Eight hours before the storm was scheduled to hit my area, I decided lop off my lemongrass with the idea that mmaybe this will help prevent it from winding up in orbit when the 100mpr winds touched it. Okay, so no storm and no wild west action just out side my back door however, upon checking on them not 24 hours after I had cut them, this is what I found. They had shot up a minimum of one inch and in some cases close to 1 1/2 inches. I was amazed. Prior to assembling this little grow rig, I learned about the soil requirements for lemongrass, of which one component is magnesium. From Home Depot I picked up the following: (50/50 compost/manure mix), potting soil, slow release all purpose fertilizer which contains magnesium, perlite so the soil would stay loose and I added about 2 cups of Epsom salt to each bucket to boost the magnesium levels which lemongrass (citrus family) really like. Each bucket started out with only 3 stalks of lemongrass that I picked up at a local Asian market, rooted them in Mason jars and water in the direct sun at the end of my driveway, which took about 2 weeks.

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–heinz