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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Fertilization is a key point in the cultivation, for which the choice of a good brand of specific nutrients will already per se the difference.
Let's see what other tricks it will maximize the potential.

The dosage on the label must always be respected, taking care to use the fertilizer in just the right amount based on the stage of plant growth (rooting, growth, flowering), the substrate used ( coir , hydroponics , soil ) and if the crop is very Specific also based on the type of the plant (for example chili , or orchids )

Multicomponent fertilizers and additives should never be mixed in concentrated form or in a little water. These products are kept separated because they are in direct contact with one another may form harmful residues.

First of all, then fill the tank, then pour one by one the fertilizer, then mix well to avoid a pH and a patchy distribution.

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Compost is a logical consequence of anyone with a spirit of ecology, contrary to what you may think, realize it is not difficult and does not smell unpleasant.

WHAT 'THE COMPOST

With the term compost or compound is indicated a product fertilizer, humus-like, obtained through the natural decomposition of organic substances, fermented in the presence of oxygen and transformed into organic substances more simple, more assimilated by plants. This transformation, which is normally at the work of bacteria, is called composting.

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The advantages are well known to most hydroponics. Professionals, amateurs and even merely curious approach this technique every day thanks to the spread of hydro systems are simple to use and inexpensive.
Word of mouth and the easy availability of information and manuals to help the novice learn the basics of soilless cultivation, to make judicious purchases and gain the most from their cultivation.
The sorrow of the lovers for years hydroponics has been that of not being able to combine the performance and speed of their culture with a biological approach.
The specific fertilizer for hydroponics are indeed, by definition, minerals, or chemicals. The organic nourishment typical organic farming tends to clog up pipes and sprinklers, because of the rather large particles in suspension in the solution. These particles may stagnate toward the bottom and rot, creating foul odors and the risk of contamination by pathogens.

The problem has been thoroughly studied by the leading General Hydroponics, which recently entered the market the first fertilizer with all the requirements for organic certification, but adapted to hydroponics: BioSevia.
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If we hear about a lot 'of time as an interesting product as a panacea by some and failure of healing by climate other. But is it?

The Biochar, or Agrichar, coal, or agriculture, is the natural product of the pyrolysis (decomposition by heat obtained in the absence of oxygen) of biomass composed of vegetable waste and other organic wastes.
The procedure allows to obtain a material similar to end charcoal very rich in organic carbon, combined with coal, condensed of bio-oils, ash and tar.

What is it?

Its unique composition makes it suitable for the absorption of CO2 and greenhouse gases, which are literally extracted from the atmosphere and clamped in a stable manner.
The captured CO2 is retained, helping to make Biochar a nutrient substrate that reduces fertilizer requirements, improves the yield of the soil and makes it more efficient traditional crops.
In summary, the Biochar increases crop yields, improve soil quality and reduces the environmental impact of agriculture.

Why have not saved the world?

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Often a lot of hobbyists dedicated only to outdoor or indoor cultivation, have heard of nutrients npk organic, mineral / organic or mineral without knowing the difference substantially, and their use in the various techniques of cultivation in the main, at least for the 'are the organic home gardening (land) and hydroponics. Currently on the market there are a myriad of products / nutrients both by land and by hydroponics, which for 30 years now, were produced by Dutch houses that have long experience in the production of the latter.

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Some time ago we had written in collaboration with the staff of Italgrow a summary table of the main parameters to consider when growing indoors.
Providing a number of sections (Light, Air, Water, Nutrients, Hydroponic Substrates and) we represent to popular demand the simplest guides for beginner and beyond, can provide a first overview and a series of answers to common questions that should have brought my vacuum cleaner? What is a speed governor? At what distance from the lamps must be plants? How do I manage pH and EC? When should I use a root stimulator? What is the difference in practice between the various substrates and which format is suitable for my situation?

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The emulsion of fish are derived primarily from waste products of fish products for consumption food, but also some varieties of tropical fish unsuitable for consumption of oily meat and prickly, fished for their high protein content.

These fish are cooked in the oven and pressed: liquids and oils are collected while the flesh and solid parts are reused in animal feed.
The "juice" obtained, said "stickwater" is more precious than oil and is sold to more than double the price of crude oil. The second step is to centrifuge the serum, which is foamed and boiled until it becomes thick and gummy solution that precisely fish emulsion. Read more ...