Hydoponic garden - Gravity feed

Step 8 Plants for your systems

Plants.

There are two ways to obtain plants to grow in your hydroponic system.

The easiest

Step a)
Go to your local plant shop and buy seedling plants of the type that you want to grow in potting mix.

Step b)
Get them home and tip them out of their pots in the shade, then using a running hose, gently spray the soil from the roots - DONT use your fingers as you will destroy delicate root hairs with ease.(fig. 16)


Step c)
When they root bundle is clean, suspend the plant in the centre of the cups (fig. 17) you prepared earlier, so that the roots form a coil on the base. (or come within an inch of the cup bottom)

Step d)
Now run clay balls in around the roots, (fig.18) giving the pot a gentle tap on the surface you are working on every now and again to firm down the balls. Fill to the top of the cup with balls.(fig.19)

Step e)
Using the hose running slowly - run water through the cups until all the clay balls are wet, and place in position in the hydropoinc tray tubes before the clay balls dry. (fig.19a)