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Hydro Buddy and spreadsheets are both programmed to handle the various math problems to calculate elemental ppm. IMO, the spreadsheets have the potential for unlimited functionality, yet Hydro Buddy was created by a skilled botanist. His lack of coding skills is evident in the way his app is...

I don't chelate micros, I buy them already chelated. I can then mix them to GH's Flora Micro formulation, or Jack's/JRPeter's micro formulation, my own formulation, Megacrop's micro formulation, but the concept is the same as macros. IME, a micro regimen remains constant throughout the grow...

This is why I often tell growers to just buy salts as you can make EVERY nute line on the market so long as it has a Guaranteed Analysis. With that GA, you can program all of those products in Hydro Buddy, set the prescribed dose for each, and calculate the results. For instance, I recently...

Here's some charts I did with Hydro Buddy.

Sulfates are only practical when make 100 gallon reservoirs or the like. Those weight of each micro compound is so minuscule in size that it's not practical to try and weigh out 0.013 grams of sodium molybdate, or the copper source. When I mix my concentrates, I crush it down to 1000 gallons...

Just click Blogs and the next page has a list of years beginning in 2009. Each year has a collection of entries that you just gotta read the titles and pick and choose what you want to read. After reviewing the titles enough, you can easily recall an article by expanding all of the years, then...

My concern was that the spoon would steal the chelates from the nutes and the nutes would precipitate. I doubt one or a few times would do a lot of damage, but repeated use would likely have adverse effects. Yeah it does suck he took out his eBook, but I'm lead to believe all of his blog...

It is unwise to use metal spoons with chelated micros as the unchelated metals in the spoon WILL compete with the chelated ions resulting in the bonds being broken and the chelated ions falling out of suspension. FYI, the chelating process involves bonding the metals with an element of an...

Foliar sprays aren't absorbed well unless the PH is 5.5 or less. So foliar silica will prevent the PM, but only because of the alkalinity, and the silica itself will likely remain on the leaf surface.

I'm following GH's level of Si @ 25ppm. I've heard of another grower dosing Pro-Tekt up to 50ppm, but Megacrop has their Si at less than 1ppm. So the range is wide. Edit - I mix my concentrates @ 1 gram of salt to 10 ml of RO. This makes it very easy to extract very small weights with a...

My 2 previous formulations had Zn @ 0.3 then 0.5, & Mn @ 1.0 then 1.2, but like I said, this is Megacrop's formulation that I wanted to try. Also, when referring to the tissue analysis, this does not depict the rate of uptake of any elements, just how much of said element was deposited in that...

HERE's a link to the portion of my tutorial that has a BOM with links to each part of my lineup of salts including price before shipping. If you expand the Quote field, there is everything I use including the chelated metals which are not easy to find on CustomHydro's site. I'll be mixing up a...

yes, but you have to also load up solutions that can resolve your targets, so for instance if you only have one source of each element, the app will likely resolve with a wide margin of error on most elements. It is important to have multiple sources of each of your macros and secondaries to...

I get ALL of my salts from CustomHydroNutrients. If you get into formulating your own chelated micro blend, make sure you add a preservative as the metals mixed with the organic chelators mixed with light will rot and be ruined.

If anything, I would just want to learn how to make my own spread sheet as my needs lead me rather than task someone else to do the work for me. As is now, I have a calculator in Hydro Buddy with most stock solutions already recorded. It is these same solutions that I use to make my own...

I saw a few other spread sheets for calculating nutes but never could figure them out. I'm just not versed enough in xls. I learned to use Hydro Buddy, but it is very restrictive to the elements it will compute, and for a guy like me that mixes his own micro blend, there was no place to enter...

You always know what you're looking at by which abbreviation is used. In my charts, everything is listed as P or K which denotes elemental ppm. On bottles or tests everything is listed as oxides which denotes that the oxide is being referenced. I'm sorry if this confuses you. It confuses me...

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That spread sheet is very difficult for me to comprehend, plus it would not allow me to scroll right.

Please read at least the first page of my tutorial, I cover all of these concerns there.