Hydroponic Lettuce plants just showing growth at day 4

Here i have my hydroponic lettuce plants, I have about 80 heads of lettuce. I had a few baby plant die off before making it to planting time. This was due to our seed depth in the foam blocks. I think we must have put them too deep or they shifted when we waters them and for some reason they died i think from root and they were too deep in the foam block to come out the top , I cut away foam from many of them and so saved a bunch, But we ended up without enough lettuce plant and some of them are also very damaged due to the foam depth issue of the seeds. So next time we will be careful to wet the foam blocks throughly before planting them. Also we will make sure to not put the seeds to deep in the foam block. But once we put the baby plants into the foam blocks the began to grow and WOW the roots started growing. Little changed on top for the first few days. In the empty spots i have tried to find other plants and some are surviving good and others maybe not. See the baby lettuce coming out of the plastic tubes, I used 2.5 inch pvc tubes and drilled them to fit my little net cups. I put them about 15 cm apart for each lettuce plant. I used a door hole drill bit kit with multi sizes as to fit the net cut. I dont know maybe it is about 2 inch? size.

New Home Hydroponic Setup

Here is the first time i have built my own Hydroponic setup. It was a learning process and i will be modifying the next time i grow. If you see above, i have 3 tubes, double length of each and 15 plants holes in each piece, so about 90 plants of lettuce all together. I will post another picture as the plants grow and hopefully this leads to many yummy salads to eat for dinner.

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Amazing Azomite

We have obtained some Azomite from a local farmer, he has been using it to feed his stock for many month to years and they have all remained healthy and strong while other farmers have seen disease and sickness. I helped him out with some translating for a group of Brazilians who were visiting and He gave me 3 pounds of it to try. Azomite comes from out west in the USA but i found out it was imported to Thailand and actually the local farmer in my town is a big time importer. So i got some and used it on my green tire garden. It took a few tires before i could cut and then flip an old car tire into a beautiful recycled planter. It's not so hard but the key is to get a nice worn tire, not a truck tire or low profile one, Then leave it in the sun until noon flip it over and give it another hour or two of hot sun. This helps make it pliable, then cut out a ring in your own design. Beware i broke 3 kitchen knives doing this so try old ones first or you may get someone mad, if she finds your nice kitchen knives all broken. Then using the foot and elbow grease start. a little at a time, Google it or look on you tube. First one was about 15 minutes, but after 5 i could do them in about 3-4 minutes. So i got good store bought soil and manure, mixed them together and set the planter in my yard. I didn't use any chemical fertilizers and didn't have the Azomite, which is an organic mixture of about 70 essential minerals. We planted a variety of veggies and i had poor results, after 2 month the tomatoes we sick and no fruit. other plants we looking terrible too. So i found this Azomite, I decided to mix it into my soil and then start some new tires mixing it from the beginning. The results were almost immediate. We now have fruit and good veggies, Even an egg plant. The tomatoes has some root disease but that endemic in this part oThailand i hear from local farmers but i still have tons of fruit. only about 1/3 of the tomatoes plants died and the rest and full of fruit. So i would call this Azomite a Success, you can find it on the web and at you local southern states or Feed and Seed stores. Let me know if you find localy suppliers as i want to try and apply it to my home and garden in the USA. This was a great story, one farmer even told me he ate it him self. I feed some to my dogs and their coats looked shiny and amazing the next few days. What have you found about this miracle organic compound.