is this usable with soil applications; if so what is the PPM thing about & how does it work. Tap water is slightly chlorinated so letting it sit 24hours would be best? thanks for the help.
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is this usable with soil applications; if so what is the PPM thing about & how does it work. Tap water is slightly chlorinated so letting it sit 24hours would be best? thanks for the help.
Yes, it's a great nute for soil.
You don't need to let the tap water sit- it'll be fine.
Run @ the lowest concentration on the bottle- far left column.
I'm not going to type out the EC/ppm explanation again- search it.
I always use my hydro nutes to feed my soil plants. I use it at about half strength and every other watering. PPM means parts per million of nutrients. You don't need a meter if you start low and slowly increase until you see the first signs of nute burn, which is yellowing and browning of leaf tips first, then edges. Once that happens, back it off a bit of course.
I'd trust whatever rhizome says, but my understanding is that if your water has chlorine in it, it needs to be neutralized with drops or by letting it sit out. Am I (and has everyone else been) wrong about this? Maybe that's only for hydro, not sure since I use well water.
The wee little bit of chlorine in municipal water supplies isn't gonna hurt anything. Yer filling the res outta the ymca swimming pool, differant story. But basically, if you can shower in it without going blind, it won't hurt yer plants.
You're not talking about thiosulfate drops, are you? Like aquarium dechlorinator? Those work by binding the chlorine to sodium- = NaCl= table salt.
I'll go w/ 15-50 ppm Cl, myself.