I never space lettuce, I let them duke it out for space. Ha survival of the fittest. I eat the outer leaves once they start misbehaving with one another so it works out 🤷🏽♀️
I have a VERY valuable tip: get the tiniest expanded clay pebbles you can find or if you already have a large bag of them sift or hand sort all the tiny ones you need to fill the grow basket and transplant rooted seedlings into these style gardens instead of using the expensive grow sponges. Use aluminum foil to prevent light entering. I will NEVER get ripped off on sponges again!
Top-notch video! Thank you for going slow and concisely. It’s easy to forget that many of us in your viewing audience are beginners and we need the project simplified as much as possible. You do that quite well Thanks again! I have just subscribed to your videos. Keep them coming!
As always, excellent video Khang! Also, many, many thanks for inspiring people to grow food, especially with the cost of food, inflation, and interest these days! There needs to be more people like you willing to help out selflessly without motives! My family and I have learned so much from you over the years, and today we have an acre garden as a result! I would say a large percentage of that inspiration belongs to you, and your down-to-earth mentorship brother! Thank you for helping others! God bless! 😊
They look great, I've not grown Romaine from seed, I always grow on a couple of shop brought ends. I get a few goes out of them. I'm going to let 1 bolt & harvest it's seeds. TFS KS, & take care too everyone. ❤🙂🐶
Honestly I'm new to this and I did it in a much simpler way and they were bigger than this video at the time intervals. Keep it simple, that's what these systems are great for.
I'm new to hydroponic gardening and have a similar system (not Aerogarden). I have a Romaine lettuce in it. I'm in the UK and we've had some really hot weather recently so the Romaine got scalped within an inch of its life. It's growing back again. I've now started off an Iceberg lettuce as an experiment so we'll see how that gets on. I've got several other plants in there including a chilli and a basil which have really taken off, also a Gardener's Delight tomato plant - it's got flower buds on it but is getting too tall for the unit. It's too late in the year to move it outside so I'll leave it and see what happens. Another plant which is cut and come again is rocket. One I can't keep pace with is the dill. As fast as I cut it back, it grows again overnight. The good thing with dill is it freezes well so I have a box of it in the freezer - great with fish and other things. I've had to cut a large piece off the basil which I'm rooting to give to a friend.
My thought is .... since the plants will never grow to maturity, say as if in the soil with plenty of room to expand, I can plant in each hydroponic cell and harvest from each plant when leaves get 5-6 inches long. I can get two large salad bowls of lettuce at each harvest (eg. at least once a week, twice a week some weeks). Never a problem with overcrowding and if I did let leaves get to big (eg. I went on vacation for a week) still not a big problem, I'll tear off the yellow wilted leaf and toss in the trash if there was a wilted leaf.
I do wish Aerogarden's were a little bigger, or had a grow deck with fewer slots for larger plants. I do like how your lettuce is looking with only three plants. Thank goodnes for port covers. I keep trying to grow 6 in one harvest and they do get crowded. I might have to try them in a bounty like this.
I have 3 aerogardens and use them all the time. Also bought a led grow light for $20.00 at Lowes, I put my cut offs in water bottles under the light. It works out great. I can grow alot of plants at one time.
So helpful, thank you for this video. I mistakenly planted 5 in my aero garden so I will have to put them in a different pot. I did kale as well so going to see how that works!
Nutrients Mix, I would go with masterblend - epsom - Calcinit (nitrogen) For 1.8 gal/ 7 litre: 4.2g master, 2.1g epsom, 4.2g nitrogen. Perfect for lettuce. Make shure each nutrient is totally dissolved before adding the next.
Buttercrunch lettuce does very well. I tried Romaine in a strange little garden that has two large baskets that holds those clay marble things but its light wasn`t set on the proper setting I think. The light is in a fixed position too. Plus I planted too many seeds. It was good but not as green and healthy as yours. I need to add more light to that grower. It`s a nice design except the light being only 8 watts and confusing settings. I`m trying Romaine under better lights after I move. Plus I plan to try yellow squash with large lights and 5 gallon bucket.
Very nice video. I've got my aerogarden showing up today. I'm very excited to try it out. At what point would you trim the roots back, I think it would make sense to do it when you change the water, but I'm curious what you do. Thanks!
Something I notice when gardening is there is always a weed that will show up and look like what I planted, but not be the actually plant I threw seeds for. Its as if the wild plants take on the genetics of the others.
This is a lovely romaine garden. Would it be beneficial to plant each one a few weeks apart so they grow at different stages and not crowding each other out?
Not necessarily. The seeds planted later, may not sprout since the light would be higher than necessary. If you had a farm 24 you could definitely stagger them in one side and the other
I wish you'd design a system to grow all your main veggies using inside hydroponics. It would take a whole room with lots of growing tents. Instead of just a couple lettuces now and then.
@Kang Starr what is your opinion on AeroGarden Nutrient vs Master Blend vs General Hydroponics vs Dyna-Gro having used them all growing lettuce? If all three are on your shelf, which do you feel grows the healthiest crops?
Tomorrow is day four and not a single one of my 24ish seeds have sprouted. They all sank so again that sink or float method to determine viability is just rubbish as it has never worked for me since all seeds sink. Maybe with pits it works? I am giving it 10 days (as the package said 7-10 days) in hope.
What labels are you referring to, name labels? You really don't need labels unless you need to know which variety you're growing. Other than that, what you see in the video is good enough.
@@KhangStarr Great!!! Thank You!!! So many videos say you need the name labels to block out algae. I have 2 Tower Tower Gardens outside, and I never use labels like that on them. Thank You So Much ❤️
I would say Chojuro and Olympic Giant (Korean Giant) are the closest to butterscotch flavor. They are also my favorites. You should check out my pear tasting on all the varieties I grow th-cam.com/video/tnctBKz8eFE/w-d-xo.html
Something wrong with your letuce. The leave shoudnt wrickle like that. Its a sign of either too much nutrients or too much lighting. Later more probable.
He didn’t use the Aerogarden or any Aerogarden components in the plat ice water bottles. He used a cut down water bottle, a plat ice shot glass, rock wool and a bottle cover. Since he didn’t seed all the Aerogarden ports, he was able to set these bottles on the Aerogarden deck to utilize the light. He could have easily planted lettuce in all the Aerogarden ports.
Any review is missing cost spending on 1 months grow: electricity, seeds, caps, spongy, baskets, nutrition's. To be compare with basics kitchen herbs as basil, mint, parsley, coriander. Basic point is if its worth to buy ready grown pot from the shop fresh or grow it at home in the city. Cost of one grown herb plant with roots at pot in the market shop is 1 - 1.5 eur.
I love your no waste attitude. We don’t have to buy what we don’t need- Ty for putting that in your vid
I never space lettuce, I let them duke it out for space. Ha survival of the fittest. I eat the outer leaves once they start misbehaving with one another so it works out 🤷🏽♀️
Ha ha me too. I jam them all in and let them duke it out.
Hilarious! I was thinking I would not separate
I have a VERY valuable tip: get the tiniest expanded clay pebbles you can find or if you already have a large bag of them sift or hand sort all the tiny ones you need to fill the grow basket and transplant rooted seedlings into these style gardens instead of using the expensive grow sponges. Use aluminum foil to prevent light entering. I will NEVER get ripped off on sponges again!
Top-notch video!
Thank you for going slow and concisely. It’s easy to forget that many of us in your viewing audience are beginners and we need the project simplified as much as possible. You do that quite well
Thanks again! I have just subscribed to your videos. Keep them coming!
I can tell you are at top of smart people group just by one video. Thank you for so much of info without too much of talking.
As always, excellent video Khang! Also, many, many thanks for inspiring people to grow food, especially with the cost of food, inflation, and interest these days! There needs to be more people like you willing to help out selflessly without motives!
My family and I have learned so much from you over the years, and today we have an acre garden as a result! I would say a large percentage of that inspiration belongs to you, and your down-to-earth mentorship brother! Thank you for helping others! God bless! 😊
Thank you for your kind words!!!
I just ordered one from Amazon should receive it tomorrow cannot wait to grow some lettuce and some pepper plants 🌱
Thank you so much! I want to be the person you are! So bright, fun and positive!
They look great, I've not grown Romaine from seed, I always grow on a couple of shop brought ends. I get a few goes out of them. I'm going to let 1 bolt & harvest it's seeds.
TFS KS, & take care too everyone. ❤🙂🐶
Amazing!! Please keep making more aerogarden videos
Honestly I'm new to this and I did it in a much simpler way and they were bigger than this video at the time intervals. Keep it simple, that's what these systems are great for.
Please explain. Thank you
I'm new to hydroponic gardening and have a similar system (not Aerogarden). I have a Romaine lettuce in it. I'm in the UK and we've had some really hot weather recently so the Romaine got scalped within an inch of its life. It's growing back again. I've now started off an Iceberg lettuce as an experiment so we'll see how that gets on. I've got several other plants in there including a chilli and a basil which have really taken off, also a Gardener's Delight tomato plant - it's got flower buds on it but is getting too tall for the unit. It's too late in the year to move it outside so I'll leave it and see what happens. Another plant which is cut and come again is rocket. One I can't keep pace with is the dill. As fast as I cut it back, it grows again overnight. The good thing with dill is it freezes well so I have a box of it in the freezer - great with fish and other things. I've had to cut a large piece off the basil which I'm rooting to give to a friend.
My thought is .... since the plants will never grow to maturity, say as if in the soil with plenty of room to expand, I can plant in each hydroponic cell and harvest from each plant when leaves get 5-6 inches long. I can get two large salad bowls of lettuce at each harvest (eg. at least once a week, twice a week some weeks). Never a problem with overcrowding and if I did let leaves get to big (eg. I went on vacation for a week) still not a big problem, I'll tear off the yellow wilted leaf and toss in the trash if there was a wilted leaf.
How do you get them to grow back? Every single one that I harvested died immediately after and certainly took much longer to grow than once a week
@pasteljezebel are you pulling the entire plant out or just tearing off a few of the outer leaves? No problem regrowth.
Thanks, I tried both methods maybe I just had bad luck @@equallywrong
I do wish Aerogarden's were a little bigger, or had a grow deck with fewer slots for larger plants. I do like how your lettuce is looking with only three plants. Thank goodnes for port covers. I keep trying to grow 6 in one harvest and they do get crowded. I might have to try them in a bounty like this.
I love your water bottle set up. I will be growing some this winter. Yes, I enjoyed the video. Thank you
I have 3 aerogardens and use them all the time. Also bought a led grow light for $20.00 at Lowes, I put my cut offs in water bottles under the light. It works out great. I can grow alot of plants at one time.
Love my aerogardens!
FWIW I grow 6 pods of romaine at a time in my Aero Harvest with no problem, so you can cram more in if you'd like 😀
I eat it fast so mine never grows big anyway. LOL! I love to grow food indoors all year. What a treat and such an exciting hobby.
Thanks for getting me into growing my guy!
So helpful, thank you for this video. I mistakenly planted 5 in my aero garden so I will have to put them in a different pot. I did kale as well so going to see how that works!
Thanks for sharing your video. 👍 I love growing lettuce in my aerogarden. Great video.
I love watching these romaine videos. Your grow is gorgeous. I can’t wait to get my new seeds and try this.
Nutrients Mix, I would go with masterblend - epsom - Calcinit (nitrogen) For 1.8 gal/ 7 litre: 4.2g master, 2.1g epsom, 4.2g nitrogen. Perfect for lettuce. Make shure each nutrient is totally dissolved before adding the next.
Buttercrunch lettuce does very well. I tried Romaine in a strange little garden that has two large baskets that holds those clay marble things but its light wasn`t set on the proper setting I think. The light is in a fixed position too. Plus I planted too many seeds. It was good but not as green and healthy as yours. I need to add more light to that grower. It`s a nice design except the light being only 8 watts and confusing settings. I`m trying Romaine under better lights after I move. Plus I plan to try yellow squash with large lights and 5 gallon bucket.
Very nice video. I've got my aerogarden showing up today. I'm very excited to try it out. At what point would you trim the roots back, I think it would make sense to do it when you change the water, but I'm curious what you do.
Thanks!
Now I have a use for beer Koozies! Just have to get some bottles.
Something I notice when gardening is there is always a weed that will show up and look like what I planted, but not be the actually plant I threw seeds for. Its as if the wild plants take on the genetics of the others.
Brilliant!
This is a lovely romaine garden. Would it be beneficial to plant each one a few weeks apart so they grow at different stages and not crowding each other out?
Not necessarily. The seeds planted later, may not sprout since the light would be higher than necessary. If you had a farm 24 you could definitely stagger them in one side and the other
I wish you'd design a system to grow all your main veggies using inside hydroponics. It would take a whole room with lots of growing tents. Instead of just a couple lettuces now and then.
Nice work. Thx for sharing:)
AWESOME VIDEO , THANK YOU FOR SHARING !
Rockwool - as in insulation? Is there a specific Rockwool to use and where do I get it?
@Kang Starr what is your opinion on AeroGarden Nutrient vs Master Blend vs General Hydroponics vs Dyna-Gro having used them all growing lettuce? If all three are on your shelf, which do you feel grows the healthiest crops?
Many thanks for a great video. What setup would you suggest for growing 8 plants? Tote system? Any suggestions on type of romaine? Thanks! :-)
Cómo me gustaría encontrar videos en español. Hay muchos de siembra, pero ni de sistema hidroponia. Me regalaron este aparato y quisiera aprender 😊
Tomorrow is day four and not a single one of my 24ish seeds have sprouted. They all sank so again that sink or float method to determine viability is just rubbish as it has never worked for me since all seeds sink. Maybe with pits it works? I am giving it 10 days (as the package said 7-10 days) in hope.
This was so helpful. I just received an AeroGarden and am excited to start the growing process. Do you use tap or distilled water?
Tap water
I use tap wster and have never had a problem.
Just to be clear. You did have water in your system? Or did you just water the plants by hand?
My led lights started blinking. I know there has to be a way to fix them myself but haven't found a video yet. Any suggestions???
Hello, how long do you keep lights on , in germination?
Plus what type of aero garden box are you using in the video?
Thanks .
Thanks...how low do you have that overhead light my seedlings grow long and stringy not full head like yours ?
Did u do any cutting to have them grow bigger?
I Love Your Videos!!! Do I need to put labels on my pods? Thank You
What labels are you referring to, name labels? You really don't need labels unless you need to know which variety you're growing. Other than that, what you see in the video is good enough.
@@KhangStarr Great!!! Thank You!!! So many videos say you need the name labels to block out algae. I have 2 Tower Tower Gardens outside, and I never use labels like that on them. Thank You So Much ❤️
Can you write other names of "Romain salat" 'cose I dont know where to by seeds of that salat in my place ? Thanks in andvance"
How long to keep light on for lettuce?
Khang! Which variety of Asian Pear tastes like butterscotch?
I would say Chojuro and Olympic Giant (Korean Giant) are the closest to butterscotch flavor. They are also my favorites. You should check out my pear tasting on all the varieties I grow th-cam.com/video/tnctBKz8eFE/w-d-xo.html
@@KhangStarr Thanks G! I'll check it out. 👍
What? Day 15 is that big? There must be something wrong with my vege.. lol!!
What was your lighting schedule for the lettuce? 18 hours?
Something wrong with your letuce. The leave shoudnt wrickle like that. Its a sign of either too much nutrients or too much lighting. Later more probable.
Brilliant idea to not add water till the seeds sprout
20$ Tweeters..."your girlfriend know you borrowin' "? ha ha
Do you add water or nutrients to the ones in the cups that are not in the system?
Yes
25 days to harvest?!?!?! I need to have a talk with my romaine plants....
where do you get a bottle container that fits AG's pods?
He didn’t use the Aerogarden or any Aerogarden components in the plat ice water bottles. He used a cut down water bottle, a plat ice shot glass, rock wool and a bottle cover. Since he didn’t seed all the Aerogarden ports, he was able to set these bottles on the Aerogarden deck to utilize the light. He could have easily planted lettuce in all the Aerogarden ports.
Hi, which aero garden are you using please
Is the lighting on for the whole time?
What type of romaine lettuce is this?
Any review is missing cost spending on 1 months grow: electricity, seeds, caps, spongy, baskets, nutrition's. To be compare with basics kitchen herbs as basil, mint, parsley, coriander. Basic point is if its worth to buy ready grown pot from the shop fresh or grow it at home in the city. Cost of one grown herb plant with roots at pot in the market shop is 1 - 1.5 eur.
Only thing I don't like about these is that you can't really grow enough to sustain yourself consistently.