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Essential Equipment and Tips for Hydroponics · Hydroponics Daily

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  Hello, welcome back to the Hydroponic Daily. Today's subject is all the things
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  you need to get going with your hydroponic grow. What is the equipment you need?
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  This is a non-exhaustive list and
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  includes your tent. If you're growing indoors, you'll need a grow tent.
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  You could get away without using one, however, they are very, very useful.
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  They help control the environment, keep the humidity high or low,
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  keep the temperature in the area you want and they keep out pest and disease
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  and allow you to control the air quality.
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  So tents, very useful. They also reflect the light from the back,
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  from the walls, improving your efficiency of your lights.
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  Next one, you're going to need a light. If you're growing indoors,
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  not growing in a greenhouse, you can do hydroponics in a greenhouse.
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  And now most people are moving towards LEDs from high pressure sodiums or other
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  types of conventional lighting that are optimized for plant growth.
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  You are going to need a fan you can need a fan for circulating
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  the air around the room i think we've got
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  one here so like that that's a
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  very cheap and cheerful one and you're going to need a fan
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  that takes the air out of the room and puts
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  fresh air into the room so you're probably going to need three fans for a very
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  even for the most basic grow you can get away with one that just sucks it out
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  and one for moving it around but i wouldn't go for less than two you're going
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  to need ducting to take that air from outside into the grow room rather than just from inside your,
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  house or your building because that's going to be warm air
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  and in the summer you're going to want cold air from outside you
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  can need pots so you put the the grow media in
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  and they could be any sorts of pot or
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  container it depends on the hydroponic system you're using they could be conventional
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  plant pots so they could be a very highly specialized container for the hydroponic
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  system you're using like a dwc a deep water culture system and then grow media
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  could be anything from soil even though it's hydroponics people do use soil
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  cocoa perlite the miculite.
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  Rockwool which is also known as mineral wool what else do we use cocoa pellets
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  and the clay pellets sorry or no grow media at all just floating on the surface
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  of the the fertigation solution you can need some sort of irrigation system
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  could be highly complex one could be a watering can but that you're gonna need one, could be a hose.
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  You're gonna need filters on your irrigation system and also filters on your inlet and inlet fan,
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  This can be as simple as a section you've cut off some tights,
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  whether you're a lady or you've got a partner or you're a man,
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  go out and buy some tights just to keep the pests out.
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  You're not going to keep the spores or the diseases out, but you will keep small
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  pests out, hopefully, if you put a filter on your inlet fan.
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  No filter on your inlet fan, you're in for a world of pain with all sorts of
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  aphids and thrips coming in.
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  So definitely do that. And you might want to filter on your exhaust fan.
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  If your crop's producing, it's particularly aromatic and it's producing lots
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  of smells, and you're in an area where you don't want those smells coming out,
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  then, you know, if your crop smells particularly bad, then you want a sort of
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  carbon filter that will remove those smells.
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  You're going to want some feed, and obviously I'm going to recommend gold leaf
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  if you're in the US or liquid gold down there, you know,
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  if you're in the UK, because you're not going to need ph up
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  ph down dechlorinator boosts or anything like that
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  with this one you can use them you can use calmag as
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  well things like that but there's a very basic introduction to
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  hydroponics you just need that one bottle simplifies it
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  a lot and you're going to need some sort of propagation material whether that's
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  seeds or cuttings or anything you know divisions of a mother plant you can need
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  some sort of propagation material to get a crop at the end of the day and there's
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  going to be loads of other things that you can do but this is the basic setup
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  you might want to add things like you're going to potentially need extension cords timers yeah.
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  That's one i need to add here timers you're obviously going to
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  need a timer to control the length of the day and then
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  you might want a humidifier or dehumidifier you
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  may want to add a heater you may
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  want to add well the side lighting you
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  might want all sorts of crazy things hydroponics is a world of
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  of bits and bobs it's one of these hobbies that you're always
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  once in the next new thing even like now you
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  can get artificial intelligence grow room controllers and things like this so
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  this is this is what you would need for the very basic setup and you can have
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  things like heaters and humidifiers and ai controllers later on if you want
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  to but this is what you need to get going so any questions if you think i've
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  missed something absolutely critical,
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  then comment below and tell me i'm an absolute idiot and i'll take it in good
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  grace thank you very much until next time that's been hydroponics daily.