How much should I dose?

[pinkish1c3]

If you follow EI, your weekly dosage target are
NO3 5 - 30 ppm
K+ 10 -30 ppm
PO4 1 - 2 ppm
Fe 0.2 - 0.5 ppm

Thanks Bro, so I'll dose once a week following this guide, but do I have to top up when a do my WC?

Eg: I'll dose on the 7th day but I do WC every 3 days, do I dose when I do my WC or stick to the 7th day dosage?

[Shadow]

then why dont you dose 3 times a week after water change. I dose mine 3 times a day, although I only do water change once a week

[pinkish1c3]

then why dont you dose 3 times a week after water change. I dose mine 3 times a day, although I only do water change once a week

You dose 3 times a day?!?!

Alright, i'll follow these standards and try dosing 3 times a week. Hope everything improves!

Thanks for the valuable lesson bro!

[Shadow]

sorry I mean 3 times a week

Beside nutrient, you need to make sure plenty of CO2.

[pinkish1c3]

sorry I mean 3 times a week

Beside nutrient, you need to make sure plenty of CO2.

Yea Bro, I'm now running lots of CO2 in till my drop checker is turning very yellowish green.

Will be observing how's my fauna reacting to the sudden chemical dosage and CO2 increase, so far all is doing great.

[felix_fx2]

Yea Bro, I'm now running lots of CO2 in till my drop checker is turning very yellowish green.

Will be observing how's my fauna reacting to the sudden chemical dosage and CO2 increase, so far all is doing great.

Chemist happy
Btw, your using seachem or others. The dosage for seachem is alot for EI.

[pinkish1c3]

Chemist happy
Btw, your using seachem or others. The dosage for seachem is alot for EI.

Yups, using Seachem.
The dosage really quite heavy, wonder how fast am I gonna finish them.

[Shadow]

that way most EI user are using dry fert but honestly nothing you can do about it. Your plant is taking up about 7-10ppm NPK daily. You probably cannot measure this using test kit but you can use TDS to measure. It is quite consistent. Note that TDS cannot separate N, P and K, so what I measured is combination of N, P and K.

The only thing I can think of to reduce fert dosing is to reduce your light intensity.

[felix_fx2]

Haha shadow also understand that. expensive to use seachem to do EI.

[pinkish1c3]

that way most EI user are using dry fert but honestly nothing you can do about it. Your plant is taking up about 7-10ppm NPK daily. You probably cannot measure this using test kit but you can use TDS to measure. It is quite consistent. Note that TDS cannot separate N, P and K, so what I measured is combination of N, P and K.

The only thing I can think of to reduce fert dosing is to reduce your light intensity.

Dry fert? Still not very familiar with dry ferts, maybe when I finally figure out how to get my fert regime right then I'll convert..

[pinkish1c3]

Haha shadow also understand that. expensive to use seachem to do EI.

I reckon I will notice that in the very near future I guess! Haha.. Or do you have any other liquid ferts to reccomend?

Cause I'm still not ready to go into dry ferts when I just managed to get my liquid dosage right..

[felix_fx2]

You can search lushgro. I'll be diving into EI sometime soon. Should be using that and mixing dry and liquid ferts