Hey guys, welcome back, Epic Gardening.

Podcast from Kevin to Spiritu.

I am the founder of Epic Gardening.

Today we're talking about hydroponics, another hydroponics episode. Today's question comes from Akash Chabra and he asks,

hey I'm growing in a deep water culture system and I've just started my seeds and what I want to know is I have a net pot in the

lid so the net pot is drooping down into the reservoir. Is this good or bad? I get this question a lot. I have a really

popular video on my YouTube channel which you can find if you just type epic gardening

into YouTube about a deepwater culture system where I just go over exactly how to set up a deep water culture setup.

That was a little bit wordy. I apologize.

Basically it's just a deep water culture tutorial video. And by far the most popular question that I get is, hey, how far above

the reservoir, the nutrient reservoir, does the net pot have to be?

So they want to know, does the net pot need to sink into the water?

Does it need to be above the water?

It's a good question.

It's sort of one of those small nitpicky things.

And there's not a lot of good information out there on what the answer is.

I'll tell you what I do and I'll tell you the logic behind it and then you can make your own choice.

What I do is all of my deep water culture systems have airstones in them.

And what those airstones do is of course they're oxygenating the water, that's their primary function,

but they're putting out bubbles with such force that the bubbles are popping at the surface

and the popping bubbles is actually sending tiny little splashes of water up hitting the net pot,

hitting the growing medium that's within the net pot, and then wicking up into the plant's roots.

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