How I mix my hydroponic nutrients solution for best results for growing
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- I've used this system for years now I grow 40 to 60 heads a month of salad greens I this mix solution has given me my the best results. I use General Hydroponics Flora Series, Cal-Mag 2-0-0 - Botanicare and Epsom Salts 2017
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Botanicare fails to note, the Cal-Mag + should be added first. The instructions on Dutch Master Grow Chart and General Hydroponics CaliMag both mention this. Additives first, then Micro, then Green and Red. Adjust Ph.
hubbabubbler that’s how you do it...
S.N.A.P.= SUPPLEMENT, NUTRIENT, ADDITIVES, pH
never knew that. i was told to add calmag after all the nutrients and then ph
hubbabubbler flora micro should have enough cal mag already!! The veg solution isn’t actually needed it’s enough N in the micro to get u thru any grow
I read that cal-mag may not be necessary in hard water areas.
No need to pH the water before adding nutes. In fact, it could make your pH too low, as the 3 part has stabilizers in them that bring most tap water down into the proper hydro range. 3 part first, then adjust pH if needed. You're using lemon juice, but if you were to add pH down or up, you should mix it into a smaller amount of water first then add to res, rather than right into the reservoir.
And GH does recommend adding the 3 part in the M - G - B order, to prevent lockout.
Make sure micro goes first the grow then bloom, cal mag comes before everything else. You should buy a chlorine tester one hour is not enough to remove chlorine
aren't you supposed to add micro first then grow then bloom
yes you are right
It really don’t matter as long as you make survyou don’t mix any consentrated mix
@@dsnews2212 wrong
@@dsnews2212 that's false, that will cause nutrient lockout
Did he mix the grow in the water first? That will lock out the other nutes? You are supposed to mix in the micro first , the grow second , and then the bloom? He is mixing the Cal mag last? That should have been done first and if he put a silica supplement that should be be for cal mag.. Let's get that straight. #1 Silica#2 cal mag #3 micro GH #4 grow GH #5 bloom GHand last rapid start. Some body correct me if I'm wrong? I'm just saying would not want to confuse the new guys. It's gonna be where I had to say something.
Glad you liked it. I'm trying a bunch of different systems right now so I will post my results :)
Thank you, i was looking for exactly this info! Just starting out, ready to transplant my seedlings to Kratky system.
Me too
ProTip: Goto Amazon and purchase 100 disposable 5 ml syringes for $12. The black ink dashes and numbers rub off super fast. So place a piece of clear packing tape over ink and they are good for weeks.
good point. I got them cheap so it was much fast or me to use with out having to washout a measuring cup every time I need to add another. the point is not to cross contaminate the nutrients. if you dip the same syringes in each of your bottles then you are going mix your nutrients together and ruin your bottles. my way I only dip in the nutrient bottle once. get the exact amount with out having eyeball it, mix them in the bucket and then clean the syringe at the end with all my other equipment.
Should mix your micro first then grow, bloom...etc...I've had nutrient lock using grow first
According to Dutch Master, ppm readings are not accurate when additives are included after main nutrients. I believe this also means some nutrients are reacting prematurely.
This is by far one of the BEST informational videos on Nutrient Solutions I've found.
Going to the dollar store to find those syringes. Much cleaner method than the graduated cylinders.
Cheers!
Thanks. my philosophy is why spend money when you don't have to :)
+DadianSystemsLLC, Did you find them there? Nothing listed at dollar tree's web site.
I was taken back by the dollar store sells these i never seen it what isle is it in
You are still gonna have to wash them.
hey grate videos and lots of info there ,you should make a vid and revue on the GENERAL ORGANICS GO BOX STARTER KIT and advanced nutrients connoisseur an grand master box set ...many thanks
It says right on the bottle to always mix flora miro first then add the gro and bloom, how come so many people start with the green? Awesome video thou ☮️❤️from🇨🇦
Great video, thank you for posting!
Great video, I am just about to get started on Hydroponics and are trying to learn how it works so this question might just be too obvious to some: What do you do when moving to a new week in the chart that has a different mix of nutrients? You kind of worked around this by using the week 3 mix for all your growing weeks, which seem like a great idea. But what if you grow tomatoes for example that would need more weeks or if you really wanted to follow the chart as it is? So when you get to a week with a different mix do you flush the system or do you just apply the new mix to the water you add to the system during that week?
first thing in from my findings is, silica, cal mag, micro then the gro and bloom
How to set target ec provided by manufacturer ex. If Manufacturers Target ec is 1200
Start ec in water ec 200 should I add start ec 200 and set total after nutrient ec 1400?
Hey TheGrowGeek , I am getting a 4, 5 gallon bucket system with a 5 gallon reservoir. My question is, how do I manage the nutrient solution? Do I mix up the nutrients for the total amount of water in the system (4x5G+5G = 25 Gallon Approx)? It's a top fed recirculating system so I need the water level in each bucket to at least touch the roots of the plants (around 3G per bucket).
Hey there. I am new to hydroponics. I want to build out my backyard fairly big space, 10 x 40 with vertical hanging towers. If all goes well I will have somewhere close to 2000 plants. Mostly lettuce and herbs. My question is how do you calculate how much water/nutrient you are going to need for the number of plants you want?
Do you need to wash the syringes every time? Thanks.
I am brand new to Hydrophonics and My question is when I grow leafly vegitable like Lettuce (no flowering) Can I use only FLORAGRO without BLOOM & MICRO?
And when I grow Vegitable like tomato and chilly at the begining when growing stage can I use only FLORAGRO without BLOOM & MICRO?
My logic is at growing stage why should I use blooming fertilizer?
Thank you for your clear reply to encourage me in Hydrophonics.
Also If my water is in good PH level (PH 6) Can I avoid using MICRO?
Thanks for your detailed reply. If you can, please give me links for me to read more on this topics.
What is the best mix for cucumber...thanks
Does this work for all different plant types? We want to grow various vegetables indoors and we want to do it hydroponically. What about lighting? I'm still trying to get the seeds to germinate now. Once the seeds have germinated and are in the rock-wool, do I set the rock-wool in a bucket and let the nutrient water barely touch it? Is it okay if the rock-wool is continuously partially submerged in the water? I'm a beginner lol. Obviously.
After you mix your solution how long is it used for? Also is it used for all 3 stages of growth?
Cal mag last? Interesting. You also didn’t shake up the bottle. It separated, it should be white not transparent.
Once the nutrients are mixed is there a time limit?
Depends which system I use I have Lettuce thats in Kracky Raft System that I fill once and the don't need to fill until harvest. I also have a rail NFT system that I fill the reservoir 2 twice a month, once with full nutrients 5 Gallons and the once with 5 of clean DE-chlorinated water alternating every 2 weeks, thats for my Basil and peepers same mix for both
So you made 4 gallons of food how much do you feed each plant 1 gallon ?
so you mix the nutrients all in the same bucket you’re going to put the plant in??
Don't you check the ph ppms?
How often do you change your nutrient solution?
what s rate of flora series nutrient in india
Is salad green code for cannibus.
Good video
Can someone plz translate the nutrients mixtures for me but for 1 gallon of water? I dont need to feed that many plants.
Every 7-10 days is what I recommend.
Thanks for the fee back Ive never had that problem but I will look into it, what do you grow and what did happen with you lock out problem?
The box clearly says add micro first
Hi I am from Pakistan and want to try my hand on hydroponics. Here we don’t get these branded hydroponic solutions we get here NPK 20:20:20. So my problem is how to increase the proportion of potassium and sodium with regards to nitrogen at the time of flowering and fruiting stage. It will be a great help if you can guide me. Thanks
Great video! Suggestion. SHAKE THE HELL out of those nutrients before you pour from them or pull from them with a syringe. ALWAYS check the bottle, no matter what you're working with to see if the mfg recommends shaking first. This goes for MANY bottled products, not just ferts. For example, if you always just pour straight out of your steak sauce bottle, you're never gonna actually get the correct mix of the ingredients, and as you near the bottom of the steak sauce container, it will start to taste much differently. And I think we ALL know why you must shake the ketchup bottle before attempting to pour from it! lol
Just a question why did u got with the botanicare cal mag when u have mainly gh series I'm trying to decide between botanicare calmag and gh calmag I'm thinking gh because lower nitrogen which they are getting from the main nutes anyway and more calcium and magnesium
I run GH but also use Botanicare Silica blast, and Botanicare Calmag.
Hello,
I've really enjoyed these series but have a question or two. First I don't see anything in the channel on once you're done with the seedlings and need to put them into netpots and in a tote with a solution. Could you discuss at what point you would do this in the growing process and since you use your nutrient solutions on various weeks how is that done. Is that in a tote or what?
ph perfect its new last all week go to advanced nutrients micro grow bloom flawlish finish at the end the day before you harvest
What if I'm trying to grow cucumbers? I already grow salad and tomatoes and they seem to be doing fine but my cucumber plant has yellow edges on its leaves. Some guy said I should either give it more nitrogen or give it epson salt. I'm kind of confused because I'm using a two-part solution called floranova but I might just get yours.
GorillionDollars Ive grown bell peppers successfully using the system on the box minus the first week because you don't need it in my experiments. so I guess cucumbers will be the same, the yellowing could mean you should increase the cal mag and adding extra Epson salts has never done anything bad to my plants just made them greener. I had a problem with yellow crinkly leaves and it was a calcium deficiency so I increased the cal mag and Epson salts and that cleared it right up
Compost tea is good I use it outside but in Hydroponic system there is no way of balancing out the the nutrients or knowing whats in it.
When you mix your nutrients, you are using four gallons. It's this the size of your reservoir?
Jeremy Day
4 gallons. I have bunch of small and large systems so you mix what you need
Most American water systems add Chloramine not Chlorine. Chloramine is stable and doesn't "bubble out". If you live in America go to an aquarium supply shop and pick up a bottle of stabilizer.
How long is it taking you to grow a head of lettuce with this mix set-up? Also the lettuce you are using, how many days are they till maturity? Thanks
Trevor Anderson about 30 days
Why is it necessary to flush the system? Why can't you just add nutrients to the system?
no time limit on the nutrients my system drinks the lot over 2 weeks then I just make a new batch
Cal mag should be first and a fifteen minute wait before the nutes
I just did a test of epsom salts in tap water. 1tablespoon of epsom salts is 1352ppm with an ec of 2.76 miliseimens after accounting for the readings of the tap water. Isn't 2.76miliseimens too high for plants? Nearly everywhere I read about EC is that it should be between .75 and 1.5 miliseimens.
Hey did you figure out how much Epsom salt to use??
Do you ever have nutrient burning from going over a thousand ppm at the early stage?
I personally wouldn't go to over 1000 ppm, I have experienced nute burn. I keep it at 500-700 for seedlings
Can you use this for growing tomatoes
Yes
shouldnt you use black color buckets to hold your nutrient solutions? cuz white creates algae
Color and translucency are two different things. You can have a black bucket that lets more light in than a white bucket. Which lets more light in? A brick wall painted white or one painted black???
Hi out there, can anyone tell me, if i'm using blossom blood, in a hydro flood and drain system, can i leave it in there, after i've added it, or do i let them have a good drink for a day or so, then remove it, also, can i put some epsom salt in there aswel, thanks.
Just leave it till the next res change
@@JangleandChop Thanks mate your a good man for getting back to me, cheers.
“Salad greens”.... right 😉
Lol
Shouldn’t you put the 2nd one in first?? I wish it wasn’t in ml this is Europe tea spoon hello lol
So explain to me again why we need all those syringes for different things if we are just going to contaminate them with a backwash draw from the bucket anyway? Seems to me you could just use one as long as the measurements are right if your going to do the backwash draw and swish the tip off in the bucket...just sayin
Hydroponics is a good system but it also have some disadvantage, you must buy some "plant food", nutrition and supplements which may be high-priced. Before making any hydroponics system, you must think about the advantage of aquaponics system, which can automate 95% of work.
I have a home made IBC system that im working with. they both have advantages and disadvantage the hydroponic system works well indoors and with very little maintenance once setup. I buy in bulk and over the last 2 years I have consistently produced 40 to 60 heads of salad greens, peppers and herbs for pennies and head. the aquaponic system takes a lot more of my time to maintain and is very sensitive to change. but the operating costs a better and when they reach maturity the fish will be great too. I have a lot of projects and the time saving of hydroponics systems are a better option for me personalty but I have great success with both
ph perfect last all week micro grow and bloom
Hey great vid again growgeek. I just mixed my nutrients just like you did in same ratio and everything. The problem is my ppm meter says i am on 435 now but there is little x 10 blinking bellow that number on display. I am kind of scared that i did something wrong. BTW after i reduced pH and dechlorinated water my ppm count was 149. Help me please growgeek
To be more specific I have 13.5 l of water. Therefore i got 3.57 Gallons ok? So i went to 3rd week of generalhydroponics.com/site/gh/docs/feeding_sched/GH-FloraSeries-REC-Charts.pdf this table and add 35.6 ml of micro, same amount of gro and then 18 ml of bloom. Now my ppm meter went crazy and displays 4350 ppm.... I dont get it... I am trying to grow some winter lettuse btw and this is my first attempt ever so bare with me thanks
Ok my last update. I figured that my ppm meter is actually EC meter and it measures µS/cm... After i added epson salt the reading is 5230 µS/cm. But i cant figure out how much ppm that is....
MxEskymo
what are you growing?
lettuce
Your suppose to use MICRO GRO than BLOOM
true dat
PH last thing
You don't ph the water first lol you do it after
Just a quick pointer on the Hydrogen peroxide. 3ml a gal is the correct rate but your conversion into tsp is going to get people in trouble.
1tsp = 4.9ml ..... 2.5tsp (4.9 x 2.5) =12.25ml per gallon is a bit excessive. Now however I know people that run 8ml of the un-concentrated hydrogen peroxide
thanks for the feedback...I understand a lot of people are do not like the use of Hydrogen Peroxide in their systems but I have used a lot higher than this in the past and have no problems. I also have friends how use Hydrogen Peroxide directly as part of the weekly maintenance of the system to keep the algae at bay. I found this mix works well for me for cleaning my buckets with no ill affects to my plants or system. I leave it up to the individual to do the research on whether or not they want to use Hydrogen Peroxide has part of there cleaning / feeding regiment
....also I use retail Hydrogen Peroxide (3%) and not food grade (30%)
TheGrowGeek
I'm fairly new at this and after losing my first batch of strawberries this year to some fungus I introduced using 4 day old rainwater (yes learnt a lesson there), I super cleaned my system, got more strawberries, started it all up again, the plants seemed to start failing again around the 2nd day, the edges turned brown and the were dying again, I think they were having trouble with uptake, so I dumped a bottle of peroxide in my 25 gallon can and now things seemed to have stopped dying. I then added a tablespoon or so of powdered rooting hormone, the kind you dip your plant starts in for dirt growing. Now two days later there is huge, golf ball sized opaque globules, big, covering the roots, so big I really can't see the roots, but the plants that have the biggest 'globbs' are actually doing rather well!! I have no idea what has happened, my pH is ok though, the water smells ok, I use a good nutrient solution, are the globbes the rooting hormone mixed with the peroxide?????
Marcella Smith
sometimes I wish I actually knew somebody (that knew better what they were doing) who lived close to me when I start these adventures....
Marcella Smith Its great that you are trying thats the point :) the you community is great it where I got most of my knowledge at the beginning. if you have questions put it out there and you can always drop me a comment :)
Marcella Smith I use the The HP to cut down on algae and root problems I have never put rooting power in my system, unless it water soluble then its not going to work. The HP is to mainly keep it clean
Microflora should be first
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The drawback to hydroponics is you have to pay for "plant food" or nutrients and supplements which can be pricey.
Actually it cheaper than growing in the ground. you still need to feed those plants plus most of that food is wasted. then there is the insects to contented with, bad weather conditions, too hot, too cold, hydroponics if faster, cheaper and you get more consistent results than rolling the dice with growing out doors
I agree the plant food is costly
You sound half British half American
USE MICRO FIRST!!!
The disadvantage of hydroponics is you will need to buy "plant food" or nutrients and supplements which can be pricey.
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Rim Joma Actually its cheaper than growing in the ground. you still need to feed
those plants plus most of that food is wasted. then there is the insects
to
contented with, bad weather conditions, too hot, too cold, hydroponics
if faster, cheaper and you get more consistent results than rolling the
dice with growing out doors hope this helps
all man made maybe
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Phima Bina Actually it cheaper than growing in the ground. you still need to feed
those plants plus most of that food is wasted. then there is the insects to
contented with, bad weather conditions, too hot, too cold, hydroponics if faster, cheaper and you get more consistent results than rolling the dice with growing out doors
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