cut up. I had to try, i saw that you grew great radishes on them.take care.
You're over paying for your nutrients. Foxfarm caters to people growing weed so they jack up the price. For lettuce you can just use the cheap stuff like miracle gro or whatever is all the same stuff.
Amazing experiment
Awesome
Hi, plant the lettuce in bigger soil pot, then u will see …
Actually the pot size is too small for the lettuce grown in soil, thats why lettuce stop growing