Anyone every tried brewing nutrients/water?

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Lethidox

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what i mean is you mix your nutes or just plain water RO or tap w.e. you use and just run it in a bucket with a bubbler.

i am wondering if this would benefit a grow at all due to you oxygenating the water more before using it. kind of like brewing compost tea basically. i am wanting to try this eventually since i am going to eventually test out super soil and using compost teas in the future but wondering if anyone has done something like this and seen any benefits or is it pointless?

at my garden store they sell something along the lines of this i think the bottle states "oxygenated water" in culinary school we had something just like this as well to wash vegetables supposedly it cleaned it better
 
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Lethidox

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i was reading some old threads about how people can store mixed nutrients for X amount of days but only if they run it under a bubbler or most suggested this at least one guy stated he did this for 15 days and had no ill affects on his plants. i mean i would assume it doesnt do shit because their is nothing in the water to consume said oxygen unless your adding bacteria which again i assume why it is a must for compost teas?
 
Lordhooha

Lordhooha

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Lethidox said:
what i mean is you mix your nutes or just plain water RO or tap w.e. you use and just run it in a bucket with a bubbler.

i am wondering if this would benefit a grow at all due to you oxygenating the water more before using it. kind of like brewing compost tea basically. i am wanting to try this eventually since i am going to eventually test out super soil and using compost teas in the future but wondering if anyone has done something like this and seen any benefits or is it pointless?

at my garden store they sell something along the lines of this i think the bottle states "oxygenated water" in culinary school we had something just like this as well to wash vegetables supposedly it cleaned it better
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I mean you can but there will be little advantage with synthetic nutrients other than a bit of extra DO in the mix.
 
PrometheanLeaf

PrometheanLeaf

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I mean with a synthetic nute I'd still bubble it for an hour or so just to oxgenate the water. Aside from that I don't really see the benefit unless it is a compost tea or microbial innoculant.
 
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Lethidox

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yea figured there was no use cause nothing in the water to use up said oxygen anyways. when you adding bacteria im sure the bacteria will use up oxygen. guess i save that project for when i start running super soil or DWC
 
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redivider

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Lethidox said:
what i mean is you mix your nutes or just plain water RO or tap w.e. you use and just run it in a bucket with a bubbler.

i am wondering if this would benefit a grow at all due to you oxygenating the water more before using it. kind of like brewing compost tea basically. i am wanting to try this eventually since i am going to eventually test out super soil and using compost teas in the future but wondering if anyone has done something like this and seen any benefits or is it pointless?

at my garden store they sell something along the lines of this i think the bottle states "oxygenated water" in culinary school we had something just like this as well to wash vegetables supposedly it cleaned it better
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There is no way to oxygenate water more - there comes a point where water has all the oxygen it can absorb and that level can typically be achieved naturally at the surface....any water tank/medium that 'bubbles' the water does it because the natural exchange that should occur between the air and water on the surface isn't enough to maintain the lifeforms in the medium.... so compost teas don't oxygenate water to help the nutrients - it does it so there is a larger bacterial colony available to break down whatever is in the tea into the nutrients plants take....

Agua Oxigenada you might have read. that's the spanish term for peroxide water and it's the same shit you would pour on your knees to disenfect them after a fall... it's used as an anti-fungal remedy in hydroponics... you pour a teaspoon or something into x amount of gallons....
 
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Lethidox

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redivider said:
There is no way to oxygenate water more - there comes a point where water has all the oxygen it can absorb and that level can typically be achieved naturally at the surface....any water tank/medium that 'bubbles' the water does it because the natural exchange that should occur between the air and water on the surface isn't enough to maintain the lifeforms in the medium.... so compost teas don't oxygenate water to help the nutrients - it does it so there is a larger bacterial colony available to break down whatever is in the tea into the nutrients plants take....

Agua Oxigenada you might have read. that's the spanish term for peroxide water and it's the same shit you would pour on your knees to disenfect them after a fall... it's used as an anti-fungal remedy in hydroponics... you pour a teaspoon or something into x amount of gallons....
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yea after thinking about it doesnt makes sense lol
 
PrometheanLeaf

PrometheanLeaf

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Still an hour of bubbling the water to its saturation point of oxygen is a good idea for your roots. And I use recharge so, there is a microbial benefit for me there I suppose.
 
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Lethidox

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PrometheanLeaf said:
Still an hour of bubbling the water to its saturation point of oxygen is a good idea for your roots. And I use recharge so, there is a microbial benefit for me there I suppose.
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i mean regardless im going to test it out for myself gonna go check tomorrow if we have any bubblers but yea i doubt it. i mean if anything i'll just use it to mix my nutrients because the way i currently mix it is just in a water bottle and the bottle is full so it doesn't seem to mix well imo by hand might do this in a few weeks though.
 
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