Commercial Hydroponics

It's a soilless growing setup built to run a whole facility, not one tent. Plants grow in rockwool, coco or water on benches or in linked tanks. Pumps, injectors and controllers deliver feed automatically, and water treatment keeps the solution consistent. Most commercial systems combine benches, drip or RDWC, nutrient dosing and RO water.

Drip into rockwool or coco is the most common choice for large flower rooms. Each plant is fed separately, so one sick plant doesn't infect the rest. RDWC grows fast but needs cool water and daily checks. Ebb and flow suits clones and smaller plants. Pick the one your team can run every day.

Start with water, then feed, then the growing system. Most farms need an RO system and reservoirs, a nutrient injector or fertigation system, pumps and drip irrigation or RDWC, benches and trays, and grow media. Add lighting, climate control and monitoring. Our team can quote the full list from your floor plan.

Not always, but most commercial growers use it. Test your source water first. If it's high in salts, sodium or alkalinity, or changes through the year, RO removes most of it so every batch starts the same. Low-salt water may only need sediment and carbon filtering to remove grit and chlorine.

Mix concentrates in separate A and B stock tanks and dose them with injectors. Calcium and phosphate or sulfate can react and settle out if mixed strong, so they stay apart until diluted. Water-powered injectors like Dosatron dose a set ratio. Fertigation controllers add EC and pH targets, zones and logs.

Usually, yes, when floor space limits your plant count. Fixed benches need an aisle beside each one, so often only 50 to 70 percent of the floor grows plants. Rolling benches share one moving aisle and can push that to about 90 percent, extension studies show. Use our bench layout planner to compare layouts.