Water quality is an important component of your hydroponic production system. Water is used by the plants and is a vehicle by which all outside materials are taken into the plant.
Water quality varies considerably from area to area.
Cropking recommmends having Clemson University test your water.
Collect and Send a sample for detailed analysis by:
By: James W. Brown
Do you love plants and gardening? Then you may want to consider a personal-sized greenhouse to extend your green thumb endeavors.
By: James W. Brown
Whatever the growing system used, plant roots need oxygen. Oxygen is used in the root for respiration of photosynthate – the process that releases the energy needed by the root to take in the water and nutrients and to send them up to the rest of the plant.
Some plants, like rice and cattails, have roots that can get enough oxygen while growing in standing water. However, most of the plants we grow in the greenhouse have higher oxygen requirements than what is available when the roots are submerged in stagnant water.
