This Is How to Grow Hydroponic Plants So They Look More Beautiful and Grow Stronger and Stronger

To successfully grow hydroponic plants, the first thing you should do is choose a suitable vessel. Some friends think hydroponic plants simply means digging a flower out and putting it in a container full of water, but this approach is actually incorrect. That is because hydroponic plants also involve technical know-how; you cannot just toss them into water and expect them to grow and bloom.

Step one for hydroponic plants: prepare a proper hydroponic vessel. A proper hydroponic vessel has a water-holding container at the bottom and a hydroponic basket on top; the hydroponic basket is used to hold the plant's roots. Only with a hydroponic basket vessel like this can aquatic plants be grown properly; otherwise the plants cannot grow normally, and the ornamental appeal of the flowers is also affected.

Step two for hydroponic plants: potting. When you dig the flower you plan to grow hydroponically out of its pot, you must first clean the roots; it is best to rinse them with tap water with the flow turned up so they can be washed clean and thoroughly. Then trim off the leaves around the roots and any rotten roots, place the roots into the hydroponic basket, and put water in the bottom of the container. But some friends find that the plant's roots do not easily reach the water level. In that case, we can put some colored glass beads at the very bottom of the container so the water level rises.

Step three for hydroponic plants: nutrition must keep up. Because hydroponic plants are separated from soil that can store nutrients, their demand for nutrients is greater, so once every half month you should add hydroponic plant nutrient solution to the water. Only by giving the flowers enough nutrients can they grow healthily. If they are flowering hydroponic plants, they need even more nutrient solution.

Hydroponic Plants Soothe the Mind and Lift the Spirits, Perfect Whether Given as a Gift or Kept for Yourself

On Guangzhou Road there is a small shop with a modest storefront called "Lvyin Ge." Stepping inside, you can see green plants in every shade from deep to light, hear the murmuring sound of flowing water, breathe fresh air that makes body and mind feel at ease, and your heart seems to quiet down along with the little fish in the glass tank. If you look carefully, you will notice that here the planting pots have become glass vessels, soil has become water, and fertilizer has become nutrient solution... everything sold here is hydroponic plants.

The Aqua-Terrestrial Tank That Is the Shop's Treasure

Although the small shop is only a little over ten square meters, the variety of plants on display is quite impressive: plectranthus that can both repel mosquitoes and guard against radiation, bare-stem grass that never grows leaves and stays bare forever, coleus that is always mistaken for amaranth, inch plant that looks as if it has purple eyeshadow on, and watermelon peel plant whose leaves look like little watermelons painted on them. Each one has its own unique charm.

But what shop owner Wu Yuanping treasures most is the shop's treasure just inside the entrance -- an ecological aqua-terrestrial tank. A rock wall covered in green plants is placed inside a huge water tank; on the wall grow Selaginella uncinata with exceptionally strong vitality, while in the water float and stretch out Anubias. A small waterfall on the rock rushes down, splashing onto the little fish swimming happily in the tank, forming a harmonious picture of an ecological cycle. "Fish waste can serve as fertilizer for the plants, and any mosquitoes bred by the plants will all be wiped out by the fish. Although this system is small, it is very complete." It is understood that in developed countries such as Europe and the United States, many families choose to place similar ecological rainforest tanks in their rooms, in order to create a pleasant feeling of returning to nature.

The Owner Doubles as a Technical Consultant

Wu Yuanping, the owner of the small shop, explains that so-called hydroponics uses the implementation of original industrialized modern biological improvement technology to take flowers originally adapted to growing in terrestrial environments and, through short-term scientific cultivation and improvement, induce them to rapidly grow aquatic root systems that can adapt to aquatic environments, thereby enabling the plants to grow in water for the long term. Wu Yuanping and his business partner Zhang Muqing have a four-to-five-hundred-square-meter production base in Maqun, devoted specifically to plant improvement. They opened their first shop in 2005, and now have three shops in Nanjing.

Not only do they cultivate hydroponic plants, but Wu Yuanping and Zhang Muqing also serve as technical consultants for every customer. Wu Yuanping told reporters that regular customers often run into problems while growing plants and come to them for advice. For this reason, he himself keeps enriching his knowledge. In order to buy books on hydroponics, he once even took a train to Shanghai specifically to buy materials. "That time happened to coincide with May Day, and because tickets were in short supply, I only managed to get an ordinary train at night. After standing on the train for nearly four hours, I arrived in Shanghai at four in the morning. The bookstore was not open yet, so I sat in McDonald's until eight or nine in the morning. Then I went all over Shanghai's big bookstores looking for books."

Anubias Witnesses a Couple's Marriage Proposal

With verdant, drippingly green plants in crystal-clear glass containers, people can not only appreciate the normal growth of the "above-ground parts" of the plants, their branches, leaves and flowers, but also see through the bottle the growth process of the plant world's uniquely ornamental root systems. This has made young white-collar workers and homemakers who love life and know how to appreciate beauty the main customer group of Lvyin Ge.

A pot of Anubias sold in the shop even witnessed the moment a young man proposed to the girl he loved, becoming a romantic prop on their path of love. Wu Yuanping said that earlier this year, a couple had come to the shop and stayed for a long time. The girl praised an Anubias highly, but in the end did not buy it. After quite a long time, the young man came and bought this pot of Anubias, and chose two little red swordtail fish to accent it.

Later, this post appeared on Lvyin Ge's page: "When he walked toward me holding the Anubias, my heart pounded. A piece of paper was rolled up on top of the tank, and the cute little fish seemed to know something too, swimming around excitedly. The moment I picked up the paper, I saw the ring tied to the other end of it, and on the paper was written 'would you merry me?'... I nodded solemnly, said the three words he was waiting for, and let him put the ring of promise on my finger. This lovely green sprite became the witness of his love and mine."

Hydroponic Plants Soothe the Mind and Lift the Spirits, Perfect Whether Given as a Gift or Kept for Yourself

October 16 news from China Landscape Web: On Guangzhou Road there is a small shop with a modest storefront called "Lvyin Ge." Stepping inside, you can see green plants in every shade from deep to light, hear the murmuring sound of flowing water, breathe fresh air that makes body and mind feel at ease, and your heart seems to quiet down along with the little fish in the glass tank. If you look carefully, you will notice that here the planting pots have become glass vessels, soil has become water, and fertilizer has become nutrient solution... everything sold here is hydroponic plants.

The Aqua-Terrestrial Tank That Is the Shop's Treasure

Although the small shop is only a little over ten square meters, the variety of plants on display is quite impressive: plectranthus that can both repel mosquitoes and guard against radiation, bare-stem grass that never grows leaves and stays bare forever, coleus that is always mistaken for amaranth, inch plant that looks as if it has purple eyeshadow on, and watermelon peel plant whose leaves look like little watermelons painted on them. Each one has its own unique charm.

But what shop owner Wu Yuanping treasures most is the shop's treasure just inside the entrance -- an ecological aqua-terrestrial tank. A rock wall covered in green plants is placed inside a huge water tank; on the wall grow Selaginella uncinata with exceptionally strong vitality, while in the water float and stretch out Anubias. A small waterfall on the rock rushes down, splashing onto the little fish swimming happily in the tank, forming a harmonious picture of an ecological cycle. "Fish waste can serve as fertilizer for the plants, and any mosquitoes bred by the plants will all be wiped out by the fish. Although this system is small, it is very complete." It is understood that in developed countries such as Europe and the United States, many families choose to place similar ecological rainforest tanks in their rooms, in order to create a pleasant feeling of returning to nature.

The Owner Doubles as a Technical Consultant

Wu Yuanping, the owner of the small shop, explains that so-called hydroponics uses the implementation of original industrialized modern biological improvement technology to take flowers originally adapted to growing in terrestrial environments and, through short-term scientific cultivation and improvement, induce them to rapidly grow aquatic root systems that can adapt to aquatic environments, thereby enabling the plants to grow in water for the long term. Wu Yuanping and his business partner Zhang Muqing have a four-to-five-hundred-square-meter production base in Maqun, devoted specifically to plant improvement. They opened their first shop in 2005, and now have three shops in Nanjing.

Not only do they cultivate hydroponic plants, but Wu Yuanping and Zhang Muqing also serve as technical consultants for every customer. Wu Yuanping told reporters that regular customers often run into problems while growing plants and come to them for advice. For this reason, he himself keeps enriching his knowledge. In order to buy books on hydroponics, he once even took a train to Shanghai specifically to buy materials. "That time happened to coincide with May Day, and because tickets were in short supply, I only managed to get an ordinary train at night. After standing on the train for nearly four hours, I arrived in Shanghai at four in the morning. The bookstore was not open yet, so I sat in McDonald's until eight or nine in the morning. Then I went all over Shanghai's big bookstores looking for books."

Anubias Witnesses a Couple's Marriage Proposal

With verdant, drippingly green plants in crystal-clear glass containers, people can not only appreciate the normal growth of the "above-ground parts" of the plants, their branches, leaves and flowers, but also see through the bottle the growth process of the plant world's uniquely ornamental root systems. This has made young white-collar workers and homemakers who love life and know how to appreciate beauty the main customer group of Lvyin Ge.

A pot of Anubias sold in the shop even witnessed the moment a young man proposed to the girl he loved, becoming a romantic prop on their path of love. Wu Yuanping said that earlier this year, a couple had come to the shop and stayed for a long time. The girl praised an Anubias highly, but in the end did not buy it. After quite a long time, the young man came and bought this pot of Anubias, and chose two little red swordtail fish to accent it.

Later, this post appeared on Lvyin Ge's page: "When he walked toward me holding the Anubias, my heart pounded. A piece of paper was rolled up on top of the tank, and the cute little fish seemed to know something too, swimming around excitedly. The moment I picked up the paper, I saw the ring tied to the other end of it, and on the paper was written 'would you merry me?'... I nodded solemnly, said the three words he was waiting for, and let him put the ring of promise on my finger. This lovely green sprite became the witness of his love and mine."