Kelpmax dilution rate

[bethmarie]

My new bottle of Kelpmax says apply at a rate of 1:250, which may or may not work out to about .5 ounce per gallon.
I think old bottles had ounces/gallon, and I wasn't required to think

Anyone using kelpmax who can confirm or dispute my math, please chime in. There are thirsty orchid roots counting on you!

[Ray]

1) why didn't you just email me?

2) 1 tablespoon per gallon is 1:256. I'd say that's close enough, wouldn't you?

[estación seca]

"Too much of a good thing is WONDERFUL"
-- Mae West

My older bottle says
Dip......... 1oz/gal
Drench*...2 tsp-1oz/gal
Foliar*.....2tsp/gal
*No more often than every two weeks.

There are 16 tablespoons in a cup. One cup contains 8 ounces. So one tablespoon is 1/2 ounce.

Another method of attack:
1 gallon = 128 ounces
1 gallon/250 = 128 ounces/250
128/250 = 0.512

There seem to be two different recommendations.

Don't ask me to do this in metric. I would need to get a calculator to divide by 10.

[camille1585]

Originally Posted by estación seca

"Too much of a good thing is WONDERFUL"
-- Mae West

My older bottle says
Dip......... 1oz/gal
Drench*...2 tsp-1oz/gal
Foliar*.....2tsp/gal
*No more often than every two weeks.

There are 16 tablespoons in a cup. One cup contains 8 ounces. So one tablespoon is 1/2 ounce.

Another method of attack:
1 gallon = 128 ounces
1 gallon/250 = 128 ounces/250
128/250 = 0.512

There seem to be two different recommendations.

Don't ask me to do this in metric. I would need to get a calculator to divide by 10.

I didn't even realize that there was a proportional relationship between the two systems. It works just with tbsp?

My immediate response, is that it would be far more simple if you guys would just finally switch over to the metric system. There is zero logic in the US system (and I grew up with it)! Though calculating 1:250 in the messed up US system or in the metric system is the same headache.

[Ray]

Originally Posted by estación seca

There seem to be two different recommendations.

Not really different, just stated more specifically.

The "dip/drench/foliar" instructions were applicable to any plant, but in my mind, left too many potential misinterpretations. The new label, having more space, gave me the opportunity to be more specific about how much and often to use it on what crops.

And...with every shipment, there is a sheet that explains more about the product, some examples of how it has benefitted different crops, and a section with specific instructions for orchids.

Stating the concentration in terms of a ratio, rather than specific units, simplifies dosing for folks in "metric lands", and those who use proportioners. That insert sheet also has a small conversion table, too.

[rbarata]

My immediate response, is that it would be far more simple if you guys would just finally switch over to the metric system.

In the near future that's what will happen.

[estación seca]

Originally Posted by rbarata

In the near future that's what will happen.

Ha! Our politicians will never make that change. When I was in high school / secondary school in the early 1970s our Congress passed a law that we would go to SI by 1980. I guess something happened.

The English system is quite rational. An ounce is a swallow. A cup is the amount one can hold in both hands together and upright. From there daily-use liquid measurements are multiples of 2 or 4, so multiplying isn't too taxing.

The SI system is based on things people can't relate to: Some tiny fraction of the Earth's circumference? An enormous multiple of the wavelength of light emitted by one isotope of some element? A tiny amount of water? It should be easier for most people to multiply or divide by 10, but I'm not so sure of that any more. And the temperature degrees are too large. People can detect smaller units of temperature change than degrees C.

[rbarata]

Politicians have power only up to a certain extent.

Countries which have officially adopted the metric system (green)


If in the EU we were able to change, in the middle of our lifes, from our national currencies to EUR, this must be easy.

[estación seca]

That's what they said here in the1970s.

[camille1585]

I remember learning the metric system in third grade (in Connecticut) before leaving the 'normal' system. Fast forward a few years and I was struggling to remember how many pints per quart and quarts per gallon and all the rest. Never saw the metric system again, though teaching it consistently to children would be the best way to start changing over.

Then my family headed back to France and I was very confused to find out that the UK's imperial gallons are not the same as US gallons. The British are even more bizarre, employing a strange mix of both systems and weighing themselves in stones....