Do you "NEED" nutrients when using hydroponics???

Do you need nutes or can the plants just live off of water?

plants need nutes like humans need food

i know but do they get any if you dont give them??? is there any nutrients in water?? do you have to give them things like nitrogen and stuff manually?? like in soil you can just water and away u go, if u really want to

dopeyG said:

i know but do they get any if you dont give them??? is there any nutrients in water?? do you have to give them things like nitrogen and stuff manually?? like in soil you can just water and away u go, if u really want to

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All plants will pull what they can from there surroundings, there are some micro nutrients in water but not enough to sustain cannabis plants through to flower. I do not think soil growers can just water and walk away either as soil may have more nutrients than tap water but soon this will be used up for food too.

It would be safe to say that plants can survive in just plain old tap water, my wife has many bamboo plants around here living for ages in water but once the plant uses up it's food store (found in the cotyledons) it relies on the environment for sustenance, the environment (nutrients, humidity, temperature, aeration) are major players in what is produced, and the type of strain taking 2nd place IMHO

regards,

hmm, well i was going to use nutrients anyway, just kinda curious. what kind of organic nutes could u use?? i mean i dont think ppl put bat shit in their hydro systems do they??? or whatever they might use?

dopeyG said:

hmm, well i was going to use nutrients anyway, just kinda curious. what kind of organic nutes could u use?? i mean i dont think ppl put bat shit in their hydro systems do they??? or whatever they might use?

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no. ppl dont put bat shit in their hydro reservoirs. your gonna need liquid nutes. im a soil guy as i dont have the time to troubleshoot hydro problems. soil gives me more time to act. but in hydro you def have to be meticulous. its not a lets try this and see kind of grow. a matter of hours can kill an entire garden.

dopeyG said:

hmm, well i was going to use nutrients anyway, just kinda curious. what kind of organic nutes could u use?? i mean i dont think ppl put bat shit in their hydro systems do they??? or whatever they might use?

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there is a few organic nutes aval for hydro (general organics and soul synthetics are a few) they are pretty stinky and muck up your res. soil has nutes in it for a while untill the plant uses it up then you have to manually feed your plants.

if you dont use nutes you dont smoke nugget. you smoke stems if your lucky.