have you ever wondered how to check your pH or eec well in this video we're going to get into
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need a little more one-on-one link down in the description okay Mr range this was absolutely a
great question I'm going to get into I think all of you guys are going to really love this video
how do you check the PPM and the EC sorry I'm a new grower just soaking up new things all right so
I created uh actually a couple different scenarios for all of you guys that I think it doesn't matter
if you're a new grower or a seasoned grower I think you'll be able to pull something from
this video okay so to answer this question really quickly how to check your pressure Pavilion or
your EC you have to go get purchase a meter okay so let's go ahead and dive into these scenarios
so you have your feed that you've already put in all your nutrients all that stuff and your pH is
5.8 your EC is one or your parts per million to 700 so so an EC of one is a partial into 700 on
a chart and you are going to go ahead and feed your plant one gallon of nutrient feed okay so
the runoff comes on out at seven your EC is 1.5 or 1050 and you recollect a half gallon what is
the ph and EC of the grow media right okay so you're putting in 5.8 but you're getting out
seven so what is that and you're recollecting a half gallon so what does that mean that means that
this 5.8 even though you collected a half gallon of runoff your pH of your soil was probably like
7.5 and your EC was when you recollected it was 1.5 so normally when you are feeding your plants
uh one EC you want your runoff to be somewhat a reflection of what you're feeding your plants so
if your pH is seven and your EC is 1.5 what do you have to do right well what I would recommend doing
is probably mixing up another gallon or chill set your pH at 5.6 I'd probably reduce your EC
all the way down to probably 0.5 because as you can see right here remember we want the EC to be
a reflection of what you actually wanted so your EC would have been one and if it's coming out at
0.1.5 we don't want to put one in there because it will take longer for those salts to redissolve and
flush back out also your pH is seven and if you already ran a gallon through and a half gallon
came out that means if you run at 5.6 through your grow media most likely that next gallon
or two it's going to take to bring this pH all the way back down to probably 6.3 roughly okay
so let's go ahead and take a look at your next one your pH is 5.5 your EC is 0.5 you run one gallon
through your grow media your round off is 6.3 your EC is 0.6 and you your recollection is one
ounce of water so what does this all mean and should you continue to keep feeding your plants
to get that ideal 5.8 right for me personally I wouldn't you know 6.3 is a perfect healthy range
your EC is a reflection of what you're feeding and when you recollect uh you're only collecting one
ounce but as you can see even that one one ounce it's a reflection of what you're feeding at so
personally I would probably leave that alone and then let's say we come over here so your pH is 5.8
your EC is one your runoff is five and your EC is one and you recollected a half gallon if the pH is
five on runoff what does what does that mean with half gallon of recollection well right here just
as what we did over here having two and more PH down to fix our pH issues and to reduce our parts
per million right over here we're having our EC be a nice reflection of each other but our pH
is off so what we're going to probably going to want to do on our next gallon is add the
same amount of nutrients do exactly what you did but probably increase your nutrients to
6.56.8 and then go ahead and feed your plants and what you're looking for is that P that your
runoff to be once again at least 5.8 to 6.3 and your EC once again being a reflection of what
you're feeding them remember guys what we're looking for is that nice growing environment
in your growing media and so often when we set the pH of our nutrients and our EC at a certain amount
we're expecting that to be the same thing at the end of the runoff that's why it's so important to
check your runoff and if it's not a reflection of each other you have to do some chemistry a little
bit of math and get your growing media get back into that homeostasis okay so I hope this video
was helpful and I hope you understood how to check your pH and your parts per million in
your soil growing media so the maximum amount of minerals are bioavailable just as a side
note to this too though is remember if you go over too much on your parts per millionaire or
your EC you will shut down your microbiology so there's two relationships right you have
your microbiology that goes and retrieves and processes the nutrients but then you have your
minerals and you have the ideal PH range for your minerals so when you combine these things
so you have the ideal PH range and then you don't over feed your fertilizer and
you allow your microbiology to exist these two things can begin to work together and have the
minerals because they're in the right PH range and the microbiology because they're not all
dormant because it's not too high of a partial per million or or EC can be begin to create a
co-relationship and begin to work for you in your soil media by creating a soil food web okay thank
you so much please give me a thumbs up hope you guys have a beautiful rest of the day bye [Music]
question I was at my local hydroponics store the other day and the guy behind
the counter told me that ammonium nitrate makes these plants taste bad is that true
short answer in my opinion I would say yes and this is why