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Nitrogen is a critical nutrient for plants. In hydroponics, we can choose to provide it in three ways, as nitrate, ...

In hydroponic culture, plants are grown with the help of a nutrient solution that contains all the substances required for ...

Powdery mildew (PM) is a hard disease to fight. It affects plants of multiple different species and causes big crop ...

Organic hydroponic solutions - meaning solutions derived from organic inputs - contain a lot of nitrogen derived from organic sources ...

Electrical conductivity (EC) meters in hydroponics will generally give you different types of readings. All of these readings are conversions ...

Ebb and flow or "flood and drain" systems, are some of the most popular systems built in hydroponics. These are ...

Fulvic and humic acids have been studied for decades and used extensively in the soil and hydroponic growing industries. I ...

Although hydroponic crops cannot usually be labeled as "organic" by official certifying authorities, like the USDA, we can create a ...

There has been a battle raging during the past decade between soil-based organic producers and hydroponic growers, to figure out ...

Today I am releasing a new version of HydroBuddy (v1.9) which contains many suggested and needed improvements from the previous ...

Hydrobuddy's theoretical conductivity estimates have never been good. As I discussed in a previous post, the program uses a very ...

There are multiple open-source projects available online for the creation of pH/EC sensing stations for hydroponics. However, all of the ...