Create Your Indoor Garden with Modern-day Hydroponic Instruments!
Land and Water availability are few of the biggest problems for farmers in the United States. With this, growing your plants including crops indoors has become more and more popular. Hydroponic farming has taken leads in the past few decades, but hydroponics is not a new technology. Modernday hydroponic gardening which now includes portable COD meter, hygrometer, photometers, and many similar instruments have been around for over 50 years. Hydroponics is a technique of growing plants with no use of soil. There are few parameters such as growing medium, nutrients, pH and EC (electrical conductivity) etc. that are to be maintained while growing the plants in indoors. Light, Temperature, and Humidity: Vitals for Hydroponics Hydroponic gardening is dependent on a nutrient solution in order to make sure that the plant grows properly. It is vital to observe and control the pH and EC of nutrient solution regularly to provide the optimal conditions in the root zone, so that plant also gets the maximum uptake of nutrients. The most common factor that limits the plant growth is the light source. The crops in the hydroponic system need uniform lighting system at all times to optimize taste, color, and consistency. Further, the temperature of the root zone can go unnoticed at times, that may affect your plants. High and low temperatures in the root zone can stress out your plants. Low temperatures in the root zone inhibit the plants from being able to get the nutrients they need to grow and be healthy. High temperatures in the root zone cause heat stress. Therefore, it is important to get the optimum temperature maintained in the root zone. The trick in artificially lighting your indoor hydroponics system is to provide your plants with the right parts of the visible spectrum. Photometer and thermometers are the basic instruments that any hydroponic grower