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Hydroguy experiments with different mixtures of lassenite, cactus soil, and an unreleased soil additive.

Initially conducting the trial to test mix rates of the unreleased additive at 5%, 20%, and 100%, lassenite is included as a long-term trial run of lassenite in various uses, in 50/50 lass/soil mix, random additive + [...]

Hydroguy is playing with the Jiffy Carefree line to see how fast they pop. They are exceptionally faster than the standard Jiffy-7, taking only a few minutes to completely hydrate, ready for use. The video was recorded on my laptop so the video quality is ass.

Though they are a bit [...]

Having perused the outdoors plantations in the last video, we get a quick tour around the indoor Waterfarm, DWC, and soiless potted plants.

Banana plant, stunted mini-corn, some brown DWC root.. [...]

With a quick clip in July for contrast to how lush the garden has become in just one month, we go on a tour around the garden plots in my yard.

There’s thriving bushes of tomato plant, stunted corns, absolute crap hanging tomatoes, the vertical tomato grow-board, and a few [...]

Running General Organics in DWC was a predictable fight against slime, and though I found low doses of base nutrient and cal/mag to be manageable, this is the result of the full dose of the entire line.

The biofilm that formed on the roots and basket was blackened, probably from [...]

Hydroguy transplants a tomato plant rooted in a 3×3 1801 insert pot with peat-lite into a cleaning sponge – without removing the peat! The sponge sits in a 10″ net basket destined for a life of DWC.

Sharing the sponge with the tomato is ryegrass, which was germinated and grown [...]

Hydroguy reloads his Waterfarm hydroponics drip-ring X DWC bucket with a stunted tomato plant. The tomato plant was germinated and grew in a 3×3 1801 insert cup for around 8 weeks in a peat-lite mix.

Rinsing the peat off the roots is necessary with the drip-ring system, and as harsh [...]

High relative-humidity, moist substrate.. you know the drill. It seems the corn and banana plant are more susceptible than tomatoes.

Music: Pink Floyd – In The Flesh

Intro animation: Grubbycup
http://www.youtube.com/user/grubbycup

Some info on guttation can be found at Urban Garden Magazine:
http://bit.ly/ceus5O