📑 Nutrient Deficiency in Intermediate Wheatgrass

• link: https://kernza.org/wp-content/uploads/nutrient-deficiency-in-intermediate-wheatgrass-guide-FINAL-1.pdf
• This work shows how, when lacking certain nutrient, the wheatgrass will look like. I do wish I had found this work a lot earlier.

🧚🏻‍♂️ Kratky Hydroponic

• youtube video | link
• what is kratky hydroponic? | reference
  • a form of hydroponics adaptable for small home gardens or large-scale production
  • plants sit atop a “raft”—a netted pot containing a growing medium—that is fixed to the top of a small container or tank and filled with nutrient solution. As the plant grows, the nutrient solution level decreases to allow for air space

🔦 Light

LED light & plant growth

• reference link & an experiment with LED lights link
• Plants need blue & red lights to thrive
• LED lights are cost-effective, energy efficient, easy to install, more durable, last longer
• Colors:
  • The most crucial colors for plants are white, red, and blue light.
  • White light is good for general plant growth
  • Red light is necessary for seed germination, flowering, and fruit production
  • Blue light is essential for strong leaves and stems.
  • Violet light can spike growth and may improve the flavor and aroma of some plants
  • Yellow light and green light contribute to photosynthesis (although they don’t promote as much growth as red and blue light)

🧊 growing plants in a cube

• Today I walked pass Prof. Andy’s farming workshop. They were growing seeds in the Rock wool cubes. He told me that the rock wool cubes are natural material & pH neutral. They won’t add nutrients in the first place, but as the seeds starting to sprout, they will add the nutrients little by little.

🥶 Mold, bugs and Wheatgrass

Very distressing to see bugs and mold growing again and again on the plants, so I did some research. (back to diary)

• “Young sprouts produce fuzzy root hairs which have an almost similar appearance to mold. ” | link
  • I was like - OOPS!! after reading this. But since the wheatgrass is giving out unpleasant smell, that may not be the root hair
• “It looks like a mould called Rhizopus. The black dots are balls of spores called sporangia that are formed at the end of stalks called sporangiophores.” | link
  • according to this respondent, it might be that the seeds are contaminated already. The respondent suggests processing the seeds with bleach.