Archive for the 'Hydroponics Systems' Category
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Hydroponics - Cultivation of Plants in Water
By: James Hunt
Hydroponics is defined as the cultivation of plants in water. However, research as been conducted to show that many other things play a role besides for just the water therefore the definition has been broadened to read the cultivation of plants without the use of soil.
Due to the lack of fertile farmland [...]
Friday, March 14th, 2008
The Low Down On Passive Hydroponics Garden Setup:
By: Allan Wilson
Plants absorb all needed elements from water and soil. A system, in which all nutrients are provided to the plants by water, is called hydroponics system. There are two methods in hydroponics gardening. First is an active hydroponics gardening system, and second is Passive gardening system.
Both methods are good for indoor hydroponics [...]
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Hydroponics- a Commercial Definition of Plantation
By: Ranbhir
Hydroponics- A commercial Definition of Plantation
Due to day by day increasing chemical pollution and other toxic compounds in the food supply, people are looking for more safer and wholesome alternatives. Luckily, hydroponics is the exact fit for the consumer’s latest and new requirements.
Some commercial installations like Integrated Pest Management Techniques use no herbicides [...]
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Hydroponic Grow System Information
By: Anne Harvester
There are a variety of different hydroponic grow system available; however there are only a select few systems that the others are based upon. These hydroponic systems are:
Wick
This hydroponic grow system does not require an aquarium air pump as it uses a common candle wick. It uses these wicks to move the [...]
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Growing Inside, Outside, Hydroponically and in Soil
By: Sjoerd Kold
The advantages of growing in soil indoors
The difference here is similar to the difference between indoor and outdoor cultivation. Soil growing requires less equipment, investment and, generally, less work to control the various factors influencing growth.
The only specialist equipment required for the simplest indoor soil set-up would be seeds, organic nutrients, a [...]
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Hydroponics Schematic Plan
By: Ann Marier
As it is rewarding, hydroponics is also a very delicate and soliciting system. Regardless of whether you’re an amateur or professional, you will need at least some hydroponics schematic plans before you actually start the crop. You need to get an idea what the growing place will look like, what its maintenance [...]
Monday, November 5th, 2007
The Ideal Hydroponics System
By: Ann Marier
Any hydroponics system is based on the same primary principle: you replace the soil with something else to support plant roots, in an effort to give a chance in areas of the world where nothing grows because of poor soil quality, such as sand and ice deserts, high mountain platforms and many [...]
Sunday, November 4th, 2007
Main Types of Hydroponic Systems
By: Nicu Zara
A few centuries ago, the only way you could grow a plant without a soilless base was to suspend it over a pool of water mixed with nutrients, that would act as the feeding grounds replacing the earth’s diet. Nowadays, we have wick systems, ebb and flows, drips, aeroponics, the nutrient film [...]
Sunday, June 24th, 2007
Hydroponic System - What You Need to Do Before Building it yourself or Purchasing a Starter\’s Kit
By: JQ Zen
To learn and experience hydroponic gardening, beginners including myself usually prefer to have a beginner’s kit or a standard kit for them to try out.
When I began reviewing hydroponic components and starter’s kits on the Internet and nearby gardening suppliers. I was amazed to discover that basically you can purchase from a [...]
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
The Six Main Types Of Hydroponics Systems
By: Ann Marier
Theoretically there are six types of hydroponics systems: Wick, Aeroponic, NFT, Water Culture, Drip and the Flood and Drain model. Of course hydroponics systems come in too many variations for anybody to be able to index them, but essentially any of those system variation can be defined as a combination between the [...]