all 5 pods growing well except 1

[hufflepuff]

I am on my 26th day of growth. My curly parsley has yet not reached roots into the water. It is about less than an inch in height. It is placed right where it is supposed to be, it is getting enough lighting. I created a reflecting jacket around the system with aluminium foil. I see hints of yellow on the leaves and now there is a leave curling up from the edges. Every other plant is about 6 inches tall. What am I doing wrong?

[Shawn]

Welcome!  It is hard to tell if and what (if anything) you are doing wrong.

A few tips, keep the water for herbs cool.  Add ice cubes when the water is warm.  Mark sure you are not feeding too many nutes and also do rinse and refills.

If you can add a picture (see here regarding photo repositories).


I am sure others will chime in.  AS a side I am also growing parsley and I have a little yellow tinge on a few leaves an I never checked the roots.  I do know some plants have a lot more roots then others.

[MaryL]

Hi Hufflepuff,

i too have been having problems with parsley.  Which is ironic because when they do get established, they are so hearty and they thrive. But in the beginning, I have had a lot of fizzling out. The small plant and roots by themselves wouldn’t worry me so much, but coupled with the yellowing it might prove to be too much of a runt.  


But rest assured, you are not doing anything wrong. Sometimes we all just get a weak seed that isn’t going to make it.  And you know what, you’ll be happy having the extra space for the plants once they really get going.  They can get really prolific!

[Kate]

Are you using distilled water, or?

[MaryL]

May 23, 2018 22:20:15 GMT -5 Kate said:

Are you using distilled water, or?

Kate I know your question is directed at hufflepuff’s parsley problem, but I’d be grateful if I can kind of hijack hufflepuff’s thread to ask why you ask about distilled water. I use distilled since I have a water softener (they say that’s too much salt), and I think my plants aren’t getting enough of the range of minerals you’d get with tap water. 

[Kate]

Well, at least two reasons. AG recommends it, likely because tap and/or well water is so variable around the world, that it can be detrimental to both the plants and machine. Also using distilled starts you with a blank slate, with no chlorine, fluoride, possible heavy metals, sulphur, lead, arsenic etc., that can mess with the nutrients, and build up over time, and essentially poison your food and you.  You can buy trace minerals to add to distilled, but I think that would defeat the blank slate purpose for AG's. Drinking water, it's great to add them. I am semi-curious about them saying not to use "spring water", however. I'm guessing buildup of "stuff" in the machine, but that's just a guess. Other than bottled spring water, we have amazing open (and underground fed) springs here that people flock to, to get their water. Well, until a moose dies in it upstream, then not so much.

Hijack her thread...heh. I with you did live closer. You're a riot.