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Hydroponics - Indoor Horticulture

Hydroponics - Indoor Horticulture represents an educational, in-depth, up-to-date, indoor horticultural growers guide that covers all principles of indoor Hydroponics Indoor Horticulture by Jeffrey Winterborne hydroponic horticulture and gardening. This book contains 110,000 words, with over 300 diagrams, pictures, illustrations, graphs, tables, 3 dimensional CAD renderings, and is printed in full colour.

Hydroponics - Indoor Horticulture examines, explores, dissects and presents a fully comprehensive step by step growers guide, relating to all and every aspect of indoor hydroponic horticulture, with complete chapters on plant biology, propagation, hydroponic systems, nutrients, oxygen, carbon dioxide enrichment, pH, biological pest control, fungi/disease, cuttings/clones, pruning/training, breeding, harvesting, equipment, grow rooms, a full history of hydroponics, and more.

This book goes further than any indoor growers guide has gone before, presented in full colour with 3 dimensional CAD renderings. Hydroponics - Indoor Horticulture quite simply outclasses any other book on the subject... In terms of literal content, quantity, quality and presentation, no other indoor horticulture growers guide can compete, let alone compare.

(Below follows a one page sample taken from the book)

Young Plants

To define a young plant is to refer to a plant that is beyond the seedling/cutting stage but is before the fruit or flowering stage. In a hydroponics system a young plant is predominantly in the vegetative cycle of the plant’s growth.

Young plants like seedlings and cuttings are delicate and fragile. The seedling and cutting stage is the most troublesome with regards to stressing or damaging the would-be plant. The young plant stage is much more robust, however, it is still not robust enough to endure too much bad management.

Example of a Young Plant

So if you get it wrong but you are propagating within the hydroponics system, the plants will not react as violently as if it would without the further propagation. This technique ensures that you do not kill or damage your young plants and allows you an adequate margin of error. Further propagation of young plants in hydroponics systems normally only last for 7-10 days.

Once a young plant has taken hold in your hydroponics system and is showing rapid growth rate, it won’t be long until it has become established within the system. After the plant has established itself and the growth rate has become exponential, then you are almost through the young plant stage.

The transplantation of seedlings or cuttings to a hydroponics system is again a time where it is possible to come unstuck and destroy or badly stress your beloved plants. It is crucial that you get all variables right before transplanting your seedlings or cuttings into your hydroponics system. Make sure that the day and night time temperatures are correct, that the CF and pH levels are right, that the watering regime is correct and that the lighting levels are also right. Get any one of these variables wrong and it could be kick the bucket time for your potential plants.

Some growers have been known to employ further propagation in the hydroponics system itself. This is done to minimise shock during the transition of transplanting from the propagator to a hydroponics system. The end result is that the plant takes quicker to the new environment and incurs much less stress than compared to being planted straight out of a propagator and into a hydroponics system. Although the young plant is really now in no need of further propagation, it has been proven that the young plant will develop its roots and adapt to the new system a lot quicker than without propagation, and furthermore can endure higher levels of stress.