hydroponic farming is when you try to grow plants without soil, Terrestrial plants may be grown with only their roots exposed to the mineral solution, or the roots may be supported by an inert medium, such as perlite or gravel. The Farmers plants could have been daying at the same rate because some plant need dirt, or mabye the root were just to long.
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