Nick's Lettuces in 2 Farms (TERMINATED)

[nick]

The new greens continue to roll along. Hopefully soon I’ll be getting into some of this delicious looking kale!





However, I’ve only just gotten around to the final harvest on Farm No. 2. That has produced a LOT of lettuce. So much that I could only harvest one unit today. I’m going to have to straight up house some salads this week so that I can get the other unit cut down. 😋

[MaryL]

Wow, beautiful. I don’t think I’ve ever grown lettuces as lush and beautiful as yours. Or as delicious looking!  You must have really great water.

[nick]

Nov 27, 2018 19:16:21 GMT -5 MaryL said:

Wow, beautiful. I don’t think I’ve ever grown lettuces as lush and beautiful as yours. Or as delicious looking!  You must have really great water.

Thank you! Must be the water. It’s certainly nothing I’m doing. Lettuces just seems to love the environment I’ve got them in.

[Shawn]

Well keep up with whatever your are *not* doing

Now that is so picturesque, it shouldn't be harvested!!! What a lovely, delicious, BeeeYoooo Teeee Full Garden!

[nick]

Harvest some kale and a bit from the others this weekend. That was the first harvest from the current crop in Farm 1 and it was overdue. Life has been busy lately.

Fed these yesterday with AG nutes.





Meanwhile Farm 2 was sanitized and replanted. One half was replanted with AG lettuce pods. (The last of what came with the various Farm units.) I only planted half this round since we’ve got some holiday travel coming up and I don’t anticipate being around to eat a full crop.

However, I did feel like that gave me an opportunity with the other unit freed up. I’ll get back to that later.

[Shawn]

Looks good.  As for life being busy, this IS a busy time of year for all I am sure.

[Happy]

Two questions for our lettuce grower extraordinaire:

1. Do you plant all 12 pods in each Farm side, or do you use some spacers?
2. When planting custom seeds, how many seeds per pod do you use?

[Shawn]

Dec 5, 2018 16:43:25 GMT -5 Happy said:

Two questions for our lettuce grower extraordinaire:

1. Do you plant all 12 pods in each Farm side, or do you use some spacers?
2. When planting custom seeds, how many seeds per pod do you use?

Well I am no expert but I usually use 2-3 seeds per pod and I do use all the holes.

[nick]

Dec 5, 2018 16:43:25 GMT -5 Happy said:

Two questions for our lettuce grower extraordinaire:

1. Do you plant all 12 pods in each Farm side, or do you use some spacers?
2. When planting custom seeds, how many seeds per pod do you use?

I have been using all 12 pods and 3-4 seeds per pod.

However, I've decided that may not be ideal. The initial growth is great as everyone has seen, but I think crowding is keep light from getting to all of the plants which may actually be reducing my yield. I intend to experiment with this some after the holidays are over.

[nick]

New crop is on its way. I only planted one unit this time since we’re headed out of town soon.



Looks like two pods aren’t going to sprout this time. I’ve noticed that out of the AG pods I usually have 1 out of 12 that won’t sprout. Any custom pods I’ve done have always sprouted.

[nick]

I came back from holiday vacationing to encounter my first problem with lettuces. There are lots of spots on the leaves that I can’t explain.









This particular grow doesn’t have long left, but I’d like to identify this one before I plant my next batch. My lettuce has looked great up until now.

[Happy]

Nick, I believe that the edges got somewhat fried from the bright light.
Sometimes it's necessary to raise the light in the Farms, as lettuce requires (tolerates) a lower light level than some other plants.

[nick]

Jan 4, 2019 12:08:59 GMT -5 Happy said:

Nick, I believe that the edges got somewhat fried from the bright light.
Sometimes it's necessary to raise the light in the Farms, as lettuce requires (tolerates) a lower light level than some other plants.

Thank you!

That makes sense since I wasn’t here to adjust the lights during that time. Maybe I’ll try running my next round of lettuce on a shorter light cycle to see how that works out.

[nick]

In spite of the leaf burn I illustrated last time this has now become my longest running lettuce garden. It’s still very tasty and I’m going to see how long it’ll go.



Meanwhile I restarted my other Farm with the next round of lettuces. I did a few things differently this time:

1. These are all custom seed pods. (Thanks Happy!)

2. One unit is planted entirely with Kale.

3. The other unit only has 6 pods planted. We’ll see how things go with more space.

[fizzle1979]

Amazing job on your greens.  

[nick]

Jan 20, 2019 23:28:47 GMT -5 fizzle1979 said:

Amazing job on your greens.  

Thank you!

[MaryL]

I agree with fizzle.  I’ve never been able to grow lettuces as beautiful as yours.

[nick]

More of the same from my lettuces in my Farms. This time around I’m growing just the Kale and Mesclun that Happy sent. I’ve found them both to be favorites. There are two Jericho plants in a unit I planted more sparsely this time. I was waiting to see how they’d do with more space.

[Shawn]

Everything looks great