Growing plants to most of us is a complete mistery the last time i grow any thing was at school when i grew water cress in tissues, now i want to give growing
things again. I was going to go out and dig up my garden to have my own growing area but before i went ahead i had a look on the internet for some ideas and was
amazed to learn that you can grow pretty much what ever you like in the comfort of your own home. I found a blog that was on about this guy who transformed
his celler into an alotment by useing grow tents and grow lights.
Now i have been out and looked at the many different ways you can grow indoors and this is what i have come up with, by far the easiest way is to fill up some plant
pots with soil and use miracle grow or some thing like that, if you want to grow something to its full potential hydroponics is the way. Hydroponics is a lot more
advanced technique than soil growing as it uses water tanks and pumps to feed the plants and no soil is used. With growing times reduced dramaticley when using
hydroponics it makes it a very good choice for me as i can get more growing done but the trouble is there is alot of different hydroponic systems you can choose.
The first hydroponic system i have looked at was the NFT which looks like a good system but your plants dont get much room grow in the smaller tanks that i was
looking at. I also read that if the pump stops working it doesnt take long before the plants suffer and die very quickly so i ruled out the NFT.
I briefly loooked at the IWS but that was too big for what i was planning on i only wanted to use a 1.2m tent so i looked at the wilma hydroponic system.
The wilma system looked like the one for me as they have a good range that will fit into the tent i wanted the one i went for is the big nine which will fit the
tent perfect. The good thing about this system for me is that you can use a medium so if the pump stops working some moisture is retained in the medium giving
you more time to sort out the problem with out plants dieing. The wilma big nine hydroponics system is a dripper system meaning your feed solution is
being dripped over your growing medium constantly so is being filled with oxygen which is good for your plants.
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