EC on the 500 scale, it’s 1075 ppm
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They are already turning up since yesterday, they reachin for that Szhlux sunshine!
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Ok. Was like wow when I seen 2150
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I have a sauce, Smoked Habanero peppers.
I use a “dime” per serving, for flavor.
“Quarter” serving makes real sweat on forehead.
4 oz bottle will last my lifetime (add water occasionally).
Enjoy.
Dungeness Crab is our local specialty in Seattle
So true.
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looking good Brother 
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If that were Ppm’s, I’d be in trouble!
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@DEEPDIVERDAVE that is right up my alley but I’d probably go with a serrano for this one. I don’t want to piss off the house commander
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They can have those bitter oss habanero . I’ll sake a sweet Serrano any day. Don’t get me wrong I can eat them just think they taste like crap.
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Roasted Serrano and Pablanos make a great salsa verde!
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Yessir. Jalapeño and Serrano are easy to grow. In our climate, we can plant in May and have peppers in December
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We were introduced to Japanese Shishito peppers, during our tour (2014-2019). Fun to roast and surprise, who can find the hot one.
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It would be 2150 uS/cm or 2150 micro Siemens per cubic centimeter in long form. The u is actually the Greek letter mu which is used to denote the prefix micro or 10 to the -6 power. Siemens is the unit of electrical conductance or EC for short.
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Hope you don’t think I understood that. LOL
I did get the 1075ppm on 500 scale.
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My bad I forget I’m a nerd sometimes. Simply put the nute salts in the solution make it a better conductor of electricity. So what your meter is actually doing is passing a tiny bit of electricity between the two metal bits on the end and measuring how much makes it from one to another. That unit of measurement is called Siemens(like inches and feet for electrical conductivity. A micro Siemens is one one millionth of a Siemens or .000001 Siemens.
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Thats the EC , 2.1 if its 1075 PPMs on the 500 scale.
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That would raise the pH at the Rhizospheres when the nutrients are fresh then? Once the nutrients decay into salts it lowers the pH? Right?
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There is a lot more to it. It would depend on the ions being dissociated. When an acid and base react it creates a salt, water and heat. Synthetic nutrients are made of water soluble salts that break apart(dissociate) and from ions that the plant can actually use.Nitrate (NO3-) and Phosphate (PO4-) are derived from stronger acids and Potassuim(K+) is derived from stronger bases to name the big 3. Salts are neither acid or base but rather the product of the two because they have no H ions. Ph is actually determined by the number of Hydronium ions(H3O+) which makes acids or hydroxide ions(OH-)which make bases. when a salt dissociates into water hydrolysis occurs and we are left with extra hydronium if the salt was derived with a stronger acid and hydroxide if the if the salt was derived with a stronger base thus causing shift in PH. I hope someone at least enjoys my geekery or finds it helpful. In all reality I just don’t know when to shut up.
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But that all changes when the roots uptake . Nitrate when eaten by plants raises media ph, urea and ammonical lowers ph. So nitrogen can move oh either way depending on the source.
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Exactly, If you start removing nitrates from the solution you are removing that ion that caused the cause the conversion of water to hydronium in the first place. Then ammonia is a another animal. As in the case of amonium nitrate fretilizers. It gets even more complicated when we start adding in evaporation, the action of billions of microbes and so much more. There are no easy answers.
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I found it immensely enjoyable. 
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