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    Introduction to Hydroponics: Growing Your Plants Without Any Soil
    Introduction to Hydroponics: Growing Your Plants Without Any Soil
    Introduction to Hydroponics: Growing Your Plants Without Any Soil
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    Introduction to Hydroponics: Growing Your Plants Without Any Soil

    By Dueep Jyot Singh

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    Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Advantages of Hydroponics
    Nutrients for Healthy Plants
    Macronutrients
    Micronutrients
    The Difference Between Hydroponic Growth and Soil Growth
    Different Growing Mediums
    Hydrocorn And Expanded Clay
    Coconut Coir
    Rice Husks
    Growstones
    Vermiculite and Perlite
    Sand, Brick Shards, and Pumice
    Slivers of Wood
    Wool Products
    Mineral wool aka Rock Wool
    Ordinary Gravel
    Containers and Irrigation
    Static Solution Hydroponic Culture
    Raft Culture Solution
    Continuous Flow System
    The NFT system
    Traditional Bengal System
    Deep Water Culture
    Top Fed Water Culture
    Buying Nutrients?
    Conclusion
    Author Bio
    Publisher

    Introduction

    If you start a discussion on hydroponics with a person who is a keen and an avid gardener, he is going to say in a very blasé tone, “Oh yeah, you are talking about a gardening method which you are not going to use any soil at all. In fact, you are going to be growing your plants in water.”
    And he is going to be so right. Hydroponics is that gardening method, in which you are going to grow your plants in lots of water. This gardening method is normally implemented in places where the soil is not fertile enough to sustain plant life. I, being a practical doomsayer, predict that within the next 50 years plants are going to be grown extensively through hydroponics because we will have poisoned all the soil, with our chemicals, by then.

    The idea of hydroponics is not something new. I would not be surprised if in ancient times plants were grown in water, especially in places where one wanted to grow plants indoors – especially in palaces. By the way, a couple of years ago, archaeologists who were doing a little bit of digging in Egypt found some Lotus and water Lily seeds going back more than 2,000 years ago, in some pond excavations in a palace in ancient Egypt. Out of the 20 buried seeds found, which were sent to Kew Gardens London, three of them germinated, and so we have 2,000-year-old lilies, whose ancestors were collected by Egyptian princesses.

    The princesses in the palace collected the lotuses every day in the ponds and use them for religious rituals as well as adorning their rooms and persons. I do not think they went bathing in the scented waters, because they must have been really careful about the muddy and dirty waters, especially with natural organic fertilizers put in them to promote the growth of the plants.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMendon Cottage Books
    Release dateSep 18, 2016
    ISBN9781370476152
    Introduction to Hydroponics: Growing Your Plants Without Any Soil

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      Introduction to Hydroponics - Dueep Jyot Singh

      Introduction to Hydroponics

      Growing Your Plants Without Any Soil

      Dueep Jyot Singh

      Gardening Series

      Mendon Cottage Books

      JD-Biz Publishing

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Advantages of Hydroponics

      Nutrients for Healthy Plants

      Macronutrients

      Micronutrients

      The Difference Between Hydroponic Growth and Soil Growth

      Different Growing Mediums

      Hydrocorn And Expanded Clay

      Coconut Coir

      Rice Husks

      Growstones

      Vermiculite and Perlite

      Sand, Brick Shards, and Pumice

      Slivers of Wood

      Wool Products

      Mineral wool aka Rock Wool

      Ordinary Gravel

      Containers and Irrigation

      Static Solution Hydroponic Culture

      Raft Culture Solution

      Continuous Flow System

      The NFT system

      Traditional Bengal System

      Deep Water Culture

      Top Fed Water Culture

      Buying Nutrients?

      Conclusion

      Author Bio

      Publisher

      Introduction

      If you start a discussion on hydroponics with a person who is a keen and an avid gardener, he is going to say in a very blasé tone, Oh yeah, you are talking about a gardening method which you are not going to use any soil at all. In fact, you are going to be growing your plants in water.

      And he is going to be so right. Hydroponics is that gardening method, in which you are going to grow your plants in lots of water. This gardening method is normally implemented in places where the soil is not fertile enough to sustain plant life. I, being a practical doomsayer, predict that within the next 50 years plants are going to be grown extensively through hydroponics because we will have poisoned all the soil, with our chemicals, by then.

      The idea of hydroponics is not something new. I would not be surprised if in ancient times plants were grown in water, especially in places where one wanted to grow plants indoors – especially in palaces. By the way, a couple of years ago, archaeologists who were doing a little bit of digging in Egypt found some Lotus and water Lily seeds going back more than 2,000 years ago, in some pond excavations in a palace in ancient Egypt. Out of the 20 buried seeds found, which were sent to Kew Gardens London, three of them germinated, and so we have 2,000-year-old lilies, whose ancestors were collected by Egyptian princesses.

      The princesses in the palace collected the lotuses every day in the ponds and use them for religious rituals as

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