Want to try your hand at hydroponics but don’t know where to start? Here’s the tutorial for you! Growing plants in water is a very simple, cheap and intuitive practice, much more so than normal cultivation. Let’s take a step-by-step look at how you can start growing plants in water. The transition from land to water is a delicate transition, but if done right, it will bring great satisfaction. Let’s take a jar or an old transparent jar or even a jar of honey or jam. Then we take a marker and then the expanded clay or perlite. Before you start, wash both the glass and the clay thoroughly. Then we mark the base plane with the marker, that is, the point where the roots will rest on the expanded clay. When choosing plants, we prefer young plants or cuttings with cuttings rooted in water. We remove the plant from the pot and begin to carefully remove all the soil around the roots. We have to make sure that they are not rotten or diseased, because the plant that we are going to submerge in the water has to be healthy. Then wash them under running water and put them in the jar. At this point, we begin to put the expanded clay between the roots, without pressing, but gently shaking the glass downwards so that the clay is correctly placed in all rooms. When you’re done, tap the side and bottom of the jar so that it sticks and continue organizing.
How to water?
The value marked above helps us not to drown the plant by giving it too much water. In fact, in hydroponics, the roots feed on the water they receive due to the capillarity of the formed apparatus. If the level has fallen below baseline, wait a few days before leveling back by adding new water. We can use a special dispenser or a narrow-mouth watering can. The benefits we will achieve are not only recycling, but also savings, and we will always be able to keep the state of the roots under control. If in the following days we notice that the water is falling, we can add it little by little, always remembering not to overdo it, otherwise we would run the risk of rotting the roots.
