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The Proper Way to Mix H&G
The Proper Way to Mix H&G
Varying accounts of the proper way to mix our House and Garden Nutrients have always been floating around, so we appreciate your question and the opportunity to address this issue.
In the past, the official company line was to mix Base A, wait 15 minutes, then mix B, wait 15 minutes, then adjust your pH; then add the additives one-by-one ignoring the changes in pH at this point due to mislead pH readings attributed to the biological activity of some additives.
Although a grower will be OK performing the above mixing directions, it is outdated and inconvenient for a grower, especially a grower new to H&G, and has since been removed from the website and the feed chart.
The reasons that it needed to be improved upon are as follows:
-Amino Treatment was incorporated into the line around 2012, and the silica raises the pH on a non-biological level. This is not taken into account in the old mixing directions, because the H&G line did not have any products containing silica.
-Shooting Powder affects the pH on a non-biological level as well.
-The multiple 15 minute waiting periods are inconvenient and unnecessary, as long as the grower is mixing the solution thoroughly with each addition and never mixing concentrated solutions. Removing the long waiting periods will not only work just as well, it will make it easier for a grower to switch to H&G from a line like GH, which takes less than 5 minutes total to mix a reservoir.
-The biological effects on the pH reading are insignificant compared to the more pronounced effects of the Amino Treatment and Shooting Powder on the pH readings.
In summary, the proper way to mix an H&G reservoir:
1. If using RO water, after filtering, immediately add pH Osmosis / Stabilizer (or Cal-Mag) to 100-150 ppm.
2. Mix Base A, Base B, and all of the additives one-by-one; mixing thoroughly in between each one.
3. After adding everything, allow reservoir to fully mix and circulate for a few minutes.
3. Adjust pH to 5.8-6.2, depending on medium.
This has been successfully implemented in Humboldt reservoirs and successfully advised across California over the past 2-3 years.
Feedback and discussion is more than welcome!
The Proper Way to Mix H&G
Varying accounts of the proper way to mix our House and Garden Nutrients have always been floating around, so we appreciate your question and the opportunity to address this issue.
In the past, the official company line was to mix Base A, wait 15 minutes, then mix B, wait 15 minutes, then adjust your pH; then add the additives one-by-one ignoring the changes in pH at this point due to mislead pH readings attributed to the biological activity of some additives.
Although a grower will be OK performing the above mixing directions, it is outdated and inconvenient for a grower, especially a grower new to H&G, and has since been removed from the website and the feed chart.
The reasons that it needed to be improved upon are as follows:
-Amino Treatment was incorporated into the line around 2012, and the silica raises the pH on a non-biological level. This is not taken into account in the old mixing directions, because the H&G line did not have any products containing silica.
-Shooting Powder affects the pH on a non-biological level as well.
-The multiple 15 minute waiting periods are inconvenient and unnecessary, as long as the grower is mixing the solution thoroughly with each addition and never mixing concentrated solutions. Removing the long waiting periods will not only work just as well, it will make it easier for a grower to switch to H&G from a line like GH, which takes less than 5 minutes total to mix a reservoir.
-The biological effects on the pH reading are insignificant compared to the more pronounced effects of the Amino Treatment and Shooting Powder on the pH readings.
In summary, the proper way to mix an H&G reservoir:
1. If using RO water, after filtering, immediately add pH Osmosis / Stabilizer (or Cal-Mag) to 100-150 ppm.
2. Mix Base A, Base B, and all of the additives one-by-one; mixing thoroughly in between each one.
3. After adding everything, allow reservoir to fully mix and circulate for a few minutes.
3. Adjust pH to 5.8-6.2, depending on medium.
This has been successfully implemented in Humboldt reservoirs and successfully advised across California over the past 2-3 years.
Feedback and discussion is more than welcome!
