Question 3: What are the benefits of hydroponic growing?
Cultivating plants hydroponically is an easy and environmentally sound way to grow a wide variety of healthy plants. It offers numerous benefits over growing in soil, including:
- Plants grow up 50% faster because they have easy access to food and water.
- Plants become "vacation-proof" and "neglect-resistant" as Stonewool retains water so well, you only need to water every three to six weeks!
- Plants can "tell" you when to water, because they droop before wilting and damage occurs.
- The absence of a buffer in the growing medium means plants get all the nutrients available (they don't remain "bound up" as occurs in buffered mediums like peat moss and coco fiber).
- Little or no pesticides are necessary. Plants start out in a disease-free medium.
- If disease occurs, it may only affect one plant, not a whole row.
- You use smaller containers, because the roots can grow throughout the media without being rootbound.
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