Starting hydroponics

[Antonio Gomes]

Hi to all,

I'm currently a very newbie at hidroponics and it's concepts. It's been overhelming to learn a lot around the mechanics and biological factors that makes hidroponics cultures to thrive.


I have some space and ideas in mind but it seems that with rather low experience i might go into some errors that i do not want to make at this point.

My objectives are to grow lettuce, tomatoes and strawberry. I've seen the diferent system (ebb and flow, and NFT seems to be the nicest but for sure this is only an aprecciation)

My goal is to make about 50 to 100 lettuce and to try to make 25 tomatoes and 25 strawberry plants.

Before i start building from scratch i would like to know opinions that would help me keep my design and option of method suitable to this three plants.

Is there a more suitable system for each of them ?

Separate systems for each crop ? (one for strawberrys, one for tomatoes and one for lettuce )

How many days until a lettuce , a tomato plant gives tomato, and strawberry starts to fruit ? (estimate times )

Also better substrat for them ? Ive read rockwool is good for lettuce, but tomato has they grow they need something more strong and strawberry i really haven't encountered much ...

In advance thank you for all your help !

Best regards,

Antonio