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AquaSchool created with the intention of providing educational services, related studies and sustainable use of aquatic organisms and natural or artificial environments that host them, making use of existing communication technologies for distance learning.
In this way everyone has access to a personal computer connected to the Internet, you can follow a course freely, unencumbered by the need to go into a classroom and placed in a given space at a given time.

In fact, as a student to follow a distance course with the computer has the following significant advantages:

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To lose a small hydroponic system easy to realize, that it does not require special manual skills' a lot of money?
Here, a classic dry system, which lends itself well to the first experiments that you can build in minutes.
So let's see how to make this very simple system out of the ground with automated irrigation.

Materials:
- Two buckets with a capacity of about 20 liters
- substrate for hydroponic (perlite, rockwool flakes, vermiculite or expanded clay)
- End of drill bit or awl
- one-minute interval timer
- Oxygenator with tubing and air stone
- Pump
- Flexible hose for the pump

- pH test
- Where appropriate solution for pH adjustment
- nutrients for hydroponics
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Definitely one of the most admired flowers, grown and sold is the rose.

For years now dominates the flower market and existing varieties are countless. Although not a very demanding plant, settling for six hours of light, excessive temperature and a few extra carbon dioxide, is very often the focus of unwanted attention of various weeds.

These attacks can be controlled with classical methods, and soilless cultivation certainly helps to limit their scope.

But let's see how to structure a rose hydroponics.

First of all, space. The bushes can grow a lot, so it is advisable to check before you buy which variety adapts to available. A rose that does not grow too will be preferred. In designing the plant for each plant so expect a gap 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 light and air circulation.

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Collect fruit and vegetables directly from the plant is the dream of many people who dream of organic food and contact with nature.
In 2019 this could become a reality in England, where the public can easily go to the supermarket and pick from plants and trees as much as he pleases.
The idea of ​​Futurlab, important company believes to have identified an area of ​​attractive investment offering hydroponic directly shelves in supermarkets.
Within the retail areas would be present greenhouse, where mushrooms, strawberries, potatoes, peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, and more.
As in any produce section the customer will simply choose the goods, weigh it and put it in the cart.
The greenhouses in question are conceived as hydroponic / aeroponic and without the use of substrate.
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... And as often happens in these cases both start hand in hand towards the crowded shores of uselessness.

After the dramatic Hydroponic Garden , behold here a new gadget dedicated to the cultivation of aromatic plants and flowers.

Perhaps you would like to expose to the critical eyes of your guests trivial jars of earth? Maybe you would like to germinate in old, outdated, aesthetically inappaganti blocks of peat, rockwool or other practical materials?

Not at all. The trend is to design the object, then spend your 35 pounds (40 euros, plus shipping) and buy yourself this object somewhere between the toaster and electric kettle , which, thanks to an advanced technology designed by the even NASA (ie hydroponics) will allow you to germinate the seeds your (not included).

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The advantages are well known to most hydroponics. Professionals, amateurs and even the merely curious are combined this technique every day thanks to the spread of hydro easy 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 worry of hydroponics enthusiasts for years has been that of not being able to combine the performance and speed of their culture with a biological approach.
The fact hydroponics fertilizers for specific minerals are, by definition, or chemicals. The typical organic farming organic food tends to clog pipes and sprinklers, because of rather large particles suspended in the solution. These particles can stagnate toward the bottom and rot, creating foul odors and the risk of contamination by pathogens.

The problem has been studied in depth by the leader in General Hydroponics, which recently entered the market the first fertilizer with all the requirements for organic certification, however, suited to hydroponics: BioSevia.
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It sounds strange, but also in the desert is virtually possible to adequately feed sheep, horses or cows with fresh herbs rich in minerals.
The solution is a growing bedroom semi-automated, or a technology of production of plant biomass in a controlled environment, obtained by rapid germination and plant growth, resulting in high forage digestibility, nutritional quality and very suitable for high ' animal feed.
The supply of fresh herbs is good for health of livestock, making it stronger, healthy, fertile and productive.

What is it in practice? We speak of a special chamber of hydroponics, a sort of super growroom, in which are grown in trays oats, barley, corn, wheat, sorghum, alfalfa.

Even during the bad season, or in regions not suitable climate is indeed possible today to get hydroponic crops are able meet the needs of livestock.
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Combining a small, handy, home-aeroponic system with a design full of appeal?

It would seem possible thanks to the Jim Ruck , a gadget useful and enjoyable to watch.
Designed as an integral part of the furnishings of a modern living room, this small object allows adequate spray the roots with nutrient solution.
On one side you can see the cascade of water, designed to oxygenate the best accessories and recall some typical Zen garden.
Small lettuce or herbs thrive on the top of your modern hi-tech miniature garden.
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Christian Cantelli

FOR SOME come to know that there are bacteria and fungi colonizing in stores of home-gardening-specific hydroponics may seem odd at least, it is worth spending up to a hundred dollars for a jar of microbes living? And what are they?
Many of the largest manufacturers of nutrients in recent years have added to their catalog this type of products that, as regards the technique of hydroponic cultivation, represent a real revolution.

The mushrooms were the first, since they had to find a brake to fungi harmful to plants as the infamous pythium, capable of destroying an entire crop in a very short time, or others such as Fusarium or Verticilliu, it was decided to introduce in the rhizosphere (the area of the underground house roots), a natural enemy of the same, the Trichoderma. ... Read more

Plants are born and grow even where the land is missing or uncultivable, as long as you provide them with a balanced nutrient solution with a pH (acidity) suitable for the type of plant.
To provide for the functions of the roots anchor and protect from light are used inert materials such as clay, perlite or rock wool.

Through a drip system and ducts, fertilized water is circulated so as to eliminate all waste, and although the layman it may seem a little money, we talk about water supply actually halved.

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