Hydroponic Farm

Grows one Plant from a Seed.
Can be used as floor tile and rotated before construction.

Research

Agriculture (Research)

Dimensions

1×1 tiles

Rotation

Turnable

Usage

Hydroponic Farms allow liquid delivery for irrigation. Following plants are recommended to be planted with Hydroponic Farm:

Bristle Blossom, Sleet Wheat and Oxyfern use Water.
Waterweed uses Salt Water.
Nosh Sprout uses Ethanol.
Pincha Pepper uses Polluted Water and shall be planted downward.
Arbor Tree and Thimble Reed use Polluted Water.
Gas Grass uses Liquid Chlorine.

Supplying wrong Liquid will stifle the plant growth until the Hydroponic Farm is emptied.

Tips

See Farm Tile for tips; Hydroponic Farms is just a pipe-able version of Farm Tile.

Irrigation (liquid delivery) is automated by Hydroponic Farm, but fertilization (solid delivery) will still need to be supplied by Duplicants or an Auto-Sweeper.
- The hydroponic farm generates a Farming Supply errand when it has less than 300 s worth of fertilizer remaining, and requests delivery up to 1800 s worth (minimum 300 s).
It can store up to 5 kg of irrigation.
Make sure duplicants can reach the farm tile either from above or below; duplicants cannot reach Pincha Pepper hanging installations from below without help if the room height is four or higher.
Harvesting plants do not inherently transfer germs from its fertilizer/irrigation.
Plants will only consume irrigation if there is at least 6 seconds worth of the plant's irrigation consumption within the hydroponic farm. This renders strategies to "perfectly" meter irrigation into a plant with hot irrigation largely ineffective, as much of the heat is already transferred into the hydroponic farm before it can be consumed.
If a Hydroponic Farm receives an incorrect liquid for that plant, the status will report as Irrigation (Stored). This requires either manually emptying storage, or reloading the game which will dump wrong storage as bottles.
Hydroponic Farm storage is Sealed, meaning it will never offgas/subliminate nor freeze/boil its contents. However, liquids in incoming pipes are still susceptible to bursting, and the rapid thermal equilibrium between a hydroponic farm and its plant makes this impractical to exploit for most cases.
Upward-facing plants readily exchange heat with the hydroponic farm itself as it is an entity lying on a solid tile. Hanging plants do not directly exchange heat with the Hydroponic Farm.