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Funny, I was just reading that coir article at Manicbotanix the other day. It is a very worthwhile read; be interested to see if they ever start selling the products they talk about there.
Funny, I was just reading that coir article at Manicbotanix the other day. It is a very worthwhile read; be interested to see if they ever start selling the products they talk about there.
(copied and pasted from the "cheap alternatives to overpriced hydroponic nutrients")no to cannazyme......
lots going on and a lot of research is coming to a head in my grow...been testing out different ratio's to make certain things deficient.....
I will say I have come to a huge realization about all calcium/magnesium products on the market. They are all marketed purely towards marijuana growers who follow anyone's instructions with blind faith.
1 ml of calimagic which is
nitrogen.....1
calcium......5
mag...........1.5
iron........... .1
should only come out to roughly 21ppm....yet this is not accurate...it comes out at nearly 75 ppm's......
how could this be........well here we go......
The standard of 150 ppm of calmag to start in r/o water is one that has so many issues behind it, it really isn't even funny.
If you were to actually start with 150 ppm of a pure cal/mag solution 100ppm of that solution would be calcium.....again this is not accurate.
What I am finding is that 1 ml per gallon of calimagic is only 13.2 ppm of calcium, not the nearly 50 I had originally though based on my calculation of 1ml=75 ppm....
SOMEONE PLEASE CHIME IN ....lets get this figured out....
Anyways I got really frustrated and went and got a bottle of techniflora magical which is a
nitrogen......2
calcium.......3.25
mag.............1.25
iron............. .11
added 3 ml to a gal, which came in at 170ppm!!! how can this be....... should only be around 53ppm
Seems to me that we are being fooled into a blind faith method of growing where people say this many ml of this or this many ppm of that and we all take it for word and don't ask why it works. 4ml per gallon of calmag never made any sense till I did the math and realized that 70% is some saline content.
1ml per gallon = 75 ppm
which is
nitrogen 2.6 ppm
calcium 13.2 ppm
mag........ 3.9 ppm
so what is the other 5osomething ppms?
Either way the madness that seems to drive me crazy is actually kind of fun and interesting.
I feel like I'm right on the edge of having canna perfectly dialed in.
I have found that adding calmg is not needed. I have completely cut it out of my reg and have found that almost all the nutes I use have plenty. Still havent seen a cal or mg issue. At one point I was running 10 ml's of calmg+. Bet my plants hated me.
I tried the 200 ppm feeding in veg. My plants almost died after 2 weeks. I have ran 400-600 for a while now but never go over that. Are you feeding 200 ppm every watering?
a freaking pansy?????? Mr.Wells would turn in his grave.Another excellent point. When I've used coco, I watered to runoff. Sometimes to much sometimes to little, sometimes just right.
Below is a photo of a pansy I grew in coco. Gorgeous. Just gorgeous.
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50 ppm P kills bennies? What about organic P still killing the bennies?hey guys, bottle NPK shows N, P2O5, and K20.
P2O5 is 43.6% P.
K2O is 83% K.
Bottle NPK is rounded like a motherfucker.
Case in point- CNS-17 3-1-2 is hella rounded off, it is far closer to a 4-1-3 when you look at actual ppms. Most jug nutes will not list exact ppms on the back, but that does.
If the true ratios are, in fact 5-4-3, that means that true elemental ppm ratios are like 5-1.744-2.5.
We should be mindful of the fact that P kills off bennies starting at 50 ppms according to what Cap was told. So we have to be careful in that regard.
Hope this is useful.
Dude I personally wondered a lot about that. Even asked that same question in a private forum looking for a solid answer. No answer. No idea. Really really would like to know without having to spend hours nerding out on that. Don't have hours to spend on q's like that anymore.50 ppm P kills bennies? What about organic P still killing the bennies?
yeah I'm not buying it either til i see some evidence either way. just keep brewing crobe-tea and throw a billion or so extra warriors at the problem every week, that's my solution whether there's a problem or not.50 ppm P kills bennies? What about organic P still killing the bennies?
Dude I personally wondered a lot about that. Even asked that same question in a private forum looking for a solid answer. No answer. No idea. Really really would like to know without having to spend hours nerding out on that. Don't have hours to spend on q's like that anymore.