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| Author: | sustainableme [ Oct 16th, '14, 09:34 ] | ||
| Post subject: | Lettuce woes | ||
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!! 
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| Author: | Charlie [ Oct 16th, '14, 17:41 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lettuce woes |
Wet, temp, humidity and transplant shock = sad lettuce. |
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| Author: | Colum Black-Byron [ Oct 16th, '14, 18:04 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lettuce woes |
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. |
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| Author: | Stuart Chignell [ Oct 16th, '14, 18:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lettuce woes |
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. |
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| Author: | Blizzard [ Oct 16th, '14, 18:14 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lettuce woes |
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, 
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| Author: | sustainableme [ Oct 22nd, '14, 10:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lettuce woes |
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! |
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