Danny Danko on the History of Hydroponics
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at 11:20 am | By: Radical Russ
Just my little way of reminding you that this Friday is Cultivator’s Corner with High Times’ Danny Danko. Send your cultivation questions to me at stash@norml.org and I’ll ask them! Meanwhile, here’s Danny’s latest essay on the History of Hydroponics:
Topics: Danny Danko, hydroponic, Salon.comHydroponic cultivation—the growing of plants without soil—is a science as ancient as the fabled Hanging Gardens of Babylon and as modern as a future NASA mission to Mars. Over the centuries, the crude agricultural techniques of the Babylonians and Aztecs have been refined into space-age plastic systems in which plants literally defy gravity—growing toward a centrally placed light source like planets revolving around the sun. One day, hydroponics may ultimately provide solutions for massive global problems such as feeding the developing world, combating deforestation, and growing herb in Space. Already this unique collaboration between lab geeks and pot freaks has altered the course of horticultural history, and transformed marijuana from an exotic import of sometimes dubious quality into a billion-dollar homegrown industry bursting at the seams.
(Read on…)
