My 420 Calculator

[dudeoflife]

I did something neat today. I designed a multi-brand nutrient calculator.

Several GH Flora Nute, Botanicare, Foxfarm, and BC Nutrient formulations are available for your pleasure. More brands coming soon.

Being a computer science major as well as a stoner, it would only be a matter of time before I would design my first piece of software for marijuana growing.

I call it my Totally Awesome 420 Calculator <<<link

Choose your nutrient brand/formulation, enter in the number of gallons in your rez, # weeks you plan to veg and bloom.

Viola! A recipe.



Your input/ criticism is welcome!

 

[dudeoflife]

It really works!

 

[jeb5304]

looks cool ill try it out

 

[dudeoflife]

Great! I'm looking forward to your feedback.

It's a work in progress!

 

[150wHPS]

wish I wasn't on my phone right now.

would this work for soil grows? If you replace "res size" with the number of gallons of food you'd be mixing?

 

[dudeoflife]

Yeah, the same for soil, too.

If you are gardening with soil, I recommend the Foxfarm or Botanicare Formulations. The GH Flora Nova Drain to waste program is good too.

 

[dudeoflife]

Clarification: Enter the amount of water you want to mix the nutes with-- it's the same number for soil as it is for hydro.

So if you're only mixing five gallons of nutes for soil, enter "5".

5 gallon rez? Enter 5. OK?


Any questions/criticism welcome

 

[doctorD]

well I tried it out. You are feeding till harvest? thats not right I think you need to tweak it some.

 

[dudeoflife]

yeah, i added a week of flushing to a few brands.

I was more concerned about making sure the calculations were spot on, which they are.

More features, nicer layout next version

 

[jcdws602]

I tried it but since i use ro water I have to add cal/mag,you have to add that as an option for it to calculate correctly for those who use ro water............other than that props on the software....will be handy once you get everything worked out...

 

[dudeoflife]

Yeah- Cal Mag was something I intentionally skipped over, then forgot about. I was stoned when I made this. Adding Cal-Mag should a pretty easy value to add to the Botanicare recipes, however.



That'll definitely be added next version.


Now I have a question for you:

Should I bother with AN advanced nutes? AN has a pretty decent calc, but not a week by week like mine.....

 

[DevilishlyKatt]

Cool idea! Unfortunately we don't use any of those brands over here so doesn't really apply, but the app itself is nice

 

[dudeoflife]

WELL,

what brands do you use? There are only so many, most of which I have heard about, at the very least.

Are they using some kinda wierd juju brand up there in England?

As a sidenote, I should probably add imperial to metric unit conversion next version. Another simple modification.

 

[That 5hit]

yeah cool app but i would not have called it that

 

[DevilishlyKatt]

WELL,

what brands do you use? There are only so many, most of which I have heard about, at the very least.

Are they using some kinda wierd juju brand up there in England?

As a sidenote, I should probably add imperial to metric unit conversion next version. Another simple modification.

Hmm well we've got Canna and BioCanna, Biobizz, Vitalink for a few of the popular ones, otherwise there is like Miracle Grow and all your other normal generic type ones
A lot of the stuff we get in comes from Amsterdam

 

[That 5hit]

now that i think about if i brought any of those nutes would the measurment be on the side of the bottle ......so tell me why i need your thingy

 

[sensisensai]

this is bad ass man kudos and some rep. but it told me i only need micro and bloom for my entire grow? my brands arent on there yet though so i was just fkin around with the lucas lol. lmk when age old and (maybe) advanced get on there. though i wouldnt blame you with advanced so many options.

 

[johnny12r]

i would use the week by week for an stuff. i use bud blood,sensi grow a+b, big bud powder,carbo loader,bud candy and over drive.to my knowledge this is a good combo but if i need to add something else please let me know.

 

[dudeoflife]

That 5hit- what would you name the calculator? Also, few people follow the instructions on the sides of the nutrient bottles, in most cases, unless they want a bunch of dead plants.

sensisenai- you only got micro and bloom because you went with the lucas formula. There are several other nutrient combinations. Try a different brand/formulation.

Johnny12r- I've use advanced nutrient A+B before, so I'd probably include that formulation in the next version. Advanced Nutrients calculator is pretty darn awesome, though-

in fact that's what inspired this app, because the other brands are lacking decent instructions.

 

[jcdws602]

That 5hit- what would you name the calculator? Also, few people follow the instructions on the sides of the nutrient bottles, in most cases, unless they want a bunch of dead plants.

sensisenai- you only got micro and bloom because you went with the lucas formula. There are several other nutrient combinations. Try a different brand/formulation.

Johnny12r- I've use advanced nutrient A+B before, so I'd probably include that formulation in the next version. Advanced Nutrients calculator is pretty darn awesome, though-

in fact that's what inspired this app, because the other brands are lacking decent instructions.

Yeah botanicare recommended doses will make your ppms go through the roof and fry your girls