Question

Who discovered hydroponics?

Answer 1

Hydroponics:

1. Cultivation of plants by placing the roots in the nutrient solution without any soil is called hydroponics.
2. It is also known as soilless culture/ water culture/ solution culture. The solution is aerated at regular intervals by means of an inlet tube.
3. Advantages- 1) It is used to determine which elements are essential for plant growth.

2) The symptoms produced by the absence or deficiency of essential elements.

Discovered by:

1. In 1937, William Frederick Gericke is credited for his earliest modern reference to hydroponics.
2. He grew tomato vines about 7.6 meters high in his backyard in a mineral nutrient solution.
3. He popularizes this idea of growing plants in a solution of water and nutrients rather than soil while working at Berkeley, University of California.
4. He coined the term ‘hydroponics’ and is also referred to as the ‘father of hydroponics’.