Make a Homemade Simple Hydroponic System Step By Step for Beginners

How to grow hydroponic cultivation techniques began to be used as a variety of fruit and vegetables in urban areas. This is because many people are curious about farming without the use of land which is certainly more hygienic. Moreover, the results of the cultivation of hydroponic vegetables and fruits can be eaten alone, so that after care days will be an outcome that can be felt significantly.

Simple Hydroponic System

For those who still new and relatively novice in the world of hydroponics, do not worry because you can start a hydroponic plant is easy, as long as know the ropes and start of the plant easily grown.

Hydroponics Plant Type Match for Beginners

Actually, the various types of plants can be grown with a variety of hydroponic media. It's just that there are levels of difficulty ranging from easy to rather difficult. A plant as easily if growing fast and does not require special treatment in order to grow. 

Some examples of vegetables and fruit that you can choose to be grown hydroponically include kale, watercress, mustard greens, tomatoes, melons, peppers, and cucumbers. Planting fruits and vegetables is very little risk to fail, the harvest will be qualified and able to repeatedly harvest.

Hydroponic Growing Media Plant

Hydroponics is a technique of farming without the use of soil. Instead, you need a special media instead of soil. Hydroponic planting medium can be a husk (paddy husk is burned to blackened), coco (coco peat), sand, gravel, sponges, sawdust, rockwool, perlite, vermiculite, or pumice. Usually not all these media are used, and adapted to the type of plants that want to be planted.

Nutrients for Hydroponic Plants

Various nutrients are usually contained in the soil as plant nutrients is now no longer there because hydroponics does not use soil in the planting techniques. Therefore special nutritional needs that will be used as a substance that will form the plant's cells to grow and thrive.

Nutrition AB Mix a solution can be found in many farm shops. You can also create your own nutrient solution for hydroponic farming, with materials such as urea, KCL fertilizer and NPK fertilizer.

Ways of making simple nutritional AB MIX:

• Mix 1000 grams respectively KCL fertilizer, urea and NPK.

• Add 50 grams of leaf fertilizer and 20 L of water. If possible, use river or well. If you are only available water taps, sneaking in advance for 7-10 days. Mix well.

• Nutrient solution is ready for use. Save and pour into hydroponic equipment when necessary.

Hydroponics Techniques for Beginners

Although there are many techniques that have been developed to grow crops hydroponically, at least two kinds of techniques that most easily, which is a technique wick (wick system) and a floating system, which will be described further below.

1. Wick System (Wick)

hydroponyc wick system

Named like this because it created a sort of a long axis of the cloth to drain of nutrients by utilizing capillarity properties of the fabric. Nutrients are placed at the bottom of the plant will rise slowly towards the planting medium, and then to the intake for the plant. To grow crops using hydroponics wick system, you can follow the steps below:

1. Shopping a mineral water bottle size 600 ml into two parts. The bottle will be divided into upper and lower sections thereof. You can also use two pieces of used plastic beverage cups.

2. The bottle has been cut and then stacked by means of the upper mouth of the bottle inserted into the bottle bottom pieces that overlap.

3. Then add the fabric that is long enough as an axis to channel nutrients. Place the fabric to clog the mouth of the bottle and the bottle reaches the bottom of the base.

4. Add the planting medium in piece bottle top. Seedling planting seedlings in the above media.

5. At the bottom of the bottle, filled the nutrients needed by plants later. Make sure the nutrients readily available to plants. Refill depleted nutrient solution when it starts to look dry or cloth wick.

6. Seed ready grown and harvested when mature enough.

Floating System (Floating)

hydroponyc floating system

In contrast to the axis of the system, the system does not need a floating wick cloth to drain of nutrients, because the nutrients directly in contact with plant roots. Here is steps hydroponic plant using floating systems engineering:

1. You need a styrofoam box with a lid. The inside of the Styrofoam box filled with a nutrient solution.

2. Punch a hole through the bottom of a plastic cup, filled with rockwool or sponge.

3. The styrofoam box lid made holes with a distance of 3-5 cm as a perforated plastic cups placed.

4. Seed sowing need to first in the husk charcoal medium. After emerging leaves, then the seedlings can be transferred to a plastic cup that had been containing media.

5. Make sure the bottom of the plastic cup touches the nutrient solution, immediately add if the nutrient solution began to decrease.

So how to grow hydroponics is simple for beginners. Easy enough, right? Let's start from the yard of the house itself.

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