-Drip Clean From House And Garden-
i get pm's all the time asking why i dont flush my medium or how to use drip clean properly. so, i figured i would post info about it to get out to the masses.
drip clean creates an ionic bond with the salt molecule in your nutrient, making it impossible to build up in your medium. you use under a 1/2 mil per gallon and is very reasonably priced. simple to use, just add to your normal nutrient regimen. they suggest flushing with water the last few days to leech the medium completely. my last crop, i was watering with 1800 ppm's and had 0 ppm runoff after 2 water flushes.
this product is extremely valuable to new growers and pros alike. seeing the amount of people with big time lock out problems or nutrient deficiency, this product will alleviate most of that, if not all.
more people need to try this stuff, its cheap, non brainer, it plain works great! personally i will not grow without it.......
info from website.....
House & Garden Drip Clean is a 100% safe agent providing it is used in the right proportion. Drip Clean contains potassium and phosphors compounds, two very powerful and useful elements in the nutritional plan of the plant. These two compounds have had their chemical molecules changed to remove one of their structures. This makes the molecule into a kind of magnet, as molecules always try to complete themselves. Drip clean attracts dirt particles with every feeding, keeping the drip system clean. Drip Clean can also be used to keep your medium at an optimal EC-TDS level, saving you to flush as often as it will remove salt buildup. Drip clean never fails and is very effective against clogged dripper systems and piping.
Oh, so the missing molecule is dirt?
Thanks for the post krunch!
But that post leaves me with way more questions.
Site states it contains P & K.
How much P & K?
Coco growers definitely need to know. Otherwise they will question possible K toxicity.
Oh, so the missing molecule is dirt?
LOL.
Also, no mention of removing salts there. Just dirt.
As I understand it, common sense tells me that not cleaning your res cannot remove salts.
So Drip Clean must either relocate the salts, or transform the salts.
If It relocates them.
So you still have an overdose of salt in your solution, but it just doesn't collect at the roots now?
And if it doesn't collect at the roots, then it doesn't collect anywhere, but it is still there pumping constantly through the system.
Does the plants eat salts? If they don't then the salt ppm is constantly rising, whether it is a solid salt stuck at the root or liquid salt flowing through the root.
OR.
If it transforms them.
Then the original nutrient formula is also transformed in some way, making it less efficient.
Or Nutrient companies would just manufacture their nutes to be like this right out of the bottle.
I'm glad it works for you.
But until I find the answers to my above questions, I am far from sold.
Or
Does the plant just ignore the liquified salts altogether?
Should we as a community be speaking of the bads of "solidified salts" only instead?
Makes sense that solidified salts would also choke the plant from having a full root surface to fully feed from.
PS.
I currently only use Nutri+ Clear for a final flush, emergency plant overdose cure (but never happens), and for pump/system maintenance cleaning without plants in system.
Why do you use an enzyme "hygrozyme" at end of cycle?
