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Timing your hydroponic grow · Hydroponics Daily

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  Welcome back to the Hydroponics Daily. Today's topic is timing your grow.
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  So this is very important if you want to hit a harvest for a certain date.
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  Now, it depends on how long it takes for your plant to develop a harvestable yield.
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  So some plants like lettuce can take four to six weeks if you're growing them really well.
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  Others can take three months, and that's important.
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  Say you're growing strawberries for Christmas, which traditionally has been
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  a license to print money, and you're going to need to make sure you hit December,
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  hopefully around the 20th of December.
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  And so you're going to have to backcast that. Know your point hitting it in
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  January, because the market for strawberries in January is very small.
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  And then obviously, again, you're not going to sell many strawberries in June, because.
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  If you're growing them hydroponically the price will be higher than
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  the ones that are grown in outdoors
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  in soil or in cocoa slabs maybe
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  outdoor hydroponics you might get a good crop so you
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  might want to avoid setting up your grow there or
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  grow something completely different then and then also the
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  thing to the factor with timing is if you're
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  growing indoors in the uk or most
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  parts of the us you're going to want to avoid
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  this area if you are a beginner
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  because growing in this zone june
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  july august september in the summer is going to be test the skills of even the
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  most experienced hydroponic grower because the temperatures are so high you've
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  got to add in the fat the led lights or even a sodium light it's going to boost
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  that temperature up and it's not just your plant suffering because it's warm.
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  There's other factors pests and diseases grow a
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  lot faster when it's warmer so spider mites
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  go absolutely crazy when it's warm thrips
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  fungus gnats they all love really
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  hot conditions there isn't a pest i don't know that doesn't like warm
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  conditions and diseases are the same it's going to be hot
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  and sweaty inside your grow room so you're going to need things like air
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  conditioning units if you're going to attempt this or
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  you're going to have to compromise turn your lights on in
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  the at night rather than in the day and
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  things like that and turn your lights off all together on really really hot days so
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  this is the zone of experience you need to be really
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  experienced to grow here january is a great time
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  to grow because it's a fresh start and
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  you can you know it's nice and cool and you can
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  and there's not many if you've got kids at school you
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  know you don't if you're going to go away for a week or two with them there's not
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  many holidays around this time until you hit easter and
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  so that's that's a great time to grow hydroponically if you've
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  got a side hustle you're using it for a bit of extra income again in
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  the summer you're going to be going away a lot a lot of trips away a lot of
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  holidays and you're gonna have to leave your crop or rely on somebody else looking
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  after it who might not be an expert in hydroponics and your crop so some factors
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  to consider when timing your grow it's now january or should be when this video
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  goes out, this podcast's up,
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  get yourself some seeds and start growing hydroponically, because there's never
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  going to be a better time in 2025 to be growing hydroponically. Thank you.