Leave hydroponic vegetables to professionals | "Urban Planting Tide" topic

Author | Forest Class

Can family balcony dishes use hydroponics? Wang Xiaoyun, who has been studying balcony hydroponic vegetables in the 1990s, has been studying balcony hydroponic vegetables in the 1990s. However, it gives an interesting answer: it is necessary to leave the matter of hydroponic vegetables to professional people.

Wang Xiaoyun is the chairman of Beijing Ludong Guochuang Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. and senior agronomist. He also serves as a director of the Chinese Agricultural Engineering Society and other professional social work. Why does years of research have made him concluding such a conclusion?

Wang Xiaoyun said that the planting of hydroponic vegetables is not a pot of water, and a piece of sun can be harvested. Taking cucumber as an example, hydroponic planting on the balcony requires a series of equipment such as the planted sink, a barrel storage, a water pump that completes the circulating water, the water pipe used for connecting, the water pump timer, and the nutrient solution. With the equipment, it is necessary to make judgments on the orientation, floor, and closed conditions of the balcony, and carefully maintain daily. Rizhao, climate conditions, and temperature and humidity all affect the growth of vegetables. Five cucumber seedlings need 5 liters of water on sunny days, and only 3 liters of clouds are required on a cloudy day. In addition, the preparation of nutrient solution and so on, it is difficult to make ordinary people learn a few steps. Compared with flowers embellished with flowers and the environment, vegetables have a characteristic of growing fast, and some still take up space. Cucumber can emerge in three days, and it can bear fruit for more than a month. The height can reach more than 1 meter. The fast growth of vegetables means that there will be more maintenance labor every day than flowers.

▲ Vegetables grow fast, hydroponic growing faster

For these reasons, Wang Xiaoyun believes that for the family, hydroponic vegetables are not costly on the one hand, and on the other hand, people cannot achieve professional planting effects because they have professional equipment, because the vegetables that are planted "reaches standards" do need a lot of professionalism. Knowledge.

He said a user experience. It was a family who liked to grow vegetables very much, and installed a full set of hydroponic facilities on the balcony. At first, everyone was very good. Everyone was very happy. Everyone came to help take care of vegetable seedlings. However, when the vegetable seedlings grow up, the workload is much larger every day, and it takes a day to not pull it. Second, more maintenance and experience is needed. The family could not take care of it. Two months later, although they came to the door several times, the family decided to give up because it was really "uncertain."

After years of practice, Wang Xiaoyun has not found a set of "maintenance packs" that can be successfully operated successfully or for ordinary people to learn to cultivate vegetables. As a professionals, he felt that hydroponic vegetables on the family balcony were still a very difficult thing. Perhaps it is easy to sell some vegetable sets from a business perspective, but it cannot be done well after -sales service. In the end, everyone was killed and retreated, leaving a bad planting experience but not beautiful.

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