Lettuce

Lettuce Cultivation

Farming System

Hydroponic lettuce cultivation is simple and can be done in your home. Hydroponics is actually a way or farming techniques using non-soil or planting medium other than soil. In the media hydroponic plants can be roasted husks, sand, cocopeat, gravel rockwool etc. How to grow lettuce for hydroponics can be done anywhere like on the home page, the container can also use pots, paint cans, drums, or bottles of mineral traces. How to grow hydroponic lettuce is actually very suitable to be applied in urban areas or urban areas, because a lot of benefits that include space-saving and environmentally friendly. Here are the stages of plant hydroponic lettuce.

The seeds of lettuce seedlings on a tray or in a container seedlings, which will be used seeds of lettuce that germinated above 80%. For seedling media in general and also good for use is rockwool. Because of Rockwool is very practical because it has water absorption is very high and too sterile course. When the seeds are old enough then you can move into the planting medium. You can use a planting medium that has a shaft that can be used to husk fuel mixture and also sand gravel, or a mixture of sand and gravel rockwool. Then Place in a container planting medium that you want such as a pot or tin cans.

You can use hydroponics proper nutrition, the nutrition in hydroponic planting is very important to the growth of lettuce plants. You can mix their own or buy hydroponic nutrients in each market. Nutrition can be a way to flush manually morning and afternoon, or if you want more practical you can try to plant hydroponic through wick or wick system. The wick technique merupakn one of the hydroponic techniques are quite simple. Treatment in lettuce system using hydroponics is basically not much different from the treatment with conventional systems such planting is done pruning and weeding, as well as other cleanup like other plants.