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The must haves and do’s for any Hydroponics gardener. Episode one.

Firstly clean and sterilize  equipment. If you have purchased second hand equipment no biggie just sterilise with bleach, chlorine or some other product that will bring tables, pots etc… back to looking new. The list of necessary equipment goes as follows: Truncheon (measures nutrients), PH Meter, Nutrients, growing media plus container, Reservoir, Air pump plus stones, submersible water pump, Reverse Osmosis water filter, all the necessary plumbing , Good fans for exhaust and intake, seedlings or clones and a light if growing indoors. Also you will need some close reflective walls of some kind. Most people use Panda film but Special foil is becoming more popular. You can have multiple rooms this way having all different stages of growth. Just make sure no lights get through to other rooms or you will have problems with them getting light when they should be asleep.

 Then you are set to start. I will talk here about growing indoors but you can adapt the same techniques for outdoor growing as well. The only big difference in care is you only fertilize every 3 days and water every other day outdoors. Inside you can irrigate all the time, four or 5 times a day for clay rocks, Perlite, Vermiculite, Rockwool or with Coco once a day. Design your system so you can run to waste. This will give you far bigger yields and improved tastes plus give you the security that you will not pass on any nutrient born diseases from one plant to the next. I just run it to a reservoir then pump out every two or three days into a rain water tank where i dilute for the garden getting a second use out of the nutrients. What a benefit. But remember to dilute it by at least two thirds and also test with a plant that is not your favourite and see if it likes it or not then go from there. I have seen no problems when the solution is diluted heavily with good quality water. Test your tap water with a EC meter it should read zero for drinking water, if it reads anything then you need a Reverse Osmosis filter to get the best results plus provide you with safe drinking water at a minimal cost.  

We will continue this another time so stay tuned and live your passion plant as many trees and plants  as you can this spring. It all helps global warming. Just briefly on that subject . I only use coco now for my growing media. It does not get taken from the environment  and it will add volume to poor soil when you are finished with it. Again if using waste coco on the gardens water it in very well diluting the built up nutrients etc..

Pictured is the Bluelab Combo Meter which does EC/CF/PPM, PH and temperature. They are a good piece of equipment to have and they have a full five year warranty. No other brand comes close to the Bluelab range which include  the new Guardian monitoring system, Truncheon and PH Truncheon amongst other fine hydroponic tools. All have the full five year warranty. Which gives you peace of mind knowing that your money has been wisely spent. Sure there are a lot of cheap imitations but they do not last and are usually unreliable ending in burning of plants or under feeding. Both Situations are not good.

Also pictured is the latest release from the Bluelab Gaurdian and it monitors continously and alarms if out of range.

Happy gardening

Pepelapue

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