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The art of growing plants without soil and only using minerals and other nutrients that are dissolved in water is called hydroponics. The roots of these plants are usually exposed to the solution at a specified time. This is advantageous because all the nutrients that a plant needs are delivered right to its roots.

 

Requirements for Growing Cannabis Hydroponics are :

1. A growing space
2. Lamp to act like sunlight
3. A grow medium e.g. Peat
4. Pots
5. Nutrients
6. PH tester
7. PPM tester for nutrients level
8. Timers that help control light and pumps
9. A mode of ventilation
10. Cannabis seeds

Best Hydroponic System for Growing Cannabis

Deepwater Culture (DWC)

This system is cheaper and is the easiest to assemble and use. A deep water culture system usually consists of three parts; a bucket which stores the dissolved solution of water and nutrients, a basket with peat in which the roots grow through to the solution containing nutrients and an air stone which is submerged to provide air to the nutrient solution.

 

Advantages

1. Produces high yields
2. Low cost of maintenance
3. Easy to assemble
4. Good for novices

Disadvantages

1. Difficulty to maintain the required temperatures in the bucket
2. A power outage harms the crop
3. Small systems affect the PH levels and concentration of nutrients

Drip Hydroponics

In this system, the solution containing nutrients is fed directly to the roots of the cannabis through a channel of tubes leading into the growing medium. The solution keeps dripping into the medium and then drains through the roots and later recycled back to the reservoir to repeat the process.

 

Advantages

1. Effective use of nutrients and water
2. Suitable in areas with scarcity of water
3. Easy to budget on
4. Low maintenance cost

Disadvantages

1. Not suitable for organic growing
2. The system tends to clog causing wilting of the cannabis plant
3. Timers and pumps can malfunction

Ebb and flow system

This hydroponic system gradually soaks and drains the roots of the cannabis plant. Water doesn’t stagnate in this system, and roots receive enough air as the solution drains away.

 

Advantages

1. Easy to use
2. The roots don’t rot
3. Highly productive

Disadvantages

1. Water needs replacing constantly
2. The system has a high cost of running and maintenance
3. Timers and pumps tend to fail

Aeroponics System

In this system, the cannabis gets hanged in baskets while its roots are misted frequently, which creates a fog of nutrients. This enables faster growth and higher yields, but everything should be monitored closely.

 

Advantages

1. It has the lowest and more efficient water use.
2. It boasts of the fastest growing system
3. The roots are regularly exposed to oxygen
4. It is a disease-free system
5. Cannabis plants can be grown more closely together.

Disadvantages

1. The plants require a lot of monitoring
2. There is a high cost of maintenance as it requires a constant supply of electricity.
3. It provides for a very small margin of error.

Hydroponics is the most suitable way of growing cannabis at home. This is because hydroponics is by far much easier to and less time-consuming. It is easier to take care of the cannabis plants without much struggle, and the yields are high. Hydroponic cannabis is incredible and of much more quality.…