Vegetable Restarts

We've trying to re-root vegetables.  Below you'll see pictures of 4 different plants.  I cut and started the 2 celery plants and 1 Chinese Napa cabbage plants a week ago Friday.  The romaine lettuce we put in water day before yesterday.

Napa Cabbage:

There are no roots showing, yet.  The cabbage is growing from the center out.  We got this organic Chinese Napa cabbage from our neighbor Jacque's CSA box of produce a week ago Thursday.  We cut the cabbage to add to a salad and put the root directly into the glass of water.  Every day I add a little bit of fresh water, to give it oxygen.  Once this plant roots, I'll put it in a Kratky pot.  (This is an off-grid hydroponic growing system.)

There are two celery plants below.  The one on the left is organic.  We grew it in our garden. It was woody and dry.  The celery on the right was from the grocery store.  It was juicy and we enjoyed it.  They were cut and put in the glasses on the same day as the napa cabbage:

Organic, woody celery

Store bought celery.

As you can see, the store bought celery isn't as tall as the woody dry organic celery.  I don't know what the difference is in the plants, but they are even growing different right from the start, even though they've been treated the same.

Below is the romane lettuce that we purchased at Winco.  We cut the greens off and put the bottom of the plant directly into a glass of water.  As you can see, I left too much foliage on the plant.  The leaves in back have lost their turgidity. 

 Back of the plant.  You can see a little growth at the very center on top.

                Front of the plant

Closer look at dying leaves

I need to put vitamin B12 on the bottoms of the plants, so they can root properly.

The vegetables above will go into a kratky hydroponic pot to regrow for salad in the future.  We will also grow other plants, including kale,  Swiss chard, tomatoes and other greens. Ginger, turmeric, New Zealand spinach, parsley & horseradish are growing in dirt filled pots already.

We have peppers, tomatoes, kale, purslane, borage, New Zealand spinach, black salsify, beets, turnips and other vegetables growing in our greenhouse out back.