Deep Water Ebb-Flow System

VDay Good morning!  Harvested a batch of Red Oaks for dinner to accompany the Prosperity burger from Macs.  Harvested some sweet basil for Thai styled basil minced pork.  Observed some issue with a few Cos and Lolla leaves. Not sure what caused it. No insects underneath that can be seen. Placed an ask in the Yash group chat for help.  DATA EC1262 pH6.33 WT29 Water level: at Min level. Top up 4L 20 down

Harvested Grand Rapids fully and Seeded Lolla Lettuce (from BLH) Before and... After! Gone are the "messy" GR from the whole tier. Yield is approximately 100g.  Decided to harvest all the GR. These are 31 days old. Stems and leaves are fine and soft, not as crisp as I would have liked. Same observation for the Romaines. Suspect that it could be due to lack of macronutrients such as nitrogen and possibly calcium. Ordered calcium nitrate pills from Shopee to address this. COS/ROMAINE: More tip burns observed. Two likely factors - calcium deficiency and lack of regular airflow to increase evapotranspiration. LOLLA LETTUCE: Bought this from BLH. Cleaned all the pots, and got rids of protruding roots, and cleared the remaining stems from the pots. No signs of algae on the leca balls. Roots that were removed were crisp to the touch and not slimy. A good sign. Placed about 4 to 5 seeds per pot. RED OAK: Little tip burn observed on the RO. Could be due to the better and regular airfl...

FIRST HARVEST of the NEW YEAR 2021! It has been a wet start to the new year. Rained since early morning till evening. That is not going to stop our first new year harvest! Harvested about 100g each of Cos/Romaine and Red Oaks for dinner and brekkie. Although the Red Oak doesn't seem to have much of a red look them. These are on Day 23 since seeding. At this stage, the lettuces look young and tender. Not much bulk and probably fibre to them yet. Taste-wise, sweet. Less crunchy compared to the ones that we get from the markets. But very happy with the yield and quality of greens.   Part of the reason for harvesting early is to thin out the batch. Each pot is now left with just one plant each. These will be left to a full 28 - 30 days (as suggested by many fellow home growers) to see the outcome. The before and after look! Kept an empty pot on the bottom tier, at the position nearest to the outlet to the reservoir. This makes it more convenient to pull out the pot to measure EC a...

HARVEST TIME! GR for New Year's eve dinner! Finally harvested 134.9g of Grand Rapids for dinner! The before, harvest and after look! Leaving some leaves for brekkie tomorrow! From the top to bottom again: Cos/Romaine: The Grand Rapids or what's left over! Red Oak: Butterhead: Data: (before harvest) EC1146 pH6.93 - once again, the pH crept up again, despite adding 6 drops of down yesterday. Time to adjust it downwards once again. - added 10 drops of pH down. WT29 Water Level: at MIN level again. - Topped up with another 2L with 10mL of ABC. Adjusted with 6 drops of Down.