Fogponics. As good or better than Hydro?

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What you see isn't what their doing.

But your correct, what you see is rdwc with a twist or two
I don’t even know what they are talking about. I wonder if they do?

While I got ya you got access to a Petri dish you can throw a chunk of root on and see what grows? If not I can send you a few. Curious what is growing in your system.
 
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I’m gonna need a bigger screen lol
Oh sry, I have not considered that this looks only so large on my monitor
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Amino Acids   Overview

All matters

All matters2 uptake

Process nitrate assimilation

02 Nitrate Ammonium

3 More AminoPower

04 use that shit

05 Amino chelate

06 last part benns

Hey @Aqua Man , nice to see you 🙂
It's Jay13.aka.Dutchstuff, in case you missed it 😉
What are organic form of nitrogen?

sorry but this is not possible… what exactly is organic nitrogen? And not a chance in hell you can replace no2/no3/nh4 with aminos.
All amino acids and proteins belong to this group. Nitrogen is organically fixed here (carbon bonds).
Chemically, urea also belongs to the organic forms of nitrogen, but here in the EU on fertilizers it must be labeled separately.
Small overview from my sheet, there you can see it quite well.
Aminos1

The part from manics about the chelating properties is also confirmed by an article of Dr. Fernandez.
Glycine is really quite a strong chelate, similar to citric acid
Aminos2

What do you mean by not a chance in hell?
Technically I can do it halfway, I have enough stuff here to replace nitrate and ammonium almost completely.
Or do you mean that this makes no sense for the plant? That would be exactly the question I am asking myself.
I was able to find a study on gylcine with coriander. Better results were achieved with 20ppm glycine than with 40ppm. However, they have not reduced the N content in the hoagland solution, which of course has increased the N content more and more.

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This looks very interesting
It sounds like you can work very efficiently with glycine after all.

Results​

The results showed that all glycine treatments increased leaf area and the economic life of plants compared to control. Soil application of glycine at higher concentration of 500 mg/plant was able to produce the same or better records than NPK fertilization, particularly regarding leaf mineral concentration, plant economic life and total yield. Leaf macro- micro-nutrients were most increased under 500 mg soil-glycine application. Foliar spray of 500 ppm glycine resulted in better records than the other two levels, as spray of 1000 ppm glycine showed adverse and toxic effects including leaf necrosis. Fruit firmness was increased only by NPK and soil application of 500 mg glycine, whereas fruit vitamin C was increased by NPK fertilization, soil application of glycine at both levels (250, 500 mg) and foliar application of glycine at 500 ppm compared to control plants.

And the coriander-paper
Here you can find also a few references to other papers about amino acids
The one from above I have to tackle right away after a coffee ☺️

Once we have colonies I'm going to do some agar work to grow them out. It will give me a chance to study them and never buy this stuff again. It's really expensive. I can't even imagine the profit these companies are making off this stuff.

I just ordered the proper stains I need to see these bacteria. I'm hoping with stain I can show them to you singly. My digital scope is limited and single cell resolution is just out of reach. I'll do the best I can to show you but I wish you could see what I see optically. Lots of cells. Some look suspiciously like algae. None of them are moving.

If they look like the control and or grow nothing, that product is bullshit until proven otherwise.
Identifying bacteria is very complicated. As far as I know, one would have to use different test methods.
For B. subtilis and P. putida you can find very detailed information here (credit to n1ght again)
But with the control group you can of course already see if anything grows at all 🙂

Don't you have some university or something nearby where you can have that analyzed directly?
For the leaf analyses, there were also prices in one of Bugbee's papers for which you can have them done at his university.
As I said, I would be happy if I had such possibilities here as you have in the USA 😉

About the prices: I already have a sheet on this here. You have to consider the CfU. Great White is extremely expensive, especially the liquid.

Mos
 
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Let us start with what we know about the subject. We know that plants exude very significant amount of sugars through their root systems and we also know that they can re-uptake some of these sugars through their roots (see here). From this paper it seems that maize plants could uptake up to 10% of the sugars they exude back into their root systems, which implies that some exogenous sugar application could find its way into plant roots. Even worse, transporting this sugar up to the shoots is extremely inefficient, with only 0.6% of the sugar making it up the plant. This tells us that most of the sugar is wasted in terms of plant usage, a large majority never makes it into the plant and the little amount that makes it actually never goes up the plant. Plants are simply not built to transport sugars in this manner, they evolved to transport sugars down to roots and to fruits.
A few more words about glucose. The part here gave me quite a few thoughts.
The comparison with corn as a C4 plant is not very suitable, I think.
And his last sentence is also not correct, if you look at all plants. Trees store sugars in the roots to form new leaves in the spring. Many plants also store sugars in tubers (e.g. potatoes, carrots).
I am just reading up on botany, but I would be a little more critical about that part.
I am going to take Dr. Fernandez's take on this one. He is a highly educated individual that specializes in Cannabis and hydroponics. He also made and published hydro buddy for everyone to use. Additionally for @GNick55 if you want to take a look at his archived blog's 2021 he has some information on organic WPM products but the kicker for me was good old sulphur being the most effective. Sulphur in Veg and a homemade product in bloom
He is definitely great in his field.I have just read through all his articles on pH and his calculations are very interesting.
I've also been wondering for a while whether you can somehow calculate the sensible amount of chelates to match the nutrients. This seems to be possible somehow, when I look at the numbers above. May have to get in touch with him directly for this at some point..


@Moe.Red In case you need something else for your trip down the rabbit hole: Two more studies on Bacillus sub. and some other species. There, the growth-promoting properties are also explained in detail again.

Sub1

Sub2

 
Moe.Red

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Oh sry, I have not considered that this looks only so large on my monitor
Here again in original size

Hey @Aqua Man , nice to see you 🙂
It's Jay13.aka.Dutchstuff, in case you missed it 😉

All amino acids and proteins belong to this group. Nitrogen is organically fixed here (carbon bonds).
Chemically, urea also belongs to the organic forms of nitrogen, but here in the EU on fertilizers it must be labeled separately.
Small overview from my sheet, there you can see it quite well.
View attachment 1324720
The part from manics about the chelating properties is also confirmed by an article of Dr. Fernandez.
Glycine is really quite a strong chelate, similar to citric acid
View attachment 1324730
What do you mean by not a chance in hell?
Technically I can do it halfway, I have enough stuff here to replace nitrate and ammonium almost completely.
Or do you mean that this makes no sense for the plant? That would be exactly the question I am asking myself.
I was able to find a study on gylcine with coriander. Better results were achieved with 20ppm glycine than with 40ppm. However, they have not reduced the N content in the hoagland solution, which of course has increased the N content more and more.

[serching for the paper ... wait a minute]
This looks very interesting
It sounds like you can work very efficiently with glycine after all.


And the coriander-paper
Here you can find also a few references to other papers about amino acids
The one from above I have to tackle right away after a coffee ☺️


Identifying bacteria is very complicated. As far as I know, one would have to use different test methods.
For B. subtilis and P. putida you can find very detailed information here (credit to n1ght again)
But with the control group you can of course already see if anything grows at all 🙂

Don't you have some university or something nearby where you can have that analyzed directly?
For the leaf analyses, there were also prices in one of Bugbee's papers for which you can have them done at his university.
As I said, I would be happy if I had such possibilities here as you have in the USA 😉

About the prices: I already have a sheet on this here. You have to consider the CfU. Great White is extremely expensive, especially the liquid.

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Sorry again I have not read all that I’m on cell and I need to get to a bigger screen. My eyes feel 40 years older than the rest of me just can’t see like I used to. I can see a chart there but have no chance of reading it.

As far as aqua I’ll let him speak for himself but there is no difference in what the plants uptake whether it was derived from an organic source or not.

For the bacteria analysis- I am a resourceful person stick with me you will see. There is some stuff you don’t know going on behind the scenes like the test I’m working on with smokedareefer who uses nothing in his grows and is successful. Based on his results I have to leave for the possibility that the bottles of goo I am adding are doing nothing. It would not be the first time I bought some panther piss from the grow store and later learned it was complete crap.

The exact same could be said about bottles of sugar and aminos. Yes, there is a transport system in the plant for carbs. I know that now. Whether it is beneficial or counterproductive to attempt to use it is in question. I still don’t know the answer to that even tho I have read dozens of papers on it at this point. This is not an ask for more links trust me. All this feels very much like UV to me. Some say it works others say it doesn’t there is a clear pathway to use UV (uvr8) but after substantial testing on my end I’m walking away with meh. Inconclusive
 
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OK went to the big screen and see it now. Is PHC a brand name? Crazy how much cheaper that is. I guess that is something in the EU?

Bacillus amyloliquefaciens is the most common bacteria used in hydro. Although there are several strains of BA, some of which are engineered. Hydrogaurd and Southern AG Fungicide are examples of products that contain only that Bacillus strain. At a penny per colony forming unit (I think that's what your chart is saying) the markup on this stuff in the hydro store is just staggering.

If there was a way for me to buy these bacteria singly from the EU, I would be interested in learning more. So far I have not seen them in the US sold that way.





On my petri dishes - zero growth anywhere. This means 1 of 3 things:

1 - Dextrose based agar does not support any of the biologics in any of the products
2 - The time to form colonies is much longer than we would like
3 - The bottled products are inert. Very costly dirty water.

I feel like #2 is most likely. We will see in time.
 
Aqua Man

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Oh sry, I have not considered that this looks only so large on my monitor
Here again in original size

Hey @Aqua Man , nice to see you 🙂
It's Jay13.aka.Dutchstuff, in case you missed it 😉

All amino acids and proteins belong to this group. Nitrogen is organically fixed here (carbon bonds).
Chemically, urea also belongs to the organic forms of nitrogen, but here in the EU on fertilizers it must be labeled separately.
Small overview from my sheet, there you can see it quite well.
View attachment 1324720
The part from manics about the chelating properties is also confirmed by an article of Dr. Fernandez.
Glycine is really quite a strong chelate, similar to citric acid
View attachment 1324730
What do you mean by not a chance in hell?
Technically I can do it halfway, I have enough stuff here to replace nitrate and ammonium almost completely.
Or do you mean that this makes no sense for the plant? That would be exactly the question I am asking myself.
I was able to find a study on gylcine with coriander. Better results were achieved with 20ppm glycine than with 40ppm. However, they have not reduced the N content in the hoagland solution, which of course has increased the N content more and more.

[serching for the paper ... wait a minute]
This looks very interesting
It sounds like you can work very efficiently with glycine after all.


And the coriander-paper
Here you can find also a few references to other papers about amino acids
The one from above I have to tackle right away after a coffee ☺️


Identifying bacteria is very complicated. As far as I know, one would have to use different test methods.
For B. subtilis and P. putida you can find very detailed information here (credit to n1ght again)
But with the control group you can of course already see if anything grows at all 🙂

Don't you have some university or something nearby where you can have that analyzed directly?
For the leaf analyses, there were also prices in one of Bugbee's papers for which you can have them done at his university.
As I said, I would be happy if I had such possibilities here as you have in the USA 😉

About the prices: I already have a sheet on this here. You have to consider the CfU. Great White is extremely expensive, especially the liquid.

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Hey brother, i mean it in kinda 2 ways. 1 it makes no sense in hydro, aero or fogponics but also to try and balance the nutrient ratios while only dependent on aminos…

i mean i guess i should have been more clear and not blanket state it like i did but even in soil where you can take advantage of organics and microorganisms much much more easily i think it would be a challenge to balance.

i should have said no way in hell for aero, hydro or fog.
 
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All this feels very much like UV to me. Some say it works others say it doesn’t there is a clear pathway to use UV (uvr8) but after substantial testing on my end I’m walking away with meh. Inconclusive
I believe the scientific term for this, "Is the science is not settled". And the reason why to me seems logical, the people saying ya and na do not have the ability to accurately preform testing with controlled groups, ETC.
Testing these hypothesis requires control groups and test subjects to be of the exact same genetics grown under the exact same conditions. Not many have that ability. So they choose the set of the pants approach. Not exactly accurate
 
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OK went to the big screen and see it now. Is PHC a brand name? Crazy how much cheaper that is. I guess that is something in the EU?
If there was a way for me to buy these bacteria singly from the EU, I would be interested in learning more. So far I have not seen them in the US sold that way.
Right, a Dutch company. Got the tip once from a German forum from a friend.
You could either ask phc.com directly if they have a distributor in the USA, or ask Joop via bioplantenvoeding.nl/en if he also ships to the USA. This is afaik also the only dealer where you get the things as a private person here.

Bacillus amyloliquefaciens is the most common bacteria used in hydro. Although there are several strains of BA, some of which are engineered. Hydrogaurd and Southern AG Fungicide are examples of products that contain only that Bacillus strain. At a penny per colony forming unit (I think that's what your chart is saying) the markup on this stuff in the hydro store is just staggering.
I also noticed the amyloliquefaciens in the products several times, but I found very little about it in studies.
I am also surprised that PHC does not have it in the BioPak. The ColonizeAG with the Trichos contains amyloliquefaciens.

On my petri dishes - zero growth anywhere. This means 1 of 3 things:

1 - Dextrose based agar does not support any of the biologics in any of the products
2 - The time to form colonies is much longer than we would like
3 - The bottled products are inert. Very costly dirty water.

I feel like #2 is most likely. We will see in time.
With the liquid stuff, I keep having in mind the analysis of manics that I posted on page 11.
With the analyzed things one has bought predominantly really only dirty water
The Oregon Department for Agricultur should be reachable for you somehow I think. 😉



Hey brother, i mean it in kinda 2 ways. 1 it makes no sense in hydro, aero or fogponics but also to try and balance the nutrient ratios while only dependent on aminos…
The aminos are only there for nitrogen.
Yesterday I played a bit with the calculator.
I will put something like this in the second tank for testing.
A1

The paper that I read yesterday sounds very promising. The hypothesis of manics can probably be regarded more as a theory, which now only needs to be tested with hemp.
i mean i guess i should have been more clear and not blanket state it like i did but even in soil where you can take advantage of organics and microorganisms much much more easily i think it would be a challenge to balance.
The cation to anion ratio just knocks it apart for me a bit. There is just nitrate missing as a counterpart, but I have anyway only a week ago installed and tried to consider that.
A2


i should have said no way in hell for aero, hydro or fog.
By hydro here, do you mean only water-based/mediumless systems? Since you have Coco and Hydro here also as separate subforums.
@Moe.Red Is it ok if we discuss this further here, or should I rather save this for my report (which I've wanted to start for days now 😌 )
 
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Petri dish beneficial biologics test:

Well, I got something growing on 2 of 4 plates. Control is still clean, and Great White no growth. For the control, I just took the lid off while I was loading up the other plates, then replaced it. This should catch any free floating stuff in the air to compare against. The others I put them into a sterile petri, but not in sterile conditions, just like when we dump this stuff into the res, put the cap back on the bottle and put it on the shelf. There is no assumption of sterility when using these products irl.

I spoke to Aqua Man yesterday and his advice is to put the samples into a nutrient solution prior to agar. At some point I will do some additional testing on best conditions for fastest growth, but for now it seems that the water based products like Max Microbe and Orca will grow on dextrose agar within a few days. Today is day 4 since agar inoculation. Perhaps that can be sped up. Right now there are just tiny dots smaller than pinheads showing. I'll bet they are double by tonight.

I'm making the assumption that the bacteria that is growing is what we want to grow. This may turn out to be incorrect.

The gram stain and other microscopy tools I ordered have shipped, so when they get a bit bigger I can run some tests and hopefully produce digital images I can share with the forum.
 
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@Moe.Red Is it ok if we discuss this further here, or should I rather save this for my report (which I've wanted to start for days now 😌 )
Sure, we can discuss here. But I think we are losing most people with this discussion, so moving it to your own thread may make some sense. Maybe start a thread with your report and see where it takes us?
 
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What your doing is by no means new
@Aqua Man says he spoke to you off board and reached a little resolution.

I assumed you were using an alt based on the first sentence of your first post on another thread. I guess I misunderstood, so my apologies about the alt thing.

What is it that I am doing that is by no means new? There are LOTS of things on this thread that are 100% unique, some that are not unique but have not been posted about by others, and some that is just growing weed. I'm gonna assume you mean the latter, but tell me if I am wrong.

I have to say tho, the single sentence you posted is very trollish behavior. There are a lot of ways you could have said that. Disagreement is encouraged on my thread, it's how I learn. Trolls however get zapped. This is not troll it up. Hold yourself to a higher standard and jump right in, the more the merrier, especially those with experience.
 
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Right, a Dutch company. Got the tip once from a German forum from a friend.
You could either ask phc.com directly if they have a distributor in the USA, or ask Joop via bioplantenvoeding.nl/en if he also ships to the USA. This is afaik also the only dealer where you get the things as a private person here.


I also noticed the amyloliquefaciens in the products several times, but I found very little about it in studies.
I am also surprised that PHC does not have it in the BioPak. The ColonizeAG with the Trichos contains amyloliquefaciens.


With the liquid stuff, I keep having in mind the analysis of manics that I posted on page 11.
With the analyzed things one has bought predominantly really only dirty water
The Oregon Department for Agricultur should be reachable for you somehow I think. 😉





The aminos are only there for nitrogen.
Yesterday I played a bit with the calculator.
I will put something like this in the second tank for testing.
View attachment 1325162
The paper that I read yesterday sounds very promising. The hypothesis of manics can probably be regarded more as a theory, which now only needs to be tested with hemp.

The cation to anion ratio just knocks it apart for me a bit. There is just nitrate missing as a counterpart, but I have anyway only a week ago installed and tried to consider that.
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By hydro here, do you mean only water-based/mediumless systems? Since you have Coco and Hydro here also as separate subforums.
@Moe.Red Is it ok if we discuss this further here, or should I rather save this for my report (which I've wanted to start for days now 😌 )
Only if using completely inert bro i would say you have a chance in soil, peat, coco albiet a big challenge in my mind. But in hydroton/hydro, aero or fog i just dont see it as feasible
 
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Todays updates. I’m putting all this raw dsta here in this thread with the intention of moving to appropriate places. Like taking all the clone stuff and put it into its own thread. Could a used that today.

Microbes:

Day 4

1850BFEB B97C 4B17 9438 B2E02E59B38B

EBA56732 F19B 4FD2 AC21 748D93ACEEFE

CCC45C0A B0CC 4657 AF06 14B1C34DCDF1

061DF499 0842 48CA A93E 1425EFD5B386


RDWC run:
8C7BE63A 6210 40E1 8D7C ADF866E2653B

763D9A39 49C1 47D2 8641 BBBB481A53E7

9EA1F698 ACAE 460C 913E CE87CC460882

6D21793A 7972 467D 938F 007B41931936

C1B27FF9 3E26 4993 8C07 615EBB34544D

AFDCD47A 91E1 47A0 B37D 4D7CF6E0ED26

F8BF1E3A B337 4B94 B492 2A998C363746

C4C85595 FB85 453C 8672 37140A40936C

Adjusted the chiller up to 74. Let’s see if we can’t grow some colonies.

@Anthem im at 180ppm of just clone and epsom. All setpoints optimal. Roots now fully in the water. We are ready to move past transplant shock and start growing. Your thoughts on nutes?

Lights up to 20% still feet away. Have not measured ppfd but probably 100 or so. I’ll be bringing that up to 300ppfd over the next few days. Should be ready to start lst then.

CO2 still just ambient.

You know I should just move all this RDWC stuff to a new thread now.

Yeah I’m gonna do that when I get to pc.
 
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Todays updates. I’m putting all this raw dsta here in this thread with the intention of moving to appropriate places. Like taking all the clone stuff and put it into its own thread. Could a used that today.

Microbes:

Day 4

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Adjusted the chiller up to 74. Let’s see if we can’t grow some colonies.

@Anthem im at 180ppm of just clone and epsom. All setpoints optimal. Roots now fully in the water. We are ready to move past transplant shock and start growing. Your thoughts on nutes?

Lights up to 20% still feet away. Have not measured ppfd but probably 100 or so. I’ll be bringing that up to 300ppfd over the next few days. Should be ready to start lst then.

CO2 still just ambient.

You know I should just move all this RDWC stuff to a new thread now.

Yeah I’m gonna do that when I get to pc.
Your blue lab meter on the wall says 180 on the 500 scale which is tds

Ppm is the 700 scale (which i use)

Are the dishes kept at room temp or are they in a controlled environment

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Your blue lab meter on the wall says 180 on the 500 scale which is tds

Ppm is the 700 scale (which i use)

Are the dishes kept at room temp or are they in a controlled environment

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Pretty sure 500 and 700 are both ppm measurements, though the .5 is referred to as tds scale for some odd reason. But reading in the .5 or 500 scale you wouldnt say I have 180 tds for example. It would be 180 ppm of total dissolved solids.
The .7 scale measurement is based on KCl and the .5 scale is based off NaCl.
And both are just conversion estimates based off of the EC, which is what ppm pens and probes are actually detecting. EC is really the best way to measure nutrient solution strength imho.
 
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Your blue lab meter on the wall says 180 on the 500 scale which is tds

Ppm is the 700 scale (which i use)

Are the dishes kept at room temp or are they in a controlled environment

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They are on top of the refrigerator in a box that stays warmer than room temp.

The 500 scale is more widely used than 700 that’s why I use it. But like dirtbag said it’s all just a calculation based on EC. If there were more decimal points displayed with EC I would use that.
 
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