More exact ppm values of individual elements
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Flowki
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Oh well that's a bit of a kick in the nuts. So you have no real way of converting a persons given meter ppm to ec and then to elemental ppm?. I hope that isn't the case as it would make allot of info around here useless. I only care for the actual and accurate elemental ppm, so maybe I should seek more info on scholar where they only use that?.
When I read the back of my nute box it gives a figure in EC, around 1.0 for 1gpl e.g. I assume then, that they know the elemental ppm and used an EC meter to get the EC level, I just figured their would be a workable universal correlation from ec reading and then math conversion to elemental ppm because of that. But, if the ppm meters are so hit and miss then I guess none of that matters anyway, neither does ec for my purpose.
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Flowki
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That's the next part of this, once I understand the upper/lower limits of what the plant needs in true ppm I then hope to feed the lower limit ppms with synthetic and then use organic top dress/brews etc to attain the upper limit. But I realize that's also going to be a cluster fuck to get right, if at all.
I suppose I may as well ask a question on that. If you are using synth/organic what are opinions on the synthetic ph in coco, would 6.0 be a happy medium?.
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ANC
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Most people are just going to dissuade you from trying to go down that route.
In coco you can veg pretty well with just about any generic over the counter organic bottled feed. I like to work a small amount of vermicompost in to my coco as an inoculant every time I bag up.
It tends to sort out any magnesium issues too.
I normally do that, and then do early to mid flowering with low-cost salt based feed, and taper off back on the bottled organic feed. The stuff smells mostly like kelp...
In coco you can veg pretty well with just about any generic over the counter organic bottled feed. I like to work a small amount of vermicompost in to my coco as an inoculant every time I bag up.
It tends to sort out any magnesium issues too.
I normally do that, and then do early to mid flowering with low-cost salt based feed, and taper off back on the bottled organic feed. The stuff smells mostly like kelp...
im4satori
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EC is (or fake ppm) is a bench mark number
it only tells you if the electrical conductivity goes up or down to provide the grower with some gauge as to whats happening in the solution and for comparing your feed to waste in hydro
or it can also be used as a gauge for the overall strength of the solution based on previous bench marks
but its only a bench mark
it only tells you if the electrical conductivity goes up or down to provide the grower with some gauge as to whats happening in the solution and for comparing your feed to waste in hydro
or it can also be used as a gauge for the overall strength of the solution based on previous bench marks
but its only a bench mark