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Post by clumsythumbs on Aug 31, 2019 12:17:10 GMT -5
Interesting! I grew this a few months back, and mine did not look at all like that haha! Maybe it is also the lighting or the photo? Is it that purple in reality? Well, maybe a little less purple and more reddish. After harvesting these leaves there is lots more green in the newer growth.
I don't know what's came over me! I've let these lettuces grow for well over 28 days! I never pruned them at their 2" mark nor did I thin them down either! I must be loosing it. Well, After harvesting this morning, I am now enjoying a morning salad. These are very tasty lettuces. I will grow them again.
Awesome! Yeah, I have never thinned lettuce sprout. Per AGs tips, you are not supposed to. Maybe some do, but generally people do not thin. Yeah, I think mine was purplish tips, and then reddish, and greener toward the root. I remember it being a tasty. I am glad you are enjoying! Did you harvest at the base (whole leaf)? Or do the trimming method some use? |
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Post by thegrindre on Aug 31, 2019 14:35:03 GMT -5
I took off the outside leaves leaving the newer inner growth to develop better allowing more light to get to all the plant. I did a 'haircut' once and didn't like it at all.
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Post by clumsythumbs on Sept 2, 2019 10:33:44 GMT -5
I took off the outside leaves leaving the newer inner growth to develop better allowing more light to get to all the plant. I did a 'haircut' once and didn't like it at all.
I agree. I have used both methods. I prefer the using of outer leaves, but sometimes when you get 9 pods all needing to be harvested just doing a straight line cut across the top of the garden was easier (and more variety). But it "leaves" the edges the brown (I have also used plastic scissors and a plastic knife). In any case these are all tiny "issues". |
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Post by thegrindre on Sept 3, 2019 9:07:46 GMT -5
I've added two pods of Buttercrunch Lettuce seeds where the herbs were. I dropped two itty bitty seeds into two vacant pods and dropped them in the Harvest machine. I wonder if they will sprout.
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Post by thegrindre on Sept 4, 2019 9:08:52 GMT -5
Quick pic for the Buttercrunch.
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Post by thegrindre on Sept 4, 2019 9:11:11 GMT -5
I forgot the lettuces from yesterday. Here's after the first harvest.
Very very good combo, BTW.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2019 11:00:08 GMT -5
I can see some of that on a tuna salad sandwich with some fresh toms out of my garden for lunch today!  |
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Post by thegrindre on Sept 9, 2019 18:08:42 GMT -5
I had the most wonderful salad for lunch today. Three kinds of lettuces, diced up carrot, dices up red onion, sliced up avocado, and dark red kidney beans. Yummy good. That'll be the 2nd harvest on the lettuces. Pix tomorrow. :-)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2019 19:29:37 GMT -5
following and salivating  |
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Post by clumsythumbs on Sept 10, 2019 8:19:44 GMT -5
Sounds delicious! Can't wait for the pics! |
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Post by thegrindre on Sept 10, 2019 9:55:09 GMT -5
Lettuces are on day 42 and have been very delicious so far after 2 harvests. I definitely need to keep lettuce growing at all times, it's so good. I think I'll dedicate one of my Sprouts to that.
And here is the Buttercrunch I planted on the 3rd of September.
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Post by Shawn on Sept 10, 2019 10:05:57 GMT -5
I love fresh lettuce. I need to get some more machines out.
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Post by thegrindre on Sept 17, 2019 7:38:47 GMT -5
Me too.
Grows like a weed! Gotta have me a salad for lunch today.
Gee, day 49 already? Yummy, looks good.
Lookie here! My Buttercrunch is maturing.  I took the 'heat' dome off this morning. |
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Post by clumsythumbs on Sept 17, 2019 8:42:57 GMT -5
Looks great! Yes, they can grow very quickly! I have found once they are 'mature' the more often you can harvest small-ish amounts, the healthier it is. Enjoy a nice salad! |
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Post by thegrindre on Sept 24, 2019 10:12:19 GMT -5
I think this is the 3rd harvest so I better enjoy it.
My little Buttercrunch is coming along too.
I'm looking forward to its harvest.
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Post by thegrindre on Oct 1, 2019 17:44:07 GMT -5
TERMINATED 10/01/19. Except the Buttercrunch. Day 28 for Buttercrunch.
The lettuces have all been added to a bowl and eaten with a smile.  YUM! This poor plant got wet during the R&R this morning. All my machines were cleaned and rinsed today.
(Oh, I moved the Bok Choi into the Harvest BTW opening up another machine for planting.)
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Post by clumsythumbs on Oct 4, 2019 14:14:51 GMT -5
Why did you decide to terminate, thegrindre? Was it not producing anymore? Or just got tired of it? |
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Post by thegrindre on Oct 4, 2019 17:39:14 GMT -5
Because as I 'plucked' all the outside leaves for a salad the plants kept growing taller and taller. They were bending over around the fully extended lighting of the Harvest machine. They didn't bush out, they grew straight up. So I ate them all.  |
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Post by clumsythumbs on Oct 4, 2019 18:29:45 GMT -5
Because as I 'plucked' all the outside leaves for a salad the plants kept growing taller and taller. They were bending over around the fully extended lighting of the Harvest machine. They didn't bush out, they grew straight up. So I ate them all.  Makes sense! Yes, sometimes they get spindly, and some grow more straight up and less bushy. If the leaves are thinning and is spindly stems I think that is a sign it is bolting. |
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Post by thegrindre on Oct 4, 2019 21:34:45 GMT -5
"If the leaves are thinning and is spindly stems I think that is a sign it is bolting." Yes, that is exactly what they did. All three of them.
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I took the 'heat' dome off this morning.
YUM!
