Indoor Gardening: Essential Hydroponic Supplies for Planting Indoors

Indoor gardening is best portrayed as creating a synthetic garden atmosphere inside the house or indoor. The indoor gardening is useful for those who lack space outside their homes or apartments for gardening. Through indoor gardening, you can produce any fruits and vegetables irrespective of the climate and season. Here are some essential hydroponic supplies for your indoor hydroponic garden.

Grow Room: There are two types grow room for indoor gardening. One type of grow room takes air from the exterior of the grow room and eliminate air from the interior of the grow room. This process is known as a circular venting exchange system. The other one is a sealed grow room that does not allow any air inside or the outside of the room. Sealed grow room helps you to suppress plant diseases and pests. The sealed type of grow room increases your CO2 amount and helps provide suitable humidity and temperature condition for the plants. 

Grow Lights:  Grow light is another aspect of indoor hydroponic gardening. This provides lighting to your plants because the grow light is an ideal substitute to natural sunlight. While choosing the best light for your indoor garden, you need to look for different factors such as the light intensity, duration of lights and colour of lights. You can go for High Intensity Discharge Lights, this are electric lights which are highly efficient for your plants.

Growing Medium: Hydroponic is the technique of growing plants without soil and hence we need an alternative for growing plants other than soil. Growing medium is an essential for indoor garden. Growing medium contain varied minerals and nutrients. The main objective of growing medium is to hold the plants roots. There are different growing medium available for e.g. Oasis cubes, Coconut Fiber, Perlite, Sand, Rockwool etc.

Grow Bed: The grow bed is the space where you split your plants into diverse planter areas. It’s a raised section that relaxes on the apex of your indoor hydroponic area. This area contains your growing medium and it helps to hold your plants.

Nutrient Solution: The nutrient solution is fixed at nutrient bay which is position under the grow bed. Plants nutrients are mixed in water that helps your plant to grow. You can use high acidic solution with good pH level and ensure that your solution should have essential nutrients like sulfur and nitrates. You can get different solution ingredients that will hold the nutrients of your plants and help in improved growth of your indoor plants.

Hydroponic System: Indoor gardening is done in a sufficient space and hence you can use different hydroponic system. You can go for Drip system, Water culture, N.F.T. (nutrient film technique), aeroponics and Ebb & Flow systems which is quite suitable for your indoor environment. You also require other basic materials like the basin, an aerator and a pump.

You can get all hydroponic supplies from shops or through an online marketing. Once you start your indoor gardening, make sure that you spend time and effort for growing plants. Don’t forget to preserve these as this farming is based on artificial environment.