Hey guys what's up welcome back to the epic gardening podcast today is an interesting

one because today we're talking about water temperature both in soil so I guess

soil temperature and also water temperature for your nutrient reservoir in

hydroponics so this is a question that I've gotten more than once so I

figured you know you get a question more than once why don't

answer it for everyone out there so that that answer is just out there and we can

refer to it in the future. So if you didn't know hydroponics is the practice of growing plants in a medium other than soil.

Typically, that medium is just water and nutrients. Now if you're growing in just water and nutrients,

then the temperature of that nutrient

solution is actually really important to figure out.

Unlike growing in soil, which is basically a self-regulating temperature system because you can't really control it all that much.

Of course you can definitely throw some mulch on top or you can do some other things to control

that temperature, but in general it stays around the same

temp. With hydroponics that's not the case you're you're manufacturing an environment so you need to

figure out okay well what temperature does does this water need to be at?

Because the roots are just sitting in it all the time.

They're sitting in that bath of water, nutrients, and ideally, air, if you're oxygenating it with an airstone.

So the question then becomes, well what temperature matters or what temperature

should I try to keep this at?

So generally you want to mimic something close to

the ideal temperature for soil gardening and in most cases that's going to be

anywhere from 65 to 80 degrees.

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