thanx for the heads up FooDoo, when you mention complication with these two nutes, can you be more details to why it made you drop both after one run
I stopped using the fulvic first. After doing a bunch of searching on these and other boards , I came to the understanding that fulvic acid is best applied to act as a chelating agent. In soil this makes nutrients more available, in hydro or coco, all our nutes are already chelated so its literally doing nothing. As for the complications that arised from using mad dad's, it was an extremely powerful ph down which I didn't need it to do. So I'd have to ph up, however the ph up would react with the
protekt Si and cause the mix to cloud permanently. (I know ph up in any solution turns cloudy for a second and then goes clear, this wasn't the same situation) Since Si has to be added first because of how it can react with nutrients, and fulvic needs to be added to nutrients to chelated them, that means the only proper way about mixing was SI -> base (plus any additives) -> fulvic to chelate the stew . simply put you don't even need it to begin with in hydro .
So then I'd just use
protekt + base. However id have to mix my add backs in a separate bucket then dump them into the system. Si is a powerful ph up. So if you add Si into a nutrient mix it'll shoot your ph from 5.0 to 10.0+ instantly. This would also cause cloudyness because Si is reactive over 8.0 ph. (Thus why ph up ruins a mix after Si is already added)
So I'd take a bucket of RO. Add
protekt. Ph down from 10.0 to 6.2. Then add base which brought it down to 5.8. Nutrient mix stays Crystal clear. You can continue to ph down safely to whatever youd like.
Then I'd dump the bucket slowly into the RDWC system as an addback ontop of the current mix .
And I didn't see any added benefits. I use growstone grow rocks made from 100% recycled glass and they say those release Si into the water anyway
