Hello all,
Ive been doing a lot of reading into starting to formulate my own nutrients. Where I live I have no nearby access to cannabis brand fertilizers, but alot of farming goes on here so I have easy and cheap access to commercial fertilizer salts and chelates/sequestered/complexed (EDTAs,EDHTAs,LSAs etc) micronutrient formulations.
I have the following question. I understand that the chelated micros are popular with soil culture because chelation complexes them so they are prevented from binding to various compounds in the soil in the same way as free anions/cations would, and they get around availabilty issues.
In the event that I use a completely inert medium, such as Perlite or Rockwool, which has no nutrient-binding nor availability reducing properties, with RO water (no trace carbonates, calcium, magnesium compounds to bind to) are chelated chelated/sequestered/complexed less or more readily available than their non chelated counterparts? Would you recommend their use in hydroponic mediums and why?
Ive been doing a lot of reading into starting to formulate my own nutrients. Where I live I have no nearby access to cannabis brand fertilizers, but alot of farming goes on here so I have easy and cheap access to commercial fertilizer salts and chelates/sequestered/complexed (EDTAs,EDHTAs,LSAs etc) micronutrient formulations.
I have the following question. I understand that the chelated micros are popular with soil culture because chelation complexes them so they are prevented from binding to various compounds in the soil in the same way as free anions/cations would, and they get around availabilty issues.
In the event that I use a completely inert medium, such as Perlite or Rockwool, which has no nutrient-binding nor availability reducing properties, with RO water (no trace carbonates, calcium, magnesium compounds to bind to) are chelated chelated/sequestered/complexed less or more readily available than their non chelated counterparts? Would you recommend their use in hydroponic mediums and why?