How to Mix Masterblend 4-18-38 for Hydroponics the Right Way

0:00 all right today we're going to be talking about how to mix up master building nutrients the correct way uh it's my little buddy back there i have to give them treats so it'll stay out of the garden let's go get to it [Music] [Applause] all righty we're gonna mix up some

0:45 nutrients and if you've seen my youtube channel if you've seen any of the videos you've probably seen me just take it and dump it all into five gallon bucket and fill it up with water uh i've done it for years like that eight years and i haven't had any problem but i want to show you guys how the manufacturer says to do it this one comes from master blend this one's a little wet but this is a kit and this one has the master blend tomato formula and epsom salt already mixed up this one has the calcium nitrate now the directions for this right from master blend says i'll bring it in there so you can see

1:36 if you can read that directions in one gallon of water dissolve one level scoop of 5 12 25 then dissolve half a scoop of calcium nitrate now this is 5 12 25 because it's got the um 4 18 38 the tomato formula already mixed with epsom salt so that changes the chemical formula so that's why you know some people get confused about that but this just says in a gallon of water so if you're doing five gallons you know you can mix it up and the direction says to dissolve your master blend first then after that's dissolved then you add the calcium nitrate and dissolve it now

2:22 i'm going to show you how to do it if you want to be really careful like people used to be and that's what people some people get excited about is you mix it up into two separate containers and i'll bring you in here for a close-up but i've got a couple i've got one white one and one blue one you don't have to do this but the white one you can see when you dump the mask blend in it looks it's got kind of a yellowish color and the blue bucket over here when you dump the calcium nitrate in the calcium nitrate generally it's a white color so you can actually see when it's totally dissolved so what i'm going to do is put the master blend and epsom salt in the white bucket put the calcium nitrate into the blue bucket and when they're both dissolved

3:07 then i'll dump them both together cover it up and store it for when i need it all right so we'll bring you all in for close-up you've got a little a big old whisk to mix it up with you don't need this you can just use a paint stirrer or whatever you have to mix it um i used to be a chef so i just have this on hand so that's why i'm using this you don't have to go out and buy one of these or if you've got one in the kitchen just use it wash it off now we've i've already pre-measured my nutrients this is my master building my epsom salt and this is my calcium nitrate we've got 12 grams of master blend six grams of epsom salt and 12 grams of calcium nitrate now you can put anywhere between 10 and 12 grams of the master blend and

3:53 the calcium nitrate and between 5 and 6 grams of the epsom salt i usually start off with the 10 10 5 ratio for micro greens if i'm just going to start them from this stage and put them into the downspouts here if i get transplants like this lettuce right up front here we've got those as transplants from home depot so they're already started out and get ready to go and i usually put those into the 12 12 and 6 ratio so if you're starting with this you want a little bit weaker ratio something like this basil here if you're just pulling these guys out this one's went a little too long but if

4:39 you just get something like that out you know i start that with a little weaker ratio and then this you want to go ahead and bump it up to 12 12 6. at least that's what i do so i'll bring you in for close up we're going to dump these into the buckets you can see what it looks like and then we'll mix them all together all right so what i did was took a gallon jug and i put two gallons in here and two gallons in the blue bucket now what i'm gonna do is i've got one more gallon so i'm gonna pour half of it into here roughly half but i'm using this gallon so that i know that i've got exactly five gallons right so for half of it in here then i'm going

5:24 to pour the other half into the blue bucket you can hear that going on right now so i've got two and a half gallons in each bucket now this some stuff is falling i'm outside and there's trees so all the little bits of debris and that are falling in here i don't really worry about it so here's our mixture if you need to you can just make sure you get all of that out of there and see it in the bottom and just stir that up

6:11 it's got a little yellowish tint to it all right so we know that's stirred up now let's move over to the blue bucket all right all of that in there see why i use the blue one instead of the white you can see the calcium nitrate down there now we're just going to stir this until that gets dissolved

7:00 [Music] [Laughter] stop for a second here so you can see with the blue container you can see that still got a little ways to go [Laughter] so

7:56 good and you can see just about there stir it for one more second finish that up there rinse this off all right now we'll just take this and combine them [Applause] makes five gallons and you're ready to

8:43 go all i do is take uh this one's full but i usually just use my almond joe milk jug and i just dip it out of there take this and pour it in and i'm actually going to use this right now i'm getting some more downspouts set up i've got about 10 of these to go ahead and start doing so we've got some work to do but if you're not going to use it right away go and cover it up and i usually let this sit i mean it can last a couple of weeks like this yeah you don't want to let it sit in the sun if you have it and it's going to be where a little light's getting to you might want to get a darker one with a dark lid but i'm using it up right now

9:31 and i usually use it within a couple of days so i don't mix up too much i've got you know lots of stuff over here if you've only got one little container that you're using and you mix up five gallons you want to go ahead and set this in a dark place otherwise algae will grow inside of here too so right now i'm using this i'm going to go ahead and leave it in this white bucket for those of you who want to learn how to do all of this how to grow some of your own food and do it in a simple and easy manner um you can watch loads of youtube videos or what i've done is i've set everything up in a course abc123 none of the fluff you know i like to get a little creative

10:17 with my videos and everything and the course is going to be just like a classroom setting everything you need to know how i grow food from micro greens all the way up to baby greens and leafy greens and everything else that we've got growing around here and uh i put in the membership area so if you want to join there's a little button down below you can join it's at the level it's 14.99 and that's a monthly membership you can join for one month and watch all the courses i've got three of them up now i think four and i'm putting out uh the rest of them within one month so if you join and you watch them all in one month you can drop out of the membership if you want and then you'll be able to learn

11:03 everything you want for 14.99 which is really cheap for a course because i'm going to be uploading that course on another platform to sell off of youtube and i'm probably gonna be charging anywhere from 40 to 100 bucks for it so if you guys want to just for y'all you can jump on here and become a member for 14.99 the 1499 level and you get to watch all those videos you can watch them in one month if you want to watch all the videos in one month and then just drop out that's fine you know that's cool i want you guys to get the best value for your money uh if you want to stick around and stay in there help support the channel remember you know we're all about we can't feed the world so we're going to try and help the world feed itself

11:48 and you guys are all part of that so really appreciate it and uh some of y'all out there have also said that you kind of need some help and that's the reason why you're watching this channel um and trying to do things um as easy and inexpensive as possible um i also want to let you know when i do upload it on another channel uh it's another platform and it's gonna be able to have affiliates which is you guys can actually go out and sell that course and i'm gonna try and figure out how much i have to pay for everything and offset the cost but i think that it's going to be somewhere around 70 to 80 percent of what the course cost is what you're gonna make so if you guys want to go out

12:34 and just tell people hey here's a course on how to grow your own food it's really simple and and you know i think you guys should uh learn how to do it and it's a real cheap course you guys can go out there and sell it and you can make most of that money yourself uh so i'm going to be giving out like a 70 to 80 percent commission off of um the course so i hope that that helps some people out there if you guys have any questions i have more coming up about that but i'm trying to figure out some way to to help some of you out there and uh and learn how to make some money you know doing something like this and if you're not physically capable of doing this that you can at least just have like a

13:20 digital product that you can sell and make most of the money off of it so uh like i said i hope that helps you guys get out there uh live to inspire and keep on growing [Music] do [Music]

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