TurkeyHTC

Okley Dokley everyone,

So I'm trying to figure this out. Seems the consensuss is that Phospherous is quite imporant during flowering and I'm trying to come up with a solid GH Flora solution mix. I have heard that our friend mary resembles a tomato in her needs, however the flowering tomato mix suggested by GH comes out to something like
Total Nitrogen (N) 2.74%
Available Phosphate (P2O5) 1.63%
Soluble Potash (K2O) 3.37%
Magnesium (Mg) 0.55%
Combined Sulfur (S) 0.26%
Calcium (Ca) 2.11%
Cobalt (Co) 0.00021%
Soluble Iron (Fe) 0.042%
Manganese (Mn) 0.021%
Molybdenum (Mo) 0.00034%
For those wandering, thats FloraGro:7.5ml FloraMicro:10ml FloraBloom:6.25ml/gal
With the phospherous concentration obviously lower then both N and K, i am suspicious. Also, the magnesium concentration seems to be far too low.

I have also read good things about what is called Lucas's Formula? That is 8ml Micro, 16ml Bloom / gal and the solution strength for that comes out to be something along the lines of:

Total Nitrogen (N) 1.67%
Available Phosphate (P2O5) 3.33%
Soluble Potash (K2O) 3.00%
Magnesium (Mg) 1.00%
Combined Sulfur (S) 0.67%
Calcium (Ca) 1.67%
Cobalt 0.00017%
Soluble Iron (Fe) 0.033%
Manganese (Mn) 0.017%
Molybdenum (Mo) 0.00027%
which seems to be a bit better. My main concern is that the micro-nutrients are in lower concentrations.

Just for comparison purposes, the GH suggested solution is about 3/7/15 (Gro/Micro/Bloom) and comes out to strengths along the lines of:
Total Nitrogen (N) 1.64%
Available Phosphate (P2O5) 3.12%
Soluble Potash (K2O) 3.40%
Magnesium (Mg) 0.96%
Combined Sulfur (S) 0.60%
Calcium (Ca) 1.40%
Cobalt (Co) 0.00014%
Soluble Iron (Fe) 0.028%
Manganese (Mn) 0.014%
Molybdenum (Mo) 0.00022%

ANyone have any ideas?



Finally, my other question is, Canna nutrients, i've heard only good things. The plan is for the waterfarm kit by General hydroponics, basically 2"x2" cubes in 2L tubs of hydroton, tube fed, with roots suspended into the nutrient solution inside a 2L resevoir. THe system recirculates the solution over the hydroton, into the resevoir below (the same one that the roots are growing in) With all that in mind, Canna SUBSTRA is supposedly for hydroponics set ups, but for non-recirculating systems, while AQUA seems to be designed for em, but what throws me off is that they say its for NFT systems. Which one is the one to go with?