User-Submitted Photo: Outside Double Box

Posted Tuesday, April 7, 2015, by Food Rising Staff | Read Comments

"We purchased one of your lettuce kits a few weeks ago. It is our first experience with Hydroponics, and I thought I would send some photos of our progress so far.

We setup the bin that came with the kit along with the regular float and planted Romaine and some buttercrunch lettuce on March 20th. I started the plants in a small tray indoors under our grow lights with water/nutrients in the bottom. They sprouted in 3 days. I hardened them off and moved it outside the 29th.

We constructed a store bought bin with 4 holes and using the 3D printed float, and I planted dwarf kale in the four 4" net pots for that system. (Also started those indoors on the 26th, sprouted a few days later, and moved outside on the 29th as well.)

The bucket was rigged with a T connector to service both bins, and I also installed shut off valves (used for irrigation systems) on each of the lines to make it easy to modify/adjust things.

Looking forward to how things progress. I am going to try to keep up with a photo record.

Thanks for all the info, and for introducing us to this neat growing system. I am an experienced gardener (I have 14 raised beds, Earth Boxes as well as a large area garden we grow lots of stuff in every year), but I am excited to work with hydroponics."