Edit: This is not sponsored and is not supposed to be an ad, I just wanted to try growing succulents hydroponically and wanted to share the results since I thought it was a cool experiment that you don’t see often on the subreddit.
I’ve seen a few posts of succulents in hydroponic systems, but most of them were from years ago. I thought I’d give it a try, and it seems like they’re happy!
My thought process:
-Air gap between roots and water allow for plenty of airflow (no root rot)
-Grow light provides plenty of energy for the water they absorb (prevents cell bursting, I think/hope)
I’m not sure what the two plants on the right/one on the bottom left are, so if anybody knows please leave a comment!
by Jarmas087
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Whatttt? They grow so fast??
I mean, hard to get around the fact that I could fit another ten plants in that much shelf space! lol
Having a weird rice cooker/rumba/toilet looking appliance involved would ruin everything I appreciate about keeping succulents.
Sorry I don’t know much about this contraption, is it hydroponic?
Root rot occurs when bad bacteria gets into wounds on the roots. That being said when grown hydroponically succulents grow a different type of root that is more suitable for growing in water. In many cases once these will be move to proper soil these roots die off and the plants needs to grow new roots again.
Another thing is that you need to constantly renew/replace the water and also need to add nutritions which would already be present in the soil into the water for the plants to grow healthily.
For me personally when I tried it, it was just not worth the effort. As someone else said, it also takes too much space for little benefit.