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About Gardening Indoors With Rockwool
Product Description Step-by-step instructions lead readers through the process of creating their own rockwool hydroponic garden. Included are tips from professional growers for making plants grow faster and more lushly in rockwool. From the Author I have been fascinated with indoor gardening for more than 20 years. In the early 1980s there was little information on the subject, so I started to do research. I made hundreds of phone calls and visited countless nurseries. Soon I started writing articles in the Organic Gardening, Houseplant and the Growing Edge Magazine. The research progressed into the Gardening Indoors Series - NEW REVISED GARDENING INDOORS, GARDENING INDOORS WITH CO2, GARDENING INDOORS WITH CUTTINGS, GARDENING INDOORS WITH HID LIGHTS, GARDENING INDOORS WITH ROCKWOOL. This is the only series of books that deals with indoor gardening and High Intensity Discharge lighting. The series has helped hundreds of thousands of indoor gardeners enjoy exotic flowers and vegetables grown indoors. I am also available at our web site. From the Back Cover All new revised information in easy-to-understand format Step-by-step guide to achieving 20 to 50 percent higher yields with rockwool Step-by-step instructions to make your own rockwool hydroponic garden. How to make plants grow faster and more lushly in rockwool. How to grow the absolute biggest flowers in rockwool. How to monitor pH and EC of the rockwool nutrient solution for incredible results Specific growing tips from professional growers How to choose the perfect rockwool garden that fits your unique needs. Examples of the latest tools to use with rockwool. About the Author George F. Van Patten is in his mid-forties and is an expert horticulturist and gardener. He has devoted his life to plants of all kinds and growing them organically, both indoor and outdoor and with and without soil(hydroponically). His a frequent contributor, as member of the Garden Writer's of America, to Practical Hydroponics, GroMag and Growing Edge. He is one of the founders of the Hydroponic Merchants of America. He is a contributor and publisher of "Gardening Indoors series of five books. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter One Rockwool gardens can be created from rockwool cubes, rockwool slabs, or rockwool flock. Rockwool cubes can be purchased in different sizes to meet different garden needs. Cube gardens are ideal for plant propagation and growing small plants, while slab gardens work well for larger plants and transplants. Rockwool flock, also known as granulated rockwool, is used primarily as an amendment to other growing media, or for single potted house plants. The Rockwool Comparison Like all growing media, rockwool has both advantages and disadvantages. But after experimenting with both, many gardeners prefer soilless rooting media to soil mixtures. Rockwool, in particular, offers some advantages over both soil mixtures and other soilless media. Not only are organic growing media like peat, sawdust, and soils becoming more expensive to produce, but they also possess several critical drawbacks. With time, they decompose and experience changes in their water holding capacity. Other inorganic media such as sand, gravel, and perlite neither hold as much nutrient solution nor offer as much buffering capacity as does rockwool. Rockwools biggest advantage is an effect of its construction. Between ninety and ninety-five percent of the space between the rockwool fibers is filled with air, and it holds more nutrient solution and air than any other growing medium. This air space makes oxygen, water, and nutrient solution easily accessible to plant roots. Rockwool is also easy to handle and easy to use. It is available in a variety of sizes and shapes. Rockwool can be purchased in many garden stores, particularly those that sell hydroponic equipment. Using this dry material eliminates much of the mess of gardening. There is no heavy soil
