Leonard Spence

The Hydroponics Hype Leonard Spence

Hydroponics represents a controlled way of farming. For this, it has a long line of detractors accusing that this is not organic farming due to its artificial method of inserting and the source of the used nutrients. Nonetheless it implies growing plants in a realm that is not their natural one, as they normally take water, light and food from their surrounding environment, while responding to earth cycles, a pattern imprinted genetically. This means that their intrinsic needs have to be fulfilled by the environment that you create for them. You have to perform nature's part and it definitely isn't easy to be in its shoes.

Hydroponics is new hype in farming, solving the issues of space, soil quality, troublesome outdoor planting, arid areas, and these are just the main difficulties that agriculture meets worldwide. As our 'civilized' structures spread, all the action along with the entire human population and the end point of Earth's resources concentrate in urban areas, while the supplying industries take over the rest of the land.

The content of this book is:

- Nutrients

- Nutrient solutions

- Nutrient formulas

- Nutrient concentration and pH

- The root system

- Soil free medium

- Light

- The color spectrum of light

- Humidity

- Air circulation

- Stages of growth

- Infestations

- Hydro