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HYDROPONIC [5 records]

Record 1 2021-08-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Forage Crops
CONT

Hydroponic fodder is animal feed grown from seeds without soil, and with little water. A week after the seeds have sprouted, the nutritious seedlings will be up to 30 cm tall. They can be produced every day of the year, even in the dry season.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Culture des plantes fourragères
CONT

Le fourrage hydroponique est produit en cultivant des graines sans terre, et avec très peu d'eau. En six ou sept jours, les graines germent, les plantules atteignent 30-35 cm de hauteur et fournissent un fourrage très nutritif.

Spanish

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Record 2 2004-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Shelters (Horticulture)
  • Solar Energy
CONT

The Three Rivers Research, Conservation and Development Council, Inc., located in Milton, Florida has combined hydroponics, solar radiation and greenhouse technologies to grow year round, the "Santa Rosa Sweet" onion. With no pesticides used in the process, this innovative... technology uses the solar-heated hydroponic solution in its greenhouses to reduce the amounts of energy required to grow crops 12-months a year indefinitely.... The solar warming technology revealed that the accelerated mineral uptake dramatically increases plant growth rate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Abris (Horticulture)
  • Énergie solaire
OBS

Agriculture Canada.

Spanish

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Record 3 2001-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant and Crop Production
  • Farming Techniques
  • Horticulture
CONT

Hydroponic culture : Growth of plants in an aerated liquid medium that supplies all nutrients needed for growth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
  • Techniques agricoles
  • Horticulture
DEF

Se dit d'une culture de plantes dont les racines sont dans un support souvent inerte dans lequel circule une solution nutritive.

CONT

Culture de plantes dans l'eau, sans avoir recours au sol [...] culture hydroponique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Producción vegetal
  • Técnicas agrícolas
  • Horticultura
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Record 4 1988-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant and Crop Production
DEF

Adaptation of the hydroponic method of growing plants that enables the experimenter to maintain concentrations of nutrient ions in the culture solution at fixed predetermined levels. This is accomplished by continuously renewing or flowing the nutrient solution past the plant.

OBS

The technique permits study of plant growth and nutrition at the ion concentrations found in soils.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cultures (Agriculture)

Spanish

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Record 5 1986-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farming Techniques
  • Geophysics
CONT

Gutman has described how a small hydroponic installation has been established in North-Eastern California at a height of 1250 m above sea level, where the winter temperature sometimes falls to minus 33 ° C, aided by natural artesian thermal spring yielding hot water just below atmospheric boiling point.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques agricoles
  • Géophysique

Spanish

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