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Hi all,

I transplanted some lettuce into my system. Then we have a few days of heavy wind and rain. My lettuce are looking rather flat, see pics. This never used to happen when I had a cover over the system. I have lettuce in soil which are fine. Does the medium bed really need to be covered?

Thanks for input!!

Wet, temp, humidity and transplant shock = sad lettuce.

Lettuce is something I avoid transplanting, it can bolt if you damage the roots. Plus they grow so easily from seed in the media bed. Just sprinkle them around.

I think your lettuce is on it's final days.

If it is only just transplanted and the roots are down to the wet area it should recover. Mind you if you planted it at the start of a hot day it might not go so well. That blue metal gets awfully hot.

My lettuce I got from a hardware shop starting with a B, they have been rained on blown buy 120km winds, alls good, did you use sea sol on them? And are you running with fish? Plants wont grow on water alone,

Hi All,

Problem solved! The syphon wasn't working properly and the water level was staying very low. So when I put the lettuce in, the roots wernt connect to the water and the plants dried out and died. I fixed the syphon and added a shade cover to prevent the blue metal from gettuing too hot and it appears to have solved my lettuce woes! The new round of lettuce is fine and growing

I also added a cup of seasol.

Thanks thanks!