Quote Originally Posted by dunumptanum
Assuming that my initial reservoir is filled with full strength nutrients and additives, my gut tells me that adding additional new, full strenth doses of floralicious plus and CalMag every single week on top of the existing nutes in my reservoir would be a bad idea, possibly building up to toxic levels? ----No....the levels should not build or be toxic if the plant is eating up the nutes given.... And the best way to find out just how much nutes have been gobbled up, you do a ppm test after topping off.... Your ppms should be much lower than they were when you last gave nutes....



My best guess right now is to equate the Floralicious plus and CalMag dosages to the Lucas formula ratio. I'd love to hear your thoughts:

For example, the floralicious directions instruct you to add 1ml per gallon when mixing a fresh reservoir. The CalMag directions say to add 5ml per gallon when mixing a fresh reservoir. So, I figure if I'm running the 0-8-16 strength Lucas formula, for every 8mls of micro and 16mls of bloom that I'm required to add back to maintain my target PPM (or in other words, for every "gallons worth" of full strength mixed Lucas formula mixture), I should also add 1ml of floralicious plus and 5ml of Calmag? ----DING DING DING DING DING.... Someone please give this member a prize.... you are correct.... Yes you should add 1ml of floraliscious plus and 5ml of calmag per gallon of top off....once per week.... Why? Because your ppm level should increase every week to sustain and/or promote growth.... And if you ever go over your desired ppm range, you can remove some res water and add fresh "top off" water....



My reasoning is that this would be the same "ratio" of nute strength when mixing a fresh reseroir. ----That's the point when wanting to keep the ppm level to where you want it.... Plus, your plant should be able to handle the higher ppm count if nute tolerance is built correctly....


I'm really not sure so I'm hoping someone with experience with the Lucas Formula, DWC and these nutes might be able to guide me. I would really hate for something in the floralicious or CalMag to build up to a toxic level, or just as bad to be missing out on its full potential. What do you guys think? ----As long as you watch your ppm levels, you will not have any problems....




Also, on a side note, the cannazym instructions state that if reusing the growth media (which I assumes applies to DWC without reservoir changes) to double the weekly dosage. Makes sense to me, but since I'm already making this post I figure I'll check if this sounds right to you guys?

Cheers!


Hope that helps.... I don't have any experience with cannazym so I can't help ya there....

CGI::::::