It is quite real today to make your home sweet sweet aromatic berries in a cold winter. There are many ways to grow them at home. Increasingly, on hearing a fashionable hydroponic method. The technology itself has a long history and is not a novelty in the field of cultivation, but it was widely spread only a couple of decades ago. How is strawberry growing on hydroponics and what is the complexity of the process, we will consider in this article.
Hydroponic cultivation of strawberries - myths and reality
The method is quite simple. But if in fact everything was so easy, from the supermarket shelves all imported berries would simply disappear. And the need for expensive chemicals would be lost. The fact is that growing strawberries on hydroponics even simplifies the process of obtaining a year, but it has some difficulties:
- first thing should be carefully calculated, since the cost of equipment and solution for hydroponics for strawberries in the past few years has seriously risen in price (if you decided to build a business, of course);
- it is important to find a good supplier of seedlings, because not all varieties are suitable for this;
- in the winter period it will be necessary to solve questions about heating of greenhouses and prolongation of daylight hours.
Growing strawberries hydroponically
Growing berries or vegetables under controlled conditions avoids a number of problems that necessarily arise in conditions of open ground. First, the percentage of used chemistry per square meter is several times smaller. The quantity of fertilizers you clearly control, so that the berries are obtained safe for consumption.
In addition, all kinds of pests or diseases will not create unpleasant surprises. When using hydroponics at home, strawberry berries will never start to rot and harvesting practically does not stop. Due to the constant conditions the plants are strong enough.
Try to make hydroponics at home and grow strawberries for your family is quite real. To do this, you need tools and materials that are absolutely available today.
- As a hydroponic plant for strawberries, you can use conventional pots for plastic flowerpots. Suitable small height of about 16 cm.
- Also we need another capacity of a larger size. It is about 2 cm pour a solution for hydroponics for strawberries. Mandatory condition: the container must be transparent.
- In pots we pour the substrate (keramzit, coconut fiber will do). First we water the seedlings with simple water, after a while we change it to a solution.
- Then we put the plants in a container with a solution. It is important that the roots of plants do not reach the water. Then simply add the liquid to the main container as needed.