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Inside Lettuce Grow: Zooey Deschanel’s Stylish Home Hydroponics · Hydroponics Daily

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  Hello there, welcome back to
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  Hydroponics Daily, your go-to podcast for everything soilless cultivation.
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  I am your host, Dr. Russell Sharp, the founder of Eutrema Ltd.
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  We make interesting fertilisers, novel biostimulants and organic biopesticides.
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  And I've talked in the past about aeroponics and a company called Lettuce Grow,
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  British company, but there is also a company called Lettuce Grow, as in the crop,
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  and confusingly, and so a
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  bit of confusion there because they both work in hydroponics and today
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  I'm going to talk about Lettuce Grow which is a company founded in 2019 and
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  they make the sort of home kitchen scale hydroponic stands and kits that you
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  would use in a small garden, a flat, in a kitchen,
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  something like that and you'll see examples of these popping up on Facebook
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  if you use Facebook or Instagram or any other sort of social media.
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  Mark Zuckerberg has got all my data, so he knows I'm interested in hydroponics.
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  And so I get these small scale stands popping up from different companies that
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  range from very, very cheap, sold on Amazon, or to crazy expensive for what they are.
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  For some of them they are just a reservoir of fertigation
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  solution and the plants are held above that
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  in some sort of growing media like cocoa or lecker and then there's a cheap
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  and nasty LED light hung above them in a sort of unit that may look nice and
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  stylish or may look trashy and crap and sort of system that we saw in Ikea as
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  well when they tried hydroponics as well.
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  No recirculatory pump no aeroponics
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  no filters no reservoir
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  tanks so very very basic almost like a cracky type method if you don't know
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  what cracky is go back and check the episode just on that well the lettuce grow
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  are a bit different they have um a lot more stylish designs and they have,
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  multi-layered hydroponic units in kitchens
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  and freestanding as well so these are
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  these can be put next to say a peninsula in your
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  kitchen the reason i thought it interesting though is because the company was
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  actually founded by zoe de chanel or zoe de chanel do i pronounce her name from
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  the what was she in which is in this girl that girl let me check Here we go.
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  Let's Google Zooey Deschanel. What's she famous for? She was almost famous.
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  What does she say about Wikipedia? What's she famous for?
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  Another good girl no new girl that was a new girl she's
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  famous for new girl and with her producer husband
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  i think or partner they created lettuce grow and
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  she's been in architectural digest which is a big stylish
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  publication if you ever go on architectural architectural
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  digest on youtube all the stylish
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  celebrities give tools of their what's supposed to
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  be their houses but often they're not their houses they've been
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  paid to show you around somebody's interior designed
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  house but it is very very aspirational and
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  lettuce grow sort of feeds into that this is these are units that you if you
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  were designing a house you may consider for your very very stylish house so
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  they have what they call the farm stand which is their original unit and they've
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  got pictures of it showing a whole range of different crops growing all at once.
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  They have a counter stand set which are very very basic sort of cracky method type jars.
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  Dark jars are assumed to minimize algal growth.
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  And yeah, what else do they sell on LettuceGrow.com? Well, it looks like they
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  also sell the seedlings and a lot of the plants are added in sort of chiffy plugs as well.
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  It looks like it's an NFT system where there's a pump that puts the fertigation
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  solution to the top of the tower and it sort of circulates down into a reservoir.
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  So not the most basic type you can get.
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  So probably get some good yields
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  on it. You can get accessories like extra lights and things like this.
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  The fertilizer doesn't appear to be an A and a B fertilizer.
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  So, oh yeah, there is an A and a B, but there is also a one part.
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  So it's not liquid, it's not gold leaf, which will be in the US.
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  So you might get some calcium deficiencies.
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  Yeah, they do an A and a B fertilizer.
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  So, and they do plant protection kits and they do dollies so you can move the
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  unit around, the spare pumps.
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  And what else do we do? So yeah, Farmstand Nutrients, let's have a look,
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  see what they've got. Part A and Part B.
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  Website's a bit slow. Yeah, so Part A, 5, 12, 26.
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  So it looks like it's a granular Part A and Part P.
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  And yeah, what price are they? So they're $20.00.
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  $34 for two packets that look to be about half a kilo each, so not too bad.
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  And it's in their styling as well, they're from Jack's Nutrients.
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  So yeah, it's not a bad design. Some of the systems, if you weren't into hydroponics
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  and you wanted to get into it, then yeah, I think it's a good one.
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  And then it's backed by some celebrities, so you've got something to talk about.
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  And yeah, check it out, Lettuce Grow, two words.
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  Celebrity backed and started in
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  2019 and still going strong so
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  for hydroponics company in direct to consumer that's
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  pretty good going so i commend lettuce
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  grow for their achievements in the small scale
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  hydroponic home setup market that's been
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