Hydroponic Nutrients for Peppers - what is best?

In this video I'll be growing a bunch of hydroponic pepper plants with and without nutrient additives. Hydroponic nutrients are typically sold in a base series, which contains everything needed for a plant to grow, or as an additive, which is meant to supplement the base series and deliver additional benefits to the plants. I'll be testing to see if plants fed with nutrient additives outperform the growth of base-series-only plants.

Specifically I'll be testing cal-mag and rooting booster nutrients. Let me know what you think of these results in the comments below!

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Very nice skyline view for the seedling time lapses

[Stabity]

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

[MattGarver]

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.

[THErickuss]

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

[sto]

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.

[wyfyj]

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

[cacyhamblin]

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

[zacharylewis]

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.

[Silverrsurfer]

I think adds only helps when it's fruiting

[growingheart]

Perfect topic.


Great video! 🌞T.Y.

[davidnewton]

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.

[denisdb]

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.

[Genxlettuce]

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 😂 ✌️ 🍻

[crtnyp]

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.

[valeriesanchez]

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

[aldoseba]

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.

[davehardan]

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

[hydrobae]

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?

[tanyabishop]

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.

[FCESWS]

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.