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Hello there , Sorry for the late reply.
So.. there should be an dialog option with Aemi about the hydroponic section. (if you are sure that you have not already done the story about it.)
If there is no dialog option then maybe the game is bugged, would help if you join the discord and then post your safe game into the "bug report" channel so i can take a look into it.
Otherwise , you can also download the savegames from my playthrough and then jkust search for a savegame in which the dialog option about the hydoponic section is avaliable. (should be after the laboratory section story)

Hope this helped a bit.