Gardener Ignores the Laws of Nature!
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Published 2017-05-18
The fuzzy material the plants grew in is called "rock wool". Get details on the rock wool I used at amzn.to/2TVGf0m. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
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I grew a radish, romaine and butter crunch lettuce, cilantro, and 2 Nantes Coreless carrots in a 3 gallon Rubbermaid tote with square holes cut in the lid for the 1.5 inch Grodan Rockwool cubes. This is the same tote I used to grow Kratky hydroponic carrots. Carrot grow details at • Hydroponic Carrot - Will it Kratky?
Plants were grown Kratky style, however several top offs (to about 50 percent reservoir capacity) were performed. Some refills were fresh tap water and some were nutrient solution (depending on appearance of new growth in plants).
Thrips forced me to restart the grow, because I didn’t want to be spraying stuff in my office. Pest issue details at • Grow Room Pest Management
I don’t check PH anymore, but in the past, this tap water has started around 7.8 and comes with about 350ppm of salts (mostly calcium I hope).
My setup:
Light fixture is a 4 bulb 4 ft T5 Milliard grow light 216 watts 6500k.
Tops of the plants were on average 8 inches from the bulbs.
14 hours on 10 off light cycle was maintained by a digital Hydrofarm timer (little white box everyone else uses).
Office environment stayed around 70 degrees F with 40 – 50 percent relative humidity.
Nutrient Solution Recipe (same thing I grow everything in)
1 gallon water
2 grams MasterBlend Tomato 4-18-38
2 grams Calcium Nitrate 15.5-0-0
1 gram Epsom Salt (Magnesium Sulfate)
Filmed on an iPhone6
Edited with iMovie 10.1.5
Voiceover recorded on a Blue Snowball ICE
All Comments (21)
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25 seconds in and I am begging for more.
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decides hes hungry and wants a salad waits a month and a half finally gets salad -So Fucking Worth It
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"Got a pH level of.. didnt check. " What a fucking bad ass
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This video has an energy I cannot describe
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Why did this entire video sound like a 1960s detective movie
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Ok who left this man alone because hes making salad into an entire intense movie
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Good to see my YouTube recommendations are still working correctly
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Thanos: I am inevitable Jeb gardener: I am jeb
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On a side note .. This tap water has a PH of “didn’t check”. Thank you mr.jeb , I really needed that info for my garden.
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"pH of didn't check, EC of don't care" the most poetic piece of botanical science I have ever heard.
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"my names jeb" *silence* Thats all i need to hear to believe
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Ok but why does he sound like a genius supervillain emotionlessly explaining his grand plan for world domintation?
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I love the dramatic music, voice over and cinematography. Brilliant. Someone please do an essay on this for film school.
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"The radishes grew impatient, mocking me from their water island...so I picked up a pair of scissors, and made them pay with their lives. "Who's laughing now?" I thought. It was me. I was laughing."
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It takes a certain talent to make simple gardening intense and scary
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I get the evil scientist vibe from watching a guy grow a fucking salad
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This man's weed must be Legendary
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I've never been so terrified while watching plants grow
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This was so unnecessarily dramatic. I loved it.
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congratulations dude you actually made watching plants grow interesting
