churchhaze
Well-Known Member
I was really skeptical of the calculator at first, but I had made my own calculator with excel formulas using molar weights, etc, and hydrobuddy's results always came out the same as my calculator. Now I just use hydrobuddy because it has a much nicer interface than my excel spreadsheet, as well as some really neat features.
Hydrobuddy works in 2 ways:
1) you can input ppm of each element + how much water you're using, and it will attempt to solve for how much of each salt to use to obtain those desired ppm
or
2) you can input the amount of each salt + water you want to use and it will tell you the ppm of the solution.
The first mode is really freaking cool, and it actually works. The second is what my homemade calculator did already.
It also shows you all the element ratios you want to see (like K:Ca:Mg for example)
Hydrobuddy works in 2 ways:
1) you can input ppm of each element + how much water you're using, and it will attempt to solve for how much of each salt to use to obtain those desired ppm
or
2) you can input the amount of each salt + water you want to use and it will tell you the ppm of the solution.
The first mode is really freaking cool, and it actually works. The second is what my homemade calculator did already.
It also shows you all the element ratios you want to see (like K:Ca:Mg for example)
Yep, you're right. Guess the 6 icons of credit cards hawking donations had me thrown for a loop LOL.
I can see where a seasoned horticulturist, a manager of a large nursery operation who buys their salts in bulk and understands plant processes, soil chemistry, and plant nutrition would benefit from the program. Of course I'm speaking out of turn as I haven't used it. Have you?
As a horticulturist though, networking with other horticulturists, it is much more economical and time saving to buy 50 lb. bags of Peters or Schultz or Harrell's or Plant Products or from the dozen or so manufacturers of high quality water soluble foods.
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