Discovery - How its made - Hydroponic lettuce production

[WhiteRuss1]

Pretty amazing.

[rumblebee2skyclue]

I wonder how many fish they can grow in that greenhouse, if they ever decide to spend money on tanks&fish instead buying chemicals and changing water every couple of days. Aquaponics is the next stage of growing your lettuce.

[selectTunes]

wow, that is impressive. clever technology, well done.

[Lee2785991]

Interesting 

[pasilindberg]

There are actually lots of good advantages in these techniques. Clean local production with less nutrient and water consumption compared to traditional methods. No need to use pesticides since biological methods can be used.

Also advanced techniques allows vertical growing that will easily multibly the growing area.

In the future all households can have indoor garden like this: zengrow.com

[diewesentliche]

@pasilindberg Greatings from Venezuela, I'm interest in the hydrophonic method of harvesting, were can i get more information about levels of oxygen and the proper fertilizer? some course or study that you might reacomend? thank you

[pasilindberg]

@diewesentliche I do not have any official course in mind what I could recommend.

My own background is chemistry studies and learning by doing.

If you want to learn by doing I recommend of building small scale systems first. From internet you can find basic information about the different systems. There are shops where you can find ready made fertilizers and DIY parts.

zengrow.com is offering plug-and-play products for small scale production purposes (systems from 2 up to 1000 plants).

[diewesentliche]

@pasilindberg Thank you

[luno44]

It seems wrong, or like cheating. Like test tube babies or something.

[MrWannabe21]

I need a system like this for my weed...

[pasilindberg]

It is actually possible to do the process without transplanting.

In large scale with transplanting process being used it is actually more efficient as it uses less space.

If all the small seedlings would be using same space as the final stage plants you would need three times the space.

There are same amount and even more seedlings coming same time as there are final stage plants.

I hope this answer is clear enough!

[MarvelExtra]

Inst there some other way so the plants dont need to be transplanned all the time? transplanting 3 times 0_o. thats a lot of work. It should be automated somehow.

[CSLFiero]

@MarvelExtra This is good. You save cost in space and chemicals (EPA costs) and directly spend that money on employee hiring. It's more work, but more work is good if the result is more profit with no gain in cost. Everyone wins.

[michaelpham12]

wow this is completely different to how we grow hydroponically in australia

[Benjoreally]

enough fucking weed jokes

[mikedsd]

those poor workers  :(

[yungpadiwan]

thumbs up if you clicked this for weed?

[Aviationnation10]

so much for natural! i always thaught they were just grown in the ground

[liamsdad33]

i get alot of cabbage from my hydroponic "lettuce"

[JimiKiwi]

So, If the rights activists see this, they might not eat lettuce anymore

[gmonkeyboy10]

does lettuce get sea sick? :D

[polarbear60]

Yes it does, but only when it's transported by an airplane to another part of the country.

[lianghaochen]

@gmonkeyboy10 yes they do

[krankschaft]

@gmonkeyboy10 twice a day.

[bobbobmarley27]

i hope i can have this one toooooo!

[phynyte]

yeahh thats how i grow my weed .. i mean um .. lettuce

[JiminyKracker]

@phynyte not quite the same lol. I don't think a 6 foot sativa would float on those boards too well

[OniXV250]

yummy

[georgeo4231]

With all this water fish could be a great product. georgeo4231

[holiday666]

if u use fish.....u will need to change the water every week . ..fish production is not a good idea at all..^ ^

[jaifungi]

Not true at all. The combination of hydroponics and aquaculture is called aquaponics. Fish can be stocked more densely due to the huge amount of biofiltration (hydro plants) and the plants get complete, living nutrient solution.

[holiday666]

@jaifungi bu he said fish farm..not aquaponics

[boxa888]

@jaifungi wow is that possible!!! thats fucking awesome! such a great idea! so what do the fish eat then, the roots of the plant?? man u got any links?

[phynyte]

u realise your name shows up in bold blue letters . thers no need to sign off georgeo4231

[nickp1987]

The future of food floats. :D

[escopac123]

wow...its look like a mission doing all those transplants....i would seriously get tired of puttin a plant in a hole..lol

[oslexarkun]

amazing!

[foxgirl100]

thats cool

[dkaylin]

wow!!