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Injection
Dosing Nutrients The Smart Way
By Jordan Gartenhaus
Fact: Life thrives under optimal conditions. Any deviation from the optimum
will prevent an organism from realizing it’s true genetic potential.
Adjustability as a Double-Edged Sword
Hydroponics is a wonderful way to grow plants
because it allows for tremendous control over the
conditions within the root zone. But with added
adjustability comes the need for added vigilance;
there’s more you have to pay attention to. In the
end, added adjustability is only beneficial if we’re
able to use it to our advantage.
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If you’re old enough, you might remember having to adjust
the choke in your car every morning before you could start
it. It was a clunky way to adjust the fuel mixture, and if you
forgot to set the choke back after the engine warmed up
it generally drove like crap. Once electronic fuel injection
was introduced people decided adjusting the fuel mixture
was better left to a computer, and rightly so. As a result
engines ran smoother thanks to the computer controlled
mixture control, and people could concentrate on actually
driving their car. The computer control was unequivocally
regarded as superior to making the fueling adjustments
manually>>>