Beautiful!
Thank you both for taking the time to follow
I can only tell everyone that this is even more impressive when seen in person
Nuno, did you find any differences between the Micros you used and KramerDrak?
Hi Pedro,
Not Iron again
Just Kidding
I've been having a pleasant surprise since I've changed my ferts regime.
Well I can say that growth rate has increased greatly , the stems and ''monte carlo'' are healthier tan ever and besides using a good dosage of N, finally my rotalas rotundifolias have that pinkish tone that I was running after, with no ferts limitation.
I can definetly see more pearling .
My choice of using KramerDrak is to have a good blend of Iron as well as a good blend of Trace Elements with several chelators.
Here it is KramerDrak composition:
20,980 mg/l potassium, 3,440 mg/l magnesium, 1,875 mg/l iron, 715 mg/l manganese, 92 mg/l copper, 80 mg/l zinc, 70 mg/l boron, 43 mg/l molybdenum, 25 mg/l cobalt, 6.6 mg/l lithium, 6.5 mg/l vanadium, 6.3 mg/l aluminium, 6.3 mg/l nickel, 6 mg/l selenium, 5.3 mg/l tin, EDTA, HEEDTA, DTPA, NTA, ascorbic acid, methyl paraben, benzoic acid
If you compare it to TNC Trace or APFUK Chelated Traces you can see that this is a richer solution, but it's not as cheap as this last two, despite being sold in dry salt form as well.
Other reason for this choice was because I'm now using Spezial N recipe from Tobi, and being Urea one of the N sources, to make it readily available for plant uptake, plants need to produce an enzyme called urease. and they can only produce urease if nickel is present.
So overall I'm very pleased with the results, and not planning on changing soon, but as you can see iron wasn't the only change so the N source used may bee playing it's roll also
So the two together seems to me like a good bet, that I'm already seeing great results
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