METHOD FOR GROWING PLANTS IN AIR- AND WATER-CULTURE AND APPARATUS FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD

摘要

A method of the hydroponic growing of plants consists in growing them in tubes (1) provided with openings and oriented horizontally whereas a nutrition solution is fed to them periodically during a time t1 equal to 4-5 minutes with its subsequent discharging during a time t2 and keeping the plants without the nutrition solution during a time t3 with a relationship t1:t2:t3 = 1:1.0-1.5:5.0-8.75, the whole cycle being subsequently repeated. An installation for implementation of the method represents in itself a system of polymer tubes (1) oriented in one horizontal plane and forming altogether a tube module provided with a distributing collector (2) located along the ends of the tubes and directly connected to a collecting chamber (4). A feeding main (5) is provided with a pump (6) and has a form of a PI -shaped pipeline which is connected to the collecting chamber (4). The collecting chamber (4) is additionally connected to a container (3) for the nutrition solution through an emergency pipeline (9) with a valve (10).