Voodoo Juice: Elixir For Your Hydroponic Plants And Roots
Plants synthesize their food from water and carbon dioxide with the aid of sunlight. Besides water and carbon dioxide that are the building blocks of plant food, plants also require other minerals like nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus in large quantities as well as some trace elements like boron, cobalt, etc. While trace elements are available in soil in ionic forms or in your hydroponic nutrient formulas, nitrogen which is one of the most abundant elements in the atmosphere is available in the form of N2 which plants cannot absorb. Plants can absorb only nitrates (NO3-) ions. Here