Thanks for the recommendations! Reducing the liquid level and increasing the nutrient concentration are make sense as the plants are getting started and developing roots.
It’s been fun to see caladium bulbs growing successfully, when it’s one of many plants that people say “do not like wet soil,” so yeah what about no soil lol.
I found a bunch of your helpful pictures and posts, as well as a few good sounding Lemmy communities to join thanks to you. Are all of those pictures of your plants really all hydro? Wow! Other than a few YouTube videos, I’ve been reading University of Minnesota’s “small-scale hydroponics” guide. Any other good websites, books, or guides I should look to for inspiration?
Guenther_Amanita@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Be careful. A nutrient burn is way more harmful than a deficiency.
Water isn’t the problem, it’s the anaerobic conditions that lead to root rot
Yeah, the only exception is my one Drosera, which lives in the peat mix I bought it in (can’t survive in most other media) and a few of my balcony plants, mainly my blackberry (annual) and some pollinator flower mixes that live as weeds.
All other ones, houseplants (including calatheas and some carnivorous plants!) and balcony crops (cannabis, melons, chilli, etc.) are in hydro.
Here, for example, my Tradescantia (because it was a main subject of your post) and Nepenthes
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