Eco City Hydroponics Blog

  We have a very successful one day basic hydroponics course at Toh Orchids farm yesterday on the 24 Nov Saturday. The event started around 9:30am in the morning and ended around 5pm. The whether was surprising pleasant, cloudy but no rain, there is a mild breeze that cool the place. Toh Orchids farm was a busy day also yesterday. They were...

  There is a blooming trend in Singapore that more high rise dwellers are becoming home farmers that grow their own fruits and vegetables in their HDB flats or condo apartments. Reasons contributing to this trend vary from pure enjoyment to wanting pesticide free vegetables to being keen to teach children about plant-life cycles. People are...

  There are very few hydroponics systems designed for home decor. Most of the hydroponics products are either meant for small scale home farming on the backyard, corridor or balcony, or large scale farming systems for commercial production of crops. However, isn’t be nice to put a nice pot of hydroponics gardens placed in your living...

  Recently we received good feedback from customers on hydrogen peroxide after we started selling hydrogen peroxide on our store. I checked out the internet and found two good reasons for using Hydrogen Peroxide. 1. Extra Oxygen Good for Growth – Hydrogen peroxide is water (H2O) with an extra oxygen molecule that is loosely attached to...

  We have started to sell the Kessil H350 Deep Purple and Kessil H350 Magento LED Grow Lights on our Store. The Kessil H350 LED is the plus size of the popular H150 Kessil LED Grow Lights. H350 consumes about 90 watt while H150 consumes 36W. However H350 is more the 2X brighter than its little brother. In addition, H350 also uses an advanced...

  We set up a small booth selling our hydroponics products this morning at the Yishun Pond Rejevenated Fair located at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. This is a new fair to me. So I took a walk around the fair and the pond. There was one stall caught my attention: Vertical Farming from Skygreen Pte Ltd. They used rotating vertical gardening machine...

  You can download “Hydroponics Made Easy 2nd edition” for free from this site.  This is the generous sharing from the author of this book and inventor of Autopot, Jim Fah. Alternatively, you can download from the various links below below. Chapter 1 – What is Hydroponics? Chapter 2 – The Autopot Systems Chapter 3 – Growing...

  There are 3 reasons why one should replace soil with inert medium for hydroponics plant The soil contains useful bacteria and worms, but it also harbors many harmful staff to plants. Besides harmful bacteria, the soil is also the source of fungal diseases and insect pests. Since we are regularly supply nutrient solution to the plants hydroponically,...