hydroponic lettuce

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Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) is a vegetable plants commonly grown in temperate regions and the tropics. The major use is as a salad. World lettuce production estimated at around 3 million tonnes, which is grown on more than 300,000 ha of land. During this time, used as a vegetable leaf lettuce for salads and touted as the king of the salad because the texture is very smooth. Lettuce consumed raw and can be found in a salad or hamburger. The author himself is happy eating lettuce as fresh vegetables to eat chili friend. Lettuce has several variants, but widely known only 5 types only. They are butterhead (Boston), Chinese lettuce, crisphead (Iceberg), looseleaf, Romaine, and Summer Crisp (Batavia). Suitable lettuce grown for lowland - high, oval-shaped leaves curly, color fresh green leaves, harvested 30-40 days after planting, production reached 10 to 15 tonnes / ha. Steps plant hydroponic lettuce is as follows: Make the water tank of the timber, then put a layer of plastic to hold water so as not to leak! Make hydroponic tub cover with Styrofoam (cork) are perforated with a diameter of approximately 5 cm! These holes are later used as a place to put netpot lettuce. So if the lid is placed in the tub styrofoam will look like the following. After sowing lettuce, and already emerging leaves and roots, lettuce put in netpot. Netpot then inserted into the hole styrofoam. 83230