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RE: 🌱 Home Gardening with Hydroponics - Garden Update (August 28, 2017)
I've seen hydroponics systems online before but I always thought they could never work well. You've got something great going there! Making lettuce last by strategically choosing leaves is something I do too, and it definitely extends the amount of food you can harvest. Also, I'm pretty impressed by how well you keep track of the number of days you've got a plant going. I always start off trying to keep track of everything but sooner or later (sooner) I scrap all plans and just make decisions as I go, and have no clue when things are 'supposed' to be fruiting, etc. Great post! Resteemed :)
Thank you for support and feedback. Normally I "grow" with the flow, like you said, once you know the normal cycles of your gardens you just know when things need to be swapped out, etc.
But yes, in the beginning with each of my new systems I document the growing cycles to get an understanding of what I can expect to get out of them and what varieties yield the most in the system. Once I have that general grow/replace cycle rhythm down pat I don't document it any more.
Two months back I decided to do a full clean out of all my hydroponic systems which gave a perfect opportunity to walk everyone through how I do things in "real-time". All the notes I took are coming in handy now. :-)
The downside is having to buy produce from the store during this time, it's driving me nuts. LOL