Tips On Home Made NFT Hydroponics Systems

Nft hydroponics systems have been round since the mid 60’s Allen cooper of England developed nutrient film technique.

The fact that nutrient film technique hydroponics has many advantages other soil culture, but the biggest is the fact that the root system of the plants have constant access to oxygen and that plants have access to as much or as little water as they need, this is important as one of the most common errors when growing is over/and under watering, and that hydroponics prevents this from occurring as large amounts of water can be made available to the plants roots and water that’s not used simply drains away, recalculating and then actively aerated, which eliminates anoxic conditions which can cause problems in root systems.

In siol, a grower needs to be very experienced to know exactly how much to feed there plants, too much and the plants will not be able to access oxygen, too little and the plants will lose the ability to transport nutrients, which are typically moved into the root while in the solution.

MAKING YOUR OWN NFT HYDROPONICS SYSTEM

One of the biggest mistakes “not the only one though” is using oval guttering for your homemade system, as the very nature of this system is to have a film of water “between 1mm
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