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Hydroponics

Introduction

    NAME HERE and I became fascinated by hydroponics and the idea that one
doesn't have to get their hands dirty to be a great gardener, and if your like
us that's a good thing.

    The idea of hydroponics has been around since the pyramids where build,
but in all these years it never seemed to catch on. It took about forty-six
hundred years before the first scientist took a look at hydroponics and adapted
it to grow crops, this was a professor at the University of California, and the
result was a 25 foot tomato plant that had to be harvest by a ladder. Thus
hydroponics was reborn and has been advancing ever since. Yet up to 5 years ago
the home grower and generally the public didn't know about hydroponics. It was
only being used by commercial growers. But now it has caught on, and resulted in
this experiment.

    When thinking about hydroponics one must think about the applications of
hydroponics. Not only dose hydroponics produce bigger, better, and more
healthier plants than the traditional dirt, but it can also be greatly
beneficial on things like submarines, space stations, off-shore oil rigs, or any
where else where dirt is hard to come by.

    During this experiment we'll be looking for which plant life well do
best with hydroponics, by measuring which plant has grown the highest or
bushiest. We also well be looking for green and healthy looking leaves on the
plants. We have no idea what the results might be, so this should ...

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Submitted by: 123student
Date Submitted: 02-06-2003
Category: Science
Words: 891
Pages: 3.56