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Before you proceed with hydroponic gardening, you must learn about various hydroponic gardening systems. You must understand all these things if you are really serious in using this modern farming method. You should be clear about both active and passive concepts in hydroponics.

* Active hydroponics approach

1. The Nutrient Film Method is made up of the following processes:

•It uses a reservoir equipped with submersible pump that efficiently siphons all the nutrients to the grow tube material from where the roots hang up. www.aquaculture-hydroponics.co.uk also offer wide range of grow kits suitable for nutrient film method, so you can choose them on their website if you want to use this method.

•The reservoir is placed at a descending angle to enable nutrient mix to flow down to the roots 24 hours a day, and then back to the container. Aquarium bubblers or air stones are used for facilitating oxygen flow in the tube.

2. Ebb and Flow- It is an active recovery mechanism with and comes with the following features:

•It uses submersible. Pump that is placed in the tank, and operates on “flood and drain” principle.

•There is a flood cycle where pump functions for few minutes to achieve a prescribed water level. Any overflowing allows substances to be directly pumped out of the reservoir. Upward movement of solution forces out the poor air from the root system.

•Nutrient solution is directly pumped from the reservoir to the upper tray and is dispenses directly to the plant roots.

•This is highly effective system with maintenance cost.

3. The Continuous Drip Technique consists of following techniques:

•It uses a pump with supply lines to each plant. The solution flow is controlled using drop emitter.

•You can use all types of growing mediums with this system.

•The drip tray placed below the queue of growing plants transfers all the solution back to the reservoir.

Passive Hydroponics system

The Wick hydroponic system is the passive hydroponics system that fully depends on the growing medium.

* Procedures in the Wick system are:

•The growing solution is soaked using a wick and is directly delivered to the plant roots. Being watery, these systems cannot supply sufficient oxygen to the plants.

•Nutrients are collected in storage area and flow back into the root system. It is a basic and cheap system and is not the best way to do hydroponic gardening. Therefore, to know more about the latest and most effective hydroponics systems, click here now.