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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Excellent. I’d been searching for a simple explanation of adjusting EC and finally found it. Many thanks!
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.
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.👍
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.
I like your channel. You're learning just like me. Keep up the good work.
Can't thank you enough my man. New subscriber here.
Many thanks for the explanation, for sure super useful, I was looking for it, also was very simple and easy to understand, Again thanks.
Grate way to explain!
This is a good video, i learned a lot.
thank you
Thanks!
Very good video
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.
Great video! Just one small correction. The unit of conductivity is Siemens (pronounced SEEM-ənz) after the German Ernst Werner von Siemens.
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!
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.
Hey 👋 brother 👌 Thanks for your time. It's a good experience learn this...
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?
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
Do you run the same EC values for hydroponics as you would for soil.