Hi Lovely Hive Friends and Farmers,
I hope everything is going well for you and your garden wherever you are. Today I will share with you my new experience with gardening indoor veggies. The same as all planting lovers, for me, watching the green sprouts growing from the seeds is as much excited as eating them. And now hydroponics is my new passion!
It is a new technique model that you grow vegetables without using soil, mainly water. The roots are soaked in a nutrient solution - a mixture of water and dissolved nutrients. There are many advantages to this modern method of planting compared with the traditional way. One of those is that hydroponics can be grown indoor spaces all year round. This is especially cool for those who are passionate about gardening but live in apartment buildings that have no balcony or garden.
Before choosing this way, please notice that every plant needs: the right light, temperature, water, CO2, O2, and the right nutrients. The beauty of the hydroponics method is that you can control all of these factors completely.
Light: we can use energy-saving LEDs light to power them during the time needed, if your space has enough natural light, you don't really need to turn on the LEDs light.
Oxygen: we can buy a foaming pump at electric stores.
Temperature: we can adjust according to our indoor space by keeping it in a warm place.
Nutrient: we will not use soil fertilizers or organic ones for hydroponics. There are special fertilizers that you can buy at plant stores where they sell vertical farming equipment.
Water: we must keep water enough for seeds/ roots to stay during the growing time.
These are what I learned from my teacher who is owning a big hydroponics farm that I shared with you above,
The ideal temperature for the hydroponic nutrient solution is 18 -24 degrees celsius, so we must fill the container with the water temperature firstly.
Then follow the instructions and pour the nutrient mixture into the water, stirring well. He also mentioned that pH and EC play the most important things in growing the hydroponics vegetables so please pay attention to that. EC degrees indicate how many nutrients are present in the solution. Meanwhile, the pH determines whether the vegetables can optimally utilize those nutrients.
Please remember to check the water level regularly and whenever the water gets lower than instructions, please refill and make the nutrient solution as I summarized above from my recent lesson.
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Wow - fantastic! Great to see a completely alternative post to traditional gardens. My ex used to do hydoponics, but he wasn't growing lettuce :P - that was some thirty years ago so it's not really a 'new' technique. That farm looks really lush. Thanks for sharing!
30 years ago, maybe no lettuce ^^ I forgot posting in our community, I sent a message to @naturalmedicine for cross-post, is that oki? Thank you dear @riverflows.
That's fine @babeltrips. I don't mind what community you post in, as long as you use the #gardenjournal tag. Nat Med does support gardening posts though as it's part of the whole earth stewardship/healing thing, but there's also a garden community at last - hoping it will continue.
Thank you for your advice dear @riverflows. Anyway it's still on Hive and related to #gardenjournal. I really enjoy and love to see everyone also so excited with hydroponics plants 💚☘️🥰
Very cool to see the hydroponic set up! We have a farmer at our farmers market who does hydro lettuces. It is awesome because I can get delicate leafy greens even in the heat of the summer here. My boyfriend tried to set up a system briefly from his fish tank, but didn't get the balance quite right yet, haha. He wants to try again at some point.
Cool! Please share with us some shots when he could get it done. I am so excited to see how everyone is amazed about hydroponics plants😍💚
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I always thought that hydroponics was very complicated but you make it sounds so simple here! I still don't think I'm ready for hydroponic cultivation just yet though. It seems very futuristic!
Hydroponic is always linked to growing cannabis for me, so I am amazed to see how productive it is for food, I am not surprised though, it's probably cost effective on a bigger scale like you do! The plants look healthy! Cheers!
Thank you for your nice comment. I didn't notice that's used to grow cannabis ;))) yes very convenient for people who don't have garden outside and balcony at their house. I am living in an apartment and have to use our terrace to plant as well.
Yeah it makes sense, especially in a closed space! Take care babeltrips!
Thank you and take care too ☘️
Haha, I like to make everything simple :) I think the most difficult part is controlling nutrients, EC & pH, the rest like seeds, cuttings, frame etc, you can get from store, once you set up all those, I will be easy 👻
I loved your post...it's fascinating to see agriculture in action...thanks for sharing.
can you take me thereeeeeeeee please?
Yes waiting for your next trip em ;)