Hydroponic food production: a definitive guidebook for the advanced home gardener and the commercial hydroponic grower (7^th Ed.) A Definitive Guidebook for the Advanced Home Gardener and the Commercial Hydroponic Grower, Seventh Edition

This comprehensive, practical guide to soilless growing practices provides detailed information on how to design, set up, and operate hydroponic culture systems. Featuring 550 photographs, drawings, and tables, the seventh edition of this best-selling book has been extensively updated and expanded. The text describes the most successful growing cultures to use with specific crops and details media as well as hydroponic techniques. Chapters cover nutrient uptake and mixing as well as deficiencies and their symptoms, plant nutrition, nutrient solution, water culture, tropical hydroponics and special applications, plant culture, nutrient film technique, gravel culture, and more.

Introduction. Plant Nutrition. The Nutrient Solution. The Medium. Water Culture. Nutrient Film Technique. Gravel Culture. Sand Culture. Sawdust Culture. Rockwool Culture. Other Soiless Cultures. Tropic Hydroponics and Special Applications. Plant Culture. Appendix 1: Hydroponic and Soilless-Culture Societies. Appendix 2: Greenhouse Production Resources. Appendix 3: Units of Measurement: Conversion Factors. Appendix 4: Physical Constants of Inorganic Compounds. Appendix 5: Greenhouse and Hydroponic Suppliers.

Hydroponic growers; crop scientists; horticulturalists; extension agents; commercial growers; advanced home gardeners; botanists; and plant scientists.