Hydroponics for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know

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Everything a beginner needs to start growing without soil: what hydroponics is, how plants feed without dirt, the six main systems and which one to start with, growing media, nutrients, pH and EC, light, where to put it, and what to grow first.

0:00 Start here
0:32 What is hydroponics?
1:07 How plants grow without soil
2:10 The pros and the cons
3:11 How a hydroponic system works
4:06 The six main systems
5:05 Which system should you start with?
6:19 Growing media
7:16 Nutrients, pH and EC
8:37 Light
9:14 Where to put your system
9:59 What to grow first
10:43 Starting seeds
11:23 Where to go next

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Guides mentioned in this video:
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Growing media:
pH and EC:
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Image credits: home grow-light kits by MartinLaidla (CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons); floating fields from the Gujin Tushu Jicheng and the Hanging Gardens by Maarten van Heemskerck (public domain); STS-3 Plant Growth Unit photo courtesy of NASA.

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