Watering Cans and Mixing Nutrients

[Guy Incognito]

I only run one plant at a time so I store rain water in two, 5 gal buckets. I dip 2 qt containers in and store them in the tent to temper over night. I mix my nutes and pH each qt after. I tried to store pH perfect water but it fluctuated and i had to readjust so i dont touch the water till im ready to use it.

That sounds really cool about the rain water. Do you have a special system to collect it or just put a bucket out?

 

[Guy Incognito]

A pump will stir a lot and aerate very little. I use an aquarium air pump and stone to aerate. The bucket can be where ever! As long as there is water in the bucket aerate it.

I have a 35 gallon top off tank. I aerate constantly and PH down to about 6.4 so I do not have big fluctuations in the reservoir when the plants are fertigated. The reservoir has a float valve to maintain its volume. The reservoir has a stirring pump.

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Wow! That looks awesome. I was looking at that RO system on Amazon, pretty tempting. I ended up grabbing this aquarium pump. I'm just going to mix by hand in a 5 gal and aerate all the time in between for now. Thanks again for all of your help!

 

[DDubs]

That sounds really cool about the rain water. Do you have a special system to collect it or just put a bucket out?

I have a rain barrel outside that catches off our roof. We use it for the summer time on the veggie garden. I guess i run the risk of hitchhikers in the water but the top of the catch has a screen and its basically a closed system. So i take the chance because its free and natural.