Episode 109: Passive Hydroponics 2.0 and the LECA VS PON Debate

Growing Joy with Plants - Wellness Rooted in Nature, Houseplants, Gardening and Plant Care

Maria Failla- Happy Plant Lady and Author of Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness

Education, Wellness, Gardening, Leisure, Eco Therapy, Nature Therapy, Self Care, Health & Fitness, Houseplants, How To, Home & Garden, Mental Health, Plants

4.8 • 912 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Kay from @inrootedlove joins me a year after her Passive Hydro 101 episode to follow up on a year of passive hydro life, troubleshooting and discussing the differences between PON and LECA.

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0:00.0	Plant Friends, I am so excited to welcome back Kay from Enrooted Love for a next-level conversation on the soil-free,
0:08.0	semi or passive hydroponic lifestyle. You might remember Kay back from episode 77, our intro to Semier
0:15.2	passive hydroponics, and now a year has passed since that interview and
0:18.6	our community has been experimenting with this style of growing. So Kay joins me
0:22.3	again a year later to discuss what a year of
0:25.0	semi-hydro has looked like for me and our community diving way deeper into the concepts
0:29.7	and answering listener questions. So for those of you that don't know, passive
0:33.5	hydroponics is a method for keeping plants not in soil but in LECA or
0:39.2	PON lechusa which is PON lechusa which which is P-O-N-L-Chusa, which are inorganic substrates, and managing their nutrients
0:46.1	yourself instead of using potting mick.
0:48.5	It's a kind of culty plant-parent lifestyle that many people swear by.
0:52.1	I initially was not sold on it
0:54.1	measuring the lecca and the nutrients was not appealing but after our
0:57.8	conversations with K I started experimenting with it and I'm totally sold and have a bunch of my plants in
1:04.0	semi-hydro now. It's been a really fun way to continue experimenting as I bloom and grow.
1:08.0	So if you don't know anything about this lifestyle I would highly suggest going back and
1:12.0	listening to episode 77 first and if you're
1:14.7	ready to dive in let's get in our plant groove and get after it.
1:18.4	Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do
1:21.8	do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do
1:26.5	here we are episode 109 of
1:30.5	blue mango radio okay plant friends I'm Blue Lango Radio.
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