NFT Lettuce

[txice]

Yes I noticed...and I also fully understand the oxygen concept. Like I said, was just looking for clarification on your word choice so I was clear on the point you were trying to make. Thanks for clarifying.

[watercatwn6535nd]

thats all very good info.

We were just thinking about a 30 gallon garbage can with the lid flipped upside down and a hole drilled for a potato/tomato plant.

So your saying the potato itself should not be in the nutrient? or it should be and there should be a space of about a foot betwwen where the potatoes grow and the root extending down to them.

I ask becuase i have never grown hydro potato's yet. they are so inexpensive ive always just bought them.

i do have some of those fogger misters i could drop in and go aeroponic?

I really had this idea i would be able to just lift the lid and cut off a potato for dinner with my scissors and the plant would just be happy and continue to grow more.

this is a great topic, hydro potatoes could really help my food production.

[smurf]

in epcot, they grow them. But they have large pots of dirt for the potatoes to grow in. So the plant is in a hydro system, and when they find a tuber bud start it goes in the dirt.

[GpsFrontier]

Originally Posted by smurf

in epcot, they grow them. But they have large pots of dirt for the potatoes to grow in. So the plant is in a hydro system, and when they find a tuber bud start it goes in the dirt.

So they have a hydro plant with buckets of dirt around it, and the root with the spud growing stretched over and placed in the dirt?

I to never really considerd growing things like potatoes, carrots or onions (other than green onions) just because they are so inexpensive at the store. Root vegetables seem to keep well as long as they are kept cold and dry, so they seem to travel well and the quality at the store isn't bad.

[GpsFrontier]

On an interesting note, I harvest my lettuce but don't chop off the head to low, (butter and romaine), and then get a complete second head very quickly since the root structure is already there.

This is very interesting indeed. I have never grown lettuce as of yet, but always thought you would only get one head per plant. The butter lettuce I get at the store always has the root ball with it. The Romain is cut at the bottom and the base is about 2 to 3 inched where it was cut. Maybe the Romain plant gets much bigger than I figured to be able to make room for more heads.