Calculator & analyzer hydroponic formulas
The importance of water
Water is the main and fundamental component of a nutritious solution. The other chemicals that must be present are only additives.
However, the water known as such is not one: there are as many different waters as extraction sites can be assumed or found. Seawater, spring water, well water, etc., are some of the names that water receives according to its origin. But, even this is not enough to give it a unique category. There are as many well waters, as many of spring and as many of the sea as wells, seas, and springs we can conceive. If in addition, we have that in the course of time this water can dissolve other substances changing, therefore, the constitution of what in solution they transport, the equation of qualities becomes absolutely infinite.
Pure water almost does not exist in nature. To obtain it in this state, it is necessary to extract all the soluble substances it contains. Distillation is one of the methods to do it.
However, hydroponics can be practiced with many types of water, not requiring total purity. But, be clear, many other types of water must be treated before starting the practice. And also others, although they do not require a previous purification treatment, require a special hydroponic formula that contemplates the chemical ions of origin in the water to be used.
Vitarán HC takes care of all this.
The design of a formula
The design of a formula of a nutrient solution for hydroponics use is not a simple job. For this purpose should combine the action within the solution of a number of different substances that added each of which its constituent part to the same total. The proportions between the elements requiring plants to feed and concentration allowed for each of them, also play its part within this scheme. If all this different classes possible be used salts and its qualities in terms of the degree of purity that each of them has respective, and some other stuff joined more than they involve technical knowledge commandments of a certain level, the panorama of itself is complex enough.
In short, this design entails a series of calculations chemical-mathematicians not easily solved when you want to be him closer to a certain and final effective formulation.
To set up your formulas to work, the historical hydroponics have due face primitive manual calculations, as well as many trials and errors, to achieve the sought after objectives. Vitaran HC shows 100 historical formulas. But, recently, over the past years, have appeared a few attempts to automate these complex systems of calculation. The author of Vitaran HC has found to present only one or two "software" calculation in CD format and two or three on not very reliable calculation sheets. While it is logical to think that there may be some others that have not been reached, mainly those that have their own procedure but have not published or commercialized, the production of these systems at the beginning of the 21st century can be considered very scarce.
Vitaran HC is a hydroponic formulas calculator very simple to use and very complete. I may have notion is the first splitting of the water that is available as a first step to obtain the required balanced formula. The importance of water available is very large. The development of hydroponic formulations has been performed by researchers individuals throughout the length and breadth of the globe. All of them have worked with different water qualities, none as to another. Supposedly their formulas can not provide fans the same results. And this is what happens. Some people fail in hydroponics without knowing or understanding the why of their failures. The answer in many cases is very simple: the water feature may not be suitable for the chosen formula. Vitaran HC deals with this at first place. Diagnose and cure of input. It eliminates errors from the beginning. Shows and suggests solutions. It takes and gives information.
This "software" Vitaran HC is a good starting point for success in the use of this fascinating technique for the cultivation of plants.
1 Vitaran HC Spanish and English
In the first page of the "software", named as SHOW, you must select when you start the language you prefer.
6 At the end of sheet # 1a, the program Vitarán HC analyzes if there have been no errors in the report of the results or if something has been missing in the water analyzes. This is a balance of the analysis of the laboratory to determine if it has been correct or not.
On many occasions, a cation or an important anion has not been analyzed. Generally, the producer has not taken care to require it to the water laboratory. At other times, there may also be some inaccuracy on the part of the laboratory itself.
If so, a red alert signal will appear at the end of sheet # 1a of Vitaran HC. In the box below it can be observed.
2 Then a Demo will appear explaining how to work with the Vitarán HC and also other useful information before the calculation in the Excel spreadsheets.
Define your preference Mark to work with parts per million (ppm) or with millimoles per liter (mmol / L).
5 The ionic contributions of the water available by the user in sheet # 1a will automatically appear.
3 Once the Vitarán HC calculation sheet has been selected, the calculations begin on sheet # 1 with the instructions on how to proceed to take the sample and order the laboratory to analyze the water available to the user.
4 When water analysis has been received, the results of the water laboratory should be downloaded on the next page of Vitarán HC. That sheet is named as INSERT VALUES.
From now on, a pH-correcting page, # 2 for the initial design of the formula, # 4 for the selection of salts, # 6 to adjust if there were serious mismatches, # 7 to know the formula designed and finally # 8 to see if everything is in order. And also sheet # 3 to establish how a standard formula works or to test a formulation of the literature with the available water. And in # 5, information on the quality of the salts and the other chemical compounds that may be required.
But this is not all. Vitarán HC has many more information and calculation sheets.
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CALCULATION OF THE COST OF THE NUTRITIVE SOLUTION DESIGNED
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AS AN EXAMPLE THE ANALYSIS OF 18 WATERS WITH DIFFERENT SALINIDADES
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TYPICAL FORMULAS OF VARIOUS PROCEDENCES
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100 FORMULAS USED BY THE INVESTIGATORS FROM SACHS (1860) TO THE DATE
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CONVERSION OF UNITS
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ION CONVERSIONS
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RANGES OF OPTIMAL ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITIES FOR A GREAT VARIETY OF PLANTS
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ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITIES
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY AND TSD (TOTAL SOLVENTS DISSOLVED) IN PPM
Several interesting developments of topics in "Power Point" are also included.
This "software" is essential to know and determine what kind of food is offered to your plants and is based on the water that you already have and the work of more than 100 hydroponic researchers since 1860 (Sachs) to date.
Produced by:
Carlos R. Arano
MS in Chemistry Bs. As. University
Buenos Aires 660—Bº Sta. Brígida
1748—Gral. Rodríguez
Provincia de Buenos Aires
República Argentina