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the taste depends on the nutrient solution used in culture... some people enjoy the "clean" taste of defined hydroponic medium, however there are complex sugars

the taste depends on the nutrient solution used in culture... some people enjoy the "clean" taste of defined hydroponic medium, however there are complex sugars esters and volatile organics that are responsible for the flavour of the product... bioponic medium consists of organic substances humic and fulvic acids that provide a product far superior to a bland hothouse tomato taste... as far as environmentally friendly, there is considerable plastics waste resulting from greenhouse operations that have a wastefull process... hydroponic methods use, and reuse nutrient solutions and water as well as minimal solid medium...couple this with a caring attitude and a hydroponic operation can be very environmentally friendly if the factory farm mentality is avoided...

geomark 8y ago
About half a kilometer from my house in a rural area is a leafy greens farm that has two sections, hydroponics and soil grown. Both are covered by nets and are pesticide-free. They claim demand is for the soil grown is higher because people prefer the taste. I don't really notice much difference.
- m1573rp34130dy 8y ago
  im curious, do you smoke? somepeople have very particular tastebuds... also peatmoss "potting soil" is not soil it is artificial media but does have "flavour" im wondering what is being considered soil, and what is hydroponic media... true soil is mineral, organic matter, bacteria and fungi and thier metabolic products...hydroponic media is some form of nutritional complement in solution, often in an inert medium such as "rockwool" or free solution aquaponics with no solid carrier just liquid. bioponics is a catch word of sorts that describes something like the effluent from a compost heap adjusted to physiological specifications for the crop in culture... it may be interesting to try a "p3ps1 challenge" with different cultures espescially with tomatoes and cucumbers...
  - geomark 8y ago
    I don't smoke. But it's not me anyway. It's what the growers tell me is preferred by their customers, which are mainly local restaurants. The soil is the local dirt that has been amended with compost so it's nothing special. The hydroponic system they use is just roots dangling in closed tubes through which hydroponic solution is pumped at regular intervals.
    - m1573rp34130dy 8y ago
      ah so it sounds like aquaponic culture...that would make a very taste free product. nutritional just the same but ^bland^
      - geomark 8y ago
        Aquaponics is when you combine fish farming and hydroponics, circulating the water from the fish pond which is full of fish poop to feed the plants, and utilizing the plants to filter the water, in a semi-closed system. That's not what they are doing at the nearby farm. I had a fairly large aquaponics system for a while. 30 meter diameter pond with tilapia and a long channel full of gravel that was planted with various vegetables through which pond water was pumped at regular intervals. The pond was large enough and had enough plants in it that it achieved balance on its own without having to continuously run the pump. So maintenance was easy and no fear of the fish dying. In fact, it got out of control with the tilapia multiplying like crazy.
        m1573rp34130dy 8y ago
        some are like this, but not all... you ended up creating a large scale biological fiter that rendered the tank filter obsolete other than to eutrophize the fish tank environment[good] the basic play is to balance the system of give and take between plants as a nitrogen sink, and a biological nitrogen source... the cycle of nitrosomas and nitrobacter conversion of ammoniacal substance to nitrite and nitrate available for plant assimilation occurs in the particulate accumulated in the gravel bed... fish are convienient and tasty but very often a compost tailings lagoon is used...there is a wide acceptance of bio remediation of sewage, hor farm runoff in the niagara escarpment area...

geomark 8y ago

About half a kilometer from my house in a rural area is a leafy greens farm that has two sections, hydroponics and soil grown. Both are covered by nets and are pesticide-free. They claim demand is for the soil grown is higher because people prefer the taste. I don't really notice much difference.

m1573rp34130dy 8y ago
im curious, do you smoke? somepeople have very particular tastebuds... also peatmoss "potting soil" is not soil it is artificial media but does have "flavour" im wondering what is being considered soil, and what is hydroponic media... true soil is mineral, organic matter, bacteria and fungi and thier metabolic products...hydroponic media is some form of nutritional complement in solution, often in an inert medium such as "rockwool" or free solution aquaponics with no solid carrier just liquid. bioponics is a catch word of sorts that describes something like the effluent from a compost heap adjusted to physiological specifications for the crop in culture... it may be interesting to try a "p3ps1 challenge" with different cultures espescially with tomatoes and cucumbers...
- geomark 8y ago
  I don't smoke. But it's not me anyway. It's what the growers tell me is preferred by their customers, which are mainly local restaurants. The soil is the local dirt that has been amended with compost so it's nothing special. The hydroponic system they use is just roots dangling in closed tubes through which hydroponic solution is pumped at regular intervals.
  - m1573rp34130dy 8y ago
    ah so it sounds like aquaponic culture...that would make a very taste free product. nutritional just the same but ^bland^
    - geomark 8y ago
      Aquaponics is when you combine fish farming and hydroponics, circulating the water from the fish pond which is full of fish poop to feed the plants, and utilizing the plants to filter the water, in a semi-closed system. That's not what they are doing at the nearby farm. I had a fairly large aquaponics system for a while. 30 meter diameter pond with tilapia and a long channel full of gravel that was planted with various vegetables through which pond water was pumped at regular intervals. The pond was large enough and had enough plants in it that it achieved balance on its own without having to continuously run the pump. So maintenance was easy and no fear of the fish dying. In fact, it got out of control with the tilapia multiplying like crazy.
      - m1573rp34130dy 8y ago
        some are like this, but not all... you ended up creating a large scale biological fiter that rendered the tank filter obsolete other than to eutrophize the fish tank environment[good] the basic play is to balance the system of give and take between plants as a nitrogen sink, and a biological nitrogen source... the cycle of nitrosomas and nitrobacter conversion of ammoniacal substance to nitrite and nitrate available for plant assimilation occurs in the particulate accumulated in the gravel bed... fish are convienient and tasty but very often a compost tailings lagoon is used...there is a wide acceptance of bio remediation of sewage, hor farm runoff in the niagara escarpment area...