1. Tap water is good only when it is good. Many questions about water. The best you can do is a control. In one of your buckets use only tap water and compare. We know R/O will work we don't know about your tap water. Hate to see all 3 go bad so just try one and you still may harvest 2. Those PH readings are about right but you can PH either water no problem.

2. You can mix and PH the day befor but we have always do it just right before changing.

3. Nutrients for hydro come in 2 part and 3 part most of the time. It gives you the flexability of tweaking the nutes to your plant. Both parts in veg and then drop the grow big and add twice as much grow bloom or whatever the mix is I have only used GH 3 part.

4. Add them up when you mix them right you will have a higher N in veg. N is less in hydro because of the way they feed. Tooo much and all yellow.

5. This is your biggest problem for hydro. Your temps need to be near 70 degrees. When water temps get to 75 or have a big temp swing thing go wrong like root rot. Those temps are better for soil or soiless. run vent 24/7.

6. the larger the rez the less ph flux or any problems. The smaller buckets you get will need lots of attention in topping up with water.

7. No such thing as too many bubbles and it will not hurt the plants. 2 should be plenty.
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