Well, I cooked up a new experiment to post. I've previously experimented with Kratky Method buckets with so so results when trying to use organics. I decided to try again, using a modified version I'm calling The Sludge Bucket. What I'm doing is using a bucket, this time a 2 gallon I already had used for hydro before. I put in 2 big double handfuls of cooked recycled soil, 2 handfuls of composted cow manure, and about a 1/4 cup of Grow More Organic Soil builder ( I love this stuff!! ). Filled ir to about 2" fro0m the brim. I put 2 different tomato plant cuttings in a 5" net pot and filled it with clay pebbles. One from a VERY healthy plant and one from a plant suffering N etc deficiencies. put them in the bucket and put it in the greenhouse!
Lets see what happens!
With the Kratky method, you don't add anything more, you let the plant(s) consume what’s in the bucket. I'll monitor water usage and I may refresh the bucket at 30 days, depending how the plants are doing, or I may just add a bit of water. the key to this not getting root rot is having an airspace above the nutrient solution for the plant to develop air roots, as it does in aeroponics
Here are pics and we are off on the adventure!
Lets see what happens!
With the Kratky method, you don't add anything more, you let the plant(s) consume what’s in the bucket. I'll monitor water usage and I may refresh the bucket at 30 days, depending how the plants are doing, or I may just add a bit of water. the key to this not getting root rot is having an airspace above the nutrient solution for the plant to develop air roots, as it does in aeroponics
Here are pics and we are off on the adventure!
