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Unlocking the Hydroponic Grower's Toolkit - a free resource · Hydroponics Daily

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  Hello and welcome back to Hydroponics Daily, your go-to podcast for everything soilless cultivation.
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  Today we're going through the Hydroponic Growers Toolkit.
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  What is that, you may ask? Well, it's something I've spent all day putting together
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  in the office, and hopefully it's a really good resource that you'll find really
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  useful and refer back to on a daily basis, just like Hydroponics Daily.
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  But first, before we get into that, it's time for
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  my new segment on the podcast and it's does the
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  general public know what hydroponics is and
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  today we've got my wife what's hydroponics
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  it's a form of growing plants where you are able to control all conditions how
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  much water how much nutrients your growing medium not a bad attempt there i
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  would say probably about seven out of ten she didn't mention soilless cultivation
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  but she got many of the main aspects of hydroponics right.
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  So on to the hydroponic growers toolkit which I've prepared today.
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  Basically I put all the resources that
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  I use on a daily basis when I'm growing or
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  thinking about fertilizers or setting up
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  the grow room into one place and hopefully I
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  thought a lot of growers will find this useful and
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  so it's not proprietary information so
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  I'm happy to share it with you so if you go into the show notes for this episode
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  i will post a link to the google sheet where it's all located also if you look
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  on many of our social media today you'll be able to find the link as well and
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  if you can't find it then just email me russell at utreema.co.uk.
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  So it's at the moment it's about four sheets on a spreadsheet but it's probably
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  going to get by five or six don't turn off just because you heard the word spreadsheet
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  it is useful i promise So the first question,
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  tab is commonly required conversions.
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  And the first one is financial. So I find myself adding and subtracting VAT all day.
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  So there's a little tab that does that automatically for you.
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  There's currency conversions, pounds to dollars, dollars to euros.
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  Euros to pounds, all them.
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  And the beauty of this spreadsheet is it's a live document. So all of the currency
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  conversions are all real time.
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  So there's like a 40 minute delay or something like that
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  so it's not old data you don't need to go into google and
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  do it all you can just put it all in there and do the
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  conversions back and forth and there's no problem there's converting
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  the there's a that's all the financial ones
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  for fertilizers i've got converting different
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  nutrients into their oxide levels and back again that's really
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  important when looking at fertilizers from other countries and
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  working out what there actually is in them and
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  comparing them so you're comparing apples with apples not apples.
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  With oranges um so i use that quite commonly and
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  then there's because we sell liquid gold in the
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  uk and gold leaf in the us we find ourselves
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  converting to from us to metric measurements
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  so we've got meters to feet and
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  back again fahrenheit to celsius and back
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  again do you know the word centigrade loads of people you still use
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  the word centigrade centigrade is just for ovens
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  you're not supposed to use it in any other context and
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  it's not the scientific unit celsius is
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  the scientific unit you still find people saying it uh weight grams to ounces
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  kilograms to pounds um is on there and also hectares to meters to square meters
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  and one that i always use because we have a lot of customers in lawn care is
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  liters per hectare to mils per meter to square meter.
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  So liters per hectare to mils per square meter.
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  Surprisingly that's a very common conversion factor so
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  that's one tab is all the different conversion and ratios and things like
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  this another tab on my toolkit is all
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  the links that i use on a daily basis so
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  there there's the website for gold leaf liquid gold and our
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  product in australia there's all the links to all the
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  different places you can find the podcast but as you're on
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  the podcast you've already found it there's a interactive vpd
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  chart and there's a vpd chart with growth growth
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  stages we might actually have a tab that just has
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  vpd chart on this resource on this toolkit so
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  you don't even need to click on the link so hopefully my
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  colleague matthew will be sorting that in the coming days so check
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  back on there then for anyone who's growing outdoors there's
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  the date of the last frost and the chances of the last
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  frost in the uk and there's
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  plant hiding zone maps for the us and
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  for europe so that if you're growing a plant that is
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  harmed by cold or frosts you
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  know what sort of situation to grow in there's
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  a link to a diagram of nutrient deficiencies for
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  each major plant nutrients and then
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  i've got links to all the magazines and news sites that i think are particularly
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  useful for hydroponic growers haughty daily vertical farm daily mmj daily garden
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  culture magazine and then also the journal of Experimental Botany.
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  Which is a super advanced journal, but it has some really good open access papers
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  in there for anyone who's really want to geek out on their plant science.
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  And then the rest of the links are recommended trade shows, places that I would
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  go and go on a regular basis.
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  So things like Greentech in Amsterdam, Cultivate in Ohio, MJ BizCon,
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  Las Vegas, Fruit Logistica, Berlin, IPMS in Germany, Fruit Attraction Madrid.
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  And Grotech in Antalya in Turkey.
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  Then we've got a checklist of equipment that you should have if you're going
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  to get started in hydroponics.
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  It gives you the estimated cost for all the equipment. It says whether it's
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  essential and it gives some commentary on all of those.
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  So myself and Matthew have been working on that today and then
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  there's a equipment list for expert growers as
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  well and the sorts of costs you'd expect to
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  pay for all the things like that so like co2 enrichment co2
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  sensors water sensors uv lights
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  and things like this and then the fourth tab is
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  a dose chart for gold leaf or
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  liquid gold if you're in the u.s and then the fifth
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  tab is a work in progress that's that's all about
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  the different systems so information about
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  deep water culture nutrient film technique ebb and flood
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  aeroponics aquaponics and passive systems
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  so loads of resources there that
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  i think hydroponic growers will be find
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  useful so as i say these are these are conversions and links that i use on a
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  daily basis so as much as i've created this to help hydroponic growers out i've
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  also created it for selfish reasons because it allows me to get everything in
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  one place i'm not going to about 20 different websites every day.
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  Hopefully we might be able to get this onto the Utrema or the Goldleaf website.
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  But if not, it'll just stay here on the Google Sheets.
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  I'm not asking you to pay for this. I'm not asking you to even fill in a lead
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  form and give your email address.
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  It's not even adding to my SEO on my website because it's going straight to Google Docs.
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  So it's a completely free and honest document.
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  There is a little advert for some of our products on each page,
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  but really that's a very, very small price to pay for the absolute value that
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  you're going to get from this.
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  You are if you click onto it you'll be down as a viewer so you won't be able
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  to actually change anything on the on the spreadsheet but if you just download
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  it you should be able to make a copy yourself and change it your own copy as
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  you see fit so hopefully you found you'll find that useful,
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  and if you think i'm missing anything on here
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  then i'm more than happy to add as much i would
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  love feedback i'd love to have any
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  other recommendations on either conversions useful links
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  things that should go on the checklist things that should
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  be added anything you think there might be an extra tab or anything
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  like that that growers would like that'd be fantastic
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  so two more requests in return
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  for this fantastic resource if you're
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  a first-time listener please could you click follow or like
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  or subscribe to this podcast that
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  would make sure that you get subsequent episodes
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  and and if you know this would
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  be useful to a fellow grower please could you share
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  this episode with them so either send it as a text message
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  a whatsapp or on social media if you
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  could share this with as many growers as you know then they would find this
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  sort of toolkit useful that would be fantastic so yeah please do that please
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  share it and i'm begging you come on until tomorrow that's been hydroponics
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  daily the hydroponic growers toolkit hope you hope you find it useful goodbye.