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How to grow your own pharmaceuticals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I'm talking about hydroponics and aeroponics. hydroponics has been around for quite a while. It is the growing of plants in nutrient solutions that have no soil. Basically, you're exposing the plant roots to liquids containing the nutrients needed to grow. This is achieved through an ebb-and-flow hydroponic system, or some other hydroponic configuration. You may be surprised to learn that you can grow plants without soil. The reality is that the soil is just a medium that holds nutrients for the plants.

Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini Gabriel Cousens, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

He used a sea salt bed where the experimental hydroponics bed received 112 pounds of sea salt to 5,000 gallons of water solution mixture, while the control bed used the traditional hydroponics solution. Both beds were flooded three times daily. Tobacco mosaic virus, lethal to tomato plants, was sprayed on all the plants. The experimental plants did not contract the disease, but all the control plants died of the tobacco mosaic virus. Resistance to disease in sea-solid-fed plants is paralleled in animal studies. Animals fed sea-solid vegetables were far more resistant to disease.

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Mark Lynas See book keywords and concepts

Think, for example, of hydroponics: the replacing of natural soil with synthetic rooting material and a cocktail of chemicals. But ecology is such a complicated web that we cannot even understand many of the living interactions that go on within ecosystems, let alone imagine that we can somehow redesign and replace them. Scientists once tried to build a sealed living world - nicknamed Biosphere 2 - from scratch in a big greenhouse in the Arizona desert. They failed.

Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini Gabriel Cousens, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

He started with hydroponics. He covered all the plants in a liquid solution, which gave him the opportunity to control which elements would be present in the nutrient development of plants in his experiments. His experiments produced very exciting results. It has now been conclusively proven, on the basis of his work, that the proportion of trace minerals and elements present in seawater was optimal for the health and growth of both land and sea plants. In 1954 he did a controlled crop experiment with corn, oats, and soybeans, growing ten acres each of sea-solid grown and controlled food crop.

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

Hybridization is used extensively in agriculture, where new forms of hardy and disease-resistant plants are produced commercially. hydroponics Cultivating plants in an artificial environment in which the necessary nutrients are carried to the roots in a liquid mixture. in vitro (in VEE-troh) In the laboratory; literally, "in glass" (laboratory experiments are often carried out in glass containers). In vitro conditions are distinguished from conditions that actually apply in nature {compare in vivo).

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

Hybridization is used extensively in agriculture, where new forms of hardy and disease-resistant plants are produced commercially. hydroponics (heye-druh-pon-iks) Cultivating plants in an artificial environment in which the necessary nutrients are carried to the roots in a liquid mixture. in vitro (in vee-troh) In the laboratory; literally, "in glass" (laboratory experiments are often carried out in glass containers). In vitro conditions are distinguished from conditions that actually apply in nature. {Compare in vivo.

The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications Christian Ratsch See book keywords and concepts

Marijuana hydroponics: Hightech water culture. Berkeley, Calif.: Ronin. Carnegia gigantea (Engelmann) Britton et Rose SaguarOy Giant Cactus Family Cactaceae (Cactus Family); Cereeae Tribe, Cere-anae Subtribe Forms and Subspecies None Synonyms Cereus giganteus Engelm.

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