How to Grow With Hydroponics

What is hydroponics

Hydroponics (from the Greek words hydro water and ponos labour) is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions, without soil. Terrestrial plants may be grown with their roots in the mineral nutrient solution only or in an inert medium, such as perlite, gravel, or mineral wool.

When the mineral nutrients in the soil dissolve in water, plant roots are able to absorb them. When the required mineral nutrients are introduced into a plant's water supply artificially, soil is no longer required for the plant to thrive. Almost any terrestrial plant will grow with hydroponics.

Advantages of growing with hydroponics is that the yield of your crop will be higher.

Crop benefits Hydroponic vs Agricultural

Wheat

Hydroponic: 5,000 lb. per acre
Agricultural: 600 lb. per acre

Oat

Hydroponic: 3,000 lb. per acre
Agricultural: 850 lb. per acre

Rice

Hydroponic: 12,000 lb. per acre
Agricultural: 750 - 900 lb. per acre

Potatoes

Hydroponic: 70 tons per acre
Agricultural: 8 tons per acre

Cabbage

Hydroponic: 18,000 lb. per acre
Agricultural: 13,000 lb. per acre

Peas

Hydroponic: 14,000 lb. per acre
Agricultural: 2,000 lb. per acre

Tomatoes

Hydroponic: 180 tons per acre
Agricultural: 5 - 10 tons per acre

Cauliflower

Hydroponic: 30,000 lb. per acre
Agricultural: 10 - 15,000 lb.. per Acre

Salad

Hydroponics: £ 21,000 per hectare
Agriculture: £ 9,000 per acre

Cucumber

Hydroponics: £ 28,000 per hectare
Agriculture: £ 7,000 per acre

How to Grow With Hydroponics

Media

Expanded clay
Rock wool
Coconut
Perlite
Vermiculite
Sand
Gravel
Brick shards


Hydroponic techniques

Aeroponics is the process of growing plants in an air or mist environment without the use of soil or an aggregateMedia.

Ebb and Flow Flood and drain or: a form of hydroponics that the investment was originally known for its simplicity, operational reliability and low, while the advantages of hydroponics. Also called "E & F ', there is a system of vessels of mediation with an inert medium that can not operate as a territory does not contribute to plant nutrition full, but the media anchor the roots and the function of a temporary reserve of water solvent such as mineral salts and hydroponicssolution is alternately flooded and allowed to ebb.
In Top irrigation, nutrient solution is periodically applied to the medium surface. This may be done manually once per day in large containers of some media, such as sand. Usually, it is automated with a pump, timer and drip irrigation tubing to deliver nutrient solution as frequently as 5 to 10 minutes every hour.

Deep water culture: The hydroponic method of plant production by means of suspending the plant roots in a solution of nutrient rich, oxygenated water.

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