Most commercial hydroponic growers combine hydroponic technology with a controlled environment to achieve the highest quality produce.

In hydroponics, plant spacing can be intensive, allowing you to grow more plants in a given space than soil grown produce.

By providing the exact nutrients your plants need, they will grow more rapidly and produce bigger yields.

If you are growing indoors or in a greenhouse, you can grow your hydroponic plants on a year round basis.

Perlite is derived from volcanic rock which has been heated to extremely low temperatures.

Expanded clay pebbles have a high pH and excellent capillary action.

Peat moss is fresh fibrous material that forms when mosses and other living material decompose in peat bogs.

Ideal media are physically inertial, porous, clean and free to drain.

Sand can be used as alternative medium for hydroponics.

In a Drip system, the nutrient solution is delivered to the plants through drip emitters on a timed system.

A Passive system is generally faster growing and as intensive as the other systems discussed.

NFT is ideal for long term crops.

Hydroponics means growing plants in a water and nutrient solution, without soil.

By eliminating the soil in a garden, you eliminate all soil borne disease.