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Hydroponics: Techniques Involved In The Gardening
By Jason Uvios
Hydroponics instantly strikes to our mind as a process of plant farming or where the basic medium is water. Technically it is known as solution culture hydroponics technique which is the major technique followed in this type of gardening. Apart from this though there is a medium culture hydroponics technique where instead of soil as the solid base for the plant’s growth, gravel and sand is used, but the popular technique followed is the solution culture. The name “hydroponics” itself justifies the reason and importance of solution.
Major types of solution culture
Quite interestingly there are three sub-divisions in the solution culture technique of through hydroponics. The differences and the distinction in these three processes actually lay in the arrangement of the solution and its supply to the plants. Check out the techniques first.
- Static solution culture
- Continuous flow solution culture
- Aeroponics
The first two techniques of the solution culture hydroponics give you an indication through the names,
“static” and “continuous flow”. You can predict that in these two situations there is a variation in the condition of the solution. And in the third process, it is more sort of a hidden thing where the roots of the plants are directly not kept in the solution but grown in a dark chamber filled with not the solution but the vaporized state of the solution, more sort of mist.
Key difference between static and continuous flow
The static solution culture makes use of a fixed container where the nutrient solution is supplied and the plants are grown. This can be a jar, a tub or a tank and the whole arrangement is fixed with a pump so that a continuous supply of oxygen can be assured. There is a hole from the side of the container to add or replace the necessary nutrients of the solution. Since the arrangement is a static one you have to make sure to get the solution changed as per requirement which is more or less once in a week.
In other words the static solution system is more sort of a reservoir like thing and as the plant grows, these tanks or reservoirs can be changed. But you really need to take care and more attention towards the proper growth of the plants grown by this mechanism.
In continuous flow technique, there is no such thing like changing the container or replacing the reservoir. As the nutrients filled solution is in a constant supply the balance of the nutrients and the pH factor can be steadily maintained. Above all plants can be grown in large numbers in a huge reservoir at the same time. For your kitchen garden this process is the best.
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