William Frederick Gericke In 1937, William Frederick Gericke is credited for his earliest modern reference to hydroponics. He grew tomato vines... View Article
Hydroponics is a method of growing plants in water culture. Any type of plant can be grown in this kind of setup. However, not all plants render... View Article
1937 William Frederick Gericke in 1937 is credited for his earliest modern reference to hydroponics. He started to popularize this idea of... View Article
Hydroponics is a subset of hydroculture. It is a method of growing plants without soil utilizing mineral nutrient solutions, in water. Vertical... View Article
Rockwool is a horticultural growing media that is made from natural ingredients such as chalk and basalt rock. As rockwool takes shape in fire,... View Article
The pH levels in the hydroponics system changes due to several reasons. When the level of nutrient solution drops below one gallon, it gets more... View Article
Hydroponics system is a soil-less cultivation method. It can be used to grow plants in a nutrient-rich, water-based solution. Crops can be grown... View Article
Hydroponics system is a soil-less cultivation method. It can be used to grow plants in a nutrient-rich, water-based solution. In this method of... View Article
PPM in hydroponics is an acronym for Parts Per Million. It is a measure of the strength of the nutrient solution in a hydroponic reservoir. It... View Article
There are certain guidelines that the NOP (National Organic Program) has proposed. If a hydroponic system is able to meet these guidelines, then... View Article
In the Hydroponics system, plants are cultivated in a soil-less medium, in a water-based medium. In this system, plants are fed with liquid... View Article
Few microbes such as Rhizobium are known to fix atmospheric nitrogen. Nitrogen can be fixed by lightning that converts nitrogen and oxygen gas... View Article
Nitrogen fixation is the process wherein abundantly available atmospheric nitrogen is made available to plants in a usable form which is carried... View Article
Electrons in nitrogen fixation flow from ferredoxin to the reductase to nitrogenase for the reduction of nitrogen to ammonia. Hydrolysis of ATP... View Article
Nitrogen is abundantly present in the atmosphere. However, cannot be used directly. In order to be used, it must be converted into a usable form.... View Article
Process of nitrogen fixation enables organisms to use atmospheric nitrogen in a form that can be used, as it cannot be directly consumed. Free... View Article
Electrical energy is carried by each bolt of lightning. It is so powerful that it can break the strong bonds present in the nitrogen molecules in... View Article
Biological nitrogen fixation takes place when nitrogen in the air is converted into a usable form by the nitrogenase enzyme. Nitrogen is... View Article