Hi PP,

Hydro is just soilless growing you are simply eliminating the nutrients normally found in soil and replacing it with an inert (containing no plant food) medium and watering with a solution which each time given is giving all of the nessesary stuff to your plants roots. (some sentence huh) I personally use gravel in a net pot. I just plant my clone or seedling in the gravel and then flood the gravel with nutrient solution once every six hours.

How hydroponics works is unfortuanely technical but you don't need to know all of that to grow hydroponically. The key to hydro is the nutrient solution containing all of the elements normally found in soil. The biggest problem is the all of these nutrients must in be in solution at the same time and since some of these nutrients are chemical binders for others of these nutrients sometimes you can run into nutrient lockout. (especially if your PH is over 7.4) In soil the soil holds much of the nutrients and releases these to the added water from your watering can as needed. This is why so many new hydro folks have problems. Soil by nature acts as a buffer for all of the screw ups that occur during a grow. In hydro if your nutrient solution is incorrect then your crop will not thrive. In soil even if your nutrients are out of wack you may not even notice it in you plants. In no way should this discourage anyone from growing hydroponically as once you get it it is in my opinion much easier and more satisfying then any soil grow.

I hope this helps,

H
Herbus Reviewed by Herbus on . Need an explanation...!:o Could anyone give me an explanation how hydroponics work? (not to complex:o) I'm would really like to start on something like a hydro setup!:) Rating: 5