Comments on: How important is the root zone environment in controlled environment hydroponic production? https://urbanagnews.com/blog/exclusives/how-important-is-the-root-zone-environment-in-controlled-environment-hydroponic-production/ News and information on vertical farming, greenhouse and urban agriculture Fri, 18 Nov 2022 07:53:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 By: Ralf https://urbanagnews.com/blog/exclusives/how-important-is-the-root-zone-environment-in-controlled-environment-hydroponic-production/#comment-51792 Fri, 18 Nov 2022 07:53:25 +0000 https://urbanagnews.com/?p=8686#comment-51792 In reply to Philippos Alexandrou.

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]]> By: Philippos Alexandrou https://urbanagnews.com/blog/exclusives/how-important-is-the-root-zone-environment-in-controlled-environment-hydroponic-production/#comment-51545 Sat, 05 Nov 2022 09:12:36 +0000 https://urbanagnews.com/?p=8686#comment-51545 Hello,
I am a horticulturist in a NFT system located in Mediterranean area, growing leafy greens. The past three years I have been struggling with summer heat in the nutrient solution. I started understanding how dissolve oxygen is effecting our system recently, but chilling as you mentioned above is not an option (due to high cost).
I have considered the idea of reducing the frequency of irrigations in order to allow oxygen from the air to enter directly in the root zone (this is how it works in a non-constant irrigation system, right? ).
Since in the same system we have different stage of greens, this strategy will fail. Unless we separate big from small.

I would like to know if someone else considered applying this strategy.

Philippos Alexandrou
Planty.eu

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