Building A Inexpensive Arrangement To Grow Hydroponic Lettuce

In an before post, I talked almost a static hydroponic lettuce organization that needed no aeration or recirculation together with worked past times providing an air infinite betwixt the food solution together with the plants. Today I am going to explicate how to construct this real unproblematic organization from inexpensive materials. These are the things yous volition involve :

- 8 Nails - ii inches (5cm) long
- forty Nails - 1 inch (2.5cm) long
- four wooden boards - 100 x ten x 2cm
- Plastic lining (greenhouse polyethylene) - 1.20m x 1.20m
- Knife
- Styrofoam board - 100 x 100 x ii cm
- Silicon Paste Sealant
- 1/4 gallon white latex paint
- ikon brush

The start affair yous involve to produce is smash the boards together forming a 1 x 1m frame. To produce this I used 8 large Nails.
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After the boards are nailed together (like it is shown above) pigment the exterior using white latex paint. This provides protection for the forest from water, light, bacterial together with fungal damage. Now job the frame alongside the plastic, nailing it on the borders using small-scale nails.
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Your organization should expect similar the ane shown above. After this part, nosotros involve to construct the embrace of the organization that volition concur the lettuce plants. Cut 42 2x2 cm holes on your Styrofoam board inwards a half dozen x vii fashion, keeping a distance of 12 cm betwixt holes. This is shown below.
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Now yous involve to gum this Styrofoam slice on overstep of the frame yous built before. Do this using silicon paste, taking assist to afford a adept seal along the whole structure. This volition preclude lite from reaching the food solution. The holes are agree to adapt 42 plants (but yous may produce less holes if yous wishing to rear less plants) germinated inwards polyurethane foam. Later this calendar week I volition kicking the bucket on to explicate how plants involve to live germinated together with transplanted inwards companionship to piece of work this organization together with how the food solution is used together with replaced. Below, a ikon demonstrate of the finished organization (total terms for me, 25 USD).

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