Team Alpha
Alex Marchese
Andrea Garcia
Kunal Khiyani
Rosa Castro
Carolina Caputo
The Basics of Aeroponics!!
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Aeroponics has to be in a dark place
so it can be protected from
ultraviolet rays.
The temperature is easy to control.
Unlike growing plants with water and
soil Aeroponics is based on water
and nutrient solutions.
There is a part called the “ dry cycle”
that means that the roots are in
oxygen in your dark chamber for the
plant.
Aeroponics is a system that is a
“closed loop” which re-uses the
nutrients.
Plants in the Aeroponics system can
be growed close together.
What is Aeroponics?
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A plant system where the roots of plants are misted with a
nutrient rich solution to promote growth without the use of a
medium.
Aeroponics was first developed in 1942 by W. Carter.
The purpose was to facilitate the easy examination of roots
for research purposes, still a primary application of
Aeroponics.
In the old day scientists used Aeroponics to grow citrus,
avocado apple, coffee, and tomato plants and examine their
root structures and test their response to varying levels of
moisture.
Because Aeroponics allows the grower to precisely determine
water and nutrient concentrations, it is ideal for the study
of the effects of drought or flooding on a variety of crops.
www.wisegeek.com/what-is-aeroponics.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/aeroponics
History of hydroponics
Hydroponics was developed by two German Scientists
in the early 1860’s
Hydroponics was mostly used in China, Asia, and India
Hydroponics came from nutriculture type of planting ,
they had this idea of hydroponics because they
wanted planting without the growing medium.
Hydroponics means water working , they got this
name from the Greek.
Scientists started to support this experiment while world
war two was beginning.
Archeologists in the
Aeroponics field
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The top picture is a
scientist named Keje Skola
this shows a Aeroponics
space field, they also used
it to see how the plants
would grow in low gravity,
and on Earth.
This is a Aeroponics field
as you can see it looks
very high tech.
History of Aeroponics(:
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Aeroponics was discovered by F.W. in 1957
Aeroponics didn’t immediately became discovered it was a slow
moving progress by two different people L.J. Klotz and W.Carter
It was NASA that helped Aeroponics increase there popularity.
Benefits of Aeroponics
Pros
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Provides a better growth and
greater plant density.
Roots are well oxygenated
Roots can be taken out easier.
The environment is the same
for the roots.
Bacteria or fungi will infect the
roots.
You can study a particular
nutrient with affect the rest.
Since it does not need soil, it
helps you grow plants
wherever you are.
Cons
 It can be costly.
 Any slight variations in
the water or nutrients,
can affect the results.
 Salt can be accumulated
in the nozzles, which can
result in the damage of
the plants.
Common uses of
Aeroponics
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The most common use is for growing plant without soil.
They use water and they spray the roots of the plant to grow.
The plants have to be in a dark place.
Aeroponics is a type of indoor gardening that removes many of the
disadvantages of both traditional soil-based growing and hydroponics
growing.
It can be used to grow most types of plants, and provides a controlled
environment.
The method is used by growers who need tight control over their plants,
and by people who want to remove the need for pesticide use.
Aeroponics also allows for naturally disease free cultivation, since
plants are removed from an environment where they could come into
contact with diseases.
Common research done in Aeroponics
The NASA is doing research to see how plants grow in low gravity and
on Earth to deliver the nutrients to the plants.
They also use it to grow food in the NASA
How does an aeroponics
growth station work?
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There is no soil or
growing medium used in
an aeroponics growth
station.
So then the plants are
kept in a growing
station.
The plants are grown
suspended in the air.
The aeroponics spray
nozzles exhaust a fog
from the nutrient
solution which makes
the plants grow quickly.
Vegetable Determination
The vegetables that our team
has chosen to do are
Pumpkins, Lettuce, and
Squash.
Sweet Sugar Pie Pumpkin
Simpson Elite Lettuce
These three, after research,
came out to be the most likely
to grow in our weather in Miami.
There are different types of
each of the vegetables we are
doing.
We chose the Simpson Elite
Lettuce, the Sweet Sugar Pie
Pumpkin, and the Summer
Squash.
Summer Squash