Right before Christmas, I got started in hydroponics. Before long, I needed more stuff…
First, I bought an iDOO 20 pod kit. This seemed great - why go with a handful of pods if you could have a few handfuls? - but quickly proved not the best idea for what I had planned.
The lettuce I included in the first round of plantings quickly proved they would crowd out anything close to them…so I had to buy some larger containers for those.
…and some grow lights.
So 16 individual containers later and a 6 pack of T5 LEDs, I set up one wire shelf as a suitable spot to host 5 transplated greens from the initial effort and start 5 more as a staggered option as we start to harvest.
Which left 4 more grow lights (2 can fit per shelf) and 6 spare pots. So I started more greens in those (celtuce, 3x stinging nettles, endive and devil’s ear lettuce) on a second shelf.
But there’s space for at least 4 more pots on that shelf and one more shelf’s worth of grow lights…
So another 16 individual containers are showing up this weekend…
All in all, it’s a lot of fun, so far. The herbs are chugging along, but not being very impressive yet, while the original lettuce (and kale) are going pretty gangbusters.
Photos and updates to come…