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Watering Frequency · Hydroponics Daily

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  Hi, welcome back to Hydroponics Daily. Today's topic is watering frequency.
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  How often should you water your plants?
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  It's a contentious subject for something so simple.
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  However, there's a couple of theories around it and what you should do.
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  I always say, check your plants for pests and disease every day.
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  If you want to be in your growing room, everyone loves being in a growing room
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  or in a greenhouse, but don't water them every day because all you do is you drive.
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  Air out of the soil and your
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  roots need air so you need a bit of drying you don't
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  want them at full capacity all the time because
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  they'll they'll get symptoms of flooding you'll just
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  run through nutrients and run off so every few
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  days is more than enough for most hydroponic crops unless
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  it's something like lettuce which needs it every day and as
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  we talked about in this the previous episodes about regulated deficit
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  irrigation and partial roots and
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  drying drying roots are actually a good thing when
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  it comes to most hydroponic crops where quality of
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  a fruit or a flower is important so having
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  a few drying roots not the worst thing in the
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  world so allowing them to dry down for a
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  couple of days is great also if you're watering every day
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  you're going to things like fungus gnats they
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  are they come in they smell soil they
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  smell the moisture on the soil they smell the decomposition of
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  a cocoa or peat or soil and they and you'll get infestations of fungus gnats
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  so don't keep your plants at full capacity it will depend on the growing media
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  it depends on your system obviously
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  this doesn't apply to things like nutrient film technique or DWC,
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  where your plants are in continuous water as it is. This is more about things like.
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  Cocoa growing media and hydroponics and things like that where you're growing something that,
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  looks like compost or growing media ebb and
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  flood how often does your system fill and
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  and and drain that's a it
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  depends on what you're growing in your system it could be once
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  every 15 minutes it could be once a day and so
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  we'll talk about that when we talk about ebb and flood on its
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  own particular topic so hydroponics
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  daily today is water and frequency you most
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  growers should avoid watering and irrigating
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  in every day and the other issue is
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  should you feed every time so some
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  people put the nutrients in once a
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  week or once a fortnight and then just add water at the
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  other times other people every time they add water
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  they're also feeding which is probably the best situation because
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  that prevents feast and famine when it
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  comes to nutrients that's difficult if you've got a nutrient range
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  you're using that's got 12 different additives and you have to mix the a the
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  b the cal mag the ph up the silicon the the pk you've got to add the the magic
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  stimu boost or whatever things like that whereas gold leaf or liquid gold as we are in the uk.
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  There they just add one one syringe or
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  one cup of of nutrients into your water it's
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  very easy it dechlorinates it straight away that's the other advantage of
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  feeding with these products every time you
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  irrigate is that you're dechlorinating the water every time as well and you're
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  optimizing the ph so if you're in an area with lots of chlorine or very high
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  or low ph then just add that so i've waffled on far far too long for something
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  as simple as watering frequency so until tomorrow thank you very much.