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I feel a little bit dumb right now, because I bought almost 200 liters of LECA this year for my balcony, just to find out that half of that may have worked out just as well...

The video covers growing root vegetables (potatoes, ginger, etc.) in particular, because they seem to not grow that well in substrate-less techniques like the suspended pot method.
Substrate is expensive, and you can cut a lot of it out by just using a cache pot or whatever inside the actual pot, and they don't seem to mind at all about that!

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[โ€“] UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hydro potatoes? Wish i would have seen that before i managed to plant all of them, far to many Potatoes this year...

[โ€“] Guenther_Amanita@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I originally didn't plan that, but then I saw my supermarket potatoes I forgot in the drawer sprouting and thought to myself "Hmm, why not?" and then decided to just burry them instead of throwing them away.

Maybe, I'll graft one of my pepino on them, since they're in the same family and should be compatible ๐Ÿคท

[โ€“] Shawdow194@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] cybervseas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
  1. That's a beautiful pot for the potatoes! Where did you get it?
  2. You normally semi hydro and lift and swish and pour out water right? I feel like potatoes plus LECA will be too heavy to safely do that for me without getting LECA everywhere. How do you do that for bigger pots/heavier plants?