Hello everyone and all members of Hive Garden Community, how are you today? Our government seems to be confused because the pandemic has not been completed and the number of patients has increased along with the new virus variant, and they are also having difficulty restoring people's trust, the majority of people don't care about the pandemic and hope to live a normal life to work and reopen businesses.
As usual, every Monday I will share posts about my gardening activities. This week, there are several activities that I do such as making hydroponic installations ordered from my customers, harvesting vegetables, caring for some vegetables such as lettuce and pakchoy and most importantly seeing the condition of spinach which is damaged and seems to be failing to grow.
Verticultural Hydroponics
The weather in my city is very hot, some vegetables are easily wilted and of course excessive sunlight has an impact on plant freshness. This week, the vegetables that I planted in wall hydroponics grew very fertile and optimally. Apparently, because it is on the wall, sunlight can only shine on this installation for about 4 hours.
The hydroponic installation that is affixed to the wall is perfect for areas that have sufficient and hot sunlight. If the weather is cloudy, the hydroponic installation on the wall will not work because the sunlight will be increasingly limited and make it not grow optimally. I grow bitter mustard in this hydroponic installation, and this is specially grown for my family's needs. My mom and dad really like this vegetable.
Spinach
You can see the condition of my spinach. It seems like almost all the spinach I planted failed. I am very confused to see this condition, several people I asked about the condition of this spinach damage did not get me a satisfactory answer. My friend thinks this damage is caused by fungus and I have to spray fungicide to prevent it.
My father suspected the spinach damage was caused by the extremely hot weather. The spinach seeds we sowed grew well, and began to show signs of damage when they were transferred to Styrofoam media. I am sad but will not give up, I will try again to grow these vegetables and continue to look for solutions so I will be able to enjoy the harvest in the future.
Pakchoy
I have harvested 80% of pakchoy this week. I got about 25 kg of pakchoy and immediately sold it to the vegetable collector. This vegetable grows well and uniformly. The remaining 20% of these vegetables I will probably harvest this week. These vegetables are easy to wilt when exposed to very hot sunlight, but in the afternoon these vegetables will come back fresh and beautiful.
Lettuce
I planted about 200 pots of lettuce on the second floor. Lettuce is a vegetable that requires cool weather and usually lettuce is grown in the highlands. However, we can grow lettuce in hydroponic installations by limiting sunlight. To grow lettuce, we can put it in a shady place with intense sunlight for about 4-5 hours.
I grow lettuce using water with a concentration of 600-700 ppm and this is perfect for lettuce. Many hydroponic farmers grow lettuce because it is easy to care for, rarely gets disease and also because it uses less fertilizer. Generally, other vegetables use a fertilizer solution with a concentration of 1200-1400 ppm, meaning that growing lettuce can save about half the use of hydroponic liquid fertilizer.
Preparation for Sowing Vegetable Seeds
This week, I also started sowing some vegetable seeds that I will plant to replace all the vegetables I have harvested. As usual, I'll be seeding the pakchoy and spinach (again).
I always chop the rockwool first before sowing the vegetable seeds. By cutting rockwool, we can speed up and summarize the work and of course it will be easier.
Okay, here's my My Hydroponic Journal this time, see you next week.
Call me Isdarmady, because I have a full name that is very long, namely Isdarmady Syahputra Ritonga. I am a head of the family who work as Farmers Vegetables Hydroponic and Consultant Hydroponics, sometimes I also sell coffee from various regions in Indonesia.
I have expertise dispensing coffee with a variety of techniques and tools brewing, because I have the desire to make a coffee shop with hydroponics as centerpieces. Help me realize that dream.
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