Hydroculture (called in some cases hydroponic culture),
is a system of cultivation of plants without the
use of soil, particularly made to be used with plants
used for decorating especially ones in a flat and more
generally speaking, indoors, because of how easy
it is to care and maintain these plants, guaranteeing
at the same time, a thriving and healthy growth of the
plant, in many cases superior to those plants cultivated
with regular soil. This is because the hydroculture
system follows perfectly each period of growth of the
plant, giving it an excellent setting for development.
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The most inportant characteristic of hydroculture is
the exclusion of the use of dirt as an upright
support for the plant, which will instead be kept to
life by just a piece of material which is basically
made of a clay pebbles substrate. This is possible because
the plants do not live in the ground, but in these nutritive
substances (mainly nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium),that
the plant is able to absorb through its roots, thanks
to the water dissolving and watering system. It is,
therefore, the water which by dissolving the nutritive
substances present in dirt, helps the plant absorb these
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The hydroculture, starting from the above princilple,
helps in the supplying of the solution of water and
nutritive substances directly to the plant, the amount
it needs, and together with light and heat, guarantees
a thriving and healthy plant growth. The clay pebbles
substrate is used to keep the plant alive ( a lifeless
material, odorless and hygienic) instead of soil, which,
at this point, is not needed anymore. |
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