What's your nutrient loaded water ppm?

So I tested the ppm of the following mixed feed,
It averages 2ml per litre of water for each item

Water
Cal mag
Bio bizz bloom
Fermented fruit juice
Em1

And I noticed my ppm is only 200.

Is this normal for organic mixes to have such low ppms? I'm in week 1 of flower

biobizz is an organic nutrient, you won't get accurate results with ppm/ec readings

Thanks man so it's normal then! It's just wierd I read something from biobizz saying if using ro water, add cal mag until you hit 300 ppm, then add your other nutes...

Well yes, calmag will register on a ppm/ec meter and the order of nutes is typically silica (if you use), cal mag, base nutes, additives and boosters (if you use)

So whatever you read is saying to add calmag until your water reads 300ppm, then add your other nutes, no need to test ppm after as the biobizz line is not going to give any usable info..

all that said, which calmag are you using? do your plants need the calcium? have you given any yet?

I would want to add grow or fish mix to that. Only bloom is to low in N. Biobizz is low in Mg so you could add either "Topmax" or Epsom salt. Depending on your "Cal-mag" you may add enough N, Ca, and Mg already

ALPHA.GanjaGuy said:

Well yes, calmag will register on a ppm/ec meter and the order of nutes is typically silica (if you use), cal mag, base nutes, additives and boosters (if you use)

So whatever you read is saying to add calmag until your water reads 300ppm, then add your other nutes, no need to test ppm after as the biobizz line is not going to give any usable info..

all that said, which calmag are you using? do your plants need the calcium? have you given any yet?

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Hi! So I'm using cal mag from bio bizz. Good to know I can ignore it, not sure why they said to measure it!

Wastei said:

I would want to add grow or fish mix to that. Only bloom is to low in N. Biobizz is low in Mg so you could add either "Topmax" or Epsom salt. Depending on your "Cal-mag" you may add enough N, Ca, and Mg already

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Yes I'm adding a low dose of bio bizz fish mix. About half a ml per litre. Will probably stop mid flowering or at least nearer the end. I read many places saying top max badly effects the taste so decided to skip that! I think the mix of kelp from bloom, natural molasses and fruit ferments, coconut water, fishand cal mag should have the plants covered! I followed biobizz almost exactly last grow using old-timers feeding regiment and my end result was pretty good but not great. So hoping the ferments and more knf style will help improve on the easy to follow bio bizz standard schedule.

gubblebum said:

Hi! So I'm using cal mag from bio bizz. Good to know I can ignore it, not sure why they said to measure it!

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then just use their feeding chart? (and they don't as far as I see mention measuring ppm on it)

That being said, they weren't saying measure the total after all nutes are add, they said to measure your calmag before adding nutes based on what you said. What was the source that you found that? It sounds like it may have been back before biobizz had their own calmag or instructions for a specific line.. below I attached the biobizz feeding schedule, calmag is listed at the bottom..

so Hydrostork says; "it is recommended to use reverse osmosis water because you will “start with a clean page” – it will have pH around 6 and PPM and EC at 0. Just add a cal-mag supplement to raise PPM to 300 before adding BioBizz." That's their suggestion not biobizz.

I don't use biobizz's calmag product so I cannot tell you if that is more or less than their dose. You can test though, add the amount biobizz states on the feeding chart and check your waters ec/ppm.

then you can determine if Hydrostork is suggesting more or less than biobizz.

myself personally I think I would start at 1/2 the rate biobizz states and see how the plants react unless they are showing signs of a deficiency.