Thanks to the emerging modern technologies, now there is an excellent opportunity to grow indoor plants without using the usual earth substrate. With the help of hydrogel balls, which the domestic enterprise Agricola produces, it is a pleasure to be engaged in floriculture.
Use the polymer beads of hydrogel in several ways - grow indoor flowers in them, root the cuttings into seedlings, use them for cut flowers or add them to the soil for better water saturation of plants. The latter option is more suitable for transparent small granules that do not have a clear shape and color, and therefore will be an excellent addition to the ground.
Instructions for use of hydrogel balls
In order to start planting plants in bright beads, hydrogel must be properly prepared. It is necessary to pour the hydrogel with warm water (about 1 liter per packing of balls or 300 g per 1 g of dry beads) so that it covers them completely, and allow time to swell.
Each ball significantly increases in size and keeps the amount of water several times greater than its own weight. It is for the ability to retain and gradually give water the hydrogel balls have become so popular that it grows year after year.
Approximately in 8-12 hours (all depends on the size of the balls), you can start planting plants. To do this, excess water is drained, so that there is air between the balls, which is necessary for the root system not less than moisture. If this is not done, soon the rootlets will rot and cover with an unpleasant touch, spoiling the entire composition.
For planting plants it is desirable to take a high transparent dish, in the extreme case, round, but so that the hydrogel layer is not less than 10 cm, because for an even vertical fixation of large plants this can be a problem.
How to plant plants in the hydrogel?
To room pets without problems rooted in the hydrogel balls, it is best to plant a young plant that has not yet accumulated a lush green mass, capable of collapsing on its side.
Watering the colors in the hydrogel will now be very rare and the signal to it will be lowering the overall level of the balls, meaning a decrease in the amount of moisture in the polymer. In addition to water hydrogel perfectly retains and fertilizer, gradually giving them to the roots. Therefore, one should not forget to feed them, but much less often than flowers in ordinary soil.