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

What to Do Once Your Wasabi Plants Starts Arrive - Wasabi 101 Episode 2
You purchased wasabi plants from Oregon Coast Wasabi, and they just arrived! Now what do you with them?
During this instructive video Jennifer gives you all of the info you need!
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[@kyyurtman1416]

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

[@BlackJesus8463]

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

[@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.

[@priscillan9009]

I wish you zoomed in closer to the plant 😢

[@jamesmelendez6851]

rhizome size matters...

[@jerriobial6312]

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

[@luigikelty2847]

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