What Does it Do Wednesday- General Organic PPMs
I’ve been getting a ton of emails and comments about the General Organics, including this one, left on the blog last week:
Tigerlilly, what would you say the TDS would be in a fully fortified grow & a fully fortified bloom hydro-organic solution…. I saw that you (Tigerlilly) posted that you were using these new products…Do you have a TDS meter & can you test the resevior ?….and post your test results ? that is, if you’re using reverse osmosis water..and can get 0.0 ppm reading as a control for a comparison . I am going to say I hope it’s about 0.0-0.09 …..but it’s not a perfect world …I know.
In my “about me” page I said I was running the new organics, and at the time I was. But now my room is down, in the process of a lengthy remodel…. And when I was running the organics, I love them, but wasn’t the most meticulous record keeper. So I got in touch with Darek, our Greenhouse Operator, and asked him for the numbers. Here is what he sent, and I hope it helps!
When I used Organic nutrients, I followed the high ratios ( let’s call it expert program)
I checked my data and that’s the numbers I have had during my trail:
Grow 20ml/gal (4tsp/gal) + Calcium 5ml/gal (1tsp/gal) = ppm 1000-1100
Grow 10ml/gal(2tsp/gal) + Bloom 10ml/gal (2tsp/gal) + Calcium 5ml/gal (1tsp/gal) = ppm 750 – 900
Bloom 20ml/gal (4tsp/gal) + Calcium 5ml/gal (1tsp/gal) = ppm 1150-1250Didn’t use RO Water, just tap water and the ppm is about 180-200.
Assuming that nutrients change is every 7 days, the ppm values I gave you are from day 1, later on ( i mean day 3th, 6th from your change the ppm may rise and that depend mostly on the temperature (in the room, and in the reservoir – based on water evaporation.)
Posted: September 2nd, 2009 under Community, FarmLab, Getting Started, Knowledge, Organics.
Tags: general organics, Greenhouse, grow, hydro, Organics, ppm, test
Comments
Comment from javier f
Time October 22, 2009 at 4:17 am
I just started growing lettuce in floating sytem three weeks ago. Im having great begginers luck and every thing looks great Iwill share pictures as soon as i figure out how. I use the floranova now it seems to stain my roots and white tray brown (I could be the water from the tap its 425 ppm . Two tea spoons per gal. I would like to try the organic, next time I run out of nutrients.
Comment from Mike M
Time September 5, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Thank you Tigerlilly,this definitely helps, however It just leads to may more questions, he he.
First what were you considering “Grow” @4 tsp./gal..? Was that all of the components of the Organic line( bio root, bio thrive Grow, Cal+ mag, & bio weed) for the grow phase..? or just Bio Grow & cal+Mag..? I know that these were not your findings and I thank Darek for the Info, but if you can ask him this one more question i would greatly appreciate it, thank you again, Mike.