Hello Viewers, I am happy to launch my online course on Hydroponics. I worked on creating this course most of last year. The course is LIVE now. You can go register yourself for this course This is pre-recorded online course. It has 12 Chapters and 14+ hours of content. I have ensured that I everthing that one needs to know to start their journey in Hydroponics. courses.gardenguru.in/courses/Master-Hydroponics-Workshop-62622c750cf26d4710841228?affCode=RQRWFY Course Contents Module 1 - Basics of Hydroponics Module 2 - Plants Science - Essentials Module 3 - Plant Propagation Module 4 - Critical Parameters Module 5 - Hydroponic Systems Module 6 - Greenhouses & Types Module 7 - System Selection & Requirements Module 8 - Nutrition & Management Module 9 - Crop Care & Management Module 10 - Pest Management Module 11 - Hydroponics as a Business BONUS MODULE 1 - Automation in hydroponics BONUS MODULE 2 - Sales & Marketing See you in the course!
You explain things like a tremendously generous professor sir. I have earlier mastered this subject but I still enjoyed watching the whole video both for personal reverification and be immensely pleased and proud of being a 'little' scientist
Thank you for mentioning the nutrient contributions of pH up and down. Many people don't understand this and don't realize if they are adding both each day, they are no longer feeding their intended nutrient ratios anymore.
It is my pleasure to listen you time and again, bit by bit to learn more and more from you . It is highly informative and knowledge oriented thank you sir.
about time someone said it's a daily thing because i swear some days it's all good, then it'll drop a point and a half then after fixing it may drop again... THEN it'll be just the opposite. it sucks because i'll end up in high sevens or into the 3's in a day.
@Madhu Thanks for your comment and I am glad you found them informative. I am almost nearing completion of the course preparation. Will announce here regarding the date. Stay tuned.
Its nice to see some accurate information for a change :) Diluting the ph down in ro water can reduce the risk of accidental overdose. The additional dilution will also mitigate the rise in EC. For leafy greens you can supplement N with a small amount of ammonium which will cause the ph to decrease on uptake, reducing the need for additional acid.
Hey, Thanks for your comment and am glad you appreciate it. We do add certain % of nitrogen as ammonium in the nutrients we prepare so that it takes care of the downward drift in pH. I have noticed, this pH downward overdose happens when acid addition is guesstimated :-)
@@TheGeekgardener You have to guess how much to add initially but as long as you guess under rather than over its all good. After you`ve mixed a few batches you get to know how much it takes. PH iis a good indicator of what nutrients are being removed from the solution by the plants, upward shift in veg tends to reflect nitrate (NO3) removal. In the case of tomatoes, the PH can tell you when the plants are transitioning to bloom. They begin to strip large amounts of potassium (K) from the solution even before the flowers appear which shows up as a drop in PH. Monitoring the nutrient solution can tell you a lot about what the plants are doing :)
@@atomizer2665 Very well described. Thanks for your detailed comment. Yes the initial value is guesstimate but far lower than what would cause an overshoot. Monitoring nutrients solution closely gives lot of insights. Many (atleast here in India) don't grow fruiting crops in a recycled system, they dont get to see the pH drop. It does drop due to the uptake of K and Ca. What crops do you grow?
@@TheGeekgardener I grow the usual things like toms, cukes, leafy greens, starwberries etc etc. I mainly use aeroponics but i also have a large flood and drain bucket system. The aeroponic setups run drain to waste so i can compare the input ppm, PH and water volume to the output (runoff) values in real time. It may seem a little overkill to some but the information allows me to tailor the nutrient and mist delivery to match the plants needs more closely which increases the overall efficiency :) Some folks may not realize plants uptake more nutrient and less water at the start of the day and gradually take up less nutrient and more water as the day progresses. The small amount of run off from the aeroponic setups is swallowed up by the flood and drain system so nothing goes to waste.
@@atomizer2665 Run to waste Aeroponics system is a good idea. Without wasting a lot of nutes, you get the absorption pattern. Nice to know that you run a Flood and drain system as well. I did Aero long ago. Nowadays I do mostly NFT and Substrate! Nice to connect. See you around! Happy Farming
you kept nutrient solution on the table but never added to the water.that means after making ph adjustment with only water you can add nutrient solution s to the water. but after adding nutrient solution to the water will not the PH change of the water
My greenhouse roof is covered with Polysheet ( the one they use for greenhouses. Sides are covered with 35% shadenet. Inside too, i have a layer of 35% shadenet which i spread during summers. hope this helps
Sir iam running dft of 250 plants experienceing pH problem earlier PH was increasing it was controlled to narmal with phosphoric acid. Now plants are 2 and half month (palak) pH in coming down in every two days inspite of using KOH from 6.5 to 5.30pH .Hope u solve the problem
Thank you sir, but i still have a question regarding a current situation, if i may ask you... let's say i have a plain water tank ph 7.9 and i add some acid to bring it under ph6 but just with the acid, my EC is skyrocketing... Honestly i dont undestrand this situation. For the rest of the case, i add nutriments for 1st stage vegatative like 4 weeks old witch i like less than 1000ppm in practice, but in fact, my EC is not related to theses 1000ppm after the acid injection, it's more like 3000 ppm... anyone could help ? Happy growing season to you all ;) Cheers
I used it long ago. It also doesn't keep it stable for long. Now, I use KOH(Potassium hydroxide) In my systems the pH keeps shooting up. I use mostly pH down.
