As we know that it is now increasingly more and more land for farming that is turned into residential or other buildings. It has indeed led to a reduced land available for cultivation. To resolve this problem, there are several solutions in one was the breeding process in Hydroponic farming.
Hydroponic comes from the word hydro meaning water and ponds meaning power. It can also be defined as a technique of planting that doesn't use soil as a medium or also called soilless and gave priority to fulfilling the needs of nutrients for the plants. Media used as a substitute for soil
On hydroponic generally in the form of charcoal husk, coir fiber, minerals, sand, shards of rock, and sawdust. The water serves to drain the required nutrients and fertilizer plants to root. Plants only take about one month of first seeds to be harvested and on consumption. All parts of the plant can be consumed, because it is free from pests, pesticides, contaminants and impurities.
How to grow hydroponic:
1. Seeding Seed
For seeds on tray or container for. Media for good and commonly used is rock wool. Rockwool is very practical because it has a high water absorption and sterile. If the seed has been quite an age relocated to plantation media
2. Preparation of the planting media
Use a planting medium shaft could be a mixture of chaff and gravel sand or a mix of Rockwool and sand pebbles. Place the growing medium on the desired container such as a pot or cans.
3. grant Nutrition
Use proper hydroponics nutrients, the nutrients in hydroponic planting is essential for plant growth. You could be making your own or buying hydroponics nutrients on the market. Granting of nutrients could be by way of manual flush in the morning and the afternoon, or if you want more practical, you could try planting hydroponics system with axes or wick, please check on the image. Axis (can be of cotton, Wick stoves or rags) will circulate nutrients to all parts of the plant. This wick technique is one simple hydroponic method.
4. Treatment
Hydroponic system care substantially does not differ greatly with the treatment on a conventional system of planting such as pruning, cleaning weeds, etc.
Types of hydroponic techniques are divided into several categories, namely;
1. the method of N.F. T (Nutrient Film Technique) plants in the above the channels at the water solution +/-2 mm where the plant roots are always submerged in nutrient solution and these nutrients in collect back to the sump. To scale a household can use along as the place of planting media, polyfoam for growing plants and bucket as a tub.
2. Static method i.e. plant in a tub containing a solution of which the root is awash with nutrient solution. The easiest way is to use a glass of mineral water on the bottom and side, for planting using plastic cake or place the tray is already in of glasses of mineral water.
3. Drip Irrigation System in which plants were given nutrients and tailored to the needs of the facility. Hobby to scale, we just simply watering the course three times a day.
4. the Aeroponic Farm with the system, where the plants roots hang in the air without any media (e.g. soil), and his nutritional needs are met using spraying to root.
5. Passive sub-irrigation cultivation using the media just to give flowers or herbs the basis for growth and for transporting mineral water, many of which do not provide the nutrients of its own.
6. Deep water culture (DWC) is a hydroponic method of plant production using suspending the plant roots in a solution of nutrient-rich, oxygenated water.
7. Flood and drain irrigation sub-
8. Run to waste
9. Bubbleponics, where water was given a small water pump, produces bubbles O2.
10. Bioponics
Some people are doing hydroponic just as a hobby but an effort that aims to achieve high profits. Not all plants hydroponic results have a substantial economic value. Plants that are assessed to have significant economic value and ugly grown by hydroponics entrepreneurs are peppers, tomatoes, Zucchini, melons, Japanese eggplants, and lettuce.
Plants were grown in hydroponic certainly has differences with plants grown in soil. Here are some of the disadvantages and advantages of hydroponic plants results:
Pros:
Broad unity crop production more
Plants grow faster
More efficient fertilizer usage
More efficient use of water
Labor is needed less
A cleaner working environment
The control of water, nutrient and pH more thoroughly
Plant pest and disease problems can be reduced
Can grow in locations impossible/difficult planted as in a bad soil nutrient environment and rocky or in the garage (in another room) with additional lights.
Disadvantages:
Availability and maintenance of hydroponic devices were a bit tricky.
Require unique skills to weigh and prepare chemicals as well as a costly initial investment.
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