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Hydroponic Dutch Pots
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These are commercial grade hydroponic containers, used extensively in cut rose production and other long term crops.
- These pots are easy to use and to maintain
- They are expandable from just a few pots, to greenhouses with thousands of them in operation. Size 12” x 10” x 9” (10 liter)
To set-up the system, all you need to do is position the pots over a run of 1.5” PVC pipe with a 7/8” hole drilled to accept the overflow fitting from each pot. This will operate as the collection trough for a recycling system or it can be run to a drain. A line of poly pipe should be run alongside the PVC pipe from which drippers are attached to feed each pot with a nutrient solution. Most growers fill the pots with quick draining media like Geolite hydroponic media.
The pots have a small reservoir in the bottom to hold a reserve of water, and when irrigated, the drain tube will pull water from the bottom of the pot first to exchange the water and prevent stagnation. The key point is to keep the run of pots at the same level and have the reservoir lower than the pots so that gravity will help the system drain. These pots are reliable, practical and economical to use.
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