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Properly positioning temperature and humidity sensors in a hydroponic growing environment

Temperature and humidity are two key variables you need to measure. They are important because they determine how your plants will transport water, and transpiration controls a lot of processes,…

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Making the most out of your hydroponic setup’s logged sensor and control data

If you have a hydroponic crop with a data logging and automated control solution, you probably have a lot of sensor and control data recorded that could be useful to…

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Commercial sensor and data logging solutions for hydroponics

On a previous post, I discussed a very interesting open-source sensor/data logging alternative for Hydroponics called MyCodo, which offers a lot of features and flexibility for those growers with the…

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MyCodo: an open-source solution for control, data logging and visualization

There are sadly not a lot of open source solutions for data logging, visualization, and control that have all the features required to be decently expandable and allow for different…

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Pros and cons of building your own sensor and data logging system in hydroponics

If you’ve read my blog before, you know how important data logging is to having a successful hydroponic crop. Data allows you to monitor and tune the different variables in…

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Standard hydroponic formulations from the scientific literature

When researchers started looking into growing plants without soil, they started to look for mixtures of nutrients that could grow plants successfully so that these formulations could be used to…

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The stability of metal chelates

When you get introduced to hydroponics and nutrient solution chemistry, one of the first concepts that you learn is chelation. A chelate is a molecule formed by a metallic ion…

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Six things to look for in a Hydroponic sensor data logging system

Data is key. It will help you obtain high yields and improve with each additional crop cycle. Having sensor measurements not only allows you to diagnose your crop at any…

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Differences between labels and actual composition values in commercial hydroponic fertilizers

Whenever I am hired to duplicate a company’s fertilizer regime based on commercial products, I always emphasize that I cannot use the labels of the products as a reference because…

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Nutrient availability and pH: Are those charts really accurate?

When growing plants, either in soil or hydroponically, we are interested in giving them the best possible conditions for nutrient absorption. If you have ever searched for information about plant…

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