Hydroponics Supplies, Hydroponics Nutrients & Equipments

As a grower, you might busy making preparations for your Thanksgiving weekend leaving aside your gardening tools. So are you confused by the title of this article? Many of you might be wondering how gardening and thanksgiving go hand-in-hand? Well, with the help of indoor hydroponics and outdoor gardening, you can get many ideas for thanksgiving decoration. In fact, you can cultivate your garden in accordance to this festival and call it thanksgiving gardening!

To begin with decoration, first of all list down the elements you will be using. You can use fallen leaves, gourds, pine cones, and tree twigs. Also, flowers like roses, daisies and lilies look good on thanksgiving table. Not to forget, an aesthetic cactus plant with delicate flowers is a must for thanksgiving gardening. With the help of indoor hydroponics, you can cultivate floral plants and decorate the table with various combinations. For example, pairing orange roses with red ones will give a colorful appearance to the centerpiece. Sunflowers are also excellent choice for decoration because of their bright and lively yellow colored petals. You can grow sunflowers indoors in LED lights; however, outdoor gardening is a better choice to cultivate sunflowers. You can put fist sized pumpkins around flowers to make the centerpiece even more impressive.

To grow Thanksgiving cactus with hydroponic gardening, you need to fill a small growing container with one part nutrient media and one part fine-grade fir bark. Add just enough water to moisten the media and place the container in a location that receives bright, indirect sunlight. Once the plant begins to show signs of growth, move it to a very dark location for 12 to 14 hours a day so that it develops flower buds. Remove the Thanksgiving cactus from the dark location once flower buds begin to develop. As this plant does not have typical cactus spines, it is great ornamentation for thanksgiving.

Another way to give your thanksgiving décor a natural look is to bring autumn home! Make use of all the fall foliage from your outdoor garden. Place a few shorter sticks that are adorned with colored leaves into small vases or construct one large centerpiece with a longer branch and a vase with a longer neck. You can also use dried flower petals to spread across the table. Branches of berries will add more color to the table as well.

This autumn, let your indoor and outdoor gardens help you decorate for Thanksgiving! With little creativity and an eye for ornamentation, you can surprise your family and friends with all-natural Thanksgiving ambience.

The world today is in terror of global warming which refers to the phenomenon of rising average temperature of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. The major cause for global warming is accumulation of greenhouse gases in the environment. The greenhouse effect is the process by which absorption and emission of infrared radiation by gases in the atmosphere warm the planet’s lower atmosphere and surface. Deforestation to acquire more land for farming, soil erosion and increase in barren lands, and industrialization all are causes of global warming. Many researchers believe that though global warming cannot be entirely curbed, we can certainly reduce it with help of
advanced hydroponics.

Hydroponics is a technique in which plants are grown in a nutrient media without using any soil. Hydroponic system can be set up practically anywhere- inside house, in the backyard, in malls, vertically up a building, and even in a broken fish tank! Thus hydroponic growing does not depend on acres of land to get higher yield unlike traditional farming. Hydroponic greenhouses are usually located close to the urban centers which they supply with food, so the need for trucking produce hundreds of miles from warm areas to cold regions is eliminated, reducing the need to burn fossil fuels.

Advanced hydroponics can help in maintaining greenery in areas which have nutrient depleted soil and scarcity of water. With hydroponics, there is a little wastage of food because there is no long chain involved of transporting food from farm to fork. Fruits and vegetables can be grown inside malls and shopping centers and can be sold right there. Thus with lesser transpiration, the threat of air pollution gets minimized too. In organic hydroponics, there is absolutely no use of harmful chemical fertilizers and pesticides. This avoids accumulation of these harmful chemicals in the bio-system.

Plants are grown in a very controlled environment in hydroponics. Amount of light reaching the plants, pH and humidity level, water consumed, and nutrients provided all these factors can be monitored by growers. Thus there is no threat of salinization of water, accumulation of carbon dioxide in environment or wastage of water. With climatic shifts getting more and more drastic endangering not just the plants world but the existence of entire world, we need to look for alternative, eco-friendly ways of producing food. Hydroponics is the answer to this issue and with the help of hydroponic technology, we can definitely save the world from global warming.

Agriculture industry is witnessing the need for change because of manifold issues like shortage of land, scarcity of water and labor issues. This need is for a technique which can produce maximum yield in minimal land, with less water, and lesser hassles. The answer to all these issues lies in one word- Hydroponics. Hydroponics is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions, in water, without soil. Terrestrial plants may be grown with their roots in the mineral nutrient solution only or in an inert medium, such as perlite, gravel, mineral wool, or coconut husk. By studying and applying the techniques of advanced hydroponics, one can get flourishing, green vegetables and fruits in their own grow room.

Hydroponic gardening can be done in open spaces, orchards, grow rooms or even by using small objects like plastic trays, unused fish tanks and old barrels. You can use mediums like perlite, vermiculite, Rockwool, coconut coir, clay pellets, peat moss, sand, and even small pebbles. These media allow water and air flow to the roots of plants. Advanced hydroponics is practiced using many different systems. Some of the most preferred hydroponic systems in hydroponic growing gardening are:

Ebb and Flow system: This system is based on flood and drain technique. An air pump is used to flood the root zone of plants with water and organic hydroponic nutrients and with the help of air stone; you can create air bubbles and provide oxygen to the plants. Then water and nutrients is drained out of the root zone of plants. This pattern is repeated at regular intervals.

Wick system: This is one of the cheapest hydroponic growing systems. All you have to do is, take a cotton or nylon wick and place it in such a way that its one end is in contact with roots of the plants while the other one is dangling in the nutrient solution. With the capillary action of wicks, nutrients will reach roots of the plants.

Drip Irrigation System: This system works in the same way as ebb and flow system, however, in this system you can control levels of water and nutrients reaching plants roots and also you can decide the time for which roots are exposed to nutrients with the help of a timer.

Aeroponics: This is one of the most advanced hydroponics system. In this method, plants are grown in air or mist environment.

Many countries are encouraging research in the field of hydroponics as it is definitely the future of agricultural industry. However, as any technology, hydroponics too has its merits and demerits.