Kevin Espiritu

No one's taking my citrus, baby.

No, I mean, I think that-

You know, when I started gardening, I didn't even have the 15 by 30 spot that I was telling you guys about.

I was living in a condo townhouse with a north-facing balcony.

There was no light whatsoever.

I mean, I really didn't even have much of a balcony to get light.

And so I was Googling around back then.

This was like maybe 13 years ago.

I was like, well, how do you grow plants without light from the sun?

And the answer was hydroponics.

And I, being like a kid who grew up with...

an obsession of like growing crystals and all sorts of different science things.

I was like, okay, let's go ahead and do it.

And so I did it with my brother and I got a five gallon bucket, filled that bucket with water.

I put something called an air stone in, kind of like the thing you'd see in an aquarium that's oxygenating the water.

I put some nutrients in that water and I put a grow light on top of it and I grew probably the world's worst tasting cucumbers of all time.

And I fed them to my brother and he said he almost threw up, but I got hooked on that aspect of like,

watching a plant grow and cultivating it.

I think yes and no.

I think if you go to hydroponics and aeroponics, those first two, hydro, of course, meaning water, aero meaning air, ponics coming from a ponos, which means work.