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How to Grow Ocimum Basilicun L without Soil?

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Ocimum basilicun L, alias orchid, hairy basil, sweet basil, nine-story tower, etc., is an annual herb of the Lamiaceae Ocimum. Now let’s talk about how to cultivate basil without soil. 1. Soaking seeds Seedlings are generally seeded with seedlings, and seeds are soaked prior to sowing. First add cold water and a thermometer to the beaker, then slowly add hot water to stir and observe the temperature, stop adding water at about  50 °C . Put the seeds into the beaker and stir well to make the seeds evenly heated. When the temperature drops, continue to add hot water to maintain the temperature for 15 min, naturally cool, and continue to soak the seeds to make the seeds absorb water. After soaking seeds, there will be a layer of sticky material on the surface of the seed, which will be easily rotted during the germination process. Therefore, the seeds should be rinsed repeatedly with water to remove the surface mucus. Then place the seeds in a gauze bag, rinse the wate...

6 Reasons Why You Should Do Microgreens Business

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Microgreens are more and more popular now, and there are many microgreens recipes on the internet. Can we grow microgreens ourselves? The answer is yes and the the microgreens benefits are great. What are Microgreens ? Microgreens are nutrient-packed superfoods with several key health and educational benefits. Despite the unique name, a “microgreens” is actually a broader term for several common vegetables and herbs, just grown and eaten differently than what you might think. Microgreens seeds are planted very close together in trays. They are grown and havested much quicker, so their small roots don’t require much space. Radishes for example, are ready to harvest in about 7 days, whereas sunflowers and peas make take 10-14 days to be ready. Instead of eating the fruit of the plant, the tender stem and first leaves are eaten. If allowed to continue to grow leaves are eaten. If allowed to continue to grow, these microgreens would eventually mature into the vegetables you...

Urban Farming: How to Grow Vegetables on the Balcony?

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Balcony vegetable cultivation has been loved by more and more urban residents. It not only provides residents with a source of pollution-free vegetables but also plays a certain role in beautification and greening. 1. What is urban balcony farming? The so-called urban balcony planting mainly refers to the behavior of urban residents using the roof, balcony, window sill, etc. for vegetable cultivation. 2. Advantage of urban farming Urban balcony vegetable planting Advantage urban balcony vegetable planting not only solves the problem of vegetable purchase of urban residents to a certain extent, but its pollution-free planting method also improves the quality, freshness and nutritional value of vegetables, and provides a guarantee for the safety of urban vegetables. At the same time, the urban balcony vegetable planting is more environmentally friendly, economical and low-carbon, which plays a role in beautifying the balcony and greening the environment, and to some exten...

LED Plant Growth Light Demo

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How to choose LED plant growth lights has become a problem for users. In the absence of daylight, led lamps can act as daylight, allowing plants to grow normally or better. This kind of lamp has strong roots, encourages, regulates flowering and flower color, promotes fruit ripening, coloring, and enhances the taste and quality! Hydroponic vegetable light environment is one of the important physical environmental factors indispensable for plant growth and development. Controlling plant morphogenesis through light quality regulation is an important technology in the field of facility cultivation; plant growth lamps are more environmentally friendly and energy-saving, LED plants Lights provide photosynthesis to plants, promote plant growth, reduce the time spent on plant flowering, and increase production! In modern construction, it is an indispensable product for crops. Many users and friends randomly select a LED plant growth lamp on the Internet to supplement the plants with light, an...

LED Plant Growth Lamp Common Problem Solving

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Check if the power supply is working properly and the command light is on. If not, please check if the power supply is connected correctly. Check that the power cord of the lamp is well connected to the positive and negative electrodes of the power supply and that there is any reversal. If the above problem exists, please connect it correctly. 2, LED plant growth lamp beads on the voltage requirements: The nominal 3V LED lamp beads, in fact, different colors have different current requirements, yellow requires the least current, followed by red, green, white and blue. If the current is too large, the wick will be burnt. With a 2.4V rechargeable battery, yellow is easy to burn because even if the voltage is low, the current is too large and it will burn at will. A fleshy bulb with a specific wavelength of LED can affect the flowering time, quality and duration of the flowering of the plant. LEDs of certain wavelengths can increase the number of flower buds and flowering of pla...

How LED Light Affect Fish and Corals in Your Tank will Look?

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I always say that you only really need three thing s to be successful in this hobby, good water quality, good water flow, and good light. All of those things are pretty involved but lighting in particular gets a lot of discussion, because of the three it is the most exoensive and the thing that is going to most dramatically affect how the fish and corals in your tank will look. My goal in making this video isn't so much to give a prime to beginners, it is to illustrate just what a difference lighting can make. Corals can color up differently under different lighting systems to varying degrees, but lighting systems can also drastically affect the appearance of the same exact coral. A lot is made of what corals look like online. Are the images oversaturated? What kind of lighting was this taken under? The list of questions go on and on. What most people do not realize is that much of what that coral will look like has more to do with the lighting selection by the hobbyist than the...

Application of LED Plant Lamp in Plant Tissue Culture

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Light is one of the important environmental factors in plant growth. With a reasonable light environment, plants can grow and develop healthily. A plant lamp is a type of luminaire that uses the light of the sun to simulate the light environment required for plant growth. Due to its small size, light weight, long life and adjustable light intensity, LED plant lights have become one of the important light sources for plant light environment regulation, and have obvious advantages in energy saving and plant growth. Plant tissue culture is a new technology of asexual reproduction developed in recent decades based on the theory of pluripotency of plant cells. Tissue culture of plants is also called ex vivo culture in a broad sense. It refers to the isolation of tissues, organs or cells, protoplasts, etc. from plants, which are inoculated under sterile conditions with various nutrients and phytohormones. The culture medium is cultured to obtain regenerated whole plants or to produce...

How LED Plant Grow Lamp Effects Various Wavelengths of Light on Plants

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Effects of light of various wavelengths on plants Visible light wavelength (4*10-7m----7*10-7m) Light color --------- wavelength λ (nm) --------- represents the wavelength Red-----780~630----------700 Orange--630~600----------620 Yellow--600-570----------580 Green--570~500----------550 Qing---400~470----------500 Blue---470~420----------470 Purple--420~380----------420 In order to study the color properties of light, the visible spectrum is enclosed into a circle and divided into nine regions, called color rings. The number on the color ring indicates the wavelength of the corresponding color light, the unit is nanometer, and the color in the fan shape of any two opposite positions on the color ring is called complementary color. For example, the complementary color of blue (435~480nm) is yellow (580~595nm). It has been found through research that the color light also has the following characteristics: (1) The complementary colors are mixed in a certain ratio to obtain ...

High-efficiency Soilless Culture Technique for Aromatic Vegetable Basil

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Basil, alias orchid, hairy basil, sweet basil, nine-story tower, etc., is an annual herb of the family Corydalis. Hydroponic plants should be supplied with liquid during the cultivation process to ensure adequate nutrient supply. The liquid supply time is generally selected during the day and no liquid supply or less liquid supply at night. The number of liquid supply on sunny days is more, and there is less liquid supply in rainy days; when the temperature is high, the light is stronger, and vice versa. Usually, the liquid is supplied 2-4 times a day, and it can be grasped for 30 minutes each time. This can be adjusted at the right time with the time controller. Hydroponic plants are exemplified by pipelined hydroponic vegetable production equipment. Production management is mainly to adjust the time of supply of nutrient solution and the number of liquid supply. The liquid supply time and the number of liquid supply times of the nutrient solution are mainly determined according to th...

Precautions for The Preparation of Vegetable Soilless Nutrient Solution

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With the development of vegetable facilities in the world, the soil salinization caused by excessive use of chemical fertilizers, the decline of vegetable quality, and the soil-borne diseases caused by years of planting have become more and more serious. At the same time, more and more farmers and agricultural plants are growing. The base began to grow vegetables using the soilless culture model. Hydroponic culture of hydroponic culture is a kind of soilless cultivation. It is classified into no-substrate cultivation. The non-matrix cultivation type refers to the absence of matrix-fixed roots in the environment of plant root growth. The roots grow in nutrient solution or humid air containing nutrient solution. However, some substrates may be used during seedlings. Soilless culture of vegetables is a new type of indoor soilless cultivation method, also known as nutrient liquid culture: the core is to fix the plant roots in the planting basket and let the roots naturally grow into the p...

How to Choose High Quality LED Plant Fill Light to Grow The Plants Faster and Healthier

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LED fill light has been on the market for several years, the first generation of led does not have enough advantages to compete with hid in plant fill light, but the latest design of high quality led enough to mention mh and hps fill light system. Here's how to help you savvy you choose high quality LED plant fill light products: 1, to choose high power led Planters should choose high-power LED products, and low-power LEDs are not enough to support the entire growth process of plants. High power led should be greater than 1W. The 3W series of LED products include: CreeXR-Lamp, Luxeon Dragon series. High-power LEDs usually integrate a large piece of metal at the bottom for heat dissipation. 2, choose the big brand long life led products The lifespan of hps is usually 20,000 hours, and the actual use is generally 5,000 to 10,000 hours, because the illumination of long-term sodium lamps will decrease. The lifetime of high-quality LED products is generally between 50,000 and...

What is The Role of Plant Lights in Affecting The Plant Growth Cycle?

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In traditional agricultural production, the use of ordinary electric light sources to supplement light and the application of different covering materials and other agricultural technical measures, such as the use of monochromatic fluorescent lamps or colored plastic films, to change the light environment to regulate the growth and development of plants in the facility cultivation environment. Led plant lights use different measures to avoid different degrees of problems, such as the lack of analysis of specific spectral components leading to impure light quality, inconsistent light intensity, close to or even below the plant's light compensation point, The illumination source has low energy efficiency. A large number of application studies of LEDs in plant facility cultivation environments have shown that LEDs can solve these problems and are particularly suitable for use in artificial light-controlled plant facility cultivation environments. Plants rely on the energy of ligh...

LED Plant Light Lighting Features and Advantages

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LED plant light features: 1. The effects of different wavelengths of light on plant photosynthesis are different. The light required for photosynthesis in plants has a wavelength of about 400-700 nm. Light from 400-500 nm (blue) and 610-720 nm (red) contribute the most to photosynthesis. 2, blue (470nm) and red (630nm) LEDs, just to provide the light required by the plant, so the ideal choice is to use these two color combinations. In terms of visual effects, the red and blue combination plant lights appear pink. 3, blue light helps plant photosynthesis can promote green leaf growth, protein synthesis, fruit formation; red light can promote plant roots growth, help flowering results and prolong flowering, play a role in increasing yield! 4, LED plant lights red and blue LED ratio is generally between 4:1 - 9:1 is appropriate, usually 6-9:1. 5. When the plant light is used to fill the plant, the height of the blade is generally about 0.5-1 meters, and the continuous irra...