🌟 Happy New Year! 🌟

Advanced Nutrients Logo

🌟 Happy New Year! 🌟

🌟 Happy New Year! 🌟

Hydroponics Tips for Increasing Yield

All hydroponic growers want the same thing: bigger yields and faster harvests. This is not a feat achieved easily. It takes hard work, the right equipment, and careful consideration of your specific situation. But with the right hydroponics tips, any grower can enjoy amazing returns harvest after harvest.

  1. Keep a Grower’s Journal – It can be exceedingly difficult to keep track of all the variables that go in hydroponics. When you make a change that either results in weaker plants or a bigger yield, it can be tough to exactly pinpoint what made your plants change. This is where a grower’s journal is critical. You can use it to keep track of every change in nutrients, watering, pH level, lights, as well as record on how your plants are faring on a day-to-day basis. You can use this data to pin point what factors are helping your plants. Over time, you can fine tune all the factors that go into your grow.
  2. Be Careful with Water – This is probably one of the most valuable hydroponics tips you will ever hear. If you use too much water, your roots will rot. If you use too little, your roots will dry out. You need to very careful with adjustments here to achieve optimum hydration. Watch the leaves of your plants before and after each watering. If your plants appear to perk up after a watering, water more often. If your plants appear to wilt shortly after a watering, water less often.
  3. Make Liberal Use of Your Pruning Shears – Any time you see a leaf or stem that appears useless or rotting, prune it off. Anything you see that appears to be robbing valuable energy and nutrients from the rest of the healthy plant is a waste. The “cleaner” you can make each individual plant, the bigger your yields will be.
  4. Pay Attention to Your Nutrient Solution Temperature – Far too many people ignore this. Keep your nutrient solution in between sixty-five and seventy five degrees Fahrenheit. Too much below or above this, and your plants will not get all the nutrients that they need.
  5. Invest in a Plant Stimulant or High Quality Fertilizer – For hydroponic gardening, picking up a bag of plant nutrients at your local chain feed store just isn’t going to cut it. You need a plant stimulant that is designed specifically for hydroponic growing. Make sure the fertilizer you purchase comes from a reputable hydroponic retailer.
  6. Use CO2 generators Carefully – You should only use CO2 generators with your hydroponic system if you an experienced gardener who knows what he or she is doing. It’s true that this method can dramatically increase yields, but it can also kill your crop if done sloppily. When using a CO2 generator, it is important to increase the amount of light and nutrients your plants are receiving as well. You should also measure your atmosphere conditions very carefully. Most plants can use up to 1500 parts per million, assuming all other conditions are optimized. If your CO2 levels reach or exceed 2000 parts per million, your plants most certainly are going to die. So whenever you hear hydroponics tips regarding carbon dioxide levels, make sure it is backed up by plenty of research.

Categories

Latest Posts

About the Author

The Advanced Nutrients Team

Since 1999, Advanced Nutrients has been committed to educating the community and bringing the most up-to-date knowledge to the forefront of grows across the globe. Every article you read here has been curated by Advanced Nutrients’ industry experts, so you can continue raising your bud weight… and your reputation.

Advanced Nutrients Leaf Logo

Get More Articles Chock-Full of Cultivation Tips, Tricks, and Strategies Delivered Straight To Your Inbox

Sign up for our free newsletter and receive more relevant cannabis cultivation content right in your inbox! Subscribe below.






Chat with Buddy AI

buddy image
buddy image
minimize chat

minimize chat window

Hi, I'm Buddy, and I am powered by OpenAI' ChatGPT. Ask me a question. Here are some example topics: Example 1: What is the best way to germinate my seeds? Can you explain in much detail as possible. Example 2 : What Advanced Nutrients' base nutrient should I use for growing cannabis at home? As AI is prone to errors, the information provided should be used as a general guide, not as a definitive source. If you are experiencing problems and trying to troubleshoot, contact our experts here for free.

send message

Change Region

If your country/region is not listed on this page, please find your local Contact Details, Authorized Retailer and Grower Support on our Global Site.

United States

Canada

Need Help Growing?

Over time, components within the nutrients settle on the bottom of the bottle. When you pour a bottle without shaking it, you can potentially be pouring out an unbalanced solution. Shaking up the nutrient bottle ensures you are pouring the right blend into your reservoir, giving your crops the nutrition they need.

Usually, it’s not a problem. But some products are incompatible with each other and can damage your plants when they’re used together. For example, bloom boosters with high PK numbers or low-grade silica products can destabilize your nutrient mix and cause nutrient lockout.

Nutrient manufacturers design their products to be used with each other. In doing so, they include specific portions of each nutrient in each product, so crops receive the right nutrition through each stage of the grow cycle. When you stick with one manufacturer, you don’t have to worry about inadvertently destabilizing your nutrient mixture. One example of why you need to stick with only one manufacturer’s products is Advanced Nutrients’ pH Perfect line. These products are designed to keep your crops’ root zone within a specific pH range. When you use them alongside products from another manufacturer, we can’t guarantee your root zone will maintain its optimal pH level.

Yes! If you’re growing with Advanced Nutrients products, you can use our easy nutrient calculator to generate the correct nutrient chart for your crops in seconds. Check out Advanced Nutrients’ nutrient calculator here. Another great resource is our library of free custom-growing recipes. Try our expert grower-tested nutrient schedules here.

You can also download our official BudLabs app to generate nutrient schedules and receive real-time notifications for specific tasks, including feeding your crops. Upgrade to BudLabs Pro to maintain profiles on an unlimited number of crops.

If you are a grower, visit this link to find the closest Advanced Nutrients Authorized Retailer. If you are a retailer, visit this link to identify our official distributors.

Our greatest passion is growing great cannabis—and helping other growers do the same. That’s why we offer complimentary cultivation support 24/7 from Monday to Friday and from 9 AM until 7 PM PST on Saturday… With the same level of advice licensed producers would pay consultants tens of thousands of dollars to unlock.
Just call 1-800-640-9605 or email support@advancednutrients.com. For Spanish-speaking growers, email spanishsupport@advancednutrients.com.

Yes! If for any reason you are not absolutely thrilled with the results you achieve when you use our products, just bring the unused portion, along with your original sales receipt, back to the place of purchase within six months, and ask for your money back. Find out more about our Grower Guarantee here.

Advanced Nutrients has spent many thousands of man-hours developing a technology that automatically balances your pH for you — putting it in the “sweet spot” and holding it there for one week.

And the technology is so “smart” that it can account for many of the aforementioned variables in your grow room. Our proprietary pH buffering agents and stabilizing mechanisms became the foundation of a new system aptly called pH Perfect® Technology. Learn all about it here.