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Hydroponic Food Production: A Definitive Guidebook for the Advanced Home Gardener and the Commercial Hydroponic Grower Hardcover – 1978

by Howard M. Resh (Author)

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Hydroponic Food Production: A Definitive Guidebook for the Advanced Home Gardener and the Commercial Hydroponic Grower, Seventh Edition is a comprehensive guide to soilless culture with extensively new and updated contents from the previous edition published in 2001. Meant for hobby and commercial growers, the book:

Shows the reader how to set up a hydroponic operation with the options of using any of the many hydroponic cultures presently used in the industry to grow vegetable crops
Provides background in plant physiology and nutrition essential for growing these crops
Describes nutrient formulations and their applications in nutrient solutions with calculations

This practical guide to soilless growing practices provides detailed information on how to design, set up, and operate hydroponic culture systems. Featuring more than 500 photographs, drawings, and tables, the seventh edition of this bestselling book has been extensively updated and expanded. The text describes the most successful growing cultures to use with specific crops and details media as well as hydroponic techniques. Chapters cover nutrient uptake and mixing as well as deficiencies and their symptoms, plant nutrition, nutrient solution, water culture, tropical hydroponics and special applications, plant culture, nutrient film technique, gravel culture, and more.

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Hydroponic Food Production: A Definitive Guidebook for the Advanced Home Gardener and the Commercial Hydroponic Grower, Seventh Edition is a comprehensive guide to soilless culture with extensively new and updated contents from the previous edition published in 2001. Meant for hobby and commercial growers, the book:

Shows the reader how to set up a hydroponic operation with the options of using any of the many hydroponic cultures presently used in the industry to grow vegetable crops
Provides background in plant physiology and nutrition essential for growing these crops
Describes nutrient formulations and their applications in nutrient solutions with calculations

This practical guide to soilless growing practices provides detailed information on how to design, set up, and operate hydroponic culture systems. Featuring more than 500 photographs, drawings, and tables, the seventh edition of this bestselling book has been extensively updated and expanded. The text describes the most successful growing cultures to use with specific crops and details media as well as hydroponic techniques. Chapters cover nutrient uptake and mixing as well as deficiencies and their symptoms, plant nutrition, nutrient solution, water culture, tropical hydroponics and special applications, plant culture, nutrient film technique, gravel culture, and more.

Product details

Hardcover: 290 pages
Publisher: Woodbridge Press Publishing Co.; 1st edition (1978)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0912800542
ISBN-13: 978-0912800547
Package Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Average Customer Review: 55 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,361,849 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2251 in Books > Science & Math > Agricultural Sciences > Horticulture

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R. Bruce McCreary

Not Recommended as a Reference for Small Scale systems

July 26, 2014

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

I got this book on commercial hydroponics because as a retired engineer, I tend to be disappointed in the lack of technical details in most hobby oriented books. Alas, this book does not translate well at all into smaller scale, home systems, and as a reference, it is very difficult to find specific details without a lot of looking and reading. It was clearly written by an academic (Phd) type, not an engineer, and it is not a great reference for someone planning, designing and building their own small system. For one example, Resh does not support his recommendation for fast drain and fill times and no puddling for gravel culture, with either specific observations or any real data, and his next section on subirrigation of gravel beds clearly shows a drain pipe in gravel that will leave a puddle in the bottom of each bed. Since many systems today such as dutch buckets rely on not fully draining, in order to provide a backup reservoir of sorts in case of top-drip or ebb and flow pump failure, you have to wonder about some of Resh's bold faced assertions. If he supported these with references to published papers, or some test data showing oxygen levels at the roots, or growth comparisons, or related his personal experiences better, I would be a lot more impressed with his book.

I would not recommend this as a reference text for smaller scale systems, and I would certainly not recommend it for a hobbyist/home grower.

The same author has a book on hobby systems and it may be quite good if he adopted a very different style of writing. I think Keith Roberto's "How to Hydroponics" is OK, and I really very much enjoyed Jame Dekorne's ancient and small "The Hydroponic Hot House" with his crude methods and experiments exposed, warts and all.

47 people found this helpful48 people found this helpful

Beyond Fantastic

September 22, 2016

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

The best book on hydroponis out there. This has a huge amount of charts and teaches you everything you need to know and everything you didn't know you needed to learn. The first half of the book is all chemistry and elemental make ups and molecular reactions. The second half has everthing to do with comercial opperations and plant training and scheduling. I could confidently manage a comercial greenhouse after this book.

4 people found this helpful5 people found this helpful

March 29, 2011

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

My review comes with mixed emotions. On the one hand overall I gave the book a 5 star, but with some significant reservations. Here goes.

First the reservations: if you definitively are or are going to be small scale, you don't need this pricey book. There are others that will work well for much less. There is more detail than you need for the backyard. Additionally, the author's writing style is at times stiff and wordy and technical terms frequently will have you looking for a dictionary. Another annoyance is that, despite the apparent good organization, based on looking at the table of contents, there are times whem the author wanders off course a bit.

Now the good news: Wow! This book is packed with all kinds of ideas about hydroponic operations (some of them really large scale) in the US, South America, Europe, and the Far East. You really get a great range of ideas to think about. You also will get a great deal of information about alternatives in growing mediums, plant nutrition and delivery thereof, greenhouse organization, on through to harvesting methodologies.

The bottom line is that, knowing what I know now, I would buy the book again, and plan to keep it close to the top of the pile :) where I can reach for some references.

8 people found this helpful9 people found this helpful

but a very good presentation of chemical needs of plants

October 10, 2016

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

Scientific, well written, a lot of figures. A lack in biological soil knowledge, but a very good presentation of chemical needs of plants. Are all these legumes and fruits as good as the ones produced with real soil ? What is a "good lettuce" ? Can lettuce produced into a moving tape cover or in vermiculite be a "good" human alimentation ? It is very difficult to answer these questions. Can humanity be living without hydroponic food production ? Certainly a scientific book that helps in trying to answer these questions.

3 people found this helpful4 people found this helpful

An excellent guide to commercial / advanced home hydroponics

April 26, 2013

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

This book is not for the faint of heart. If you're considering hydroponics at home or on your small farm ( like we are ) , some of the images of big commercial farms will be daunting / inspiring. The book is well thought out and contains a lot of useful, detailed information about commercial hydroponic systems. I also recommend the companion "Hydroponics: Questions and Answers" by the same author.

9 people found this helpful10 people found this helpful

A Resource a Cut Above What I Was Looking For

December 26, 2013

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

I'm going to give this a 5 for the great detailed resource that it is. This is not a story book for casual reading nor is it designed to be a picture book. This is a college level book for content and the black and white pictures are good enough to get the point across. (However, included with the book is a DVD with full color pictures.) This is a terrific resource to be studied and referenced over and over again throughout your gardening life. In my opinion, Howard Resh is a genius at his life's work and I am thankful for it, because this resource will truly bless the direction in which I'm going.

8 people found this helpful9 people found this helpful

Author: Howard Resh

June 15, 2014

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

Howard Resh is the guru of the hydroponic field. Everything is here for you to learn. Formula, diy hydroponic systems, plant health, etc. Not one of those thin books that promise everything. This book is packed with all the information you have ever wanted on hydroponics and the information you have not even considered. I highly suggest that you snap up hydroponic books by this author.
Ed Rivera

2 people found this helpful3 people found this helpful

August 2, 2018

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

Just what I needed to redo my aquaponic greenhouse into a hydroponic greenhouse. Lots of need to know info.

One person found this helpful

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