About 3 months ago I grew a bunch of ensete ventricosums from seed. After having right around 56 germinate a few interesting characters from the hydpronic plant shop near my house talked me into trying to grow them hydroponically. After showing me how to make my own bubbler and me buying some nutrients that are high in potash I tried it on 3 of my EV's. So far the results have been really great and the plants have been growing fast. I wanted to post some pics and share with you guys. I also made a bubble bucket for a super dwarf cavendish that I have and I bought a drip bucket from the hydroponic shop here for a basjoo.
The plant on the left in the cup germinated a little over a week before the ones in the bubbler.
Same pic as before different angle
Roots have grown pretty vigorously in this system. Same plants from last 2 pics
Decided to expand a little and made a 6 system bubbler and threw 6 more young seedlings that had 2 leaves on them. One died after a week so I'm down to 5 on this one. The plant on the right is a super dwarf cavendish in a bubble bucket which is the same concept.
Inside the reservoie of the 6 plant system I built.
This is a basjoo I have in a drip system. Its growing about as fast as my potted basjoo but hopefully that will change when I up the nutrients.
Anyway just wanted to share what I've been doing with my little guys. I was surprised at how cheap and easy it is to make these little bubble systems. The drip system was a little costly but its working really well. At a minimun although I've never smoked a dooby in my life if congress ever legalizes pot hopefully I'll have the skills to the pay bills
. A special thanks to the pot heads at the hydroponic shop.