Optimal elemental ppm for micronutrients

Seymour Green

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Hello everyone, I currently mix my own salts and was wondering if anyone could help me with optimal elemental ppm for micronutrients? Can’t seem to find much information on the subject. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
 

Billy the Mountain

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Hello everyone, I currently mix my own salts and was wondering if anyone could help me with optimal elemental ppm for micronutrients? Can’t seem to find much information on the subject. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Micro-nutrients are more in the range of parts per billion and are difficult to measure accurately.
It's much easier to simply use an off-the-shelf solution for the micro-nutrients (trace elements).

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Some nutrient formulations listing the levels of the various elements:
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Seymour Green

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I’ve been using customhydronutes chelated micronutrient mix for the past 2 years but I finally got a precision scale and am ready to weigh my own. I talk to some commercial growers who are pulling a consistent 30% THC because of their custom micronutrient ratios. Nobody likes to give up their secrets, so I wanted to check with the community and see if anyone had any recipes they’d be willing to share. Appreciate your help.
 

Billy the Mountain

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I’ve been using customhydronutes chelated micronutrient mix for the past 2 years but I finally got a precision scale and am ready to weigh my own. I talk to some commercial growers who are pulling a consistent 30% THC because of their custom micronutrient ratios. Nobody likes to give up their secrets, so I wanted to check with the community and see if anyone had any recipes they’d be willing to share. Appreciate your help.
The 30% THC claim is dubious, but to attribute that to micronutrient ratios, is preposterous.
 

Seymour Green

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Any stated TCH % should be taken with a large grain of salt, the larger the number, the larger the grain of salt.

How do you propose altering the ratios of trace elements could possibly result in increased THC production?
How do you propose they don’t? That’s what I’m trying to figure out, and to the people I talk to that do this for a living say that is a very real thing.
 

Seymour Green

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No one has actually given me any information, just telling me that’s not how this all works. I’m trying to figure out how it does work. If you know more or better than share, if you don’t want to share, why even bother posting in this thread?
 

nxsov180db

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I’ve been using customhydronutes chelated micronutrient mix for the past 2 years but I finally got a precision scale and am ready to weigh my own. I talk to some commercial growers who are pulling a consistent 30% THC because of their custom micronutrient ratios. Nobody likes to give up their secrets, so I wanted to check with the community and see if anyone had any recipes they’d be willing to share. Appreciate your help.
Keep using custom hydros chelated mix, that's what I use. You can get some chelated Mn also from mbferts.com. Mix the chelated micros with the chelated mn at a rate of 2:1 and that'll give you the desired 1:1.2 ratio of Fe:Mn. You could also add more boron, here's what I use for every 640 gallons. FWIW everyone else is right, micros aren't going in increase THC like you've been told. If such a thing were true, don't you think someone would be making millions selling a nutrient line that guaranteed to give you 30% THC with 3rd party lab results?

custom hydro chelated micro mix: 80 grams
chelated Mn: 40 grams
Boric Acid: 20 grams

Fe 2.312
Mn 2.807
Zn 0.132
B 1.872
Cu 0.033
Mo .02
 
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