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dstroy0

Zeroes and Ones
recursive exponential filter

C++:
#pragma once

template<class T> class ExponentialFilter
{
  // Weight for new values, as a percentage ([0..100])
  T m_WeightNew;

  // Current filtered value.
  T m_Current;

public:
  ExponentialFilter(T WeightNew, T Initial)
    : m_WeightNew(WeightNew), m_Current(Initial)
  { }

  void Filter(T New)
  {
    m_Current = (100 * m_WeightNew * New + (100 - m_WeightNew) * m_Current + 50)/100;
  }

  void SetWeight(T NewWeight)
  {
    m_WeightNew = NewWeight;
  }

  T GetWeight() const { return m_WeightNew; }

  T Current() const { return (m_Current + 50)/100; }

  void SetCurrent(T NewValue)
  {
    m_Current = NewValue*100;
  }
};

// Specialization for floating point math.
template<> class ExponentialFilter<float>
{
  float m_fWeightNew;
  float m_fCurrent;

public:
  ExponentialFilter(float fWeightNew, float fInitial)
    : m_fWeightNew(fWeightNew/100.0), m_fCurrent(fInitial)
  { }


  void Filter(float fNew)
  {
    m_fCurrent = m_fWeightNew * fNew + (1.0 - m_fWeightNew) * m_fCurrent;
  }

  void SetWeight(float NewWeight)
  {
    m_fWeightNew = NewWeight/100.0;
  }

  float GetWeight() const { return m_fWeightNew*100.0; }

  float Current() const { return m_fCurrent; }

  void SetCurrent(float fNewValue)
  {
    m_fCurrent = fNewValue;
  }
};
 

jaguarlax

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@dstroy0 @SSGrower I am about to order some more nutrients and was wondering about the consensus on the 2part Megacrop. Is jacks 321 the way to go for a basic mix or is the difference negligible?

Fwiw, I have also made the jump away from Mega Crop 2 part this passed week. I can't say that I got part of that bad batch like @dstroy0 was writing about, but I am starting to have far more issues than I ever did with 1 part, and even still when supplimenting SIlica, Cal/Mg, and PK. Left a bad taste in my mouth tho, and wont be going back. I kind of went a total different direction and bought Athena Ags blended line.
 

Buck5050

Underground Chucker
Fwiw, I have also made the jump away from Mega Crop 2 part this passed week. I can't say that I got part of that bad batch like @dstroy0 was writing about, but I am starting to have far more issues than I ever did with 1 part, and even still when supplimenting SIlica, Cal/Mg, and PK. Left a bad taste in my mouth tho, and wont be going back. I kind of went a total different direction and bought Athena Ags blended line.
I went down to the hydro shop looking for Jacks and the dude there pointed me at the Athena. He mentioned the "jungle boys" use that line but I'm not sure who that is.:mesmerizied: After confirmation on how out of touch I am I went with an order of Jack 321. The fellah mentioned he like the ph stability of the Athena line which I found might be beneficial for me at some point in the future.
 
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dstroy0

Zeroes and Ones
Fwiw, I have also made the jump away from Mega Crop 2 part this passed week. I can't say that I got part of that bad batch like @dstroy0 was writing about, but I am starting to have far more issues than I ever did with 1 part, and even still when supplimenting SIlica, Cal/Mg, and PK. Left a bad taste in my mouth tho, and wont be going back. I kind of went a total different direction and bought Athena Ags blended line.

Let me know how it goes, their dry stuff is $150-200/25lb for "pro grow" "pro bloom" and even their calnit "pro core".
 

dstroy0

Zeroes and Ones
I went down to the hydro shop looking for Jacks and the dude there pointed me at the Athena. He mentioned the "jungle boys" use that line but I'm not sure who that is.:mesmerizied: After confirmation on how out of touch I am I went with an order of Jack 321. The fellah mentioned he like the ph stability of the Athena line which I found might be beneficial for me at some point in the future.

Jungle boys grow in Cali, they're large scale phenohunters.
 

dstroy0

Zeroes and Ones
It's working yay! Before filtering, this would just be solid blocks of color because the input jumps around so much. The big dip is from when I opened the tent, smaller ones are from the humidifier or extraction fan. I introduced a hardware fault into leaf temp 4 and the exponential filter is doing a good job filtering the noise.

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jaguarlax

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Let me know how it goes, their dry stuff is $150-200/25lb for "pro grow" "pro bloom" and even their calnit "pro core".
Yea, i honestly would probably go Jacks if i was gonna do powdered again. The pro was just too similar to justify the cost difference. The blended line seems to have a good bit more control, and when I was doing my research, I found that a good number of popular cultivators are using blended with some impressive results on social media. Im hoping this works out, and makes things a little more consistent around my place.
 

Caddis

Zinger
I went down to the hydro shop looking for Jacks and the dude there pointed me at the Athena. He mentioned the "jungle boys" use that line but I'm not sure who that is.:mesmerizied: After confirmation on how out of touch I am I went with an order of Jack 321. The fellah mentioned he like the ph stability of the Athena line which I found might be beneficial for me at some point in the future.
I don’t know who posted this here, but I’ve been running it for a month, third booster application yesterday.
I’m wondering if deficiency’s show up when not running it full blast. I’ve always run it pretty lazy and always had something amiss, but plowed through.
Thanks to you guys, can’t half ass anything around here.

fohttps://www.kootmed.com/.downloads/FEED/JACKS-3-2-1.pdf
(I’m not adding cal/mag)
I’ve been feeding everything the same, this clone even in a solo cup.
Not a hint of burn @ 2.0 ec.
It’s changed my game.
Whether running Jack’s without the booster is good enough, don’t know? I’m all in at this point. 7439B89E-9889-415D-A521-9FC9F276AE39.jpeg Blackberry Bread;)
 
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dstroy0

Zeroes and Ones
I'm going to cut down this wedding cake in the tent, it's trying to grow normal, but I've got a clone in the cloner and the clone looks like it should.

Both are being fed jacks, but this wedding cake was almost dead when I started, so maybe its nutrient transport system is borked I really don't know. The clone looks nothing like the plant in the tent.

I already cut down the sundae driver, same story, clone looks normal, being fed the same thing.


I'll put up pics. It's not like they weren't eating or anything, they just don't look right and I think it's because of the multiple deficiencies they had at the beginning. Like how they start really matters.
 

dstroy0

Zeroes and Ones
Damn dude. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do but that sucks. I've read multiple times that wedding cake can be finicky under most circumstances.

It is, the top leaves on the clone and stem look like what I think they should. The clones in the cloner look like they almost died too, and grew out of multiple deficiencies. Like the garden was really close to being irrecoverable.
 

dstroy0

Zeroes and Ones
I want to get an amendment package close to what was in the brown megacrop, I'm going to add things in one at a time:

can get chitosan oligosaccharide (COS) from several places,
chitosan
I bought some hyshield:

some kind of potsil (probably just protekt, it's not that expensive) maybe agsil16h
silica

can get this from several places
b vitamin complex

I can get this from kelp4less in their extreme blend
kelp
amino acids
humic
fulvic
 

dstroy0

Zeroes and Ones
So.... chitosan, the agrihouse brand "beyond" is 0.25% chitosan and the recommended application rate is 5-15ml per 10 gallons. The person behind agrihouse is Richard Stoner, who designed aeroponic systems for the space shuttle and is an expert on pesticide free IPM.

SIPCO makes hyshield, and published a white paper on hyshield's efficacy citing Richard Stoner. hyshield is 1% chitosan and their recommended application rate is 1-2ml per liter of water. yikes! It's 4x as concentrated and they want me to use 3.7-7.4ml per gallon, or 118.4-236.8ml total (1.18g-2.36g chitosan)!

If follow the dosing instructions for "beyond" it would be 1.25-3.75 per 10 gallons, or about 4-12ml (0.04-0.12g chitosan) total in my whole system. That sounds better.

You can buy chitosan oligosaccharide in powder form on amazon/ebay/alibaba, or predissolved in several products for lawn and turf, or hyshield. It's available in canada too.
 
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