going in and there's there's nothing harboring in there so i start with a uh silic silicic acid uh or a like a magnesium sulfite and so what that does is there's some benefits there for the plant but it also puts a ph spike and makes it quite off the scale and and and not you know great for anything to be in um so that's where we always start in that direction and then you add your your nutrients to that once the nutrients are in there uh then i will bring the ph into balance once the ph is in balance then i'll add some microbes i'll add microbial mass and i'll add some hydrozyme root enzymes so these are living things so you want to make sure your ph is in check and it's a not a hostile environment otherwise you're just they're just going to get fried right so once i add those then i put those then i feed out of that thousand liters or NUMBER_TOKEN liters and i just pump into my hydro buckets and they that is their feed for the week okay gotcha that was actually a question was can you use beneficial microbes and dwc and you just answered that yes you can yeah yeah that's cool right now what about the water level what should the water level be within the system the water level is important definitely but it's more important in a recirculating system in the recirculating system you want that water level to never go above a certain level so that's two to three inches below the bottom of your net pot right and basically what we're looking at it is the your the top portion of the plant has to breathe this is the whole dry out principle of of drying out plants right is it has to dry out from the top down because that top third is really where the root the plants have a different process than the uptake portion that's the below so two to three inches below always from the bottom of the net pot you don't go above that in a recirculating system if you're in a deep water culture then you can and i say that just because not on not on on good garden practice not on regular practice when i fill up my hydro buckets i always fill them up to about what again one to two inches below the bottom of the net pot and then but sometimes i'm going away and it's not a static environment i know that that fluid level is going down it's going down pretty drastically in certain times in in the grow cycle with with uh uptake of different plants so i know that if i want an extra day then i will fill it up right to the bottom of the net pot i'll get that extra two inches in there why not because i know the plant is going to say oh i'm kind of drowning but but it has no choice it it though that fluid is moving through it um and in a day it's down to one or two inches and then it's within uh two or three more days it's down to uh uh only two or three inches left in the bottom of the hydro bucket and then it requires service again one of the general advice that you hear every so often is talk about changing the reservoir every so often you hear about it should be done every seven days some people say
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