How do you mix your nutes?

[khyberkitsune]

Damn, it must take forever for all the water to flow through the brita... I have a brita jug for drinking water and it takes forever to fill up lol.


Now does the brita take out the trace elements? If so then you are probably adding cal/mag or mollassas to make up for it?

I read once somewhere that the type of chlorine they use now in the tap water doesnt harm the plants and doesnt need you to take those type of measure to remove it anymore... filters and leaving the water sit over night...

What are your takes on that?

Actually the Brita uses a magnesium ion particulate as part of the filter so it takes some out but keeps a little bit in. This keeps me from having to buy the hardwater FloraMicro. As for flow, I rigged four of the filter cartridges into the bottom of a cat littler bucket. A full one is done in about 4 minutes.

The new chlorine (chloramine) doesn't evaporate at all. And it's not really new, it will change into a different chlorine form if you change the temperature, at least if it doesn't have a stabilizing agent as part of its molecular structure.

[Wantukcheese]

i have a 140 liter tank under plants so I fill it, all my nutrients go by the 10 liter, so I ad 14x each one of the 5 nuts stiring inbetween, then as the tank gets half empty I put in 7 times the 4 nutrients for rest of flower. I then look at ph on meter and ec, if within my tolorences just leave it, usualy is ph 5.8-6.2 and ec 2.4-2.8

[bigsby]

The new chlorine (chloramine) doesn't evaporate at all. And it's not really new, it will change into a different chlorine form if you change the temperature, at least if it doesn't have a stabilizing agent as part of its molecular structure.

Can you tell us the implications of this? Does it need to be mitigated? I'm guessing yes. How can we tell if our municipality is using the newer variant of chlorine? I'm guessing a call to the water department...

Some one in another thread asked about the viability of using chlorine drops used to treat water in preparation for fish tanks. Any thoughts on that?

[DaReaper]

Yes i am very curious as to weather or not its ok to use aquiarium drops?? Well actualy i used them on 1 plants watering today and will be monitoring for obivious problems. But hopefully my plant dont turn into a mutant:wtf:

[disoBAYish]

Vegging - 1 teaspoon of Fox Farm Grow Big nutrient solution per gallon of purified water. I use the solution every other watering and/or as needed.

Flowering - 1/4 Tablespoon of Fox Farm Big Bloom + 1/2 Teaspoon of Fox Farm Tiger Bloom nutrient solution per gallon of purified water. Feed every other watering.

This is what I am going with. I came up with these numbers by using the Fox Farm chart and mixing them at a 1/3 - 1/4 ratio of what it says on the directions.