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Hi! Newbie member
Hi guys, Im Sabrina, and I am new here and to hydroponics growing in general. I am on a joint venture with my dad and we are growing in soil at the moment and I am wanting to get into growing through hydroponics.
He is interested as well and he is wanting to create an outdoor system by making a pond and covering it. I have searched through a lot of sites on hydroponics and it seems that is not the best way to go about this. Most places I have been always talk about hydroponics indoors, and using grow lights to control day length, proper watering and mixture techniques and other stuff. Can anyone tell me about making a pond and trying to grow vegetables in it? It seems that it is going to be incredibly difficult to keep foreign material out of the water and any number of other items are coming to mind, but I dont know enough about all this to figure out if these points are valid, so if anyone has information which would help me figure this out, links, websites, etc, I would very much appreciate it. Meanwhile, I will just look around the site here and see what I can find. Thanks! |
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The other way would be in a Water Culture System, a true water culture system is not recirculating, the plants are placed in a floating raft (usually Styrofoam) that is cut to be the same shape as the container it is using for the reservoir. The reservoir (or in your case it would be the pond) is filled with the nutrient solution and the plants float on top of the solution. At the bottom of this reservoir are air stones (like in fish tanks). These air stones get a steady stream of air from a air pump, and create a bunch of tiny bubbles. As the bubbles rise they keep the nutrient solution from stagnating, they also provide the plants root system with the needed air/oxygen, or they would suffocate. Either design would be easier to maintain above ground, as well as harvesting the plants. Quote:
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1. Is it on the side of a hill? 2. Is it on flat land? 3. How far from the house is it? 4. What state are you in? 5. Min and max temperatures you get there (both summer and winter)? 6. Amount of sunlight it will get? 7. How many plants you wanted to grow, as well as how much space you have to work with? 8. Type of budget you have to work with? etc... Also pictures of the location would help too. |
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I dont really have a lot of time,
but I wanted to stop in and say Hi, and welcome! |
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