Filed under Hydroponic Set by on Jul 6th, 2010. 
Filed under Hydroponic Set by on Jul 6th, 2010.
Filed under Hydroponic Set by on Jul 6th, 2010.
Hydroponic Strawberries
Growing your own hydroponic strawberries will carry many advantages for you over growing them in the soil in your garden!
You will have access to fresh home grown strawberries every day of the year as growing fruit and vegetables hydroponically creates year round yields! Four to six plants will be enough to feed a family all the strawberries they wish for. You could even plant a few more and maybe create a little sideline business for yourself.
As hydroponic strawberry plant roots will not need to spread out to find nutrients like soil planted strawberries do, growing time will be reduced by around 40% on average! Your strawberries will also be a lot bigger and many say tastier!
Another big benefit to growing hydroponic strawberries is that no pesticides are needed due there being no soil, this also means that no soil borne diseases will be passed on. If you want to know how to grow hydroponic strawberries then read on.
Hydroponic System
You need to decide on a specific hydroponic system for your strawberries! You can read more about DIY Hydroponics and making a Hydroponic Indoor Garden which will give you a detailed break down of the different systems! You can also read the Home Hydroponic Gardening Guide!
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Nutrients
For your hydroponic nutrients I suggest you use a commercially prepared nutrient solution with a pH level of between 5.5 and 6.5. If you’re used to hydroponics then you could mix your own solution. Either way I recommend you drain and change the solution every 14 days.
Lighting
For strawberries I suggest you go for a high intensity metal halide hydroponic light.
Maintenance
Maintaining your hydroponic strawberries is easy, just as with growing all hydroponic plants! Just make sure the solution is changed once every 2 weeks and pick off any runners or ready strawberries from the plants and you should have delicious strawberries every day of the year!
Why not consider growing your very own Hydroponic Lettuce!
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Hydroponic Tomatoes
Hydroponic Tomatoes
Hydroponic tomatoes are easy to grow once you have the set up and are delicious! They will be there for you to pick your own whenever you want them, all year round! If you haven’t already, I suggest you also read the articles on DIY Hydroponics and building a Hydroponic Indoor Garden which explain the ins and outs of Setting Up Your Own Hydroponic Garden!
Hydroponic tomatoes will on average be bigger than traditional soil grown tomatoes, they will also take around 40% less time to grow due to the roots not having to spread out and search for the nutrients (which they have to do in soil)! For 10 reasons why growing your own hydroponic tomatoes is advantageous see the article on Home Hydroponics!
Assuming you’ve read DIY Hydroponics and you have chosen a hydroponic set up or if you already have your system in place then there are a few other things you need to take into account for growing hydroponic tomatoes!
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Temperature
This should be set at between 70 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit during the day and 10 degrees lower at night! This is the typical temperature that tomatoes will thrive in! If you get this balance wrong by 10 degrees either side, you’ll end up with discoloured, stunted or even dead tomatoes!
Lighting
Tomatoes are long day plants, so use the blue part of the light spectrum! They should ideally have 18 hours of light per day! I would recommend you use a metal halide high intensity discharge lamp!
Humidity
Hydroponic tomatoes need the correct humidity levels, a little too much and they’ll end up with calcium deficiencies! They will also struggle to take in other nutrients from your nutrient solution! The ideal setting for hydroponic tomatoes would be a 70% humidity level however you could go as high as 80% and they should be fine.
Why not consider growing your own Hydroponic Strawberries!
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Hydroponic Indoor Garden
If you’ve read the article on DIY Hydroponics then everything else you need to create a hydroponic indoor garden is included here!
CO2
Depending on where exactly you intend to keep your hydroponic plants, you may or may not need some extra CO2!
You can quite easily keep them inside your house around your family! This will be easy as the plants will feed from the CO2 produced! So if you keep them in one of your family rooms or a corridor, then you don’t need to worry about anything! You could keep them on a balcony or on the rooftop and the plants will feed off the CO2 in the atmosphere!
However if you keep your plants in a garage or greenhouse, then you may need to consider giving them a boost in CO2 in order for them to flourish! This can be done in a number of ways! You can either leave some compost lying around in pots for your plants to lap up the odour, you can
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Temperature
Your hydroponic indoor garden ideally needs to be maintained at temperatures between 65 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit. Luckily this is the normal temperature range in the average home!
Lighting
You can use grow lights to aid growth and experimentation may be necessary! Lights may typically be used for between 8 and 16 hours per day but this varies greatly depending on what you’re growing!
That is basically it! Anybody can grow a Hydroponic Indoor Garden!
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Hydroponic Vegetables
Growing hydroponic vegetables carries the following advantages over traditional soil based gardening.
1. The big problem of knowing exactly how much to water your vegetables is eliminated! Your Hydroponic Vegetables will never have too much water which will cause the roots to rot or have too little causing them to die of thirst! This is the main problem with traditional gardening!
2. Your plants will grow much faster as the roots do not need to spread out and look for nutrients in the soil. Instead it is applied directly to the roots! Research has suggested that growing lengths have been cut by as much as 50%!
3. No soil is required! This is ideal if you live in the city and have no garden or you live somewhere where the soil is of terrible quality. You don’t have to pay to have soil brought in! If you live in the desert or Antarctica…problem solved!
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4. Due to no soil being needed there are no soil borne diseases being passed on to the plants! Your hydroponic vegetables will be far healthier as a consequence!
5. As you’re not using soil, the use of pesticides is greatly reduced if not eliminated!
6. The cost of growing hydroponic vegetables is estimated to be 20% less than traditional growing methods! Once it’s set up, the cost is miniscule!
7. Hydroponic Vegetables take up less space as the root size is reduced. This is because the roots don’t need to spread out in order to find water and nutrients.
8. Maintenance is practically non existent! Once set up there is nothing for you to do other than to pick the vegetables once they are ready! Weeding doesn’t exist when growing hydroponically and there’s no need to water them as it’s readily available.
9. Your yield is year round so you’ll never run out of fresh vegetables for your family.
10. You can grow your plants anywhere; in the garden, greenhouse, conservatory or bedroom.
Why don’t you consider growing Hydroponic Tomatoes!
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