Home Made Hydroponics System

Ok, so you have bought or built a hydroponic system and has begun the process of growing plants, vegetables, flowers, etc. and are beginning to bloom grow perfectly. What could possibly go wrong now?!

I regret to say this, but you may at some time suffer from something so bad he could kill all your hard work in the blink of an eye ... Root Rot! Â The good news is that it can be avoided, so keep reading to find out what you should or should not do to ensure the health and welfare of your hydroponic garden.

If the water is chlorinated hydroponic plants, so you never have to deal with rot roots. But if like most people, it appears that the plants are suffering from one of the following:

• Stunting growth
• They have turned yellow and then died
• Wilt at noon and then recover at night
• They root tips they are brown

So get ready, the plants may suffer from the dreaded root rot. One thing you need to know now is that treatment of the disease is more difficult to avoid, such as Pythium Root Rot is difficult to control once the rot has begun, so pay attention to what follows.

Leta So start with what exactly Root Rot? Pythium or as is better known, Root Rot is a fungus, as a body, a problem commonly found in hydroponic gardens and hydroponic systems and has many different variations.

The three most common, you should be aware of, are Pythium irregulare, Pythium aphanidermatum, and Pythium ultimum. Pythium These variations can be found in water sources and on the ground.

Pythium aphanidermatum Pythium irregulare and may cause more damage to the ebb and flow systems. This is because the organisms that form a swimming spore stage that can move in water and attack your plants very quickly.

Pythium ultimum is most closely associated with the earth and sand and change as landless farmers is mixed this species has become less important and therefore not as common as other species of this organism.

The organism Pythium are often found in the soil field, sand, pond and stream water and sediments, and dead roots from previous crops and the sediment from these sources.

This easily you can enter your plants through dirty garden tools, dirty pots, carried by pets walk on your growing room and by the mosquito the fungus and the shorefly.

How can you keep your hydroponic garden of this precious life-threatening problem?

• Treatment Untreated water pond or slow sand filtration before it is used for irrigation of their other plans plants. effective water treatment including water heating, the use of ultraviolet light, ozonation or chlorination, all of which can stop the body before the attacks of its plants.
• For the ebb and flow systems cover the reservoirs to prevent contaminated waste into the system.
• Return water passage on a screen to remove coarse potting soil and other debris vegetables to help maintain Pythium outside the reserve.
• Disinfect all surfaces of bank, bank of pots, tools and equipment to be will contact the potting mix. Reflux regularly clean and disinfect and flow deposits, banks, and flood and drainage facilities.
• If collecting water from other sources or untreated well water should have it checked or treated as described above before using it to water the plants.
• Sure to keep pets out of the room to prevent increasing pollution. You can trace the organism in their legs and left in the ground where the sand banks can be transferred other important elements in the culture room.

So if the worst happens and your system becomes infected with Pythium, what can you do? Well, Apart from implementing everything described above, once you clear all root rot, can be used for biological and chemical agents help address the problem.

Biological agents that can help control this organism include catenulatum, Trichoderma, Bacillus and Streptomyces.

Common chemicals that can help address this body include etridiazole, etridiazole + Thiophanate-methyl, fosetyl-Al, mefenoxam, metalaxyl and propamocarb.

Remember, after a greenhouse or grow room has been infected all plants must be destroyed. Affected plants can not be composted because the body also lives in the roots of dead plants.

Once done, greenhouses and grow rooms have to be chemically treated to remove any trace of the body, especially in areas contaminated water has come into contact with.

Depends on the cause of the problem, you can also consider biological pest control. This is one of the most interesting developments in modern horticulture and offers a future free of pesticides with nature's own weapons to grow the contaminated food in an atmosphere and a cleaner, greener world.

Biological pest control is the introduction of creatures friendly against those who do harm. These creatures are known as predators because they feed on pests in some stage of their life cycle.

But let´s get a bit more in depth about the subject, so you don´t miss out on any details. Darrell explains in more depth how you should go about setting up your Hydroponic Systems and what you must not miss doing or you could end up with a disaster on your hands.

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