hi welcome back to the Migro Youtube channel we've got and update today on the
soil vs. hydro test and we got some good news and some bad news
the bad news really is on this side and the hydro side given my inexperience and
ineptitude possibly at the hydro stuff we've had a few problems and although
the growth rate has been good the quality of the growth has not been that
very good so let's just look at what I have been doing and then I'll make my
best time about mistakes I've made and that you could tell me what your opinion
is but yeah let's look at it first so you come down here we'll have a look
we've I've been doing my sort of twice weekly checks various things so pH the
concentration of nutrients so looking at the parts per million of nutrients in
the solution and then just looking at the system overall to make sure it's
functioning in particularly air because of how problems with the air pebbles
puffing up so just do a quick demonstration here at what I've been
checking so we're testing the pH we've got our blue pH pen sterling calibration
also gives me the temperature reading and the reading at the moment
six point two and twenty degrees Celsius it was calibrated - I put a feed-in on
Monday after which the pH generally rises quite high and I change this yeah
sorry I just did it Dan and it's gone back up drift it up back
up a little bit so I need to put in some pH down to just that and I got the blue
lab a plan for fuel a potential future meter for testing ppm and this is
running at 600 there at the moment that's fine if we want it and then we
have temperature and humidity so 54 percent humidity and the temperature has
been running between minimum of 12 at night and Max or 29th or staying within
our control of primers yeah the other inspection you got to do a little bit
tight in here but will that try to get a decent fuel ax and it's just to have a
look at what the pot is doing underneath make sure that everything is still
bubbling everything's still blowing you can see the real mats they're just built
up what a heavy thick dense ruthless so
despite keeping the pH within a reasonable band and adjustment as I said
every two or three days Dilys inspecting it every two or three
days water temperature being in range nutrient levels being where they should
be light levels being okay at least the same as the soil side we've definitely
had some nutrient deficiency the collapse we've had a collapse of a plant
in the back here basically if they large internal distance was that's the same on
both sides they're very very delicate stems which have been snapping and the
plants have been falling over they just haven't been strong and Richard to hold
up themselves so I know there's nutrient deficiency there is a little bit on the
leads to which of course is my fault I need to be identifying that and
correcting it in terms of the mix but yeah it's quite frustrating that you you
buy high quality nutrients and they basically you have to add more stuff
so that they're complete the other aspect really is that although we've had
really good growth is much less flowers over here and I haven't found a single
fruit over in this side yet which is again it's behind the soil side in that
sense other than that other than be making a complete disaster but it's been
fine it's been absolutely fine so I haven't checked cord myself and glory we
might have to do this one again taking on board the constructive criticism I'm
sure I'll get you a comment oh yeah so a bit of a disaster
however Southside is saving the day on the soil side things have been
wonderfully simple unlike the RDW sea side this is quite very little attention
I've got a fresh water reservoir weird trip feed it's on for a few cycles comes
on for five minutes three or four times a day to feed the plants top of the
reservoir about once a week simple as terms of feed been using canna Terra bio
and feed now on the flora one and then on the blue one and feeding just once a
week hasn't really been any sign of nutrient efficiency the growth is about
the same as the or dwc side there's the hydro side and but the plant development
is much much better so lots and lots of flowers on here much stronger stems
plants being held themselves or perfectly and even got quite a lot of
fruit going already no fruit on the or dwc side of the fruit
over here so let's go down and just take a little closer look at the plants
so you can see in the development area here with the on the soil side you've
got strong stems I can give them a shake things don't fall off they're all
standing up on their own quite tight development relatively strong notes
nothing is snapped off of this side well we got some large fruit so I'm gonna
give the first taste test here so I will pick one in up here they're definitely
gonna be too young but it would be interesting to see what they're like so
yeah
definitely tastes like a pepper
not a huge amount of flavor more than green flavor not chilli yet okay young
so we'll give them a chance we'll try them next time that's it for now
take care