Making own nutrients

[John Hall]

Hi Everyone, My 2nd post here so go easy please. Hahaha.
I grow lots of different things from fruit trees to vegetables.
I have been studying how to make my own nutrients. My question is has anyone else here done the same.
I am looking for specific ppm targets for each mineral used. 1 lot for grow and 1 for bloom. With Capsicums, chillies, lettuce and tomatoes there is plenty of different recipes on line but can't find any for my herbs as such.
Here is one that I have made up already I am making another lot soon to do some comparisons.
N(NO3-) 197ppm
N(NH4+) 8.8
P 39
K 322
Mg 60
Ca 152
S 98
Fe 1.5
Mn .75
Zn .23
B .28
Cu .17
Mo .11

All are in ppm. This is my cheapest way of making it without outlaying more money on specific micro nutrients which are expensive.
I am looking into more specific targets in the future.
Happy Growing

 

[Goonie Goat]

Nope can't wrap my head around the mathematical side of it.
I do however use dry salt nutes, Campbell's diamond T, calcium nitrate, Epsom salts and monopotassium phosphate.

I got this far with it and decided to call it a day.

VEG
Special T (8.2-3.9-32) 0.50g/L
CalNit (15.5-0-0) 0.80g/L
MagSulf (0-0-0) 0.25g/L (+0.25g if deficient)
MKP (0-54-32) 0.20g/L
NPK 17.60-5.83-10.67

EARLY BLOOM
Special T 0.70g/L
CalNit 0.70g/L
MagSulf 0.25g/L
MKP 0.60g/L
NPK 8.29-17.57-20.80

RIPENING / LATE FLOWER
Special T 1g/L
CalNit 0.5g/L
MagSulf 0.25g/L
MPK 0.40g/L
NPK 8.86-11.17-23.11

 

[John Hall]

How have you found using spec t. I use that on my cap's, chillies and tomatoes. I also add to it. So you use that on your herbs. Much cheaper way to do things.

 

[benn0]

Might be worth checking out HydroBuddy as well. Someone I knew used to mess around with it when he was trying something different. Non-cannabis related.
Neat and nifty little program by the looks of it.

HydroBuddy v1.100 : The First Free Open Source Hydroponic Nutrient Calculator Program Available Online – Science in Hydroponics

scienceinhydroponics.com

 

[Goonie Goat]

How have you found using spec t. I use that on my cap's, chillies and tomatoes. I also add to it. So you use that on your herbs. Much cheaper way to do things.

Its fine, the only negative i can think of is the ammonium based nitrogen, so it might be slightly slower for the plants to uptake. No big deal as the calcium nitrate added is instantly available to the plants.

Ive only used green planet bottles prior to using dry nutes, and cyco years ago.
I'll never go back to bottles, complete waste of money in my opinion