Thank you sir. After watching 5 other videos trying to explain EC I watched yours and it clicked. 👍

Finally! Someone who really explains EC. Thank you.

Finally, real information! The other KZfaqrs need to watch this video and stop giving vague answers. Thank you.

It took many hours of searching but I am so glad I found this channel. So much good information and it is actually presented intelligently and clearly. Thanks guys!

Man, love your videos. You make the complicated, easy. Explain things clearly and understandable.

Thanks for the video man. I had no idea why the ec sensor was used in my project. You cleared it. Perfect video for starters.

Very clear explanation. I especially love it where he explains how if a plant uses more water than the nutrients in solution it will actually increase EC. It must be a challenge to get it all balanced.

Man you rock! Finally someone that breaks it down simply!

Ethan Thank you! I learnt a lot from you. So glad you went straight to the subject. Hate small talk.

Thank you for such a great explanation on EC. Thumbs Up

This is the video I have been searching for. Thank you for an easy explanation for this beginning hydroponic dummy. I think I finally understand!!!

You are one of the brightest educational speakers I have found on you tube and this video saved me from getting the wrong one 😂😡 thank you for time that you put in to the educational videos and I'm in Florida and would love to work on a farm. I'm a graduate student from THC University it's ok to laugh, and Senci Grow FL. I did leave a message on the westside about working on farms but I'm not sure you guys have made it down here yet. Well a have a few more things that I have to learn so till next video. Have a great day.

Thank you for adding the Idiocracy cherry onto the top of an excellent EC cake.

great video. I learned a lot and now can move forward.

Good basic information :) keep them coming:)

Thank you for this helpful information! We just got our EC meter, and your video helped us understand how to use it. Janine and Paul of GrowStrong with Tower Gardening, Louisville, CO, USA

Great content. Keep it up!

Thank you Sir! You explain it so well!

Thx bro. Great video to being a beginner to the next level

Very informative, cheers great video

My EC reading is in units 400 us/cm. But all the grow guides I've seen talking about EC 1.7, 1.0, 1 - 3.

Thank you for your easy to understand vid about ec. I was so confused watching vids but your explanation was so easy to understand. Thanks boss. Subscribed mate.

congratulation ,precise and clear very good

OMG Ethan! Thank you! Finally an exceptional explanation of the part of hydroponics I don't find particularly interesting but entirely necessary to know to be successful! You were enjoyable to listen to, made it make sense, and easy to understand! A thousand thank yous! :)

Thanks Ethan. Very informative! Much appreciated.

Thank you for this video I've been trying to find lots of videos explaining EC lots of them are very vague as well lots of them are explaining PPM instead of EC I've grown a few times but this video has given me some good insight on EC for my next grow thank you so much!!

I really enjoyed thank you

excellent video . well explained . You must have been a teacher

informative video. Thank you

Thanks a lot Ethan!

Thanks Brother very informative brother

THIS WAS AWESOME ,

Woah, you proved plants really do crave electrolytes! Great video

Great video thx

The unit is correctly siemens, after Werner von Siemens. Nevertheless, as an electrical engineer, hobby gardener, I really learned a lot from your summary with plenty of very useful practical considerations. Thank you indeed.

Wow great presentation! 👌

ethan you are awesome!!!

Awsome Vid bro !! Thank you !!

Thank you. Now I can relate. Question, where can I get a chart listing what my ec should be per plant?

Thanks clearly explained!!

excellent thanks

Thanks guys you cleared up so much

Well said bro

cheers buddy. helpd me untold

It really made me understand. So I check my water. Tap water came to 3742 EC and drinking water was 72. First I thought my meter was broken. PPM for my solution was 832. Can I still use dechlorinated tap water?

My Hanna Gro Line Combo HI 98131 meter does EC/TDS ppm with the option of 500 and 700 conversions setting. I've also noticed the meter when set for one of the ppm setting it shows EC first for a couple seconds then the ppm so you get to view both.

Is it possible to differ EC from salinity? How these two parameters interact? I know you dont use salt in hidroponics, but I wonder if i found a use for my EC Meter in my Aquaponics system.

excellent!

So helpful!! Thank you! But dang it, I got a ppm :( ... question about combining what I learned from your diagnosing plant deficiencies video & this - if a plant is in soil that does not have the correct ph so certain nutrients are not available... can you correct or at least help that deficiency by spraying a custom mixed nutrient solution on top? Is this why people get those misting spray things?

Brilliant! Thanks so much for dummies guide to EC!

GOOD EXPLANATION‼️

Hi Ethan, what is the ideal EC for Maize grown in hydroponics for fodder?

What is a high starting EC in tap water? when should I need a filter?

Nice Idiocracy reference

I love all of your videos, they have helped me understand what is going on in my garden. I checked the Bright Agrotech link for Bluelab combo meters and the link was broken. I checked other sources for this meter and it is quite expensive for a backyard gardener. Do you have a cheaper suggestion. I see some on Amazon but they read in ppm not EC. Thank you in advance for any help you can give me.

Thank you!

What to do if TDS level increases while adjusting pH of water with pH down/up solutions? How to balance these both?

Im making a project about measuring salinity of salt ponds. Using ec. How can i convert the value of current to siemens. Any help please.

Is mesuring PPM according to the recommended no. will be enouh?

Where should my source water be in regards to EC, whats too high? When do i need to filter?

how often do I need to change water/nutrient solution in a dwc hydroponic system?

Love your videos. I'm a new subscriber! One thing i'm still confused about tho: EC represents the electrical conductivity in a solution, and we use it to give us an indication of how much nutrients are present in a solution, since more nutrients = higher EC. But are all EC enhancers necessarily nutrients? I think they say that lettuces require an EC of about 1.4, so lets say i'm growing lettuce and therefore aiming at an EC of 1.4. Scenario 1: My tap water is 0.3. Therefore I should add a decent amount of nutrients to get to 1.4. Scenario 2: My tap water is 1.1. Therefore I should add a small amount of nutrients to get to 1.4. Will both scenarios lead to the same results? Is the difference between the original tap water EC in the two scenarios (0.3 vs 1.1) necessarily due to the 1.1 tap water containg more nutrients, and therfore requiring less plant food to be added to the solution? Or does it contain other random particles you might find in various water supplies? And even if it contains nutrients, are these nutrients necessarily beneficial to the plants im growing? Hope I was able to convey my question :)

Easy and very informative. I got a question please, if I have a city water of ec 0.4, will amino acids help to chelate those insoluble nutrients and make them available to the plant (especially calcium)?

I discovered that diffrent temperature has diffrent ec reading. what time of the day do you recommend to measure my ec ? when its the hottest or the coldest ? it ranges from 29-35degrees celcius

I have bought TDS meter but I couldn't make a appropriate hydroponic nutrients solution so for. What would be reason behind this problem.

Hi could i know wat ec should i hv for a flowering chilli plant?

I have watched your video many times most of it, to understand whats all this EC, ppm, TDS, etc. I understand somehow, I only have a ppm measurement, so 1k ppm depends on which conversion EC . well when I measure my water there's already a ppm like 300 then I tried the rainwater it is like only 30 ppm most likely. so its not ok to just minus the ppm in the water so you can come up to what EC you want like I need 1k then when putting the nutrient solution I will gEt a 1300ppm. Is this ok?

Well broken down

thank you

Really informative video and well explained.

WHy s sulphure used on soils. DOes it replace hmic acids? is it needed to increase the conductivity of the soil. Nitrogen can get stuck to clay particles does a high ocnductivity change this help take nitrogen off the clay?

As usual, a very informative video. I do have a question, though. It seems like EC and exactly what contaminates are in the water are two separate 'readings', is this correct? Clearly, EC doesn't actually tell you the exact names of the chemicals that are in the water, more just how much of them there are, so is this a 'problem'? I ask this because I live in Saudi Arabia and the ppm of the water here is over 2000 which means it is out of range for my Hanna Instruments EC / TDS meter (for both scales). If, I am able to get the EC to within an acceptable range, is this all that matters, or do I actually need to know what is in my water (the exact names of the chemicals) and somehow 'balance' them out too? Thank you very much in advance. :)

nice information...thanks. in my region wich is saline track the ec is more than 2 and sometimes go up to 4 for soil as well as water. how can we help the farmers in this region. due to less affordable capacity farmers cannot afford to install RO plants. can you suggest the remedy/ solution for the problem

Please explain selective ion uptake

This might sound dumb but am gonna ask anyway. 1. What standard solution do use to calibrate your EC parameter(specifically)? Can I make my own solution for this? 2. I have some standard solution to measure PH alone for lower end and higher end but any means I can make my own solution that I can use for testing? Thanks.

Does ec tell you when plants need feeding.

Hi, good informative video. Just one small query. Understood the concept of EC, and how to increase or decrease it. But what should be the ratios of each individual nutrients if i wish to increase the EC?

Hello! How many ppm is 1 ec produced by adwa? Made in romania??

4:20 - Oh god, I have been reading about gardening for almost 10 years and this is something I never heard of before in which PPM is not a good unit of measure as compared to EC unit of measure for hydroponics, interesting. You think it would be a good idea if I took my PPM sensor meter and reverse engineer it by placing some math calculations to shoot out EC unit readings?

I have well water and the EC for it is 0.40. My 3 part hydroponic solutions guide says to use an EC of 2.0. Does this mean that I only add 1.6 EC solution of nutrients for a total of 2.0 or do I add an EC 2.0 of nutrients for a total of 2.4?

Hello, great content. I am starting and am looking for an economical EC meter. What would you suggest. Thanks

My ec is resding 250 inplain tap water .. after adding a small amount of nutes and mixing solution good..my ec is shooting straight up to over 2.6...ifi add tap water the ec goes up not down...i cant get it stable at 1.2 help needed...

which nutrients solution is the best for growing??

can anyone explain why ec in soil rises when being watered with a solution thats below its current ec?

U r awesome 1love

Does this translate to soil growers?

I have two meters which are reading in ms and one is reading 2k and the other is reading 5k. There is no calibration for either and they both are new and cheap designs. What gives?

Great explanation. But I'm still confused. My EC meter (Vivosun) reads 148 for plain water and 1446 for my solution. On PPM it reads 68 in plain water and 690 in solution. I don't see 1.2 or 2.5. There are numbers at the bottom of the screen:78.0 and 63.0. I don't know what any of this means. :(

Legend! Thanks bro

I am a beginner wrt Hydrophonics. I had questions wrt EC value.what is the relationship of EC wrt Temp..i am seeing strange values ex morning 1.1 to 1.2 temp 18C evening .7 to .9 temp 22C for continuous three days. Need help on this

what would you consider "high" enough EC to require RO filtration?

can you show more of the construct of the vertical tower at 1:46 time stamp please

One question Ethan please - While planting the lettuce seedlings, I set up the EC on 1.0, and as I know, I have to increase it step by step, but what is the exact period when I have to set it up at 1.5 and 2.0? or above them?

I do not want to understand EC I want PPM and I want it now. What is my Bluelabs setup anyone know its displayed in PPM but I'd like to know if its US standards blahhhhhhhhhhhh just because I am curious.

It took me a while to understand that EC measures ALL the nutrients in solution, basically the sum of all the ionic compounds. You can't measure how much phosphorus you need to add, because it's just a part of the reading. If you keep adding an "all-in-one" solution, at some point you have to dump everything out and start over because the proportions are out of whack. How do you know when you get to that point?

Haha love the idiocracy quote

Are there other ways of measuring EC? I can't justify spending 200 dollars on a meter and I don't trust the 15 dollar one to be accurate. What can I do? Will not checking it make a huge difference? (I'm only growing a few trays of microgreens and some tomatoes)

it's what plants crave!

If my EC going in is 1.6 what should my runoff EC be??

Please, the name and source of the meter you are using.