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Organic Hydroponics for Beginners

by WMMedia

Hydroponics is the practice of growing vegetables and plants
using mineral nutrient solutions rather than soil. The only
difference between regular hydroponics and organic hydroponics is
what you decide to feed your plants. Much of the work involved in
this type of gardening is learning about it, getting it set up
and learning how to make adjustments when they are needed. The
food is in the water, which is the key element in hydroponics.
The three main things you have to focus on are:

- how you can get the food and water to the plants

- how to know how much water to give the plants so that they
won't drown

- how to avoid any serious problems

There are many ways of making sure your plants get the food that
they need to survive and grow.

1. Watering by Hand. This is an easy method of feeding the
plants. You mix vermiculite, perlite and coconut coir together in
water. Since none of these contain any nutrients, you will have
to add a plant food supplement to the mixture. Coconut coir and
vermiculite do retain a lot of the water, so these minerals will
help the containers stay moist for a few days. You can also use
sphagnum peat, which is the basis for potting soil, in the
containers as well and this retains water.

2. Reservoir. The reservoir feeding method is perhaps the
easiest way of feeding the plants. Place a layer of about two
inches of nutrient solution in a large container and place the
containers with the plants in them down into this. You can have
small holes in the bottoms of the containers to make sure that
the roots grow out into the nutrient solution. Use an aquarium
pump to provide constant bubbles in the solution. This will keep
the plants from drowning. It is important that you do not allow
any light to reach this solution because if it does, algae will
develop and this will kill the plants.

3. Flood and Drain. This method has also been called the Ebb and
Flow Method in which the plants sit in their own container away
from the nutrient solution. From time to time, a pump will kick
in and will flood the containers with the nutrient solution and
then drain it back out again.

4. Drip System. In the drip system, the plants are separate from
the nutrient solution as well. A pump pushes the solution through
several tubes, which drips onto the plants from the top. This is
the hardest method to use because it is difficult to control the
drip rate.

Any of these methods will work with organic gardening. The best
feeding solution to use is a teaspoon of Maxsea 3-20-20 dissolved
in a gallon of water for the first ten days that the plants have
roots. After that, you don't have to worry about a high nitrogen
content damaging the plants so you can increase it to a solution
of 600 ppm of Maxsea16-16-16. You can finish off with two
teaspoons of 800 ppm of Maxsea 3-20-20. Flush the crop with plain
water before you harvest to improve the taste.

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