ml to liter/gallons conversions

I use a dropper to measure my nutrients if im mixing a small mix. Its fast and accurate to the drop.

5ml = 34 drops/gallon

7.5ml = 50 drops/gallon


I use tablespoons for Bigger mixes:

15ml/gallon =1 tablespoon/gallon

Is this helpful for anyone. Ask any questions about mixing ratios.

Do you really sit there and count 34 - 50 drops per gallon?

If i have seedling or clones that dont need much water, then yes. ! gallon can feed all 20 plants. But I usually use a teaspoon.

1 tea. = 34 dropps or 5ml/gal

I never have burned my plants. The company that tells you the amount ml/gallons are done by a drop system. You can also drop 34 drops under 15 seconds. Count fast man. Its just 15 sec of your life. Why spend 3 months of patients of growing if you cant spare 15 seconds for something that really counts.

catpiss said:

Is this helpful for anyone. Ask any questions about mixing ratios.

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No offence but no I didn't find this helpfull. I measure with one of those little medicine try measuring cups. If I need to use a dropper I do and in really small mixex my dropper is marked with a 1ml or 2ml max I can't remember. I don't worry about being acurate to 0.1ml.

But hey if it helps anyone else then great.

catpiss said:

If i have seedling or clones that dont need much water, then yes. ! gallon can feed all 20 plants. But I usually use a teaspoon.

1 tea. = 34 dropps or 5ml/gal

I never have burned my plants. The company that tells you the amount ml/gallons are done by a drop system. You can also drop 34 drops under 15 seconds. Count fast man. Its just 15 sec of your life. Why spend 3 months of patients of growing if you cant spare 15 seconds for something that really counts.

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I've never burned a plant yet either. I always mix one gallon minimum. I got through that amount very quickly. I grow a lot of plants. Not all weed. I grow a lot of herbs for cooking and swiss chard. I love to eat, so I make good use of the lights.

This was intended for a small mix only... Read the first thread...We all know how its easier mix a bigger batch with measuring cups but most measuring cups dont give you a small dose or conversions for ml. Im glad to see you grow a lot of plant without a lot of weed. I grow a lot of weed with a small number of plants. This is the difference when you are accurate with your measurements.

a lot of people think they dont burn their plants with nutes. If their plant is droopy they think they need to give them a feeding but there is a thing called nut lock-up.
This happens to people who dont use accurate doses in their mixes. People think there is no way it was from something they did but instead something they didnt do.

If anyone has questions about specific brand nutes or flushing nutes correctly ...hit me up..glad to help.

Check it out!!!

no offense though

non taken. That's why I said it was just me it didn't help, but thanked you if it was good for anyone else. I only answered because you asked, which is why I started off with the no offence. I figured you wanted to know either way. I don't mix less than 3 liters at a time as a rule. I can't ph the water very easily if I do. I've mixed one liter before but just found that I was really screwing around trying to ph the water. One drop of ph up or down had a huge effect on the ph level. I found that three liters mixed with one drop of ph up and it was perfect. Now I usually just mix one gallon. I'm on well water and that can wreak havok on my garden (I found that out the hard way) so now I only use distilled water and mix in what I want to that. I'm actually very familiar with nute lock up, again the well water does a number if not careful. Other than that, over the years I figured out what works for me and it works good. If you had of asked me that years and years and years ago when I first grew, I would have loved the help.

How small a mix do you mix? you said one gallon. Even down to one liter I find that using a measuring cup thing is still good. and Again my eye dropper is marked with like 1ml or 2 ml being the max and it is measured out into smaller increments than that so yeah it didn't help me. I can measure one ml acuretly without counting drops. Oh my measuring cups things start the markings at 1.25ml, they also have tsp measurments and 2 others I can't remember. I guess I was lucky to get these. I have lots of them too. My local hydroponics shops just gives me them. I know some of them start at 2.5ml or 5ml which your drop things still didn't help, but thanks anyways.

Again thank you though for your enthusiasim to help others. It's nice to see others that want to help out their fellow growers.

This was not intended for people who do not need the help obviously. I never tried to get ahold of you to tell you need help. But good for you.

Just to let you know if you are someone using a liter or 2 for a watering then it probable isn't a good idea to use nuts at all let along ph up or down. It is ok to wait for your plant to mature a little more with just plain distilled water . Usually people mixing nutes for small as a liter of water tend to overdo it and they dont even relize it. ph formula is way to0 toxic to use for that little amount of water. However if you cant help yourself it would then be advised to use the drops. That is really the only time you need it.

I personally mix in a 20gallon reservoir that is constantly circulating. The ec value constantly changes, but I will leave this to another discussion time to talk about this subject.


If anyone else needs any advise. Feel free to hit me up.

catpiss said:

This was not intended for people who do not need the help obviously. I never tried to get ahold of you to tell you need help. But good for you.

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You posted asking if it helped anyone. I am someone.

Like I said I don't mix less than 3 liters usually one gallon minimum. Like I said, I've tried mixing one liter before and it wasn't worth it. Once my plants are established even if small, I start with a 1/4 strength solution. I use pro-mix BX so there are no nutes in my soil to begin with. I have to add something even if it is just a small amount. I tried just doing the water only it stressed the plants.

Like I said though, for those that needed the help it's great.

This thread is for anyone that needs help. Not everyone. I know you are somebody but obviously not everyone needs help with this. You dont need to explain yourself if you truly dont need my advise. However,to begin with, Pro mix Bx does have nutes in it. It has Macro and Micro nutes so if I were you I would know a little more about what you are using before you jump into something you know so little about. I have used Pro mix years ago and I think it is a good product but I have moved on to much better things now.

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I know it has micro and macro nutes in it. I was refering to the fact that it has (if you want to be more technical) extremelly little growing nutes in it, refering to the n-p-k in it. I'm happy for you that you have moved onto bigger and better things, I like using it, it works for me. I actually know my product very well, before you become a pompus ass, you might want to realize that the amount of nutrients in pro-mix will not sustain a grow and it's not enough even for the seedlings. The nutes in it are in a very low concentration and what is in there is not all ferts. They are not all there to just feed the plant as in some other soils.

here is a link to conversions. any conversion i have needed has been here.

Online Conversion - Convert just about anything to anything else

a small 10ml syringe is the easiest and most accurate way, I think

Oh and instead of asking the question in your post of does this help anyone, you can say this is meant to help those that need it. Hell you come on this site with a really low post count, how am I supposed to know if you are some new grower thinking they reinvented the wheel?!? Before you become and ass you should realize that I was just being nice trying to help you not waste your time on some idiotic way of doing things. It's not hard for people to measure 5ml. You have a 20 gallon res, good for you. So why then do you also state that you mix small quantities and count out your 34 drops in 30 seconds or what ever it was??? If you have a 20 Gallon res (which you don't) then you wouldn't be sitting there like a dumb ass counting 34 drops each gallon. What do you mix one gallon at a time??? It's okay to want to be cool and try to impress everyone here, but don't. You don't need to be an ass and all stuck up. You wronte in another post that this it now like a full time job? Why don't you actually go get a job, save up some money and move out of your parents house. Then you can start your first grow and start posting questions about what went wrong because the book you read didn't tell you.

Unlike you I have a real job. With my own house sitting on 3.5 acres of land with primo soil for outdoor grows. If I get busted My parents don't lose their house, so go away and wait until you are old enough to actually do this, or ask your parents to move somewhere that it is legal.

rollanotherbowl said:

a small 10ml syringe is the easiest and most accurate way, I think

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I just use small 15ml medicine measuring cup things. If you mess up by 1/8 ml it really doesn't matter, unless you are mixing really small amounts.