The First Flower — Lessons from an Aeroponic Tower

 The First Flower

This morning, I noticed the first yellow blooms on my cucumber vine. And boy, it got me pumped.

For over a month now, I’ve been experimenting with an aeroponic tower at home.
Lettuce, coriander, spinach .. and now cucumbers curling their way up.

It’s not easy when everything grows in the same space.
The cucumber kept tangling with other pods, so I had to rearrange the tower and guide it toward a metal railing — its own little trellis of support.

The harvests so far have been modest - a few leaves here, a handful of herbs there - but somehow that’s part of the charm.
You realize you’re not growing food as much as you’re growing patience.

What began as curiosity about hydroponics and water efficiency has quietly become something deeper -
a ritual that resets the mind before the daily storm of cashflows and meetings.

Gardening, whether in soil or mist, teaches you one thing:
you can’t rush growth.
You can only care for it, consistently.

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