Disposable cup hydroponics planters

If you have ever attempted to start plants indoors, you probably know what it is to get a root bound plant. No matter the size of your growing container, it does not take the roots too long to find its outer boundaries. This method uses the benefits of home hydroponics growing to keep those roots thriving, while preparing your plant to live.

Take 2 disposable cups. Used ones are better. Don't worry! Nobody will judge you on what was in the cup prior to this project.



Make holes with a hot pin in one of the cups.
Put cocopeat in the cup with the holes and plant seeds or live plants in it.
Put water and nutrients in the other cup.
Stack the cups and you are done.
Your simplest hydroponic planter is ready.

Greenhouses in India

Why are the greenhouses in India failing to reach optimal produce? Most of the green houses we see while travelling are scrapped or abandoned. Green houses are the invention of the west that we are copying as it is. They use green houses because most of the time there the weather is cold and frosty. In India we have a weather that is totally opposite to these thing.
If you ask any grower in India who uses greenhouses, two things come up.

1. They want to grow lettuce
2. They want to use grow lights.

This is because this is what every one of them seen or heard about what is been done in the west. India needs spinach, mustard, fenugreek, chilies, lentils, tomatoes and other such things. These things don't need green houses as the weather in India is concerned.

We in India don't consume lettuce in bulk. We need to look towards the local produce which can be used to grow hydroponically, but surely will not require greenhouses.

As the lights are concerned, India has surplus light source considering the 8 hour of direct sunlight that can be used to grow the above mentioned staples.

If we considering cutting down on these to costly resources, there is no reason we can not grow hydroponically and get a profit out of it.

Considering growing lettuce in case, you do have an assured market for the supply of lettuce that comes out of your farm, through B2B rate contracts or otherwise, please go ahead and set-up a lettuce factory. But if you are doing it just based on assumption that you will find the market later, better go small and test the hypothesis first.