What is Hydroponics?
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Hydroponics is the art of growing plants using water and nutrients without the need for soil. Most of the time plants are grown with their roots simply growing down into nutrient enriched water. However, some plants need a little support so instead of the roots being left in water alone a non-soil component such as coconut husk, gravel or perlite is provided into which the plants roots grow and spread. In hydroponics these soil substitutes are called growing mediums.
Virtually any plant can be grown using hydroponics, because the plant only needs nutrients and water to grow. In nature soil merely acts as a sponge that holds or suspends nutrients within its structure. Plants do not need the soil itself to grow just the nutrients suspended within it.
Hydroponics Produces Healthy Plants
Using hydroponics all of the plants being grown can be fed whatever you want to give them whenever you want to give it to them. Meaning it is possible to exactly meet the plants needs at any point. Provided you feed the plants correctly throughout the growing process you can produce totally healthy plants 100% of the time. There are no failed harvests; no diseased fruit and the plants are as nutritionally rich as possible.
Hydroponics Is Easy
With just a little research and patience anyone can grow plants using hydroponics. All you need is the right equipment and a little space. You can even get started with hydroponics with a bucket, a few seeds and some water. However, the key to growing healthy plants is the right balance of nutrients, so ideally you need some hydroponics fertiliser to ensure the plants you keep in the bucket are getting the right balance of nutrients tap water alone does not always contain enough nutrients.
Hydroponics is growing in popularity because it means that any plant can be grown anywhere. All you need to do is to create the correct ambient temperature and give the plant the sun or shade that it needs, which if you grow indoors or under plastic is relatively easy to achieve.
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To give hydroponics a try take a look at the range of equipment on offer from Hydro Hobby. All of their equipment is competitively priced and easy to use.
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By :
Gareth Hoyle
Submitted
2011-06-14 09:32:09 |
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