New Grower Preparing water

[claytonjwong]

Hi, I'm new here and wanted to share my watering method. I'm still very new to growing, and I hope this is useful for other newbies. I killed countless plants mainly due to incorrect PH, and now with my watering bucket, I can grow plants instead of killing them. I use 5 gallons of water at a time, and 20-25ml of PH down gets the PH of my tap water from 7.0 to around 6.0 - 6.5. Then I use my built in nozzle to pour this water into a 2 gallon watering container. IN the 2 gal, I use fox farm nutes at 50% strength by following the fox farm feeding schedule for 1 gallon of water.

The air pump is hooked up to four airstones, so there are plenty of air bubbles. Any tips, comments, suggestions are welcome! Thanks in advance!

 

[namvet25]

Thanks for your input,

 

[derek420colorado]

Hi, I'm new here and wanted to share my watering method. I'm still very new to growing, and I hope this is useful for other newbies. I killed countless plants mainly due to incorrect PH, and now with my watering bucket, I can grow plants instead of killing them. I use 5 gallons of water at a time, and 20-25ml of PH down gets the PH of my tap water from 7.0 to around 6.0 - 6.5. Then I use my built in nozzle to pour this water into a 2 gallon watering container. IN the 2 gal, I use fox farm nutes at 50% strength by following the fox farm feeding schedule for 1 gallon of water.

The air pump is hooked up to four airstones, so there are plenty of air bubbles. Any tips, comments, suggestions are welcome! Thanks in advance!

Welcome to AFN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BigSm0]

Very nice. Believe that these simple little upgrades do save you tons of time in the long run. The hand watering from watering cans or whatever people use these days is time consuming.

I have a 55g resivour that I fill the night before watering. The bottom has a drain to empty and excess. Inside is a pump that sends water to a overhead bucket. The bucket had a line on the bottom that I use to water and the top of the bucket has a rerun line to the resivour so I never have to shut the pump off till I'm done. The main water line from the bottom of the bucket has 2 splitters for each tray that I water in. My favorite part is the power strip on the wall that has a switch to turn everything on including the blue lab guardian which tells me ph, temps and ppm.

A lot right? Lol
It now takes me 25 minutes to water 30 gallons including mixing nutes. Before it used to take me 1-2 hours so it's time well spent, like your setup now.

 

[claytonjwong]

Wow BigSM0, that's a nice setup you got there. How long have you had the blue lab guardian? How much did u pay for it? Thanks, Clayton