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Im new to canibus hydroponic Internet culture and a few common vocabulary terms confuse me.
I have a formal education and digree in agriculture from a state university with a major in hydroponics specifically and I have never heard of "bubble ponics" or a "drip" system as an industry standard.
Trying to self serch definitions hasn't helped much because there seems to be a widely ranging diffrence between what people deem "bubbleponics" and "drip" systems seem to be added into any hydroponics traditional set up as an additional enhancement.
The education i received only acknowledged four hydroponics systems.
Deep Water Culture
Nutrient film
Aeroponic
Flood and drain
"Drips" seem to be a Nutrient Film technique added to another hydroponics system for the binifit of rooting young plants?
Seems like some novice coined this concept out of unjustified fear and was otherwise sucsessful enough that people followed it and propagated the idea that is was nessisary. But it's not. It doesn't add any safty or rooting binifit to young plants in any proper system.
For excample you sprout a seed in a small cube of rock wool and once the first water roots show through the cube you transplant to a net pot and suspend it over a nutrient solution but the roots arnt properly hanging into the solution yet so how do they get water right? You raise your reservoir level to barely touch the bottom of the net pot and let it "wick" the solution up to the water roots. Also the air stones create ambient nutrient rich humidity. No need to bastardize two diffrent systems.
"Bubbleponics" seems even harder to define. People seem to use it for any hydroponics that utilize an air stone? How you get dissolved oxygen into a system is far less important than the saturation level of DO in the system so "bubbleponics" is just an undefined slang term for hydroponics?
Thank you all in advance for your help on my sub culture vocabulary
I have a formal education and digree in agriculture from a state university with a major in hydroponics specifically and I have never heard of "bubble ponics" or a "drip" system as an industry standard.
Trying to self serch definitions hasn't helped much because there seems to be a widely ranging diffrence between what people deem "bubbleponics" and "drip" systems seem to be added into any hydroponics traditional set up as an additional enhancement.
The education i received only acknowledged four hydroponics systems.
Deep Water Culture
Nutrient film
Aeroponic
Flood and drain
"Drips" seem to be a Nutrient Film technique added to another hydroponics system for the binifit of rooting young plants?
Seems like some novice coined this concept out of unjustified fear and was otherwise sucsessful enough that people followed it and propagated the idea that is was nessisary. But it's not. It doesn't add any safty or rooting binifit to young plants in any proper system.
For excample you sprout a seed in a small cube of rock wool and once the first water roots show through the cube you transplant to a net pot and suspend it over a nutrient solution but the roots arnt properly hanging into the solution yet so how do they get water right? You raise your reservoir level to barely touch the bottom of the net pot and let it "wick" the solution up to the water roots. Also the air stones create ambient nutrient rich humidity. No need to bastardize two diffrent systems.
"Bubbleponics" seems even harder to define. People seem to use it for any hydroponics that utilize an air stone? How you get dissolved oxygen into a system is far less important than the saturation level of DO in the system so "bubbleponics" is just an undefined slang term for hydroponics?
Thank you all in advance for your help on my sub culture vocabulary
