A Beginners Guide: NPK in Hydroponics
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- In this video, Ethan Walter with Bright Agrotech explains the basics of N-P-K.
NPK stands for nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. These three numbers represent the ratio of N, P, and K in your fertilizer. Every main mix (complete balance) fertilizer will have these numbers clearly displayed, always in the same order.
Not all fertilizers are complete balanced fertilizers, however. Different ratios of NPK serve different needs. For instance, a blooming mix might have low to no nitrogen in the mix.
So what do each of these nutrients do?
Nitrogen is what makes your plants green, big, and strong. It is the absolute most important nutrient in the solution.
Phosphorus is important for blooming; it plays a role in all of the reproductive roles of your plant.
Potassium is important to plant photosynthesis, CO2 uptake, activation of plant enzymes, and water uptake. It is important for building strong stems and seeds.
N, P, and K are not the only nutrient that your plant needs. Micronutrients are required in much smaller quantities. A complete and balanced fertilizer will almost always include the micronutrients.
The NPK in your fertilizer are not present in their pure elemental form. Plants can only take up certain compounds with these nutrients in them. Fertilizers also sometimes have multiple forms in the fertilizers. These are listed on the label of the formula.
Many sources of fertilizers are synthetically derived. You might be wondering if there’s an organic option. The answer is yes, but realize that more is needed to use an organic solution. To use organic fertilizers in a hydroponic setup, you need a very strong microbial community in your system. The microbes are what drives organic growing. They cycle the nutrients and turn them into a form that the plants can use. So if you don’t have a strong community, this won’t work.
Another drawback is that it takes time (6-18 weeks) to culture the microbial community.
A final drawback of organic hydroponics is that some solutions do stink. When you put a lot of organic compounds into water, you can end up with lots of anaerobic microbes that produce horrible smells.
If you’re using a solution with low nutrient, but not for a blooming crop, you should supplement nitrogen in another part of the solution. We use CaNO3, calcium nitrate, to bring up the nitrogen ratios for our lettuce crops.
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Timestamps/What’s Covered:
00:19 Intro to Fertilizer
01:20 3 Essential Macronutrients
04:50 Organic Fertilizer
06:24 Types of Fertilizer
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Although English is my 2nd language, I was able to understand your video without going back and forth. Very clear pronunciation with easy and clear way of explaining not-so-easy subject. Thanks
Great start Ethan! Always nice to see someone new on here.
You are the godfather of hydroponics
How to figure out the NPK ratio of multiple nutrients in one five gallon bucket
I am newly interested in hydroponics. And your video is good for beginners too.
Welcome to hydroponics! We are glad to hear the content is helpful. At all your stages of growing we hope we can assist. All the best with your new hobby!
Simple and straightforward, this is exactly what I needed.
It was so easy to understand and you made it so easy. I had no pror knowledge. thank you so much. Great job !!
Great speaker relayed the info clearly and in an easy way to understand. Thank you so much!
Very clear explanation.
Great video. Thank you Brother 🙏❤❤❤
Great video, part of the research I'm trying to find to get a start into hydroponics!
You can do it!
I have been watching lawn videos for 6 months in regards to fertilizers, you broke this down better than all of these so-called law of informatics. Good stuff!!
* so called lawn fanatics
Glad it was helpful!
may god bless you, you give me exactly info which I need
Thanks for the details info - a lot better than 'It's got Brando - that's what plants crave'
Glad it was helpful!
Great job every bit of knowledge increases your knowledge.
This video is good for beginners to know about basic functions of NPK
Thanks
Excellent description how organic hydroponics would need to work. I've been trying to research this subject and what you said ties everything together for me. I think I'll be safe sticking to powder hydroponic formulas, chemically it's the same inside the plant.
Very well explained !
How many grams of npk do I need to mix in 20ltr water for hydroponic
Very good presentation. Thanks 👍
Great work thank you, very useful for Nutrient dummy :) Thanks a million.
Thank you sooooooo much. I actually understood exactly what I wanted to know. I've asked so many and by the time we get to the end of their explanation I've got 4 more questions OFF THE TOPIC COMPLETELY. LOL Anyway I've just subscribed I'll be checking some of your other vids. Take care, be safe.
This helps alot! I've been using the Miracle Gro organics for my hydroponic veggies and they're dying! I'm new at hydroponics so I figured anything should work....I've learned my lesson. Back to square one!
It’s enlightening for me , thanks
Thank you for a very fantastic information. Can you please explain how make a solution for hydroponic system
Where u from
great videos! very informative. I would like to see a video on making simple sense in conversion of EC into NPK for hydroponics
Amazing, this video help me to set my starting point.
I really want to know these informations. Awesome. Thank you. 👍👍👍👍👍
Informative video. Thank you!
Really helpful video, Now i know the nitrogen is for lettuce, coriander and spinach etc.
Glad you found it helpful👍
Useful & informative video. Thanks.
Please feature the benefits of Epson salt,calcium nitrate,boron,muriate of potash in plants.thank you.
Best information ever! Subscribed
Great and informative video.
Clean explanation. Hope you could talk about transplanting from soil to hydro! A cant understand the adaptation period
Thank you Ethan 👍🏻 very informative video. I’m your new subscriber .
Great content
Great 👍 it helps me a lot thank brother
Thank you, now I understand, but I was wondering how to calculate the nutrient from Epson salt when there is zer0 percentage.
Hi. Yurt video is very informative. I am starting hydroponic system in a small scale and was advised to use NPK of a ratio of 19 19 19. Am planting lettuce and cherry tomatoes to start with. Is it OK? Please advise. Thanks
Great 👍
could you please tell us what is causes of sticky roots in hydroponic
I Didnt' kneed no stinkin skool. Eye just watch ur videos!!!
There is actually no video of how much water with nutrients is plant using per day. I would like to see video about that.
Nice video brother very nice!
what will be the best chemical fertilizer for poppy
Thanks
For Explain👍👍
Sir is it correct to mix fermented fruit juice with nutrient solution?
Sorry for the late response Joseph. In some types of systems fermented products are used to encourage healthy bacteria, but I would be hesitant to add fermented juices as this may cause malicious bacteria to form that can clog up your system. It is best to use hydroponic-specific products when going this route.
Hi. Am from Ethiopia. I don't think I'll get formulated masterblend here. Any advice? Thanks in advance!!
Share hydroponic nutrition formula detail leafy plants step by step please help me
That is awesome I really want to know this information,Thank you so much👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
Is it able to use on hot condition? Can I apply to use in another like asian country?
Curious is there a difference between hydroponic based fertilizers vs soil based fertilizers vs aeroponic based fertilizers ? And thanks I do get N P K. On a different note by your logic high K would be great for root based veg's as well as nitrogen but less so for P unless you wanted flowers / seeds such as for fruit trees. Or orinental flowers / colorful bloomed flowers on bushes , trees , or house potted flowers. So if your doing carrots , beets , radishes , turnips ,...etc you probably favor a little higher K value with your N value high but with lower P value
can I use npk granules in capsule which is used in garden plants for my aquarium plants????
Will it be safe for my fish?????
Urgent!!!!!!!
Hey Ethan what is most suitable NPK formula to be used on bananas and pineapple in the sunny Caribbean. I await your informative response.
Can you demonstrate how to make the stock solution with these fertilizers..
Can you mix CN and nPk in one tank? Will it precipitate and for the unsoluble parts?
Thanks for your question Artur. In short, yes you can mix CN and NPK in one tank as long as you follow the appropriate dosage recommendations. You also want to make sure that each component is fully dissolved before you add the next. If you are mixing highly concentrated stock solutions, they will precipitate out, so you have to keep them separate until they are in your large volume of diluted solution.
hi, very well explained..please can you tell me if i can put the granules of NPK in water and dilute it or do i have to use it in granular form only. thanks
1st of all great video.. I want to know
Can I use this in my water lettus or water cabage pond? & Is this fertilizer is safe for fish like Guppy or moli?
Can I use NPK fertilizers alone in hydroponics? What is the number of each element
Hello! Yes you can use standard NPK fertilizers in hydroponics however you may want to make sure there is enough micronutrients and not too much Nitrogen as plants take up nutrients differently from water than they do soil
@@ZipGrowInc thank you my friend
Thank u, very clear
It's really nice hi I am mustafejur Rahman I live in Bangladesh How to create hydroponic neutrons without masterblend The Nutrition that you show is not available in my country So how can I create it? You'll be grateful to post a video about this.
Hi!I’m also doing vertical hydroponics set-up. I’m preparing my water reservoir but I’m wondering if that’s already enough.How do you calculate the reservoir for your lettuces (nutrient solution in L : lettuce head)? We have at least 10,000 lettuce heads in our greenhouse.
HI, I just got started and came across this video. I started an NPT system and was wondering if you have information on how to maintain the system itself. Like if it needs cleaned out often and res changed often despite maintaining npk/ph levels with the circulating system. Thanks.
Like is the same n p k valued soil fertilizer equivalent to uses as the same n p k hydroponic fertilizer or can there be distinction that would cause issues ? Just trying to figure out how portable an n p k value fertilizer from soil to hydro to aero could usually be. Maybe normally you have to get 3 different fertilizers with the same n p k but for different applications one for hydro , one for aero , one for soil. Not sure typically how that goes
Hi..
Whats is the best npk fertilizer for hydroponic melons please?
Where can i find nutrition recipe for crops like Maize/Wheat/Barley etc
Do you know which hydroponics use for lotus flower without the soil?
plz make a video on hydroponic wheat grass ...
can a complete fertilizer to use in hydroponics?
Excellent narrative and informative video. Thanks for sharing.
A good start. Our body needs 90 nutrients and 60 of them are minerals. How do we get them?
eat
@@JTheMelon How do you make sure the food you eat has them?
research
@@JTheMelon Trace minerals.
Hi very informative vedio brother. I am looking nutrients for hydroponic fodder system (maize,barley,millets,wheat and other stuff)can we have any specific composition of all 17 nutrients. Thanks in advance
Dear sir,
I really appreciate your channel and the valuable information your team providing .
Inspired by your channel ,I started growing some green leafy crops but I failed in maintaining them.
The major trouble I face is how to add the nutrients to the nutrients solution ,and which concentration they should be feeder at different stages of plant life cycle .
I need you to help us in preparation of nutrients solution .
Thanks in advance
Sathish Kumar
Hi..im from philippines would like to create my own lettuce solution hydroponics...can u please give me ratio of NPK for lettuce? Thank you master....
I bought already my nitrogen phosphorus and potasium.. including calcium nitrate ang magnesium solphate....
The question is all theses synthetic agro chemical safe for our health ?
yes
Vahid Fatahian They're not really "synthetic"
Thanku...
hello very good video I wonder if you can have me I am using masterblend 20 20 20 but I have not obtained good results is for hydroponic lettuce if this product is good for this or not thanks
Um, isn't it a ratio? As in 9(3) parts nitrogen, 3(1) part phosphorus, and 6(2) parts potassium?
Edit: Never mind, I was thrown off by the three part nutrient that I use. lol
Plz share npk ratio of tamato plant & which company' of nutrients you prefer plz
get a nutrient chart
Can I use NPK 24 24 0
FOR ROSE AND SUN FLOWER AND HIBISCUS AND KALANCHOE AND ADENIUM AMD OTHER FLOWER PLANTS...AT TEMPERATURE OF 37 DEGREE TO 40...
Use rather low N Medium P and High K say 10:10:30 so similar ratio
Nice
Helo ther.am planning to grow 5000 plants of cherry tomatoes in a greenhouse with Dutch bucket.could you pls help.me with the exact ratio of what nutrients I have use and during wat phases n wher to buy
if you need that much help, then you shouldn't be starting with a 5000 plant greenhouse. if you don't already know how to grow 1 DWC tomato plant why are you shooting for 5000?
Can hydroponic solutions be used in soil ? ? ? Are there any suggestions you would recommend I've got an abundance of Hydroponic solution given to me from a friend as they have moved away to Germany but I only use soil myself in my fathers allotment.
yes u can just like any other fertilizer
@@3poli thank you
how long do you suggest letting the system cycle before adding the plants
With traditional hydro nutrient, plants can be added as soon as you have your solution adjusted to an appropriate pH and EC. If you're doing organic hydro, it may take a week or longer to establish the populations of microbes within your system
thank you ... excellent video!
was that last part 9:28 "beyall " from the Chappell show lol
Hey, thanks a very good info. What are the nutrients that's needed to feed my 2 weeks old cucumber??? Pls
Where could I get these element? Any suggestions?
nabeel ibrahim where u from
Question!! If i have 1lbs urea (46% nitrogen) wouldnt i just add .46 lbs urea to 1lbs water to get 46% nitrogen water?
I dont know the solubility rate on urea in water but my product says its high
why would you need such a high concentration of nitrogen water?
Its creating a nutrient mix (like a bottle of mygrow) once you have 46% nitrogen water (1 pound water to 1 pound D.A.P) devide 46 by whatever number to equal 3 (46÷16) then figure out how many ml in a gallon of water (3785) 3785÷16=236. The final equation in word form is (every gallon of fresh water needs 16ml of nutrient mix for a total of 236 batches)
That math is meant to create 3% nitrogen in your fresh\feed water. Follow the same steps to add P and K.
I found that though my math is great; i suck at chemistry and its hard to get the mix to react and combine together. My veg mix worked perfect and plants loved it but my flower mix never combined and stayed as sand in the bottom. Same products so idk what went wrong
I dont recommend this though after trying oersonally because youre plant still need things like zinc and such to put the nutes to good use.
I ended up sticking with cauliflower water and egg yolk water as needed. (Actually suprisingly bioavailable as is)
Very subtle advertisement. Good job.
Remember kids, to improve the health of a plant, you always gotta have nitrogen, phosphorus, and ketamine
NPK N17
Hahaha i was thinking the same thing🤣🤣🤣🤣
RAGE X Redz 😂😂 uno like dat 💜
Is 9 -3- 6 the same as 18-6-12?
yes dear. Certainly
but wouldn't it be stronger?
Yes, but double the concentration. So, if you are using 100 gm of 9-3-6 then use only 50 gm of 18-6-12
What ratio will be workable of NPK 19:19:19 in Hydroponics?
One more thing, should we add epsom salt in Hydroponic with npk? In what proportion?
I am from afghanistan..following your nice guidline..but can you be so kind and make english subtiitle for your vids please.
Your subscriber will be double if you do..
Fuck it, I'm using a Centrum 50+
Funny
Can I just use lawn fertilizer?
Sure.. on your lawn, not for plants. It's in the name, "lawn" fertilizer
RideForLifeCR250R so grass isn’t plants? It’s the same chemical fertilizer you would put in a garden. The only difference is fish. I can see ammonium nitrate not being ideal. I use KNO3 all the time in my planted aquarium. The ingredients in the starter fertilizer I have has other other than these same chemicals I use in my aquariums.
@@Takim0n just because both are green, don't mean they have the same make up/take up.
I guess what I should've stated is that there are many better viable fertilizers on the market to feed houseplants because the lawn fert is best optimized for grass requirements whereas each species plant require different amounts of nutes at different stages throughout plant(s) life cycle.
8:20
High nitrogen: good for leafy greens
Doesn't high nitrogen cause bolting on lettuce and the like plants?
NPK stands for nintendoplushykids..
The numbers are not accurate to base what it is precent is. Confused? For example '
Company Xyz sale a product of 75, 20, 75,
You will be get only the actual product of 19, 5, 19, as analysis of true product
Where the hell would you have seen a "75, 20, 75" ???
The NPK number is always a true percentage. If a product lists a N-P-K of 4-4-4, the fertilizer will always contain 4% of each of those three nutrients. The section on the package that says "guaranteed analysis" will list the exact percentage of N, P, and K that is present in the fertilizer, and what source that particular nutrient is derived from ( I gave an example in the video of the Nitrogen in DynaGro being derived from two different sources, the sum of those two sources being the total nitrogen percentage displayed in the NPK number). The guaranteed analysis will also list percentages of other macronutrients and micronutrients, if they are present in the fertilizer.
It was just an example total production of product (12,45,0 43,0,0 20,0,0 0,0,60 etc) just cause one product say G.A. Dose mean inclusion of all products
Ethan W not all products are true percent that are not "guaranteed Analysis" just saying I'm coming from the chemical fertilizer industry just saying
I work in the industry of fertilizer
lmao thes 3 numbers.. if u stayed elementry you'd know they're letters
Jesus if this is for beginners I hate to see advanced
Imagine our world without microbe smelling shit, i recommend before you talk about microbes just study a very basic about microbe activity and their roles in our life and planet
If you is interested in aquaponics the greatest success that ive had was by using the Keiths Ponics Site (just google it) without a doubt the most useful course that I have ever tried.
That's great and true Vahid, but we don't all want it in our house or grow space.
This guy needs to grow up and learn how to improve his communication skills. His presentation style is what I'd expect from a high schooler trying to come off mature.
Tulips Moran he communicated his point very clearly and in a manner that is not boring to listen to. You're just here to think you're a better speaker or showing off your Speech 101 skills so please fuck off to your next Speech class to show everyone there how "good" you communicate... We here are simply just trying to understand what NPK in fertilizer means you idiot