Kevin Espiritu

They're not photosynthesizing.

So the roots are breathing.

So the roots actually need oxygen.

Otherwise, they'll simply drown in the water.

You can drown them in soil.

You can drown them in hydroponics.

And then, of course, the plant needs nutrients, which would have been in the soil.

So you have to add these synthetic nutrients in a hydroponic environment.

And so the roots, like in a hydroponic environment, you open that, that five gallon bucket up and you just see these perfect white roots kind of sprawling out in an almost unnatural way.

Cause they're not fighting against anything.

They're not kind of crawling through the soil and they look, they look amazing.

Like there's a whole thing in hydroponics of like showing, showing your roots and like the people will show pictures of them, all this kind of stuff.

Yeah, totally.

Yeah.

And, but, but the crazy part is it grows, plants grown hydroponically tend to grow faster and,

And they tend to have roughly the same kind of macronutrient profile like when you were if you were to eat that food.

But the flavor is kind of up for debate.

I think to me, at least the flavor does feel like a little bit flatter.

And yeah, in aeroponics, I messed around with this, I would say, a little bit back in the early days of starting Epic Gardening.

The whole logic behind the aeroponic method is, well, the plant roots don't really need to be bathed in water.