Hydroponic Kits

Hydroponic Kits

Hydroponic kits, what are they? If you are a hydroponic farmer or interested in starting a hydroponic system but don’t know where to begin, it might be in your best interest to get a kit.

Hydroponic kits come in several varieties at affordable prices and can be an easy joy to work with. Assuming you know about grow cultures and nutrient solutions already so let’s take a look at what the market has to offer.

Picking Hydroponic Kits

Do you want to use a medium or the simply and have your plants suspended in a solution? Whatever the case, picking up hydroponic kits is as easy as going down to your local Home Depot and purchasing one of their choices.

There are many different methods, and these kits will come with everything you need, so put away those five gallon buckets and trays and explore the world of home hydroponic kits for growers.

Most of the hydroponic kits you will find are for medium cultures, and there are even simple kits for kids who need science experiments. However, if you are looking for a crop yield, getting a system that is a bit more complicated is the way to go.

The HyperGrow hydroponic gardening kit comes with a growth medium, (rock) is the water pumping system, two tier planters and a pre-prepared nutrient solution. It costs around eighty dollars.

Emily’s Hydroponic Growing System (by Hydrofarm) is also about eighty bucks and provides six grow containers, a growth medium, air pump and nutrient pH test kit, and of course, a two gallon reservoir that makes the whole set up about twenty five pounds.

If you are looking at growing with a solution culture, you might try a Quad Pod. This is a kit that uses a method called deep water culture, where the plant roots are suspended in a bucket of nutrients and super-aerated water.

This particular kit comes with the aerated rocks (but that’s not a medium) a five gallon reservoir, four grow stations and an air pump. The Hydroponic Controller Complete is another example of a solution kit, but this is for static solutions.

It comes with an 8 gallon reservoir and a 13 gallon controller, as well as tubing and fittings for a float valve. These kits both cost about eighty five dollars.

The equipment isn’t all that is for sale. There are also nutrient hydroponic kits. There are several companies, such as Fox Farm and Humboldt that produce nutrient solutions by the gallon and often with other items of its kind.

For example, you can purchase a three pack of quart bottles of different nutrient solutions from Fox Farm for about forty dollars, and this will aid you for quite some time.

Humboldt provides growers with a three in one nutrient system that you don’t have to mix and match with and it costs about ten dollars for a quart of that. It may be in your best interest to buy a testing kit, which looks for pH balance and salt build up.

The Hanna Gro’Check system is a kit that allows you to check your reservoir levels and your pH levels at the same time. These monitors can be expensive however, and it’s best if you know what you are doing when purchasing one.

Monitoring your Hydroponic Kits

Once you get your hydroponic kits, you may be shocked at how simple and wonderful hydroponic farming can be. Set up your hydroponic kits, monitor them, and let them grow!