Sam BOTB to Solarpunk · 1 year agoWelcome to Sandponics, a great combination of agriculture and technologyi.redd.itimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up149arrow-down11
arrow-up148arrow-down1imageWelcome to Sandponics, a great combination of agriculture and technologyi.redd.itSam BOTB to Solarpunk · 1 year agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squarepoVoqMAlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoDoesn’t the salinity mainly come from nitrates in this case?
minus-squareTrack_Shovellinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoEC is more closely tied to the presence of metals in soil. Most of the N applied would be in the organic fraction, I’d imagine.
minus-squarepoVoqMAlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoWell… we are talking about artificial water logged sand here however.
minus-squareTrack_Shovellinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoTrue. Like I said (or was thinking at least), it’s still a really cool idea, and functional, just needs a bit of refinement to really get going.
Doesn’t the salinity mainly come from nitrates in this case?
EC is more closely tied to the presence of metals in soil. Most of the N applied would be in the organic fraction, I’d imagine.
Well… we are talking about artificial water logged sand here however.
True. Like I said (or was thinking at least), it’s still a really cool idea, and functional, just needs a bit of refinement to really get going.