What is the most economic microgreen setup?

OneHitDone

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JorgeGonzales said:
June bearing usually take a season to really take off, in my limited experience outdoors. Maybe too much nitrogren, especially with lots of vegetative growth and no fruit? Day neutral might be worth a shot?
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Don't get me wrong, there's lot's of fruit but not really a $ making scale for the time/space
It would be very costly to run them under lights for 2 seasons to get a crop I would think.
I had seen something talking about popping your june bearers in the fridge for 2 weeks to reset them?
 
OLD MOTHER SATIVA

OLD MOTHER SATIVA

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one hit..

they are doing pretty dang good..as good as the led bars which have higher watts

what i like is 20 w per tube seems to do good so its looking like ..120-160 w per 4 x4 to get good salad

our test is not totally done but pretty much..they are the best $/w i have seen ..self powered etc

and there may be betterbones out there..122lm/w i think
 
OneHitDone

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OLD MOTHER SATIVA said:
one hit..

they are doing pretty dang good..as good as the led bars which have higher watts

what i like is 20 w per tube seems to do good so its looking like ..120-160 w per 4 x4 to get good salad

our test is not totally done but pretty much..they are the best $/w i have seen ..self powered etc

and there may be betterbones out there..122lm/w i think
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So your only growing to the micro stage, not full sized heads?
 
OLD MOTHER SATIVA

OLD MOTHER SATIVA

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no ..not micro..or nt much..and not heads..kale ..and exclusive salad greens that high end restaurants want..the leaves are plucked every week..last week it was Chard
 
OLD MOTHER SATIVA

OLD MOTHER SATIVA

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yes i like em in green drinks ..i am not sure what chard it is..the first kind he grew was not the right kind for the restaurant..

we hope to get a good swath of high end salad seeds form some online company
 
JorgeGonzales

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OLD MOTHER SATIVA said:
yes i like em in green drinks ..i am not sure what chard it is..the first kind he grew was not the right kind for the restaurant..

we hope to get a good swath of high end salad seeds form some online company
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It has the same wild ancestor as the beet, that's about all I know. I like to saute it and make pasta with it, throw it in stuffed pizzas, whatever. Like spinach, only way tastier. I grow it in my garden and it just keeps producing, even July I was picking leaves off in 90+ weather.

How are you growing it? Like lettuce? NFT?
 
OLD MOTHER SATIVA

OLD MOTHER SATIVA

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my brother has aquaponics [trout] ..and they are on floating styrofoam rafts..i lent him my 1hp chiller,,this summer..so far so good
 
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