Is hydroponic organic?

Hello sir, thank you very much for details on organic fertilizers used in hydroponics. It will be very nice of you if you give me address of a site where I can get more details on organic fertilizers in hydroponics. Is hydroponics organic?

Sir you told about compost tea and worm casting; will these be sufficient for plants in terms of both macro and micro elements required by them? Can water from aquarium be used directly as it is also a rich source of N? But what about other elements?

Thank you for this interesting site. It's very useful for me as a beginner as things are simple and explained in detail.




Comments for
Is hydroponic organic?

Average Rating starstarstarstarstar

Click here to add your own comments

Sep 04, 2009
Rating
starstarstarstarstar 		Is hydroponics organic?
by: Larry, Webmaster

Is hydroponics organic? This is the question I always hear... and the answer is yes and no.

Growing organically is a method of growing and not an actual technique. What I mean is that a dirt garden and a hydroponics garden can both be 'organic' if pesticides and nutrients used to maintain the garden are not made with 'processed' chemical ingredients.

So a hydroponics garden using a chemical hydroponics nutrient is not organic but one using seaweed and blood meal for nutrients is organic.

As for a site focusing solely on organic hydroponic gardening, I honestly do not know of many and the few that I do are solely based on growing marijuana. Unfortunately these sites have the most information available on practical organic hydroponic gardening. Do a google search on 'organic hydroponics' to find a good site.

The next question was whether the various garden teas made from compost and worm castings contain all the major and trace elements needed for growing plants in a hydroponics system.

And the answer is 'yes'; these garden 'teas' have it all but they may be time consuming to make.

And as for using aquarium water to fertilize plants it would probably not work. This method is called aquaponics and is successful in large systems but in small aquariums the amount of fish droppings needed to supply the required amount of nutrient to plants would be toxic to the fish.

And I'm talking small aquariums here - 5 to 50 gallons. Something bigger may actually work.

Click here to add your own comments






If you like this website, consider downloading this free toolbar for your browser.

Previously I featured a conduit toolbar with radio for download but replaced it with the Alexa toolbar featuring website anaysis tools along with real-time related links to facilitate searching. Alexa is owned by Amazon and will not embed spyware into their toolbar. It's safe and it's free!

gif
Download





| Return to top |
| Homepage | Contact Us | Policies | About Us | Privacy Policy | Advertise |
Copyright© Hydroponics-At-Home.com 2006-2011 All Rights Reserved.