Hydroponics Grow Medium

Choose the right grow medium to get the most from your garden

Many types of media used  in hydroponic systems. They amount to peat, vermiculite, or a combo of both, which may
be added polystyrene beads, even small pieces of polystyrene beads, or perlite to reduce the cost. Also media such as
coconut coir, sandy types, sawdust, are used most in all regions of the world.

For growing lane crops such as lettuce, enduring, and peppers, the most popular artificial growing medias are rockwool
and perlite. Both of them can be used in a closed or open presentation system. They both are manageable when dry,
easily handled and simple to steam-sterilize than many types of aggregate materials.

Rockwool, or stonewool, comes from basalt rock, and you can get it as spun wool or fiberglass, or it can be granulated,
offering something different to perlite and vermiculite in terms of water holding and aeration.

Hydroponics Grow Media are very important

Stonewool has a meridian pH, greater than 8.0, however, it has no buffering zone, which means it will not affect the pH of your

nutrient solution nor will it affect any other media it is mixed with, such as peat moss (has a pH of 3.8 to 4.5). Stonewool can be

purchased in slabs ready to use, or as bulk grit for those growers who just love to mix their own soil less media.

Perlite is usually packaged in white bags with slits in the bags. Perlite is an unemployed media providing excellent
aeration and water tolerance capacity. Unlike rockwool, it can be reused several times.

Occasionally certain diseases are introduced, the infested nutrients will contaminate the entire planting system. In addition to the

common practice of antibiotic circulating systems, there is another way to control this by frequent water changes.