Hydroponic Nutrients for Peppers - what is best?

One tip, don't add calmag to the water with fertilizers, because calcium binds with pottasium. Just sprinkle plants with calmag.

Very informative! Thank you

Perfect topic.


Great video! 🌞T.Y.

Great channel man! Sorry if you’ve mentioned it, but what type of paint did you use for your jars. I hate spray paint lol. Thanks for all the helpful info.

Fun little experiment Jimmy! I have seen more growers juice their grows later when leaf or fruit issues seem to happen, than when starting plants. I have been interested in the topic and following along with your update.

With an npk of 2-0-0 best to use cal mag during flowering stage. Since calcium nitrate is a 15-0-0

same like a aquarium if you have it next to windows and not in a darker area it will turned green use dark pots

I haven't seen any other comments mentioning how those time lapses are really beautiful. I went back to rewatch them.

I went crazy over the last couple of years with nutrients and such. And to each their own on what works for them, but at the end of the day- even the cheapest of base 3 part recipes really hold their own ( providing the manufactures didn’t cheap out on the trace elements ) without needing a million side bottles.

I did the cal/mag liquids, supplemental calcium nitrate and I’ll share with ya, BluePlanets powdered cal/mag 8-0-0 has become my favorite . Tons of micro/trace in it too.
Aminos and vitamins I’ve been adding for a few years- whether or not it’s snake oil 😂 it’s the first thing that goes into each of my batches.

Don’t worry, I’m not an anti algae person 😂 ✌️ 🍻

What about when they fruit though? 🤔. My base plants, peppers, are bitter no matter the stage.

Very nice skyline view for the seedling time lapses

Great video. I'm gonna subscribe and look forward to future videos.

Cost benefit analysis say your standard 2 part or 3 part is the way to go.

I would like to see a similar trial with base nutrients and one group getting silica additives under high wind conditions.

Gotta paint the threaded portion of your jars. Even though the algae isn't harmful it obfuscates the results of the trial sometimes.

I don't care how much of white paint you put on those jars it won't work it needs to be black

I am so curious to know, if you only had the General Hydroponics Flora 3-part series, what combination would you use for peppers? (Personally I'm trying to grow habanada peppers and they're growing realllly slowly).

You should do a video about Make your own plant food from base nutrients, e.g., liquid urea, 2L per 20gallon of water and so on.

I currently use masterblend 4-18-38 kit, Flora series and Dyno Grow. Each grew differently until they reached the fruiting stage. At this point they all caught up to balance out. I will say Flora series was less maintenance wise. PH wasn't fluctuating while the other two required some adjustments on PH down.

I just bought my cups and rockwool. Thanks for the content. This for sure is gonna help me with cross breeding

AWESOME!!! Excellent info great results answers one of my biggest questions 🙏

Fascinating! Thank you!

What was the EC difference with and without additives

Wondering why you didn't just start them in the net cups, in the rockwool?

This video should be called mistakes not to make when growing peppers in hydroponics.

Oh rats! I was hoping I'd find the answer to my pepper problem here.
My lunchbox pepper plant is wilted, losing leaves and pale yellow with spots.
Right next to it, in the same light, and same hydroponic solution is my red pepper, which is vibrant & strong with dark green healthy leaves.
My solution is from a 5 gal solution of: Master Blend 1 cup, calcium nitrate 1 cup and espom salt 1/2 cup.
I watched a video suggesting spraying a water mixture of a crushed powdered TUMS on the leaves and adding some of the calcium solution to the water reservoir. I did that and looked at the plant 6 hours later and saw 3 more tiny leaves have fallen off,m and still wilting
I think it's going to die before I can find someone to help me.
I'm a newbie at hydroponics but my various lettuces, collard greens, strawberries, and red pepper are doing great.
I can't seem to grow spinach and thus pepper plant.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

So when you added the hydrogen peroxide to the nutrients - did that just kill all the algae? Did you have to pour it out later?

Sir. Business is. too complicated.

From my experience, synthetic additives seems to only help when plants are large, like in their 2 month transitioning to blooming and flowering. For seedlings and new small clones, only beneficial bacteria additives seems to work best along with light base nutes.

There are holes for the seeds already cut in the rook wool. If you have algae, you need to paint the jars a dark color. and make sure the top of the jar has no openings.

Calcium and magnesium is needed when fruiting and needs vary depending on the plant. Like bok choy and most Chinese greens are heavy consumers of calcium and magnesium. But not lettuces.

It would be handy to show us what EC levels you use...

Hi.. what size net cups can fit the pint size mason jar, 2.5 inch?

His voice sounds like Tim from DDE

Al eens geprobeerd met zelf gemaakte nutrients? De getoonde zaken zijn niet zo makkelijk verkrijgbaar in Portugal. We hebben wel de producten van bv Yara.

Algae aborbs a lot of P and K.

Hey im trying to make lettuce hydroponically what nutrients should i get here becouse reserching i think that just grow and mabye root is good but i dont know what brand/witch ones to get thats not to expensive

Oh I was hoping you were going to try different NPK values, like Masterblend 4-13-18 vs Miracle Gro 18-18-21 vs Maxigrow 10-5-14 to see which was best.

I think adds only helps when it's fruiting

I want to see one with using different water qualities from different filters like a zero water filter and then arrowhead distilled ,, etc.
Without nutrients

Nice system. great job.