Grow It Yourself - Lettuce | Farm To Table - video Dailymotion

Aired (June 16, 2024): The agriculturists at Bukid Amara show that the Lettuce plant can grow with or without soil, and here is how to do it!

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00:00For explorers, do you know that lettuce can grow on land or not?

00:09We will return to Bukid Amara where their agriculturists will show us the different techniques in planting lettuce.

00:18So next time, you can grow it yourself.

00:23Now, I will teach you how we plant lettuce.

00:26First, let's put the growing media in the seedling tray.

00:41So this is the media that we soaked in the fungicide.

00:46So now, we will plant lettuce.

00:48You will see that the lettuce seeds are round because this is pelleted.

00:56So let's just put the label, the variety, and when it was planted.

01:09This table already has water and fungicide.

01:12Let's just wait for it to get wet to the top.

01:19When your lettuce plant is ready, it's time to transfer it to the hydropods.

01:24You can imitate the deep water culture system of Bukid Amara using Styrofoam and a big basin of water.

01:34After 14 days, our lettuce seedlings should be transferred to our hydropods with competing media.

01:40Now, I will put it in our high-density Styrofoam in our deep water culture system.

01:47This is our high-density Styrofoam.

01:50Unlike the normal Styrofoam, which is white in color, it absorbs water, so it dries up quickly.

01:56This one does not.

01:57So it also cleanses faster.

02:01In this deep water culture system, the Styrofoam is just floating and the roots are submerged.

02:08According to Dilay, this is a good technique for planting lettuce.

02:13In addition, there is another hydroponic system that Bukid Amara uses for their highland lettuce variety.

02:20This is the NFT or nutrient-firm technique.

02:24This uses a channel or gutter.

02:29This is ideal for highlands.

02:32Just a reminder to Dilay and Bien, make sure you water your lettuce properly.

02:39Just a reminder to Dilay and Bien, make sure you water your lettuce properly.

02:45Because it dries up quickly under the sun.

02:48As for Bukid Amara, they use a mechanism against the hot weather.

02:54In terms of sunlight, we cannot avoid the hot temperature where the sun is hot.

02:59Now, we are using a silver shed net where the cool temperature is maintained, but the sunlight still comes in.

03:13Even if you have harvested the lettuce, you can still make it live longer using hydroponics.

03:19The beauty of our leavened lettuce in the carrying tree, if you compare it to the market, it has no roots.

03:25Now, in the carrying tree, you can put water.

03:28If you want it to last for 1 to 2 weeks, you can just remove the leaves that you want to get, the big ones.

03:34Now, what will remain in the middle of the leaf will grow after 1 to 2 weeks.

03:55Thank you for watching!