Hydroponics - Blog Posts

Finally got some of my small hydroponics set up! Two romaine lettuce plants and one buttercrunch!

Plant DIY has taken up a majority of free time(I’m not complaining.)

For this DIY, I repurposed some regular mouth mason jars, cut up an old shower loofa I had laying around, and cut off part of a plastic bottle to help hold it all together!

I added fish fertilizer to the water to support the repotting process, and used perlite in the bottom of the loofa. I chose to utilize the soil that the roots had originally come in to help stabilize them.

Any hydroponics advice??

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