What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the podcast. This is Kevin from Epic Gardening.

Hope you're having a good Tuesday. So today we are going to address a question that I've

gotten a lot anytime I do a hydroponics tutorial that involves NetPots, someone

asked me this question.

So I figured for anyone on the podcast who's wondering the answer, I will go ahead and answer

it just here right now and that

question is when I'm doing a hydroponic grow where do I place the net pot?

Should it be below the surface of the water? Should it be above the surface of the water?

Should it be above the surface of the water?

Should it be in somewhere in between?

And you know what?

It's a good question and I understand why it's asked.

And the reason why it's asked, least in my view is because let's

imagine you're growing a basil plant in a little stonewall cube in a net pot

right and you have it sitting on some sort of container, the surface, maybe the

lid of some container. And then you have nutrient solution in the reservoir below that container.

Well, you might worry that your plants' roots, if they haven't grown out of that

net pot and dropped into that nutrient reservoir, you might say, okay, well, if I'm not

dripping water over the top and actually adding water to the top of this system

well then how is it going to get any water aren't these roots going to dry out and die?

It's a fantastic question and the answer is relatively simple.

If you have an airstone, if you're using an airstone to oxygenate your growing environment,

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