Note: Currently working on a video of this how-to. Should be up in a few days. If you search for “raspberry pi ph meter” you’ll quickly learn that there are very few affordable options when it comes to digitally monitoring the pH of your nutrient solution. For a while Atlas Scientific dominated the search results, but I believe their kit was around $200 at the time. The kit has since come down to $164, but…
This is my 5th or 6th lettuce grow using hydroponic methods. I haven’t done an nutrient film technique (NFT) as of yet, but I just built simple system that you can read about in my post a quick and sloppy NFT system from PVC. Captains Log October 3, 2019 I started with the standard procedure of soaking eight rockwool cubes in distilled water at 5.5 pH using pH Down. I sowed about 3-4 crisp mint…
I love peppers. As a matter of fact, I love just about anything spicy. After successfully growing lettuce in a hydroponic system, I figured the next logical step was to grow some peppers. For my first attempt at growing hydroponic jalapeno I bought some random jalapeno seeds on Amazon[1]. I did not do a very good job of documenting the data around this particular grow, but I did take a lot of sub-par cellphone photos…
I had planned to have my lettuce operation up and running after my recent move… in July, but I was side tracked with summer, vacation and plagued with illness. My 3D printer isn’t setup and I can’t continue on with the weird sizing 2-3/8″ square downspout I was planning to start seedlings in until I can get the printer up and running as there are no ready to purchase end caps that fit such a…