Hydroponic Equipment for Australia and New Zealand
By the G&N commercial export team · First published: September 2026 · Reviewed for field accuracy Hydroponic equipment shipments to Australia and New Zealand are small on a global map, but the buyers are sophisticated and the compliance burden is heavy. A typical order is one or two containers of NFT channels, Dutch buckets, irrigation […]
Hydroponics in Mexico and Latin America
Hydroponic farming in Mexico and across Latin America has moved from niche greenhouse trial to commercial pipeline in less than a decade. Berries from Jalisco and Michoacán, tomatoes from Sinaloa, leafy greens around Mexico City, and the rise of hydroponic blueberry nurseries in Peru and Chile have turned the region into one of the fastest-growing […]
Hydroponic Farms in Saudi Arabia and the UAE
The Gulf has become one of the most serious hydroponic markets in the world for a simple structural reason: salad crops that cost almost nothing to grow in temperate climates cost a great deal to import into a desert, and every kilogram of local leafy greens carries a food-security premium. Hydroponic farms in Saudi Arabia […]
How to Read a Supplier’s CAD Drawings and Datasheets
When a hydroponic equipment order goes wrong, the failure rarely starts on the production floor — it starts in the documents signed before anything was built. The technical package a supplier issues with a quotation, typically a hydroponic system CAD drawing set, a bill of materials (BOM), and component datasheets, is the clearest evidence available […]
Hydroponic Reservoir and Pump Sizing Worksheet
Hydroponic reservoir sizing is the calculation most often skipped between choosing channels and placing an order — and it quietly decides crop uniformity. An undersized reservoir lets EC and pH swing between dosing events, lets solution temperature climb through the afternoon, and forces the pump to cycle on its limits. An undersized pump shows up […]
NFT Channel Flow Rate, Slope, and Length
An NFT channel looks passive: a plastic trough, a thin film of nutrient solution, plants on top. In practice three numbers decide whether the whole line works or quietly fails — the NFT channel flow rate at each inlet, the slope percentage along the run, and the total channel length. Size any one of them […]
Hydroponic System Design: 12 Inputs a Supplier Must Have
By the G&N commercial export team · First published: September 2026 · Reviewed for field accuracy The single biggest reason a hydroponic system design quote fails to produce a workable farm is that the buyer sent an inquiry with one line and the supplier quoted that one line. After three decades of shipping to more […]
Cleaning and Sanitizing a Hydroponic System Between Cycles
By the G&N commercial engineering team · First published: September 2026 · Reviewed for field accuracy Cleaning and sanitizing a hydroponic system between cycles is the single most under-rated step in a commercial greenhouse. Operators who run NFT, DWC, or dutch bucket systems for years will tell you the second crop after a bad sanitization […]
IPM for Hydroponic Greenhouses: A B2B Playbook
By the G&N commercial consulting team · First published: September 2026 · Reviewed for field accuracy Integrated pest management in a hydroponic greenhouse is not a calendar of pesticide sprays. It is a system of prevention, monitoring, biological control, and chemistry — sequenced so that the cheapest, least disruptive intervention runs first and chemistry runs […]
Root Rot in Hydroponics: Pythium in NFT and DWC
By the G&N commercial engineering team · First published: September 2026 · Reviewed for field accuracy Pythium root rot is the single most expensive disease in commercial hydroponic lettuce and herb production. It does not arrive from outside the greenhouse the way an aphid outbreak does — it lives in the system, in the biofilm, […]