The happy ending is the word is getting out on products that don't come from Potassium, so prices are coming down. Dosage size is also much less with monosilicic acid, which helps a bit when considering their price. Its much more stable in a reservoir, pH issues which are very common with the Potassium products are basically nonexistent with monosilicic versions, but also more stabile in the bottle giving it a much longer shelf life. Monosilicic acid is available to the plant the second you open the bottle. When used in soil it will break down over time, becoming available, but in our case that time is usually past the life of the plant. a low bioavailability due to the shap of the molecule(s) they bond in a chain and make it hard for for the plant to digest. Potassium based Silica products have an inherent flaw. Ive used Fasilitor and had great success. Armor Si isn't on it ( - but one of the Power Si products is, although it doesn't state which one.Ĭlick to expand.I've never heard of Agsil. I did do a quick web search and found this image that lists percentage of available silicon for several products. Not everything we pour into the reservoir is still in that form when the plant's roots "get hold of it." That probably causes some portion of the silicon to precipitate, and I'd be unsurprised if something or other in the other stuff ended up reacting with the whatever substance the silicon was a part of. Plus, the silicon supplement gets added to the water first, then everything else - which acidifies the solution somewhat. But the MSDS for Armor Si lists silicic acid two or three times. I've read that - about the silicon forms, not that it'd give me long-lasting pH issues (which it didn't) - and it seemed to make sense at the time. IDK if I was an accredited scientist, I'd be getting paid exorbitant amounts for doing something dastardly. Which is ironic, because I disliked them a little more each night at training time. So those plants' root systems might have been noticeably smaller than yours in the time that they live, IDK. Not the entire things - but you might only get 13 gallons - or 7 - of nutrient solution in one when you came home and discovered that it was "empty." That was with a growth phase that's lengthier than a lot of people's, though, because each one was expected to fill its own eight square foot screen. I never used a special root product, and roots always took over the reservoir spaces. In the '90s, I ran 23-gallon DWC reservoirs in SCROG setups, and the roots looked like that (a little whiter, maybe ).
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