Making Isotonic Solutions For Draining : Preparing Your Own – and better – Clearex
When growing hydroponic products it is common in the industry to do a final treatment before picking up the crop in which nutrients are removed from the hydroponic solutions. While…
Read MoreImitating Commercial Nutrients : A Tutorial Using HydroBuddy (my free Hydroponic Nutrient Calculator)
A few months after the first official release of my free hydroponic nutrient calculator it seems that many people are using it to imitate commercial hydroponic fertilizer formulations. Although the…
Read MoreBulding a World Without Hunger : The Massive and Passive Hydroponic System Project
If you have visited my blog within the past few days you have probably realized that I am interested in the further development and use of non-recirculating, totally passive hydroponic…
Read MoreCompletely Passive, Non-Recirculating Hydroponic Systems : Some Tips for Large Plants
On yesterday’s post I talked about the existence of completely passive, non-recirculating hydroponic systems and how they can be successfully used for the growth of almost any hydroponic crop you…
Read MoreCompletely Passive, Non-Recirculating Hydroponic Systems : Yes, Its Possible
Generally when we think about growing plants hydroponically we think about complex setups with water pumps, air pumps, artificial lights, environmental control and greenhouses. However, it has been shown through…
Read MoreImproving Seed Germination : The Science of Seed Priming
When we want to produce large amounts of plants or simply when we want to start our gardens fast and get the most out of our purchases improving seed germination…
Read MoreMy Hydroponics Calculator : Features and Objectives
For those of you interested in the preparation of your own hydroponic nutrient solutions, my hydroponic nutrient calculator should prove to be a very useful (hopefully invaluable !) tool to…
Read MoreMy Hydroponic Calculator Tutorial : Saving and Loading Formulations and Recipes
One of the greatest features of my hydroponic nutrient calculator (which you can get here) is the ability to save and load recipes and formulations into the software. These options…
Read MoreCobalt in Hydroponics : Better or Worse ?
On yesterday’s article we talked about silicon, one of the most beneficial non-essential nutrients you can use in your hydroponic crops. Although Silicon has proved to give marked benefits in…
Read MoreSilicon in Hydroponics : What Silicon is Good For and How it Should be Used
Certainly if you have been involved with hydroponics for a while or even if you have just started to research this awesome field you might already know that science has…
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