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Is anyone growing salad all year round in a gloomy spare room?
Seen these things with a light and an abundance of salad.
Do these things work and do the guzzle electricity?
Would be an ideal gift for Mrs Zip.
"Salad" you say? 🤔 😉Â
I heard a story (from a relative who knows these people) about a gang from a nearby town, going around with a FLIR camera, looking for heat signatures. Then booting the doors in and taking the crop - probably not salad, but the heat signature doesn't tell you that bit
I fancy one of these, they are low powered , about 10 watt, and generate **** all heat so nobodys kicking my door in for my basil stash.
I'd probably get a better light going to a specialist grow shop and getting a propagation light for less money, but the internet ones do look trendier on the windowsill and are hydroponic
yer i quite fancy one of the fancy modern style setups, bit decorative. Either for window sill or something that looks good in the lounge...as well as being useful... But... finding something not mentally expensive and enclosed... because cats...
Pfffft. Amateurs. What you want is all year round salad and herbs FRESH in your supermarket.
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Salad eh... wink wink. You'll be asking about desk fans next, in winter....
Is anyone growing salad all year round in a gloomy spare room?
Seen these things with a light and an abundance of salad.
Do these things work and do the guzzle electricity?
Would be an ideal gift for Mrs Zip.
A surprising amount of salad is hardy. You can grow decent leaves pretty much year round of you have space outside for a cold frame.
Many years ago I was given a hydroponics set-up (excluding lamps) and used it in my greenhouse to grow tomatoes with some success, but it required testing and tweaking the growth fluid and I gave up after a couple of years. I got the growth chemicals from the local hydroponics shop and I was probably their only customer who wasn't growing weed. They were very helpful though, so worth seeing if there's one near you.
Do you get any sort of half-decent flavour out of hydroponic salad or veg? My impression is that hydroponic tomatoes, for instance, are red, but otherwise pretty unremarkable. Water and chemicals doesn't sound like a great way to be feeding yourself.
I'm accepting that stuff grown in soil in a field gets treated with assorted chemicals for various reasons too, and also extracts minerals from the chem compounds in soil, so it's admittedly a thin argument.
Don't you get your lights from A Porsche Cayenne and the power from a lamppost?Â