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Hi all, I will be really interested to know how much do you pay for an hydroponic lettuce in Europe

(the clean and really nice one, they also cost more than soil lettuce)

And if they are sold with ou without roots ? In box ? bags ?

I'd love to do a road trip to check out by myself, unhappilly I got trout to feed...

I know there is a large operation in belgium producing them,

but we do not have HP lettuce in France

(one tried years ago on large scale ...and things went really bad for him - sick story)

Thank you for the information

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No idea about Europe... or anywhere else, but in Sydney, Australia, they could be the more common in some stores, complete with roots..

Do you have a fish pond ... could you add a simple pump and flooded tube with net baskets and just grow your own..

I have a small KOI pond and added constant flood tube HP system, thus converting it to AP...
I am waiting to get more baskets (can't find the right size) and will start growing Coz...
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Hi
Three local supermarkets within 3 km. Open 12hrs/day 7 days per week.
Twice weekly local market.
Avge price per ‘ pack’ of lettuce ( salad greens) £1

Cos/ Romaine 2 in pack
Iceberg 1
Little Gem 3
Lolo Rosso 1
Lettuce head 1
Lambs Lettuce (bag)

Mixed bag
Rocket
Rocket/watercress £1.50
Caesar; romaine plus crutons plus parmesan cheese plus dressing £1.50
Indian plus Coriander
Etc etc
Baby spinach/rocket and lambs lettuce is my favorite.
However a little gem cut length ways and quartered with a good quality olive oil, anchovies and a few shavings of Parmesan makes a good starter.
No quibble money back if not happy guarantee.
Lettuce is a tough market!
Titus

This is all stuff you need to know before even thinking about a commercial setup. Selling all the produce can be even harder than growing it in the first place.

Supermarkets have contacts to just buy it off certain suppliers who are producing hundreds of thousands of heads of lettuce per week/days. You can't under cut these people on price because of the quantity they put out.

But to answer your questions, Google a large supermarket in Europe, go to their website, and their online shopping area and have a look, there will be photos and prices.

Thanks titus

Yes I know since a long time I can't fight with really large scall growers, unless going really big too. And hopping for no new cost cutting technology to become available during at least 3 to 5 years... so even that seems a bad plan

But I may not have to fight against them, quality on small farm can be better, local can get a premium price, so will pesticide free and aquaponics "story" may help.

I'm looking at 5000 lettuce a week, not 5 000 000, so if I can get local supermarket, Good restaurants and "bio shop",
It may do the trick - If not, then their is other options.

All I needed was a good product to stop hearing things that
but I don't pay for lettuce..." or 'good lettuce ? what is a good lettuce ? my grand mother do great lettuce..."

Mummy can go back to apple pie now, (except mummy got an AP setup and serious HP knowledge)

Still I need to know theire price...

Unhappily google won't help much

Pictures are always nice, product are not
Sometime I got the "from where", from belgia they are really nice, from spain they are horrible... but price is half
Sometime I got the weight, offen not... (except for bag... but I will never bag my really good looking lettuce)

In anyway I can know if they are from hydroponic or soil... except by looking at them directly...
From soil it's 330g but you have to throw half
Hydroponic is usualy 160g but you can eat all...

There is not with "roots" in Europe - that would have helped

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5000 a week - that is a massive ask..

I do wish you the best of luck..
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Not sure on the scale , but that sounds like 6000 sq ft of raft area holding about 15,000 plants staggered for weekly harvest. At 48 per 4 x 8' board, your looking at 313 sheets, 2504 linear feet of DWC. Pretty impressive system.

No 5000 lettuce a week is nothing, (yes it's not for direct selling to local market...)

Big hydroponic operation are in the 20 to 50 K sq meter greenhouses...

So something like 200 000 lettuce a week, for the small one...

Yes coachchris it's something like that.