Newbie to this forum and to hydroponics

[GpsFrontier]

Hello Ken,
You would be surprised how much water the plants actually drink.

[khawn]

I am also growing pumpkins in my DWC units. They are really thirsty. I'm not sure how much nutrients to give them. I'm just using about 6 tablespoons of Maxigro every 10 days or so. Already have some tiny pumpkins starting to develop.
It is another story with these strawberries. I only have a few in the tower right now and the water is going somewhere. This morning I did some tweeking on it, so I hope it will now use less water.

Ken

[GpsFrontier]

Hello khawn,
The General hydroponics directions call for using 2 tsp per gallon of water for a full strength nutrient solution. You don't want to just keep adding nutrients to your water. When the water level drops from the plants drinking the water, you want to replace it with fresh plain water (not nutrients). Otherwise your nutrient concentrations will be out of balance. Your total water volume is important too. I wrote this article to help explain the relationship between water volume and nutrient concentrations. What size reservoir do I need

[khawn]

Thanks a lot. My stawberries are doing pretty well. They are in my tower hydroponic system. They are being watered 15 minutes on and 15 minutes off, except for the night time hours when I water them for 15 minutes at midnight and 15 minutes at 3 A.M. It seems to be working O.K.

thanks
Ken