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The idea of “seven deadly sins” is very different to a hydroponic growers than it is to someone majoring in medeival literature. But although this might sound like a funny way to talk about hydroponics, it can be instructive to look at some of the biggest “no-nos” in this kind of project management.Letting plants roast or freezeKeeping an even temperature is very important in hydroponics. It's one of those fundamental commandments that every new growers should understand. The right tempe …

As a new grower, you may be looking for a range of resources to help you figure out how to grow best. The Internet is actually a great repository of information for hydroponics.In a lot of ways, the Internet works great for hydroponics, because the Internet is a very diversified information medium, and hydroponics is a really complex type of project. You can get a lot of what you need with quick Google searches on things like nutrients, irrigation, pH value and more.Here are some of the t …

A lot of growers don't know much about flushing. They hear the word and they think about flushing a toilet. Flushing in hydroponics is a little different, and it's something that's good to know about when you are trying to set up your own successful hydroponics project, for either commercial reasons or hobbyist use.To begin with, flushing does mean cleaning out a reservoir in a lot of cases, but it doesn't just mean getting rid of stuff. It's a much more sophisticated strategy for deliveri …

The cloning process is one that's now pretty popular with a lot of modern hydroponic growers, but it's also one that beginners don't really know much about. So how do you clone plants the right way?The idea of cloning is fairly simple. You take cuttings from a mature plant, and nurture those small pieces into other full plants. But the way to do this is something that growers often learn from themselves, or piece together from various random sets of instructions.The cuttingsOne of the asp …

If you're trying to help certain kinds of crops to work better inside a hydroponic environment, you may benefit from a process called low string training.Low string training is critical for certain kinds of vining plants or plants that grow in specific directions, but don't have thick enough stems or natural vertical structures to propel them upward. Think of plants like peas or beans that operate from dense vines, or bushes with many individual strands. These plants often run into proble …