Johnny Blaze from Cannavation.com gives you a brief glimpse at how to set up a hydroponic drip system using 1/4″ drip line and root pots. This is a precursor video to the step-by-step guide on how to make the hydroponic drip rings from scratch. Look for that and other great videos from Johnny Blaze at www.cannavation.com!! Don’t forget to stop by the forums if you have any growing questions and get expert advice!
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This video are general informations about conductivity and pH. CONDUCTIVITY Using hydroponics as an example, different crops grow well at different levels of nutrient strength (Electrical Conductivity – EC or CF). Controlling this nutrient strength is all important in providing the best conditions for your crop. Without proper measurement your crop could fail from root burn brought on by too high a nutrient level, or death by natural causes from not receiving the vital elements they need to grow. PH It is important to maintain a hydroponic nutrient solution at a pH level where the elements in the nutrient solution are consistently available to the plant. If the solution is too acidic or too alkaline it can cause lock up a situation which restricts certain elements essential for growth from being absorbed by the root structure.

Question by jamesnitephil: Who has had experience in micro-scale hydroponic farming? How did you go about it?
Kindly describe in detail what procedures you followed in the farming process.

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Answer by twainy
I haven’t tried it but here are some links for hydroponic farming:

Answer by Cakes
The main idea is to supply nutrients many times a day.

We put fertilizers in the water that we give to the plants.

We can use a pump to put the water on the plants.

and can use a timer to turn the pump on and off.

here are more details;
The fertilizers that we put in the water depend on what kind of plants we are growing and sometimes on what stage of growth those plants are in. Most plants like lots of all food while they are growing big and then when they are fruiting, we still feed them but leave out the nitrogen.

We squirt the fertilizers on the plants by using emitters or sometimes we just drip the fertilizers on there. parts like that can be bought at plant nurseries and hydroponics stores for less than .50 each USD or you can poke holes in your tubes.

The tubes and pumps used to pump the water can come from pet stores that sell fish tank supplies or you can buy pumps in many places. The pump is easy to use. Usually the pump just sucks up water through one tube and squirts it out another. So just stick one tube into a reservoir of water and then put emitters onto the other tube (the one that the water squirts out of). The emitters can often be stuck into the tube like little spears just by using your fingers with no use for tools.

a pump from a fish store can cost and pump enough water for 1-10 plants.

pumps from pond supply or air condition supply can be and up. they will feed lots more plants (maybe 10 – 240)

The tubes can be any size, and pvc pipe works very well too.

The medium that the plant roots grow in can vary quite a bit. Some people don’t use anything, they let the roots dangle in the air and then they spray water on the roots. If you do this, then when you buy the emitters, look for ones that spray a very fine mist.

They hold the plant there with a little mesh cup filled with something (rock wool, coco pellets or another fiber type)>> the plant has enough roots in the mesh cup to hold it in place, but then the rest of the roots hang down in a bucket.

mesh cups can be strawberry baskets or anything; they sell nice ones at hydro stores for less than a dollar.

cut a hole in the lid of your bucket for the mesh cup and fill the cup with fiber and seed or put your seedling in it and then squirt water on the roots from below.

The water that falls off of the roots can be pumped out and then back onto the roots or it can go to another area.

Using an air pump to add air to the water is a very good idea too. Adding air helps plants grow much faster and keeps them healthier. and low water temperatures help the air stay in the water; 68F/20c or less is best. Air pumps are about and we use “air stones” with them to make the air bubbles very small and fizzy. air stones are a couple of bucks at the fish store.

keep all pumps above the source of water if possible to prevent suction or backup problems.

test the water daily until you get a feel for the changes that happen to it, or else change it out for fresh stuff.

Answer by sequoia8
i have been toying with hydroponincs for last couple of years. My first was on my deck, i bought 6″ pvc drain pipe, drilled 3″ holes in it for the net pots….inside the 6″ PVC i placed a 1/2″ pvc waterline. On each side of the net pot holes in 6″ PVC i drilled two 3/16″ holes in the 1/2″ line. I got a 3600 gallon per hour pump, and it worked SUPER….one 6″ tube produce over 70 lbs of caluiflour, another 6″ tube produced 30+ lbs of broccoli, and i made the mistake of planting two pve tubes in cantalopes, had 146 of them. Now i have went on to the NFT channels….and i am working on growing strawberries overhead, where when walk under the NFT channels….berries sorta dangle in your face….check my profile on yahoo–i saw this photo at the USDA website back in Nov, 2005 and decided i wanted to build a model of this———happy growing

Question by pratibha b: Best university in the world to study about hydroponic or plant tissue culture?
hello guys,

I am a graduate pursuing M.S in Agribusiness at USA, want to study about hydroponics to have commercial unit of this.

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Answer by bilberrybrian
University of Arizona at Tucson may have a masters program that would be of interest to you.

http://ag.arizona.edu/pls/gradprogram/index.htm