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They say having "plenty of oxygen" is vitally necessary for successful RDWC Hydroponics. Does "plenty of oxygen" mean "plenty air" or "plenty aeration?"
Need some of your expert opinions with this one. Having no luck finding anyone that has any idea what DO Saturation is really requires and necessary to sustain plants and microbes ( 2 symbiotic eco systems) throughout the total growing season… is "plenty of oxygen" 20% DO Sat, 50% DO Sat, 89% DO Sat, 100% DO Sat….. What about 110% - 130% DO Supersaturation to guarantee, insure no possibility for the plants and the microbe colony to never to suffer low oxygen levels, environmental hypoxia, death and disease for the total growing season.
When you yank the covers back on the plain truth, is low oxygenation ever really any problem for any grower? Or are your chances of having any low oxygen problem negatively affecting your crop remote like winning Powerball.
Hydroponic equipment and chemical/nutrient salesmen and even “farming pro’s” I’ve talked with in the last few months do not talk about the aerobic microbe's biological oxygen demand, the volume of oxygen required and consumed by microbial colonies in DWC, but all of these salesmen and farmers tell me it is vitally important that “I must have 'plenty of oxygen' for the plants”… microbes, the tiny aerobes you can’t see, consume their fair share of oxygen too, but the little fellows that are so important seldom enter the total DWC DO equation discussion for some reason. The little fellows are tiny, but many billions of them thrive and multiply hourly a healthy DWC's; out of site-is out of mind perhaps. They also need a considerable amount of oxygen too.
So, does anyone happen know or have any idea what the optimum/ideal DO saturation is? The ideal number on wished for on the DO Meter that guarantees/insures a safe oxygenated environment for all the plants plus all the microbe colonies in RDWC’s?
Question: If you test the DO Sat with a DO meter and discover you do have a serious low oxygen problem in your water, how do to fix this low oxygen problem in your water? Are do you do nothing and hope the problem simply fixes itself before everything wilts and dies or becomes diseased and dies….
Oh No Mr. Bill - Another Crop Failure!
If you don’t know the ideal DO Saturation for sure, do you know a plant physiologist that teaches DWC at any University or College that will know for sure? They say that it’s real important in hydroponics to have plenty of oxygen…. I want to know what “plenty of oxygen” really means. Oxygen analyzers and DO meters are always available for precise oxygen measurement that eliminates the hoping, guessing if there is really enough oxygen to sustain a healthy environment.
Thanks
J
Need some of your expert opinions with this one. Having no luck finding anyone that has any idea what DO Saturation is really requires and necessary to sustain plants and microbes ( 2 symbiotic eco systems) throughout the total growing season… is "plenty of oxygen" 20% DO Sat, 50% DO Sat, 89% DO Sat, 100% DO Sat….. What about 110% - 130% DO Supersaturation to guarantee, insure no possibility for the plants and the microbe colony to never to suffer low oxygen levels, environmental hypoxia, death and disease for the total growing season.
When you yank the covers back on the plain truth, is low oxygenation ever really any problem for any grower? Or are your chances of having any low oxygen problem negatively affecting your crop remote like winning Powerball.
Hydroponic equipment and chemical/nutrient salesmen and even “farming pro’s” I’ve talked with in the last few months do not talk about the aerobic microbe's biological oxygen demand, the volume of oxygen required and consumed by microbial colonies in DWC, but all of these salesmen and farmers tell me it is vitally important that “I must have 'plenty of oxygen' for the plants”… microbes, the tiny aerobes you can’t see, consume their fair share of oxygen too, but the little fellows that are so important seldom enter the total DWC DO equation discussion for some reason. The little fellows are tiny, but many billions of them thrive and multiply hourly a healthy DWC's; out of site-is out of mind perhaps. They also need a considerable amount of oxygen too.
So, does anyone happen know or have any idea what the optimum/ideal DO saturation is? The ideal number on wished for on the DO Meter that guarantees/insures a safe oxygenated environment for all the plants plus all the microbe colonies in RDWC’s?
Question: If you test the DO Sat with a DO meter and discover you do have a serious low oxygen problem in your water, how do to fix this low oxygen problem in your water? Are do you do nothing and hope the problem simply fixes itself before everything wilts and dies or becomes diseased and dies….
Oh No Mr. Bill - Another Crop Failure!
If you don’t know the ideal DO Saturation for sure, do you know a plant physiologist that teaches DWC at any University or College that will know for sure? They say that it’s real important in hydroponics to have plenty of oxygen…. I want to know what “plenty of oxygen” really means. Oxygen analyzers and DO meters are always available for precise oxygen measurement that eliminates the hoping, guessing if there is really enough oxygen to sustain a healthy environment.
Thanks
J