Introduction to Hydroponics - Growing Your Plants Without Any Soil
Introduction
If you start a discussion on hydroponics with a person who is a keen and an avid gardener, he is going to say in a very blasé tone, “Oh yeah, you are talking about a gardening method which you are not going to use any soil at all. In fact, you are going to be growing your plants in water.”
And he is going to be so right. Hydroponics is that gardening method, in which you are going to grow your plants in lots of water. This gardening method is normally implemented in places where the soil is not fertile enough to sustain plant life. I, being a practical doomsayer, predict that within the next 50 years plants are going to be grown extensively through hydroponics because we will have poisoned all the soil, with our chemicals, by then.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Advantages of Hydroponics
- Nutrients for Healthy Plants
- Macronutrients
- Micronutrients
- The Difference Between Hydroponic Growth and Soil Growth
- Different Growing Mediums
- Hydrocorn And Expanded Clay
- Coconut Coir
- Rice Husks
- Growstones
- Vermiculite and Perlite
- Sand, Brick Shards, and Pumice
- Slivers of Wood
- Wool Products
- Mineral wool aka Rock Wool
- Ordinary Gravel
- Containers and Irrigation
- Static Solution Hydroponic Culture
- Raft Culture Solution
- Continuous Flow System
- The NFT system
- Traditional Bengal System
- Deep Water Culture
- Top Fed Water Culture
- Buying Nutrients?
- Conclusion
- Author Bio
- Publisher
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