Soilwork
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Dismissed is the polite term - a ukaps member that spoke out on this topic finally just went quietly into the dark ...yet the topic is almost 'dismissed' when it comes to keeping plants in aquariums.
It can just be a numbers game, if a plant is equally likely to take up a cation like Ca++, Fe++ or Mg++, and you have a solution with hundreds times more calcium than iron or magnesium, then the plant may become iron and/or magnesium deficient, purely because the chance of uptake of a Mg++ or Fe+++ ion is really smallI am no chemist but have read that too much of one nutrient may block proper uptake of another but these mechanism's are unclear to me.
Dismissed is the polite term - a ukaps member that spoke out on this topic finally just went quietly into the dark ...
Hi all,It can just be a numbers game, if a plant is equally likely to take up a cation like Ca++, Fe++ or Mg++, and you have a solution with hundreds times more calcium than iron or magnesium, then the plant may become iron and/or magnesium deficient, purely because the chance of uptake of a Mg++ or Fe+++ ion is really small
If you stick with calcium (Ca++) as your abundant ion, then calcium rich water is likely to be alkaline, and under alkaline, calcium rich conditions, any PO4--- will be precipitate out as insoluble calcium phosphate complexes.
The same applies to iron (Fe+++) ions, they will form insoluble iron hydroxides under alkaline conditions.
cheers Darrel
The simple answer is I don't know.Darrel do you think this is possible using EI? What about other nutrients that are less talked about?