Green Plants as air-conditioning
The cool atmosphere and green with plants in the house or yard will make people feel more healthy, comfortable and fresh. But the obstacles are mainly in urban planting system that already exists impressed expensive and complicated. To find the ground just as the planting area is quite difficult, especially in the often time-consuming maintenance.
To overcome these constraints, the current planting system developed by the system “simple hydroponics”. This system can be done by anyone, the housewives can do for the manufacture and maintenance is very easy and practical.
Simplified hydroponics
Called low cost because it utilizes the pots made of plastic or a lot of land available in the market with cheap price. Media using the earnings are split coral used as a mixture for the foundry building and asphalting the road. In order for the plant’s nutritional needs are met is to use compound fertilizer is widely available in the market.
This simple hydroponics system can be in various types of ornamental plants, fruit plants, and vegetables. But in general, simple hydroponic system is perfect for ornamental plants as penyemarak and conditioning room. Where plants can survive in space even for one week to ten days. This is because the availability of sufficient water.
Ornamental plants that have been successfully tested on tried simple hydroponics system including: a palm tree; cycas; Aglonema; elephant ears; frangipani; maidenhair ferns; orchid; roses; pandanus; Kkadaka; pineapple ; hibiscus.
Making simple hydroponics
In principle containers used for growing crops is not porous and can hold water. For that, a single pot with the bottom of the hole closed or without a proper container is used, because the pot will be filled with water, if there are no black bucket can be selected.
Planting media used are coral-split, the river stones that have been broken into small pieces, measuring 2-3 cm. If it is too small should not be used because of lack of air space, which causes root growth is not optimal. Coral split is not damaged by time and water, so plant with this medium can be incorporated into the house safely.
Planting
In order for plants to grow well, correct planting stages, namely the container / pot that you have prepared, made a hole in the 5-10 cm high walls using nails. Just one hole for each pot. After that the contents of the pot and a half or three-quarters of the media corral that had been soaked split some time and replaced continuously until the water looks clear immersion.