The market offers a wide range of products to choose from when it comes to nutrients for hydroponics. 
So much choice creates doubt the doubt:
What hydroponic fertilizer you choose? What works best?
The answer clearly depends on the type of cultivation, or more specifically on which type of plant are cultivating in hydroponics and in which system. If fact, many fertilizers are designed for general use and are perfect for less demanding plants or for different types of hydroponic plant within the same system or environment, others are formulated for specific varieties, such as orchids or chili, or yet the plants to develop very fast.
Once you choose a good nutritious, suited our needs, we are therefore free from deficiencies?
And if our plants we show a lack of an element means that our hydroponic fertilizer is wrong, or is of poor quality?
Not necessarily. Indeed, both situations are unlikely.
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The use of neon in the indoor cultivation is widespread, thanks to the undoubted benefits it offers.
The small space, low cost, minimal power consumption, the cold light features are definitely useful and practical information that can be indispensable allies of the grower.
There is no professional who does not have a good set of neon to make cuttings or maintenance of the mother plants, or often even to support the growth phase.
A good ceiling light, fitted with a pair of tubes, it can also save the fate of a cycle of cultivation in case something goes wrong, maybe the weekend, with the lighting system in use.
But if over the years the neon lights have always been good allies to support the various HPS or CLF, is now possible to completely entrust their plants, from seed to flower.
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Did you ever wonder what she looked like a plant that you may often feel appoint? 
Or what is the scientific name of the Dandelion, or even need the name of a plant in English, or French?
Now, thanks to the tools made available by Project Dryades you can find in the vegetable kingdom as a key using the Latin name, the common, the family membership or linguistic area, with area-search site plans www.dryades.eu
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Definitely one of the most admired flowers, the rose is grown and sold.
For years now dominates the flower market and existing varieties are countless. Although not a very demanding plant, settling for six hours of light, not too high a temperature and a few extra carbon dioxide, is often at the heart of the unwanted attentions of various weeds.
These attacks can be controlled with classical methods, and soilless cultivation it certainly helps to limit their scope.
But let's see how to structure a rose hydroponics.
First of all, the space. The bushes can grow quite large, so you should check before buying which variety adapts to available. A rose that does not grow too would be preferred. When planning the plan and for each plant an area of at least 120 square cm.
Worthy of consideration is the size of the mature plant, so that is not too close to the pink side, so as to ensure adequate lighting and air circulation.
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Building a growroom. Help on Drillbit Instructable.com
Freely translated from the original: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Grow-Box-From-A-to-Z/
Written by Drillbit
The growbox, or Dark Room is in practice a sort of cabinet designed to accommodate in the house plants which require a controlled environment for growth.
Specific lighting, climate default and ease of management are not easily obtained by simply placing plants in a room, not to mention the aesthetic impact.
On the other hand a common closet is inadequate to the task. Here is a guide to build a small house (152x61x61) growbox DIY.
To design the project, there is a free and simple to use, Google Sketch up, downloadable at this address: http://sketchup.google.com/
The materials needed are these:
-Fiberboard of wood, medium density (one inexpensive, lightweight, made up of chipped reassembled, similar to chipboard. The original measurements are in inches. For your convenience it is convenient to review the scale in centimeters so as to work with numbers round).
You can buy the Brico or other similar stores, requiring already cut to fit your needs.
. 2 front panels: 33.83 × 125.27
. 2 Sides: 60.96 × 152.4
. 2 panels upper / lower: 60.96 × 33.83
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The Japanese art of the provision of natural stone, fine art and old to rediscover the true beauty of nature.
The term Suiseki in Japanese means "stone - water," is the art of collecting stones found in nature and arrange them to create miniature landscapes or abstract compositions of particular evocative power. Not all stones found in nature can become suiseki, but must possess special characteristics: first, a considerable expressive power, special and distinctive forms (kata), as well as structure (shitsu) and colors (iro) evocative, which are able to attract pushing viewer to contemplation.
The intensive course offers a first theoretical approach and practical art of Suiseki. Some experts Orientalists University La Sapienza of Rome introduce the topic, while the teacher will provide the conceptual basis for historical and fully understand the fundamentals, and techniques and to allow instances to create a suiseki.
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Sunday, October 17, 2010 10:00 am - a race against hunger 
Presented today during a press conference, the fifth edition of the Run For Food.
Doing the honors at the press conference, in the splendid Sala Pietro da Cortona, the Capitoline Museums, Alessandro Cochi was present, the CEO for Sports Capital of Rome, and on behalf of agencies of the pole agro-food UN that promote the race, took Vichi De Marchi, spokesperson for Italy WFP.
Numerous institutional presence, the performance of testimonial and sports star who took turns at the table, coordinated by journalist Livia Azzariti. Among these, the actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta, godmother of this fifth edition of the Run for Food, the legend of boxing Nino Benvenuti, the Nike athlete Andrew Howe, bearers of the Sports Center of the Air Force, Italian record holder in the indoor long jump and outdoor assets with a long list of sporting success (silver at the World Championships in Osaka 2007, Italian champion ever this year in Grosseto).
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Of jrossetti, in the original article with pictures: # http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-build-a-Hydrobucket/ step0
The 'bucket hydroponic' Hydrobucket idrosistema is a do-it-yourself plan designed to accommodate a medium or large, but you can easily adjust the size to your needs.
The design is thought to be as simple as possible and to permit the use of fewer parts.
It also does not require any special skills for assembly and is cheap.
Tools
- Your hands
- A cutter
- One yard
- A marker
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The cep mushrooms is one of the most popular in the kitchen, much loved for his versatility and for its unique flavor. 
Under the name of Porcini is usually referred to a fungus of the genus Boletus, a squat appearance, and often large. It 'a symbiotic fungus and gregarious, common in forests of chestnut and oak, fir and beech forests in.
Mushroom picking in the woods is an praticatissima and therefore regulated in many areas by regular checks to prevent the depletion or defacement of the environment.
Not all of course have the opportunity to go personally to collect their own mushrooms. Nor capabilities: research requires some skill, experience and knowledge of the area.
The sorting is then done with care, since the risk of poisoning if the consumption of edible mushrooms is very high and can have very serious consequences.
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The FAI - Italian Environmental Fund presents the third edition of "THE DAY OF WINTER BERRIES AND CAMELLIAS" Villa Della Porta Cocoon - Casalzuigno (Varese)
Sunday, November 7, 2010, from 10 to 18, the splendid Villa Della Porta Bozzolo Casalzuigno (Varese), will host the third edition of "The day of winter berries and camellia," event sponsored by the FAI - Italian Environmental Fund and dedicated to those who do not want to give up even in winter the beauty of one of the most beloved flowers and refined: the camellia.
The idea of holding, always at the Villa Cocoon, also a version of "Autumn" from "The Days of the Camellias" - spring appointment now a must for lovers, collectors and nurserymen, now in its eighteenth year - stems from the desire to make known and appreciated by a growing public this flower with unique qualities and fascinating history, and present in particular species that offer a flowering even in winter.
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