Hydroponics Metrics: Choosing Your Preferred Values

Hydroponics Metrics: Choosing Your Preferred Values

Some recent coverage of various hydroponic systems and approaches focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of some of the most common strategies for indoor gardeners. Knowing how these systems and setups differ will help you to craft the hydroponics grow environment that you want.

Quick Growing Systems

Some hydroponics grow box systems are set up to provide growers with the fastest plant cycles. For example, the common wisdom in the hydroponics community suggests that the ebb and flow method can provide relatively quick outcomes, as can some types of aeroponics systems. If speed is what you’re looking for, take a look at some of the hydroponics grow box or grow tent models that use these simple setups to help expedite plant cycles.

Efficient Grow Box and Grow Tent Units

Some grow systems are made for efficiency. Some of the aeroponics approaches mentioned above provide a lot of oxygenation for plants, and minimize waste in irrigation and nutrient supply. Growers can also choose systems without expensive elements like water and air pumps, or supplementary carbon dioxide resources.

Automated Systems

While growers pay quite a bit more for automated hydroponics grow box models, some of these systems can really take a lot of the work out of indoor gardening. Built in monitors for temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, pH value and more can effectively work as a ‘growers helper’ and maximize yields while reducing the burden of labor on a project.

The specific kinds of ‘values’ that you bring to your hydroponic shopping rely quite a bit on how many plants you want to support, and how long you will be using the equipment. Think about all of these factors when you approach a hydroponics purchase, and ask your retailer about what’s available to support and complement your own individual indoor gardening strategy.