Day 25: Experimenting

Most of the lettuce is still doing pretty well.

Salad Bowl

Butterhead

One of the rafts is not doing well at all. 

I suspect feline interference. Though it's not fair to blame it completely on the cats, though - I really don't think it was getting enough light.  I'll be going to get more lights tomorrow afternoon.

The other raft is doing ok. 

Look at those lovely roots!

I am experimenting with a new idea just to see what happens.

I bought 6 of these a while ago at Stein's because they were on sale.  I thought they might come in handy.

 So, I thought I would give them a spin.  I filled them with gravel and put a plant in each.  This should help keep the weight down, but still allow for growing in gravel media.  That's what I'm going with, anyway.  

The basil is starting to give it a go as well.

Day 21: Status Report

I still don't have an air supply set up in my system.  This is probably not a particularly good thing.  Even still, the lettuce is doing pretty well.

This is the "Salad Bowl" variety:

And the "Butterhead" variety:

Maybe it's just the fact that they are single plants, but the plants in the rafts don't seem to be doing as well.

Butterhead variety

Salad Bowl variety

I think the raft plants will probably benefit from an added air supply.  I'm hoping to get something fixed up early this coming week.

This is an individual Butterhead variety plant in gravel, for comparison.

This Salad Bowl variety plant in the raft is doing pretty well.  About half of them look like this and half are smaller.