Organic NFT Systems?

Can NFT hydroponic systems 'go green' and become organic? Is it possible to make an NFT system work with organic hydroponics?
Remember that an NFT system dangles plants roots in a flowing nutrient fluid, there is no growing medium.

I ask this question because organic hydroponics involves organic fertilizer which means that the amount of bacteria involved will be much greater than a convention hydroponics system.

Bacteria is benefical to plant processes and actually produce more plant nutrient except that they require tremendous amounts of oxygen to sustain themselves.

In a closed system such as NFT or Aeroponics, plant roots are usually enclosed within a tunnel of some sort, PVC for NFT or an actual box-type container for Aeroponics.

This design is closed so reduces the free oxygen available to a plant and with a lot of bacteria at work grabbing the available oxygen, plants can literally smother in an organic hydroponics set up.

So I would not recommend an organic nutrient film technique organic system. My recommendation to use organic hydroponics would be to set up a system with growing medium that is fully aerated rather than using NFT unless, of course, you are experienced enough to diagnose and handle any problems.

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