If only all UA-cam videos were like this. No fluff, no flair, organized presentation, appropriately touched on every relevant topic, and provided additional resources and references.
I watched at least a dozen videos dancing around this topic before watching yours. Very simple, very clear. You have a great way of explaining things. Thank you!
hey ,if anyone else trying to find out aquaponics book try Aqua Recovery Tactics (aqua.RecoveryTactics.com ) ? Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my colleague got amazing results with it.
A beginners guide geared to commercial grow,,,it really doesnt matter what brand nutes you use learn the basics to feeding first,,,to be succesful in hydroponics you must first learn to feed properly,,ph is one of the most important things you need to manage,,a crop production guide or nutrient calander probly wont fit your grow,,to many variables,,it matters definately how much nutes you have,,when ph ing,,the most important thing is your ph swing,,this is directly affected by nutrient values,,use your tds meter an ph pen,,12 hours after feeding check your ph,,if it raises you didnt feed enough,,if it falls you fed to much,,learn this its BY FAR THE MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION HYDRO BEGINNERS CAN GET
I am voting with the person below. After watching about 50 videos you are absolutely the best at no Blabalblablablablablabla before saying a few useful things. Your video was clear, got right to the point, full of great information. Keep up this great work.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Im a beginner. Was truly spending time SEARCHING for anyone offering reliable information on exactly what you covered! Your explanations are easy for me to understand and I am very grateful!
As I start my journey into hydroponics I am cursing my high school guidance counselor for discouraging me to register for chemistry & physics. Fortunately I stumbled into a career that has been fruitful but I felt that I was missing something my whole life because I did not have the proper education in these areas. I couldn't tell you the purpose of nitrogen, phosphorous or potassium until I watched your video.... thank you for the education!!
Hi ZipGrow. I'm really surprised to see you still at it. Had heard you sold up and moved on for big bucks. You earned the right to big bucks but glad to see you're still putting out content since you're perhaps the biggest contributor to this kind of hydroponic information necessary to successfully make it work. So nice one brother. Hope the lockdown hasn't adversely effected you all. Hope to see more of your videos sir. Kind regards from Ireland.
9:17 Actually if you combine an acid and a base they will create something called a buffer solution which will make changing the pH n either direction a lot more difficult. Especially if you use the corresponding base to the acid.
Thank you so much for this. Anyone can tell me how, but thank you for telling me why! I am on my second grow and followed a guide strictly. Now for my second I truly want to know why we use these nutrients and how to begin to identify when one is needed. Thank you again!!!
The majority of technical videos on hydroponics are poorly put together, full or errors, and missing critical information. Your video is thought out and each topic is explained in great detail. Excellent production. Look forward to other videos from you.
Aarumamaadu, according to him in other video, iron edta is not recommended, much better is EDDHA or even DTPA. but i just started learning about and every tips count for me, i m from brazil
Really nice video 😊, thank you very much, can you please make one that covers the routine and best practices needed for hydroponic growers to follow, no video covers that, they present equipment fertilizers or explain concept, but no daily process verification and steps to follow
Thanks for the suggestion. We are adding more content every few weeks so please subscribe to our channel and we will keep your requests in mind. You can also look for content that may help on our blog zipgrow.com/zipblog/
Absolutely excellent video. Really informative. I live in Thailand where instructions on fertilezers etc are in Thai. We can however buy A and B dry mixes etc. Many thanks for this!
This is the bollocks No serious this is class, good info man. I always appreciate the underlying knowledge that let's you problem solve and work out how to get what you specifcally want out of something Your the guy!!!
First hydroponics nutrient video I have watched. Thank you. Very informative video. Every other video I watch will be judged against this. I doubt I'll find better.
glad you have at least some knowledge of chemistry when talking about this. I have run into some very funny statements where chem and gardening intersect. very informational thanks
You talk about 16 plant nutrients, but our bodies need 90 nutrients, and 60 of them are minerals. I add liquid seaweed to my mix hoping to get them and I also throw some green sand into my reservoir in the hope that the mycorrhizae will release them for the plants and for us. City water in San Francisco is about pH 9.5. By the time I add the nutrients it is down to about 6.5. I use pH down or ascorbic acid or distilled vinegar to take it to 6. I got a cheap pH meter from Amazon and it seems to work. I have the Bluelab EC meter but I would suggest trying the cheap ones. I use a bloom mix for the flowers in my yard and I set that at pH 4.5 to hopefully compensate for the high pH of the city water I put on them.
tangobayus Azomite rock dust has 67 micro nutrients worm castings also great over looked organic medium that Full of All kinds of Good Stuff ! Use at 20% to 25% volume w/coco/peat ,perlite & Happy frog or equivalent
I was not so clear on the kind of nutrients used in the hydroponics,right now I have a clear understanding on it,just unfortunately they don't get to sale this kind of agro things around my country so much,so I will have to just use the common fertilizer in my hyroponic project.
Great video ! Thank you ! I have a question How important do you think is the origin of those Elements (1,2,3), can they be harmful for the consumer if acquired from the wrong source? What are the guidelines to access those elements. One more question, in your opinion how important/different it is to grow vertical farming in pvc tubes or tube that are made from natural material i.e. wooden ? Great job Thank you
Excellent and very helpful video, Thank You! You have a knack for putting this fairly complex chemistry into everyday terms so it's very easy to follow. As another poster commented, feels like a college class where the passionate Professor (you) really knows and loves what they are teaching, For that, thank you ... feed me more. :-) Keep doin' what you're doin', you are helping others!
Nice explaination , i definitely get dry mix fertilizer and go thru the few extra added steps if I was getting much more fertilizer to uses and it was cheaper because fertilizer gets price if it's a liquid based one. Also I knew how to use the EC testers , TDS testers , and pH testers but didn't know there was equipment like auto dosers that just automatically told you that info on computer screen in real time. So if you did mess up for example pH you could uses a pH up or pH down solution to fix it. And just look back at the auto dosers screen.
When you explained about mixing the dry fertilisers you said that part A should be mixed in 5 gallons of water and so also part B but you did not clarify whether part C should also be mixed in an additional quantity of 5 gallons or it is to be mixed in the same quantity of water as part A. So do we land up with a total of 10 litres or 15 litres.
Hello! Good videos! I have a question. Why my calcium participate when im mixing the reservoir? I know when air bubbleing takes out co2 from water so it raise ph, but every hydroponics need some kind of airstone in the reservoir, doesnt matter its a dwc or nft system. So my question is what the best practice when mixing nutrients? I wait 1 day with tap water to get stagnated, and i air bubbled it too. Than ph go up 8.0 . Than i add a bit of nitric acid 60%, to get ph down to 6.5. Than i add a solution A (npk 6,14,30+epsom salt) stock solution, than waiting for another day and bubbleing it. Than next day i add the calcium nitrate stock solution B, than add more nitric acid to make ph 6.0. Than suddenly ph starts to rise again and calcium participate, and make cloudy water. The water was on room temperature all the time, ec went up after mixing all nutes to 900ppm (what is good), so dont know what im doing wrong pls help. How to avoid this participated clody water. Thanks.
Wow this is very expensive information you got me for free,thank you so much sir for this great video,i understand I'm watching a professionals video🤘🏽👍🏽❤️
I purchased a A & B nutrient solution. The company suggests after mixing part A to water is to leave it sit from 4-5 hours before adding part B. No reason given. Is this necessary?
Magnesium is needed by the body to control and prevent a antibody overreaction ( your lungs fill up with puss trying to kill the virus , great , but you can't breath and die) a very important nutrient , especially today.
You can:) and we would love to see! We have a Growers Facebook group that you are welcome to join and post to-facebook.com/groups/zipgrowers also if you are growing in ZipGrow systems we welcome customer images that we can share with our audience. You can email them to hello@zipgrow.com
Thank you, you guys rock and have a way of explaining that makes me care about pH. I couldn't understand why both up and down, can't you just adjust with water? I should watch the rest of video..lol
You didn't mention the water details. I start with reverse osmosis water with a Hydrologic Stealth RO 200, which filters my 320 ppm municipal water down to 6 to 8 PPM. Now, the filters are several years old and it filters down to 16 PPM. I heard that you need to have your water below 20 PPM, and ideally below 10 PPM, otherwise your nutrient can lock out. Is that true? I hand mix each 5 gallon batch. In the future, I'd like to auto dose. I use a three part dry mix. Masterblend 4-18-38, calcium nitrate, and epsom salt. I use 12 grams / 12 grams / 10 grams for fruiting plants and 10 grams / 10 grams / 5 grams for greens, for the 5 gallon batches. I pre-weigh 50 dry mix batches on a gram scale that does not include the weight of the plastic sandwich bags. The 50 dry mix batches use 150 plastic sandwich bags. I heat a large drinking glass of RO water in the microwave for 1 to 1 1/2 minutes, so that the water is warm to hot to dissolve the calcium nitrate. Then mix the Masterblend, dissolved calcium nitrate, and epsom salt into a 5 gallon bucket of RO water. I then add 5 ml of pH up. I periodically test my pH with testing drops, and check my PPM with a PPM meter. Is testing with a PPM meter close to the same result as testing with an EC meter? I use a PPM testing meter. I've thought about getting a pH meter, but there are some cheaper pH testing meters that you don't have to keep the probe wet in storage, and the Blue Labs pH testing meter where you do have to store the probe wet, otherwise, the probe will die. It seems that even the cheaper pH testing meters might be more accurate than the testing drops, which I aim for a "yellow" result for a pH of 6. I usually replace the 5 gallon batches every one to two months. I dump the old nutrient on outdoor plants instead of throwing it down the sewer. I grow in 5 gallon black buckets and 10 gallon Sterilite brand trays, each with nine 75 mm holes drilled in the plastic for a perfect fit for the 3" net pots. The 75 mm hole saw drill bit is run in the forward direction for the pilot holes and the reverse direction for the 75 mm holes, for perfectly clean edges every time. I grow with one Sunsystems 315 watt ceramic metal halide grow light and about 20 - 150 watt equivalent CFL bulbs. The CFL's seem good enough for greens, but the fruiting plants, like peppers, grow much better with the higher intensity light from the Sunsystems grow light. Eventually, I'd like to buy a large reservoir tank, and automate the nutrient and pH in the reservoir tank. I would also automate filling the reservoir tank with RO water. It's a lot of work to manually mix 5 gallon nutrient batches and haul around 5 gallon buckets of nutrients, both replacement nutrient batches and spent nutrient batches.
Great video to learn and understand hydrophobic nutrition. I wanted to know if your PH is too high, how can you bring it down if you advise to stay with one of either PH up or PH down?
It's not that you can't use both pH up and pH down in your system just that the two work against each other and if your pH is behaving erratically its generally a sign that something else needs attention. Under properly balanced conditions your system should trend in only one direction. When you use both together they increase the buffering capacity of your water such that you will need more and more in order to change the pH, and it quickly gets into a vicious cycle. It might be easier to reset your reservoir with fresh water and monitor the pH closely from the start.
Oke! a very clear video. However I use my pond as a waterreservoir. The pond contains fish. Does somebody know the effects of adding fertilizers to the pond and the effect on fish?
It sounds like you are doing aquaponics. You may find this video on introduction to nutrients in aquaponics useful: ua-cam.com/video/Lgtue6tbbhc/v-deo.html&ab_channel=ZipGrow OR the full playlist here ua-cam.com/play/PLAPahqrfGZZmUNzrQV0ZwKjUrmqq-Stqh.html
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If only all UA-cam videos were like this. No fluff, no flair, organized presentation, appropriately touched on every relevant topic, and provided additional resources and references.
I watched at least a dozen videos dancing around this topic before watching yours. Very simple, very clear. You have a great way of explaining things. Thank you!
Glad we could help, Sla Cra.
I can across your video on Fast Track Grower - there are many useful videos there that should help you
I watched this video at least a dozen times
hey ,if anyone else trying to find out aquaponics book try Aqua Recovery Tactics (aqua.RecoveryTactics.com ) ? Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my colleague got amazing results with it.
A beginners guide geared to commercial grow,,,it really doesnt matter what brand nutes you use learn the basics to feeding first,,,to be succesful in hydroponics you must first learn to feed properly,,ph is one of the most important things you need to manage,,a crop production guide or nutrient calander probly wont fit your grow,,to many variables,,it matters definately how much nutes you have,,when ph ing,,the most important thing is your ph swing,,this is directly affected by nutrient values,,use your tds meter an ph pen,,12 hours after feeding check your ph,,if it raises you didnt feed enough,,if it falls you fed to much,,learn this its BY FAR THE MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION HYDRO BEGINNERS CAN GET
This is a really informative video for budding Hydroponic farmers! Simple, Brief and to the point! Thank you for putting up such content!
I am voting with the person below. After watching about 50 videos you are absolutely the best at no Blabalblablablablablabla before saying a few useful things. Your video was clear, got right to the point, full of great information. Keep up this great work.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Im a beginner. Was truly spending time SEARCHING for anyone offering reliable information on exactly what you covered! Your explanations are easy for me to understand and I am very grateful!
Glad it was helpful! We have more free resource on our website if you are interested zipgrow.com/grow-guides/
As I start my journey into hydroponics I am cursing my high school guidance counselor for discouraging me to register for chemistry & physics. Fortunately I stumbled into a career that has been fruitful but I felt that I was missing something my whole life because I did not have the proper education in these areas. I couldn't tell you the purpose of nitrogen, phosphorous or potassium until I watched your video.... thank you for the education!!
It is fascinating how complex this is, yet in nature… plants just grow.
This gave me so much clarity about hydroponic nutrients! Thank you!!
How can i find the specific formulas for specific crops and can you please give more detail about micro solutions? Thanks.
Great vid!!!! The best I've found so far!!! Thanks a lot for sharing!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it Jose!
Excellent breakdown on nutrient solutions and understanding what your meter readings are saying.
Hi, I am bigger in this field and trying to use my 2400 ft plot for hydroponic set up. i was going through your vedio was reallly useful. thank you,
wow, now this is detailed af... great job!
Thanks! Happy to help😀🌱
Fantastic explanation
And recap at the end is like a professional instructor 👍👍👌
Glad you liked it! Thank you😀🌱
Hi ZipGrow. I'm really surprised to see you still at it. Had heard you sold up and moved on for big bucks. You earned the right to big bucks but glad to see you're still putting out content since you're perhaps the biggest contributor to this kind of hydroponic information necessary to successfully make it work. So nice one brother. Hope the lockdown hasn't adversely effected you all. Hope to see more of your videos sir. Kind regards from Ireland.
9:17 Actually if you combine an acid and a base they will create something called a buffer solution which will make changing the pH n either direction a lot more difficult. Especially if you use the corresponding base to the acid.
Thank you so much for this. Anyone can tell me how, but thank you for telling me why! I am on my second grow and followed a guide strictly. Now for my second I truly want to know why we use these nutrients and how to begin to identify when one is needed. Thank you again!!!
Thanks you have make it very simple for me to understand. Well done
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very nicely done! Just starting don't have a clue. Now I'm a little smarter. Thanks
The majority of technical videos on hydroponics are poorly put together, full or errors, and missing critical information. Your video is thought out and each topic is explained in great detail. Excellent production. Look forward to other videos from you.
But d***, this is so incredibly informative. It felt like I was in a collegiate class. Very nice video. New subscriber here! 😃
Very informative and well-done from the way the information was laid out to your speaking speed. Thank you.
*For 100 litter water*
Magnesium Sulfate - 50 grams
Potassium Nitrate - 50 grams
Monoammonium Phosphate - 18 grams
Calcium Nitrate - 70 grams
Manganese Chelate - 0.667 Gram
Boron Chelate - 0.35 Gram
Zinc Chelate - 0.25 Gram
Sodium Molybdate - 0.013 Gram
Copper Chelate - 0.143 Gram
Iron EDTA Fe(EDTA) 2.24 grams
Earumamaadu 👍 Source?🤔🤔🤔
Aarumamaadu, according to him in other video, iron edta is not recommended, much better is EDDHA or even DTPA. but i just started learning about and every tips count for me, i m from
brazil
FINALLY someone who can explain this topic who isn't stoned or simply parroting what all the other youtubers said in their sponsored videos.
This is so incredible...innovative minds matters these days
Really happy to come across your channel! Lots of information for beginners! Just amazing!
precisely explained in every bit which gives a thought.
thank u
Glad it was helpful!
Wow so detailed and yet easy to understand ! Kudos
Omg thank you for this video. Very informative and it explained everything incredibly clear and concise. Thank you so much.
thank you this information help me lots
You are welcome!
Really good info 💯
This is extremely thorough. Great stuff
Glad it was useful! Hope you'll subscribe for more videos like this in the future.
Greatly informative in an understandable form. Thanks guys
Really nice video 😊, thank you very much, can you please make one that covers the routine and best practices needed for hydroponic growers to follow, no video covers that, they present equipment fertilizers or explain concept, but no daily process verification and steps to follow
Thanks for the suggestion. We are adding more content every few weeks so please subscribe to our channel and we will keep your requests in mind. You can also look for content that may help on our blog zipgrow.com/zipblog/
You present the info in very ez way to take in, tyvm m8
Bravo! 👏🏻 Thank you for this. Best explanation ever.
Hi Jay, glad that it was helpful!
Absolutely excellent video. Really informative. I live in Thailand where instructions on fertilezers etc are in Thai. We can however buy A and B dry mixes etc. Many thanks for this!
good job
i loved the explanation
Very simple and informative
Cheers & Thanks for the useful Video for a Beginner like me
This is the best video ever.... thanks.
This is the bollocks
No serious this is class, good info man. I always appreciate the underlying knowledge that let's you problem solve and work out how to get what you specifcally want out of something
Your the guy!!!
Thanks for your comment.
GREAT EFFORT TO EDUCATE ,THANKS ,PAKISTAN
First hydroponics nutrient video I have watched. Thank you. Very informative video. Every other video I watch will be judged against this. I doubt I'll find better.
Very cool and useful info. Well spoken.
Thank you
So helpful and professional. Thank you
very interesting. thumbs up!
Glad you enjoyed it!
yes, interesting but useless images as well.
Great stuff and heaps of notes taken .. thanks
Excellent content and presentation.
Valuable informations
Very nice I well use this information
glad you have at least some knowledge of chemistry when talking about this. I have run into some very funny statements where chem and gardening intersect. very informational thanks
It's very much helpfull to me
Very informative 👍🏻
Glad it was helpful!
You talk about 16 plant nutrients, but our bodies need 90 nutrients, and 60 of them are minerals. I add liquid seaweed to my mix hoping to get them and I also throw some green sand into my reservoir in the hope that the mycorrhizae will release them for the plants and for us.
City water in San Francisco is about pH 9.5. By the time I add the nutrients it is down to about 6.5. I use pH down or ascorbic acid or distilled vinegar to take it to 6. I got a cheap pH meter from Amazon and it seems to work. I have the Bluelab EC meter but I would suggest trying the cheap ones. I use a bloom mix for the flowers in my yard and I set that at pH 4.5 to hopefully compensate for the high pH of the city water I put on them.
tangobayus Azomite rock dust has 67 micro nutrients worm castings also great over looked organic medium that Full of All kinds of Good Stuff ! Use at 20% to 25% volume w/coco/peat ,perlite & Happy frog or equivalent
thank you for the knowledge my good sir
insanely well explained!!!
I was not so clear on the kind of nutrients used in the hydroponics,right now I have a clear understanding on it,just unfortunately they don't get to sale this kind of agro things around my country so much,so I will have to just use the common fertilizer in my hyroponic project.
thank you, very simple to understand.
thank you for your clear explanation really interesting
good teacher thanks
You are welcome.
Great video ! Thank you !
I have a question
How important do you think is the origin of those Elements (1,2,3), can they be harmful for the consumer if acquired from the wrong source? What are the guidelines to access those elements.
One more question, in your opinion how important/different it is to grow vertical farming in pvc tubes or tube that are made from natural material i.e. wooden ?
Great job
Thank you
Excellent and very helpful video, Thank You!
You have a knack for putting this fairly complex chemistry into everyday terms so it's very easy to follow.
As another poster commented, feels like a college class where the passionate Professor (you) really knows and loves what they are teaching,
For that, thank you ... feed me more. :-) Keep doin' what you're doin', you are helping others!
Getting ready to purchase setup by Friday.
Nice explaination , i definitely get dry mix fertilizer and go thru the few extra added steps if I was getting much more fertilizer to uses and it was cheaper because fertilizer gets price if it's a liquid based one. Also I knew how to use the EC testers , TDS testers , and pH testers but didn't know there was equipment like auto dosers that just automatically told you that info on computer screen in real time. So if you did mess up for example pH you could uses a pH up or pH down solution to fix it. And just look back at the auto dosers screen.
Very helpfull thanks!
Best guide
Great break down thank you!
When you explained about mixing the dry fertilisers you said that part A should be mixed in 5 gallons of water and so also part B but you did not clarify whether part C should also be mixed in an additional quantity of 5 gallons or it is to be mixed in the same quantity of water as part A. So do we land up with a total of 10 litres or 15 litres.
Thank you for the information. Keep up the good work!
Our pleasure! Thanks for watching!
Thanks a lot. very helpful video.
Great Information, thank you very much.
OUtstanding presentation.
I’d love to see more videos.
TY SIR.👍
Hello! Good videos! I have a question. Why my calcium participate when im mixing the reservoir? I know when air bubbleing takes out co2 from water so it raise ph, but every hydroponics need some kind of airstone in the reservoir, doesnt matter its a dwc or nft system. So my question is what the best practice when mixing nutrients? I wait 1 day with tap water to get stagnated, and i air bubbled it too. Than ph go up 8.0 . Than i add a bit of nitric acid 60%, to get ph down to 6.5. Than i add a solution A (npk 6,14,30+epsom salt) stock solution, than waiting for another day and bubbleing it. Than next day i add the calcium nitrate stock solution B, than add more nitric acid to make ph 6.0. Than suddenly ph starts to rise again and calcium participate, and make cloudy water. The water was on room temperature all the time, ec went up after mixing all nutes to 900ppm (what is good), so dont know what im doing wrong pls help. How to avoid this participated clody water. Thanks.
Thanks a lot !!!!
Our pleasure!
Thanks. Very important information.
Thanks for tuning in!
Wow this is very expensive information you got me for free,thank you so much sir for this great video,i understand I'm watching a professionals video🤘🏽👍🏽❤️
You guys have an awesome content, thank you so much.
Love this informative and fascinating video. Great job! Subbed
Thanks for the subscribe! Glad to have you in the community!
excellent explanation I liked it
so thankful for your work and especially informative videos you do on plant science like these!
Happy to help!
Very informative
Good job
I purchased a A & B nutrient solution. The company suggests after mixing part A to water is to leave it sit from 4-5 hours before adding part B. No reason given. Is this necessary?
you should always wear a mask when you are dealing with powder
Magnesium is needed by the body to control and prevent a antibody overreaction ( your lungs fill up with puss trying to kill the virus , great , but you can't breath and die) a very important nutrient , especially today.
Wish we could post pics of our grows
You can:) and we would love to see! We have a Growers Facebook group that you are welcome to join and post to-facebook.com/groups/zipgrowers also if you are growing in ZipGrow systems we welcome customer images that we can share with our audience. You can email them to hello@zipgrow.com
Thank you, you guys rock and have a way of explaining that makes me care about pH. I couldn't understand why both up and down, can't you just adjust with water? I should watch the rest of video..lol
You didn't mention the water details. I start with reverse osmosis water with a Hydrologic Stealth RO 200, which filters my 320 ppm municipal water down to 6 to 8 PPM. Now, the filters are several years old and it filters down to 16 PPM. I heard that you need to have your water below 20 PPM, and ideally below 10 PPM, otherwise your nutrient can lock out. Is that true?
I hand mix each 5 gallon batch. In the future, I'd like to auto dose. I use a three part dry mix. Masterblend 4-18-38, calcium nitrate, and epsom salt. I use 12 grams / 12 grams / 10 grams for fruiting plants and 10 grams / 10 grams / 5 grams for greens, for the 5 gallon batches. I pre-weigh 50 dry mix batches on a gram scale that does not include the weight of the plastic sandwich bags. The 50 dry mix batches use 150 plastic sandwich bags.
I heat a large drinking glass of RO water in the microwave for 1 to 1 1/2 minutes, so that the water is warm to hot to dissolve the calcium nitrate. Then mix the Masterblend, dissolved calcium nitrate, and epsom salt into a 5 gallon bucket of RO water. I then add 5 ml of pH up. I periodically test my pH with testing drops, and check my PPM with a PPM meter.
Is testing with a PPM meter close to the same result as testing with an EC meter? I use a PPM testing meter. I've thought about getting a pH meter, but there are some cheaper pH testing meters that you don't have to keep the probe wet in storage, and the Blue Labs pH testing meter where you do have to store the probe wet, otherwise, the probe will die. It seems that even the cheaper pH testing meters might be more accurate than the testing drops, which I aim for a "yellow" result for a pH of 6.
I usually replace the 5 gallon batches every one to two months. I dump the old nutrient on outdoor plants instead of throwing it down the sewer. I grow in 5 gallon black buckets and 10 gallon Sterilite brand trays, each with nine 75 mm holes drilled in the plastic for a perfect fit for the 3" net pots. The 75 mm hole saw drill bit is run in the forward direction for the pilot holes and the reverse direction for the 75 mm holes, for perfectly clean edges every time.
I grow with one Sunsystems 315 watt ceramic metal halide grow light and about 20 - 150 watt equivalent CFL bulbs. The CFL's seem good enough for greens, but the fruiting plants, like peppers, grow much better with the higher intensity light from the Sunsystems grow light.
Eventually, I'd like to buy a large reservoir tank, and automate the nutrient and pH in the reservoir tank. I would also automate filling the reservoir tank with RO water. It's a lot of work to manually mix 5 gallon nutrient batches and haul around 5 gallon buckets of nutrients, both replacement nutrient batches and spent nutrient batches.
Great video to learn and understand hydrophobic nutrition. I wanted to know if your PH is too high, how can you bring it down if you advise to stay with one of either PH up or PH down?
It's not that you can't use both pH up and pH down in your system just that the two work against each other and if your pH is behaving erratically its generally a sign that something else needs attention. Under properly balanced conditions your system should trend in only one direction.
When you use both together they increase the buffering capacity of your water such that you will need more and more in order to change the pH, and it quickly gets into a vicious cycle. It might be easier to reset your reservoir with fresh water and monitor the pH closely from the start.
Great video!!!
Oke! a very clear video. However I use my pond as a waterreservoir. The pond contains fish. Does somebody know the effects of adding fertilizers to the pond and the effect on fish?
It sounds like you are doing aquaponics. You may find this video on introduction to nutrients in aquaponics useful: ua-cam.com/video/Lgtue6tbbhc/v-deo.html&ab_channel=ZipGrow OR the full playlist here ua-cam.com/play/PLAPahqrfGZZmUNzrQV0ZwKjUrmqq-Stqh.html
Great video can I ask were is the best place to buy dry nutrients?
Great video! Thank for the info!
Brilliant video, keep it up.
Great explanation. Well done video.
Glad it was helpful!
Very informational