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How to: Hydroponic Salvia

#6374918 - 12/15/06 06:21 PM (19 years, 9 months ago)

Hydroponics sound like a very technical/pricey adventure to embark on. Yes, its true, it can be very demanding, but what you reap will be worth it in the end.

Salvia Divinorum is a plant that responds very well to a hydroponic home.

There are many systems you can build to start off.

It can be as simple as a soda bottle, and a couple bucks invested, to a multi-site nutrient flow system. The only limitations you have is the space and time you plan to invest into maintaining and caring for the plants.

Mine are grown in an ebb and flow system:

These are the kind of results you can expect from a hydroponic salvia set up(CLICK FOR ANIMATED GIF):

The images were 2 days apart. FAST GROWTH!

Lets start off by building a cheap DWC (Deep Water Culture) system.

You will need the following:

2-liter soda bottle
Ruler
Sharpie or other tool that will write on plastic
Aquarium air pump
Air stone
Scissors or Razor
Drill or Awl
Vinyl tubing (the kind used in fish tanks)
All purpose plant food
Planting media (perlite, lava rocks, gravel, etc.)
Water
Duct Tape

The first thing you want to do is clean out the soda bottle, fill it up with warm water, put the cap on it and shake it around (warm water helps dissolve the sticky mess on the inside) and pour out the water.

Measure 13 cm from the bottom of the bottle to the top, and make a circle around the bottle, this is where you are going to cut the bottle.

PLEASE EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN WORKING WITH SHARP OBJECTS.

After you have cut the bottle, you are going to make 4 holes on the bottle cap, do this with your drill or awl, you can make more holes if you wish, but make sure they are small enough so your planting media wont fall through.
Screw your lid back on the bottle.

Thats it! You have done the hardest part of this project so far.

The bottom half is going to be your reservoir, the top will be the "pot" for your plant.

Take a moment to try and make the bottom light proof, you don't want algae to be growing in your reservoir. You can wrap the bottle with paper, or duct tape, or aluminum foil, WHAT EVER to stop light from coming in.

Put in your airstone and tubing into the reservoir and close it off with the top of the bottle.

Prepare the nutrient solution, here you can add regular plant fertilizer or your hydroponic nutrient of choice.

Add enough so that the first inch and a half of the top part of the bottle is under water.

Now you are going to prepare your planting media, if you have lava rocks make sure you wash them first, they carry a bunch of red dust on them, if you are going to use perlite, do the same it carries dust which can be harmful if inhaled. Fill the top half of your bottle with your media of choice.

Now add your plant to the media and thats it!
Here is my friends plant, donated to show how the final product looks.

Salvia is a plant that grows naturally in a dense forest, where light doesn't usually reach the plant with much intensity. So it is suggested to keep her away from direct sunlight. Near a window that gets diffuse sunlight is fine.
Salvia grows very well under fluorescent fixtures. I have mine under a cool white bulb and a "grow" light, which is designed for plant growth. My plants have responded very well to 12 hours of light a day. You can go for 24 hours of light, but I have noticed that the plants do better when they have a dark cycle, which allows them to complete the cycle of photosynthesis.

You will have to change the water in your reservoir every few weeks, as the plant grows, it starts to exhaust the nutrient supply.

Also be sure to check water level every couple days, making sure it is not to low and is limiting the plants access to water, and top it off as needed.

The purpose of the air stone is to oxygenate the water, this provides oxygen to the roots, which is ESSENTIAL for healthy plant growth, otherwise you would drown the plant.

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Edited by g0pher (12/15/06 08:14 PM)

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