Q&A - session #2 Your hydroponic and aquaponic questions answered

For knowing and growing, our expert growers Tyler and Alex answer some of your most recent questions about hydroponics, aquaponics and growing vertically✅
Topics include:
0:30 Best varieties of lettuce in a ZipGrow system
1:00 Retrofitting shipping containers v’s purpose built ZipPod
2:40 ZipGrow Towers for Aquaponic systems
3:20 Supplemental Lighting in a greenhouse
4:25 Best types of fruiting crops for beginners and pollination
5:25 How to avoid mold on seedlings
6:10 Insulation values in an indoor farm
7:45 Seedlings and depth of water
8:20 Expected yields - dialing it in for your farm
10:35 Optimal placement for a ZipGarden or FarmWall
11:38 Most common plant deficiencies and vapor pressure deficit (VPD)
13:35 Preventing leggy seedlings
14:15 Simplifying understanding of EC (Electrical conductivity) levels.
15:35 When starting a business, how do you know what crops to grow?
16:42 Cooling a greenhouse
19:00 Offering hydroponics in the classroom- beginner friendly ways
Some useful references for you on these topics.
25 Crops you can grow in a ZipGrow Tower
zipgrow.com/25-crops-you-can-...
Why a purpose Built container farm may be a good fit for you
zipgrow.com/the-zippod-why-a-...
Can you plumb ZipGrow™ Towers into an aquaponic system?
• Can you plumb ZipGrow™...
Should I use supplemental lighting in a greenhouse system
• Should I use supplemen...
Seedling troubleshooting
• Mold or Algae Growing ...
Vapor Pressure Deficit
zipgrow.com/vapour-pressure-d...
Tall, spindly “leggy” seedlings- troubleshooting
• Tall, Spindly, "Leggy"...
What you need to know. EC and PPM
zipgrow.com/what-you-need-to-...
Recommended crops list for hydroponic farmers
university.upstartfarmers.com...
Business planning guide
university.upstartfarmers.com...
Cooling a greenhouse
zipgrow.com/cooling-a-greenho...
Hydroponics for classrooms- visit the “In the classroom” section of our blog
zipgrow.com/category/education/
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[@momoney4931]

I'm having a problem with my plants like they got like they got like this coloration in in the rooms and the leaves and the vent in half and it looks like there's a little drawing and the tips aren't like burn from any fertilizer and then it just like brown like like water only got two but the other one it looks like it's getting it's got black stuff going on so I've been cutting it away and I'm cutting it almost everything is almost gone but I've been using fungicide and it ain't been working

[@brandonminiman]

I'm getting a lot of algae, such that my water is green. Will weekly hydrogen peroxide treatments prevent this? Is algae a significant problem?

[@ZipGrowInc]

Hello,
Algae is a bit of a constant battle in hydroponics. Some amount of it is normal but you want to avoid algae blooms. weekly hydrogen peroxide treatments can certainly help with this and will also increase the ORP of your nutrient solution. The danger is that H2O2 is phytotoxic if dosed to high; we generally recommend 3-5ml of 5% H2O2 per liter of nutrient solution.
We also use hypochlorous acid, which isn't phytotoxic, on a weekly dosing schedule to help with algae, ORP, and reduction of scale in the system.