What are the advantages and disadvantages of hydroponics?

Answer 1

Hydroponics has taken plant cultivation to the next level. In fact, people who were never interested in gardening or growing plants are now doing so, simply because they are intrigued by the concept of growing plants without soil.

But, what are the advantages and the disadvantages of hydroponics cultivation?

Lets take a look at the advantages of growing plants using hydroponics cultivation technique. There are quite a few benefits that comes with growing plants in soilless culture like:

• Less space required
• Less growing time required
• Labor and garden maintenance is reduced
• Water conservation
• Nutrients are recyclable
• Save money by recycling nutrients
• Pest, weed, and disease problems can be controlled easier
• Plants grown hydroponically avoids soil borne pests
• More control over the plants rooting environment (Easily manipulate the root zone's temperature, humidity, darkness, et).
• Higher and better quality Yields

Although hydroponics is probably the future norm of plant cultivation, it still has its disadvantages, including:

• High set up cost
• Growers require skill and knowledge to maintain optimum production in commercial applications
• Because each plant in a hydroponics system is sharing the exact same nutrient, diseases and pests can easily affect each plant.
• Plants react quicker to changes in the environment, however, if this change is for the worst, plants will quickly react to it; showing signs of deficiency or trouble.
• Hot weather and limited oxygenation may limit production, and can result in lost crops
• Needs constant supervision from the grower.

As with most things, it's important to understand the advantages and disadvantages of hydroponics. This will allow you to make informed decisions on what application is "right" for your individual requirements.

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Answer 2

More controlled environment. Rapid growth and nutrient uptake.

Higher electric consumption. More risk to mold, disease, bugs.