AnselAdams
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Welcome to the Shire!! the journey begins soon. I have to finish harvesting and drying the last run ... (follow "2nd was a bust ..." url below to see the results ...)I will follow you on your journey! ✌ and ❤
First bean has made it to the surface!! Two to go!
After they germinated and were put into rock wool did you turn on any lights or have they been left in darkness?
Intresting, let me tag along on this journey!
I would add right to the system. The more food available the faster the populations will grow. Personally I feel like bacteria will compete and in the end a Victor will prevail, not this is basically for the different food sources. Some are nitrogen fixing some phosphorous etc etc etc. So I would say best added to the res to ensure adequate food sources.1 gallon of RO water tested at 5 ppm.
Added one teaspoon - recommended dosage is 1 teaspoon per 10 gallons. Because i did not want to have to measure the weight and divide by ten, i decided to add the whole teaspoon to a single gallon and divide the result by 10.
My ppm's after adding the teaspoon of +Life is 551 ppm. Divided by 10 that is an increase of 55.1 ppm. Since my stock is 128 ounces, that means i would need 12.8 ounces of "sauce" to raise my ppm by 55 ppm's. Dumping the entire gallon into the 10 gallon rez would raise my ppm by only 55.1 ppm. If i only use 12.8 oz of sauce per top-off hen my ppm "should" only rise about 5-6 ppm.
I like to mix my +Life a few days early and leave the soup at room temp for a couple of days to give the little buggers a head start.
@Aqua Man is that a valid plan of action or am i just making a mess for 5-6 days? I don't have any idea what the environmental conditions are for keeping this stuff alive and replicating before i dump in the rez. Once introduced into the rez i will let it run another week or two at 63-65 degrees and growth of the culture should slow down a bit.
Here is the total ppm count for each of my additives used during the grow. I can now do water changes and additive additions and have a fairly accurate way to maintain my target ppm's during the grow.
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Hydroguard - 0 ppm/gal
Silica Blast - 17 ppm /gal
CalMag - 262 ppm/gal
CNS-17 Bloom or Grow - 881 ppm/gal
+Life - 12.8oz/55.1 ppm/gal
I would add right to the system. The more food available the faster the populations will grow. Personally I feel like bacteria will compete and in the end a Victor will prevail, not this is basically for the different food sources. Some are nitrogen fixing some phosphorous etc etc etc. So I would say best added to the res to ensure adequate food sources.
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