Improving 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…
Read MoreThe NPK Mystery – What Do These Numbers Mean and How are they Calculated ?
When you go into a forum about hobby hydroponic or soil growing one of the first things you will notice is that there is a big confusion regarding the meaning…
Read MoreTruly Cleaning Your Hydroponic System : The Fenton Process and Chemistry
When most people clean their hydroponic systems they use a hypochloride or hydrogen peroxide wash that they think kills all the bacteria and potentially hazardous substances within their setup. However…
Read MoreIron Sources in Hydroponics : Which One is the Best ?
Definitely one of the most important problems dealing with the stability of hydroponic solutions is the availability of the iron (Fe+2 or Fe+3) ions. Since iron easily forms hydroxides and…
Read MoreChemical Buffers in Hydroponics : What is the Best, Cheapest Buffer
One of the biggest questions people ask when starting to grow hydroponic crops deals with the stabilization of pH and the use of chemical buffers to keep pH levels at…
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Preparing Your Own Hydroponic Nutrients : A Complete Guide for Beginners
Chances are that if you are into hydroponic gardening and you live in Europe or in the US you have been buying your nutrient solutions from one of the many…
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