What is this stuff on Flourish???

[ranmasatome]

was reading thru the ingredients on flourish as i was thinking of changing regime from LGA/LGM to flourish/flourish trace... hence needed to re-calculate everything...

/can someone help me by explaining to me what this is??

Available Phosphate ( P2O5) 0.01% [0.0185ppm-with my dosing]
Soluble Potash 0.37% [0.6851-with my dosing]

What is available phosphate?? will it become po4?? and hence i have to take this into consideration when dosing for the right po4 lvl?

What is soluable potash?? is it potassium of some sort?? in this case should i not add as much K? say i wanted to hit a level of 1ppm potassium, would that mean i only have to add about 0.4ppm now??

Thanks in advance.

[michael lai]

Hi ranmasatome,
Just reading that question was frightening enough.

[vinz]

Phosphate is PO4. The amount is negligible. You don't even have to think about it unless you intend to dose Flourish at a 100X the recommendation of higher.

Potash = compounds that contain K (potassium).Why only 1 ppm of K? You can safely dose K up to 10 ppm or more and not have at adverse effect on your plants. If you are going to add KNO3 and KH2PO4, you'll get more K from there.

My opinion, you don't have to be too precise with the amount of K (or other ferts) you dose. With our dosing impelments, we can't be very accurate anyway, plus you don't know what comes in with the tap water and what's left over per water change. 0.7 ppm of K is negligible.

In other words, don't worry about it.

[ranmasatome]

lol.. not dosing only 1ppm la Vinz... it was only an example to make things easier..but thanks for the help...you've answered my question.. i was just curious about what these contents are.

Thanks alot again..