AfricanHaze
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Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it holmes. ;) Now where can I get me some of this NASA grow juice? :D
That setup is in Asia somewhere, some place where fresh lettuce wasn't that common and cheap labor costs probably. Although, it seems to be built to keep labor costs low.That setup is nuts! Hard to believe lettuce makes enough money to justify the expense in setting something like that up.
Very true.
Stupid mother nature and her silly laws of chemistry...
Lucky intelligent human kind will save the day.
Don’t grow plants in water...
Grow in fluorocarbon (liquid oxygen) for demonic and unnatural growth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing
What's even more interesting is that I find the plants at the drain end of the system produce just as well as the plants at the feed end which is over 100'. If the nutrient solution was completely depleted of oxygen, then this would not be the case. Again, when people come to me with their scientific theory and textbooks, I love being able to show them real life.
Right now, I have 5 melon plants growing in the bottom row of a 100' long three tier system. All three tiers are the same length and all are fed from a 30 gallon reservoir. There is no added oxygenation other than the water falling back into the reservoir at the drain end. The top row is about 24 inches above the reservoir and it drains back in through a rain gutter downspout.
The melons are equally spaced out along the 100' row with basil in between spaced at 8 inch intervals and the very top of the row has 6 pepper plants which gives me 150 plants in the row(the other two rows are identical except the middle is all basil and top all lettuce). Checking brix level of melons from each plant shows identical levels of sugar. If your theory was true, then the melon plant closest to where the feed enters the system should be healthier and producing fruit of a higher quality which it is not.
this is just fucked. and seriously hilarious. …but also very fucked
Cannabis is actually much easier to grow than melons and tomatoes. It is far less sensitive to everything(including DO) and has a much wider window of acceptable conditions. Like most things in life, practice and experience are needed to yield good results. I see so many people fail at something on the first try and give up claiming "it can't be done" when all it takes is a little perseverance! Fortunately for me, it eliminated nearly all of my competition early on in my farming career. I wonder if that makes me the smart one or them? After 26 years, I would really love to retire but it's not in the budget at this point. It would really piss me off to see all the people that gave up sitting on a beach drinking mai tai's why I still work this much! ;)I wonder if species makes a difference here? In my experience NFT doesn't work well for cannabis, although that is just my experience. It's possible that plants like melons and tomatoes are less sensitive to DO than cannabis.
I love watching these threads spiral off topic into the most interesting and informing reads on the net. Keep up the good work boys.
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