Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Aeroponic system
An aeroponic system looks like an NFT system but works a bit different. The plants are growing in small plastic baskets that are placed in holes cutout along the top of a tube. The roots grow down into the tube. The tube is filled with water by a much smaller tube running along the inside of the large tube. The small tube has holes cut every 6 inches or so to let the water come out. At the end of the large tube is an overflow just like the Flood/drain system that regulates the depth of the water. The large tube remains half-filled with water. The trick with this system is to have a high-pressure pump so the water coming out of the small tube sprays, oxygenating the water in the large tube. The pump should run all the time.
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