How to Adjust Hydroponic Nutrients for Beginners

What this video is: A basic crash course on how to mix and adjust hydroponic nutrients. This video is intended to help beginners understand that mixing and testing hydroponic nutrients can be easy.
I do a few simple experiments to see how much the pH and EC of nutrient solutions change after allowing them to settle for 30 minutes. Hopefully, this helps beginners understand how to make incremental adjustments to nutrient solutions.
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The verdict based on the experiments? Reservoirs under 5 gallons will have almost no significant change in nutrient strength or pH as the solution settles. Reservoirs under 10 gallons will experience minor changes in nutrient strength. Reservoirs that are 20 gallons or greater, may have significant changes to nutrient strength as the solution settles.
What this video is not: An in-depth look at meticulously calculating hydroponic nutrients on a commercial scale.

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  • @Matentupe808
    @Matentupe808 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent. I’d been searching for a simple explanation of adjusting EC and finally found it. Many thanks!

  • @iheart3dprinting951
    @iheart3dprinting9512 жыл бұрын

    I used to use those cylinders for measurement but I switched to a jewlers gram scale and made my life so much easier. You can use the cylinder to discover how much nutrient of 10ml equals in grams. Typically 1 gram of water should equal 1 gram. Shot glasses are way easier to clean. Good video man.

  • @thomasbaker2244
    @thomasbaker2244

    Nice video been looking around to find out how to adjust properly and couldn’t find a video that explained it in detail until I found your channel. Can’t thank u enough.👍

  • @angelstarsdust
    @angelstarsdust Жыл бұрын

    This is such an excellent video, thank you so much for the detailed explanation - beginner in hydroponics here.. trying to do cucumbers in a DWC using masterblend and my plants had so much trouble and leaves were turning yellow etc .. anyway ... seeing your video makes me realize I wasnt checking the nutrient measurements half hour later which might be why my plants were not doing well.

  • @thomasswenddal772
    @thomasswenddal772 Жыл бұрын

    I like your channel. You're learning just like me. Keep up the good work.

  • @sugargraham6868
    @sugargraham6868

    Can't thank you enough my man. New subscriber here.

  • @clodoaldomarques401
    @clodoaldomarques401

    Many thanks for the explanation, for sure super useful, I was looking for it, also was very simple and easy to understand, Again thanks.

  • @papexa
    @papexa

    Grate way to explain!

  • @Kaycee2C
    @Kaycee2C

    This is a good video, i learned a lot.

  • @robakers6127
    @robakers6127

    thank you

  • @jims1577
    @jims1577 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @lenardwhyte2679
    @lenardwhyte2679

    Very good video

  • @sevenn7pure
    @sevenn7pure Жыл бұрын

    I am trying to get my nute strength dialed in for various plants. The goal I believe is for your EC and PH to remain the same from one day to the next and for the plant to be taking up water.

  • @reverse_engineered
    @reverse_engineered Жыл бұрын

    Great video! Just one small correction. The unit of conductivity is Siemens (pronounced SEEM-ənz) after the German Ernst Werner von Siemens.

  • @RealWorldNailsLuvNailz
    @RealWorldNailsLuvNailz

    I am just learning how to grow my veggies. I have a few countertop gardens which has me add nutrients every 2 weeks. And I have a bunch that have transferred into hydro buckets. My question is, when I add nutrients and water, do I add the full amount of nutrients? For example, by 5 gallon bucket needs a gallon of water and it’s been a few weeks since I’ve added anything. Do I add nutrients for 5 gallons or just calculate nutrients for the new 1 gallon of water Im adding in? Also I have cal mag and I’m growing tomatoes and peppers. I’ve read that tomatoes can be tasteless grown hydroponically. Should I do an extra nutrient of some kind? Thanks for your help!

  • @dgogate07
    @dgogate07 Жыл бұрын

    what kind if nutrition is required by the plant at every stage, like may be during flowering stage, the plane will need more P or K than N.

  • @CoG0ll0
    @CoG0ll02 жыл бұрын

    Hey 👋 brother 👌 Thanks for your time. It's a good experience learn this...

  • @acesmoka
    @acesmoka

    I'm trying general hydroponics nutrients and everytime I mix it and add ph up to get it to the desired level after checking it again it keeps rising could it be my air stone causing this?

  • @robgoudy1149
    @robgoudy1149

    great video but I have a question. When I'm growing something in that solution, how often do I need to change out the solution with a new mixture of nutrients? Or do I just keep trying to maintain the existing nutrient solution values throughout the grow cycle? Thanks

  • @chrisfoley3320
    @chrisfoley3320 Жыл бұрын

    Do you run the same EC values for hydroponics as you would for soil.