Garuf
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Alright gang.
I trust you are all well.
Unlike my plants.
Card carrying fert nerds please lend your insight.
I use tropica specialized to dose my tanks which are, for ease, lets call 20,30&40litres.
For one reason, here in Denmark it’s very easy to get and two I trade my cherry shrimp culls for store credit so it’s essentially free.
The rule of thumb I back ward engineered from the tropica recommended is 1ml per 10l a WEEK, or 1.2ml per 10l per week if you take the websites guide rather than the bottle.
Even if you take tropica’s caveat of you might need more it strikes my eyes as very lean.
Using rotala butterfly’s calculator for ei daily I get 1.4ml per DAY per 10l or for ease let’s call it 7x more than recommended which strikes me as rather a lot.
If I set things to pmdd or pps I still get 1.4ml but its unclear if it wants to to add that weekly or daily...
What sort of worked for me has been 2ml in the 20 a day, and 4ml a day in the 40l. The 30l I dose 4ml every other day. I say sort of because of the not 10/10 look.
However, I would say my stems aren’t really 10/10 in health and seem somewhat yellow in the new growth with some pin-holing. I also get dead internodes so that the tips will just break and float up. No stunting, just not quite right.
I expected this to be my jbl diffusers which were dog eggs and their wandering injection rate (the check valve was prone to sticking closed, and the bubbles weren't exactly fine, since you're asking). But now they’re gone I’m still noticing yellowing which says to me I need a bit more something, however I'm reluctant to just keep chucking more ferts in.
Now, let’s say I want to circle the square and run a leaner regime akin to ADA or even say, tropicas own dosing and sort out the issues. The goal being to slow down growth, so I'm not trimming stems every other week. I'm not interested in this mythical red plants, just slowing things back.
What are the rules of thumb I can apply to "clone" these leaner approaches'?
Or Another way, how do I make sense of what I'm adding to justify adding more or address underlying things with a clear conscience rather than just upping blindly?
I know you're all already screaming "less light, dingus", but I'm already running half power and my R. orange juice stays green soooo...
I trust you are all well.
Unlike my plants.
Card carrying fert nerds please lend your insight.
I use tropica specialized to dose my tanks which are, for ease, lets call 20,30&40litres.
For one reason, here in Denmark it’s very easy to get and two I trade my cherry shrimp culls for store credit so it’s essentially free.
The rule of thumb I back ward engineered from the tropica recommended is 1ml per 10l a WEEK, or 1.2ml per 10l per week if you take the websites guide rather than the bottle.
Even if you take tropica’s caveat of you might need more it strikes my eyes as very lean.
Using rotala butterfly’s calculator for ei daily I get 1.4ml per DAY per 10l or for ease let’s call it 7x more than recommended which strikes me as rather a lot.
If I set things to pmdd or pps I still get 1.4ml but its unclear if it wants to to add that weekly or daily...
What sort of worked for me has been 2ml in the 20 a day, and 4ml a day in the 40l. The 30l I dose 4ml every other day. I say sort of because of the not 10/10 look.
However, I would say my stems aren’t really 10/10 in health and seem somewhat yellow in the new growth with some pin-holing. I also get dead internodes so that the tips will just break and float up. No stunting, just not quite right.
I expected this to be my jbl diffusers which were dog eggs and their wandering injection rate (the check valve was prone to sticking closed, and the bubbles weren't exactly fine, since you're asking). But now they’re gone I’m still noticing yellowing which says to me I need a bit more something, however I'm reluctant to just keep chucking more ferts in.
Now, let’s say I want to circle the square and run a leaner regime akin to ADA or even say, tropicas own dosing and sort out the issues. The goal being to slow down growth, so I'm not trimming stems every other week. I'm not interested in this mythical red plants, just slowing things back.
What are the rules of thumb I can apply to "clone" these leaner approaches'?
Or Another way, how do I make sense of what I'm adding to justify adding more or address underlying things with a clear conscience rather than just upping blindly?
I know you're all already screaming "less light, dingus", but I'm already running half power and my R. orange juice stays green soooo...