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Hydroponics - New on Growshop.com!
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 Chili peppers are famous throughout the world from the fiery cuisines of Mexico, India, Thailand and Africa to the subtle flavor enhancement of the most delicate dishes. The hot varieties can also be picked at any color stage, but are hottest if allowed to fully ripen. Chili peppers ripen through a wide range of colors from yellow, orange, purple and even brown. Some chili peppers turn bright red, which is more often an indication of ripeness rather than hotness.
Chili peppers are perennial shrubs native to South America, which are grown as annuals in our colder climate. They range in hotness from mild to fiery hot. The burning sensation is attributed to chemical compounds called capsaicinoids, which are stored in the light-colored veins, on the walls, and surrounding the seeds. Capsaicin acts on the pain receptors in the mouth, not the taste buds. Experts agree that long hot dry summers produce the best (hottest) chili peppers.
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Never assume that a plant is ignorant.
 They may not have a brain so to speak and they are not able to move about freely, but a plant is far from being unintelligent. Plants don’t need to attend school to learn how to go about their business. A plant may never obtain a Harvard degree, yet those who seek to totally understand them can obtain an education as high as the level of doctorate and still not know everything about plants.
Plants need no clock or calendar.
Plants tell time by the light. A plant does what it does according to the length of daylight hours and intensity of the light. The number of daylight hours guides a plant as to when it is time to do each step of their growth and production. They are never late, nor do they loose track of time. Lighting is of huge importance to the indoor grower where direct sunlight is impossible to attain.
Plants will never tell a lie.
Isn’t it refreshing to know that there is an entire society of life that you can count on to be honest 100% of the time? A plant has no concept of anything beyond the truth. It would never occur to them to toss in a few irrelevant notions over the course of a day. They may not be able to utter a single audible word, yet they have much to say and tomes of knowledge to impart.
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Aquaponic systems are being increasingly recognised as having potential for solving some of the many problems facing modern agriculture and aquaculture. MIKE NICHOLS profiles two very different commercial aquaponic systems that embrace new ideas and innovations.
Nick Savidov with basil crop and fish tanks in background.
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Aeroponics is the most recent development in hydroponic methods, and one that has gained much publicity over recent years. It is defined by the International Society for Soiless Culture as a system where roots are continuously or discontinuously in an environment saturated with fine drops (a mist or aerosol) of nutrient solution." The method requires no substrate and entails growing plants with their roots suspended in a deep air or growth chamber, with the roots periodically atomised with a fine mist of nutrients. Since their inception some 30 years ago, it is fair to say that aeroponic techniques have proved very successful for propagation, but have yet to prove themselves on a commercial scale. Aeroponics is also widely used in aboratory studies of plant physiology. Both the University of Arizona and Purdue University use aeroponic cultivation techniques to research controlled environment life support systems to be used in space stations of the future, and to support visitors to Mars.
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The system of Nutrient Film Technique (NFT) was originally designed and developed by Dr Allen Cooper. The concept is described by Dr Cooper as follows: " A very shallow stream of water containing all the dissolved nutrients required for growth is recirculated past the bare roots of crop plants in a water tight gully.....Ideally, the depth of the recirculating stream should be very shallow, little more than a film of water - hence the name nutrient film. This ensures that the thick root mat, which develops in the bottom of the gully, has an upper surface which, although moist, is in the air. Consequently, there is an abundant supply of oxygen to the roots of the plants. "
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