
| Course Code | : ORT226 |
| Course Type | : Area Elective |
| Couse Group | : Short Cycle (Associate's Degree) |
| Education Language | : Turkish |
| Work Placement | : N/A |
| Theory | : 2 |
| Prt. | : 0 |
| Credit | : 2 |
| Lab | : 0 |
| ECTS | : 3 |
Applied to soilless culture types and all cultural practices are taught theoretically and practically.
Description of soilless culture. Reasons of passing to soilless culture. Reasons of soilless culture using in greenhouses. History of soilless culture. Advantages and disadvantages of soilless culture. Nutrient solutions, water, macro nutrient elements, and chemical resources in soilless culture. Symptoms of deficiency and excessive on macro nutrient elements. Micro nutrient elements. Chemical resources. Symptoms of deficiency and excessive on micro nutrient elements. Problems in preparing of nutrient solutions. Desirable characteristics of nutrient solutions (pH, total salt consantration, temperature, aeratin). Feeding types of nutrient solutions to plants (static, batch flow, continue flow, spraying, dripping). Nutrient solution tanks. Control of diseases and harmfulness. Midterm. Types of soilless culture. Passing cultures. What is solid medium? Desirable characteristics. Organic and inorganic media. Types of solid culture (bed culture, por culture). Types of solid culture (sausage culture), water culture (static culture, flowing water culture). Water cultures (hyponica, aeroponic).