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| We suggest that you first familiarize yourself with our handout on 'Maintaining your hydroponics system'. In that publication we encourage you to, among other issues, check the appearance of your plants every day. Click here to go to "Maintaining your hydroponic system" The following table helps you trouble shoot problems with your plant environment. For plants, we talk about two stages:  <--vegetative, (leaf and stem growth) and generative (bloom and fruit growth) -->  A plant should always have a good balance between the amount of leaves and the amount of blooms or fruit. As an example consider a tomato plant: If you have too few leaves, the plant does not make enough photosynthates (sugars). This will reduce the availability of sugars and water flow to the flowers and growing fruit. The results are smaller and possibly fewer fruits. When you use the following table as a tool for trouble shooting please:
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