Ph Crecimiento y Floracion en Hidroponico

Hello everyone! Once again, thanks for your responses! I'll set the timer for a watering cycle every 3 hours for 15 minutes (which is a tab on the clock). It's clear to me that the optimal pH is between 5.5 and 5.8 throughout the entire cycle, so what I'll do is take the approximate average value during the whole phase, which will be around 5.6 - 5.7. What do you think?

Also every time the water drains from the pot to the reservoir the water will get replaced by the air around and this effect will give oxygen for the roots, so more drain cycles = more oxygen = healthier plants. The time you run the pump is not that important but how often you run the pump and is there any benefits for adding more cycles.

Hola amigo! I'm not sure I got every question because of the translation but I will try.. So yes if you have automatic pH controller you can set the pH to 5.8 for the whole growing cycle at first. Every nutrient is available to the plants at different rates at different pH's but 5.8 is pretty safe spot in hydroponic grow. I'm using same type of system that you are: Ebb & Flow (Flood & Drain, whatever the name you want to call it) and for the pump cycle the best option is to measure with stopwatch how long it takes for the pump to fill the whole pot and that is your optimum pump on time. then you can repeat this as often as you like but if you are using perlite it won't hold moisture that well so you might need to flood more often. I have 8mins on/every 3hrs or so. Minimum gap between waterings is the time your substrate takes to dry because in hydro if the medium dries your plants might die pretty quikcly. What comes for the watering during night.. The plants will not drink anything during night so it is not needed during night. I'm watering once during night just to be sure but this will add humidity to the tent also and it is not a good thing during night unless with proper airflow

Hi great choice ;-) I have the blue lab Gurdian and the Bluelab Combo :-) The ph at hydro / Aero continuously between 5.5 - 5.8 in all phases from beginning to end 👍

I just bought the automatic pH meter with dosing, the growing medium will be a Hydroponic system with Perlite substrate, using GHE products, FloraGro, FloraMicro (soft water), FloraBloom. I will inject the pH Down bottle from GHE into the controller so it automatically regulates to 5.8... Does that pH stay the same throughout the entire grow, both in the vegetative and flowering stages? I will also add a bit of Calcium - Magnesium from GHE because my initial EC is 0.12, so I need to raise the initial EC to 0.4 and then apply the appropriate doses. To measure the EC, I have a digital meter from Hanna Instruments, which is very precise, and it will be a Hydroponic system with a Flood and Drain setup, so the EC will rise when watering every 3 hours (hence the pH Down always). Taking advantage of this, I also wanted to ask how often I should set the watering cycle for the water pump? Because some say to water for 15 minutes every 2 hours and then with the lights off, twice every 6 hours during the flowering period, while others say every 3 hours regardless of day or night... I have a bit of doubt about that. The lighting I will use will be a 480W R-Spect LED panel and a 260W Cree LED bar for the full cycle, hence the importance of Calcium and Magnesium because the plants consume more of those nutrients when using LEDs. I look forward to your responses, and thank you so much to everyone who replies, it really helps a lot! @ijustdontgiveaf @Shagrath

https://www.bluelab.com/support-center/product-manuals I think you will find the right manual from here! pH in hydro should be 5.5-6.5 👌

Hi there, which one did you buy? I have the bluelab combometer (so PH and EC in one), as EC is also quite important for hydroponics to ensure you're not over- or under-feeding the plant. Are you doing a "real" hydro (so just a nutrient solution) or with a medium like coco? I'm having a mini-DWC for my "bonsai in a box" grow (see my diary). In regards to the PH level for hydro, i suggest to keep it around 5.8 (as close to as possible). You will notice there will be some shift upwards and downwards during the course of the days (I measure and correct once a day), but it should never get below 5.5 or higher than 6.5. This goes for both, veg and bloom. I've had a couple of cheaper PH meters before, but the bluelab is quite fast, and keeps the calibration well. Still you should calibrate it at least once every two weeks to a month. If you have any questions, let me know. happy growing!