What to Do Once Your Wasabi Plants Starts Arrive - Wasabi 101 Episode 2

[@Ylem561]

Trying to go with a kind of Japanese inspired method, my plan is to fill a fabric pot with gravel, put a wire shelf over one of my fish tanks, put the fabric pot on the wire shelf, and use a small pump to circulate water from in the fish tank to up into the fabric pot, creating a constant flow of water from the tank to the pot and back.

[@Ylem561]

Got my starts Saturday, they look great, went with a bit crazier than my above plan, I used a 20 gallon tub and built a nice river scene with about 7 inches of gravel, large rocks on the bottom, fine sand/gravel on the top, and a pump that cycles the water about 10 times an hour. It is a little more complicated than that, with getting the flow from substrate to reservoir correct, but they seem to like it, some of them have a second leaf starting and its only been 4 days.

[@Ylem561]

Update, I have a 40 gallon tank, with seven 2.5 gallon air pots. I have an air line run through the bottom of the air pots and centered, I then filled the pots a little more than half way with rinsed virgo river pebbles and pea pebbles(I only filled halfway since they are starts and I want to add more pebbles as needed). I also have 3 sponge filters in the tank, so that is 10 air lines running into the tank. I keep the water level where I can see bubbles popping up through the pebbles. I can fit 2 starts per air pot. I am using 2 GE Full spectrum 2 ft 40 watt grow lights for 14 hours a day. I have a greenhouse plastic cover on the tank to keep the humidity up. I have a well that I don't use that stays from 52 in the winter and a high of 65 in the summer. I have a pump on a hose run into my house that is plugged in through a smart plug that I can turn on with Alexa, and then i have a transfer pump with hose into the tank where I can pump the water back outside. I use this to do water changes every day or every other day. I am experimenting with using fish tank water as fertilizer, I add in about a quart after the water changes, it has around 20 ppm of nitrate, seems to be going well. I experimented with stronger fertilizer and lost a start, almost lost a second, but I have several years experience with aquatic plants, a lot of them can get rhizome rot, so I approached it the same way, with removing everything infected, and was able to save the second. This is my 5th setup so far, but it's all working, I am getting beautiful new roots and leaves. So in conclusion, if you want to grow it like the Japanese in riverbeds, don't, you need some special circumstances.

[@BlackJesus8463]

That's cool! Are all those plants from suckers or do you do seedlings too?

[@kyyurtman1416]

Is a wasabi propagated from a cutting from a mature rhizome, a leaf, or is it from a seed?

[@priscillan9009]

I wish you zoomed in closer to the plant 😢

[@jerriobial6312]

She said don’t over water it , but the farm in Japan is planted in all over water

[@jamesmelendez6851]

rhizome size matters...

[@luigikelty2847]

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