Hydroponics

Hydroponics is a way of growing plants bypassing the traditional growing medium. Hydroponic cultivation is used in both large-scale and amateur, small-scale productions. In both cases, the plant requires access to light, good ventilation, properly selected mixtures of nutrients. When using hydroponics with substrates such as expanded clay and rockwool, care must be taken to ensure that the roots are not drowned in the mixture, as lack of oxygen will cause their death. Everyone associates hydroponics with plants submerged in water, most often herbs. Meanwhile, there are several best-known soilless growing systems.

Drip hydroponic system

This cultivation involves feeding the plant individually through a system of feeding hoses. Each plant grows on rockwool cubes, which are laid on mats that receive excess nutrient solution and direct it to the main tank, from where it is fed back to the plants. It's a closed circuit.

Flow-through hydroponic systems.

In these systems, nutrient water is fed directly to the roots. Cultivation is carried out in troughs, which can be filled with expanded clay or other inert substrate. This hydroponic system, thanks to the free fall and rise of the water level, provides the roots with the necessary oxygen.

Hydroponics increases the yield of plants

Less well-known, but still in use, are thin-layer flow culture systems and aero-hydroponic growing. All hydroponic systems significantly increase the yield of plants, improve their nutritional properties and aroma. This method of cultivation shortens the vegetation and production cycle, and makes optimal use of the plant's potential. Controlling the plant's growth environment increases its health.