Blazinjones
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Yes, Potassium Silicate, that is correct, but you can get it for $20 a 1lb bag, shipped, HERE . Actually right now its on sale for $16.
If you over dried your bud, look to get some Bovida packs to help rehydrate them.
So i ended up getting some of the potassium silicate but had to go n get it from the zon cause for some weird reason they wudnt except my credit card at bas. Which was really weird cause they were the first place i started getting los kits from a few years back wen i first started growing organic. But yea anyway got some now even tho it costed 10 bux extra lol. But soon ill b doing ur same nute schedule an guna be setting up a sog grow in my 10x10 tent. Im thinking like 40 to 60 clones in a sog with the MC nutes shud be a fun run lol.
Finally got the RO system Beck up and running. I hate working on that thing. There's so many connections and possibilities for leaks. Had to chase down 2 leaks that probably took me an extra hour. I don't use it for plants anymore, just human consumption and a base for making homemade nutes from powder.
Hey with ur ro unit do u supplement the water with nutrients that u need an put it back into it? Cause wen i got mine i switched up an stopped drinking any other water but the ro water. Now i do have some other health issues but i got super sick an my doc said it was like i all of a sudden dropped half the nutrients i normally had an my body was showing signs of deficiencies. So i started drinking our well water again and water from a natural spring we got in town an a few days later started getting better? So always wondered if any1 else ever had issues with jus drinking ro water or do u need to supplement it with different stuff tht i dnt know lol?
Day 51, Day 16 after flip
Front left got fed this AM. Wasn't until composing this that I realized I shorted her 5 extra ml of Terpinator. She got 1gal of 6g Mega, 5ml Cal-Mag, 5ml Pro-Tekt, 5ml Terpinator. The right hand side girls will likely need fed in the AM.
My bag of Potassium Silicate came in today. Perhaps I can whip up a quart of Faux-Tekt® tomorrow before feeding the right girls.
Good jesus man that girl in the back left is going crazy . Congrats man those girls look the tits. I cant wait till i can make some faux tekt myself shud be this week. So i shud be able 2 get the next feeding with it in it.
The quality control tests... To see how close my product is compared to Pro-tekt. I gathered a few numbers.
I poured a sample of Pro-Tekt into a cup and measured the starting pH, since Silica supplements are known to be alkaline in nature. It measured 11.5
I checked that result against my Faux-Tekt®. Same number, so we are good there.
Next I added 5ml of Pro-Tekt to a gallon of water to see the resulting ppm. I got 241.
I did the same with 5ml of Faux-Tekt® and came out with 254. Pretty close. The difference is most likely that I eyeballed the gallon rather that precisely measured it. My guess is the Pro-Tekt gallon had a tad bit more water in it. Either way, 13 points over 5ml, that's only a difference of 2.6ppm per ml.
Next I tested the Pro-Tekt gallon's pH. 8.5
Then the Faux-Tekt® gallon. Also 8.5
I added all the other components of my nute regiment. The Pro-Tekt gallon came out to 6.5, which is what I am shooting for. No other pH adjustments necessary.
The Faux-Tekt® gallon. Spot on also at 6.5.
Every one of my test showed the product to be equivalent. It looks like a winner.
Oh man im excited to make my own hahaha. So i kept seeing on the zon they had potassium sulfate which was cheaper wud that work for the same stuff but im guessing not since its the silicate were wanting. So i guess i was wondering whats the difference between the 2. I tried looking it up but cudnt find nuthn to tell me in a way i cud understand it lol.