Best time to dose?

No, you can dose before they come on the next day. No worries... I guess with PPS, you just want to make sure the ferts are mixed up in the water column before the lights come on. Even still, I wouldn't think it's a big deal if you forgot and dosed after the lights came on the next day, as long as you dose..

I have a much easier time remembering to dose at night, instead of the morning lol. I generally shoot the fertz right into the output of my filter, so they get mixed in pretty darn quick lol

Thanks for the answer.

Probably will be switching up to EI dosing once this bottle of fertz I mixed up is used.

The time you dose does not matter as much as remembering to dose

I personally like EI. Eitherway, dose when you remember. I don't really think that it would make that much of a difference if you doses after the lights came on. Of course, dosing the same time each day would make it more "stable". If you forget to dose at 6am, dose at 6pm(or whatever time you get home) when you remember.

Remembering is going to be the hard thing lol, I have three reminders that pop up on my computer, and on my phone now. The tank just went to high light, so this is going to be a learning experience.

one thing i have wanted to try is just have a container premixed that you could just have a drip line to the tank so u just set it and fill when its low. might take some tinkering with just water to start to get the ammount right but i think that would be pretty simple and would have a constant level.

HypnoticAquatic said:

one thing i have wanted to try is just have a container premixed that you could just have a drip line to the tank so u just set it and fill when its low. might take some tinkering with just water to start to get the ammount right but i think that would be pretty simple and would have a constant level.

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if you manage to get something like this to work let me know lol I would LOVE to try one.

Here is a cheap way to get the fertilizer added to the tank slowly, over several hours.

Get a plastic cup from a fast food restaurant. 1 quart or larger. Get a sturdy one, perhaps a 'collectible' style. Not the really flimsy throw away cups.

Drill a hole near the bottom, but on the side of the cup. Insert a drip irrigation fitting that is rated at 1/2 gallon per hour or less.
Set this over the tank, and add some 1/4" tubing to the drip emitter to keep the fertilizer flowing into the tank, not seeping along the cup and getting lost.

Fill the cup with water and add as much dry fertilizer as you want.

Allow the drip to happen over several hours. You can slow the flow further by tying a knot in the 1/4" tubing.

You can test this with pure water to see how long it lasts. If you can stretch it out over several days, then add several days' worth of fertilizer. If it all drains out in several hours then just use 1 days' fertilizer.

i was basicly thinkin of the same thing as diana but cant figure out what to use to make it astheticly semi pleasing. i though of just a 2L bottle with a irragation drip line that just went to the corner of the tank. would work great with a canopy so u can hide it under the hood. any of our hydroponic stores will have what u need should be pretty cheap to assemble. the hard part would be to just make it astheticly pleasing to your liking imo.