The “Organic Soil vs. Hydroton vs. Higromite” challenge failed for several reasons and it is all my fault.
As you can see, the organic soil is lapping the hydro seedlings. It started to get a touch of interveinal chlorosis, so a shot of CalMag made the soil plant take off. The other two were receiving steady hydro nutrition. The three plants were already getting comparatively uneven fertilization.
Secondly, I went from seeds and not clones. I did not account for the transplant shock into the hydro medium. The worst hit was the Higromite from the larger air space in the medium, although it has the thickest stalk of the three from the added silicon and visible mycorrizae growing on the medium. There were several factors in my non-scientific experiment that caused them to vary in size.
We will try this again when I can get some Bhut Jolokia clones that are evenly sized acclimated to their growing medium.
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Hey, so CVG won by accident
Ragnar, it was pure skill
Can’t discount nature, though definately appreciate the benefits of hydroponics
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