11 Facts About Hydroponics

Hydroponics is a type of horticulture and a subset of hydroculture which involves growing plants, usually crops, without soil, by using water-based mineral nutrient solutions in aqueous solvents.

Hydroponics offers many advantages, notably a decrease in water usage in agriculture.

Hydroponics is not only used on earth, but has proven itself in plant production experiments in space.

Hydroponics found that plants in less-pure water sources grew better than plants in distilled water.

Hydroponics first termed this cultivation method "aquiculture" created in analogy to "agriculture" but later found that the cognate term aquaculture was already applied to culture of aquatic organisms.

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Hydroponics then introduced the term hydroponics, water culture, in 1937, proposed to him by W A Setchell, a phycologist with an extensive education in the classics.

Hydroponics is derived from neologism ?d??p????a, constructed in analogy to ?e?p????a, geoponica, that which concerns agriculture, replacing, ?e?-, earth, with ?d??-, water.

Hydroponics wanted to make sure all aspects of hydroponic cultivation were researched and tested before making any of the specifics available to the public.

Hydroponics was used there in the 1930s to grow vegetables for the passengers.

Hydroponics was a necessity on Wake Island because there was no soil, and it was prohibitively expensive to airlift in fresh vegetables.

Hydroponics research mimicking a Martian environment uses LED lighting to grow in a different color spectrum with much less heat.