The lettuce raft
Posted on May 02, 2008 under Aquaponics, Gardening | No CommentI build a small raft system a while ago and plumbed it into my bedroom aquarium. It didn’t turn out to work too good however. Tomato and lettuce seeds started sprouting after only a few days and seemed to grow quite nicely, but as they got bigger the growing stopped and the plants where looking terrible! I finally found out what’s wrong with my plants: the T5 compact fluorescent lamp I had installed for the plants was not delivering the light that the plants need. The spectrum of my lamp is about as bad as it gets for plants, so I need to find some better lights to start growing lettuce inside.
Since the weather conditions are starting to get better for outside growing, I’m going to build a new system for outside use and upgrade the lighting on my small raft system when the weather gets colder again.
