Thank you so much for being here. I appreciate your interest in this video and I hope that I will be able to achieve what I'm trying to do here. Basically I want to put out some recipe cards. Recipe cards for fertilizers, for large, medium and small orchids, pH values for organic or inorganic growing, and using the different seasons as a reference. I am hoping that someone will find this useful and be able to screenshot the recipe cards and use it in their own collection. Much like our previous generations did with recipe cards for the kitchen and cooking. None of these products I am showing today am I affiliated with in no way shape or form. And I'm also going to put a disclaimer out there. This is the first year I'm using rain mix. I have been using MSU fertilizer for the past years, but I'm switching to rain mix. Simply because it was given to me and I've always always wanted to use it. None of the products I'm showing you today are the Make All Break All of Fertilizer or Supplements. And I also want to qualify something that on my channel I make a clear distinction between fertilizers and supplements. Not just how I talk about them, but also how I apply them. I keep them separate. I never mix my nutrient solution, mixing supplements into my fertilizer. There is one exception of a supplement that is mixed for me already and we'll get to that when we get to the supplement recipe cards. So how you will see the recipe cards are exactly what I do. You see the fertilizers in my opinion are as an analogy what we consider the meals as humans. And then we take vitamin supplements, but they don't replace our meals. The same in my opinion has to be said for the orchid hobby. The fertilizer is the main staple diet and then we have supplements that are separate. For me it is safer and much much easier and the recipe cards should reflect that and make any application safe and easy for you to copy and follow. Or even tweak to your liking, to your preference, to your environment. Another point of reference when it comes to these recipe cards is orchids and active growth. That is when these recipe cards apply. An orchid that's not doing anything, no fertilizer. Water yes, no fertilizer. So let's get into the recipe card for winter fertilizing large orchids 160 parts per million medium orchids 100 parts per million and small orchids 50 parts per million pH at 6.5 for inorganic growing and 6.7 for organic growing. In spring large orchids 200 parts per million medium orchids 130 parts per million small orchids 70 parts per million and the small orchids include seedlings. The fertilizer should be pH at 6.5 in inorganic media and 6.7 inorganic media. The recipe for summer large orchids 300 parts per million medium orchids 200 parts per million small orchids 100 parts per million pH for inorganic growing at 6.3 and for organic growing at 6.5. And in fall large orchids 300 parts per million medium size orchids 200 parts per million small orchids 100 parts per million pH at 6.3 for inorganic growing and 6.5 for organic growing. Moving on to the recipes for supplements, I will be referring to the months of spring through fall as April through October if you're in the Southern Hemisphere. Reverse that. Epsom salts once a month 100 parts per million at 6.5 for inorganic growing and 6.7 for organic growing using the soak method at 13 minutes as a minimum. I consider the soak method of applying anything the blitz absorption so the pH should be for that immediate absorption of the element. Calcium nitrate spring through fall April through October switch that around once again if you're in the Southern Hemisphere. Once a month 100 parts per million at 6.5 pH for inorganic media and 6.7 for organic media. Spring through fall this is the exception of supplements that are mixed together but they have already been mixed for me the Cal Mag is mixed and the seaweed does not interfere with the diet. Two times a month 60 parts per million of calcium magnesium and 40 parts per million of seaweed totaling 100 parts per million in organic growing 6.5 pH organic growing 6.7. And I do this as a regular watering in my case filling the reservoir replacing the fertilizer 2 times a month. So now maybe when you saw the Epsom salts at 100 parts per million you thought well that's a bit conservative all my numbers are conservative. I prefer to err on the side of caution when it comes to salt build up in my pots but when you saw 100 parts per million for Epsom salts the magnesium application that I do once a month exclusively as a soak. And now you see that 2 times a month I add Cal Mag into the pot there's already more magnesium coming in and my fertilizer also has magnesium. So this is why the recipes are so conservative because sometimes our supplements doing what they are doing as in supplementing will supplement what is already in the fertilizer. Spring through fall in my case April through October I do them once monthly silicon application at 100 parts per million pHing at 6.5 for inorganic media and 6.7 for organic media. And I use the soak method Litz absorption. And then I use seaweed only 3 times a week as a foliar spray application only and I use that other concentration of 40 parts per million at 6.5 pH. Now I have to be very very cautious with what I say here because if you are in a controlled environment foliar spraying may raise alarm bells and rightly so. New growth are coming, crowns would be wet so no matter whether you use seaweed or any kind of other foliar of fertilizing ensure adequate airflow. I am lucky that I can grow in my climate outdoors for 80% of the year and I have extremely low humidity so I go around with my sprayer a lot. In order to do something valuable while I'm doing all that I add 40 parts per million of seaweed into the spray bottle 3 times a week because you know might as well while we're at it. And in order for nothing to interfere with the nutrients that I'm trying to get into my orchids I use a synthetic pH down and I use silicon as a pH up. If I was too heavy handed on the pH down a few drops depending on the value of the pH I come out with if I was too heavy handed a drop or two of silicon will raise my pH. And then there is a minute my new trace of silicon in the solution as well but that is so irrelevant. I just prefer to use synthetic pH up or down for safety purposes. I really can't do anything wrong in doing so and because I make large batches it is worth my while. For small collections a few drops of lemon juice fresh lemon juice will do the trick of pH down as well but I'm talking small collections maybe 20 orchids or less. When it comes to large batches of nutrient solution supplement solutions there would be way too much potassium in my solution if I use lemon as a pH down. So to be on the safe side I go with the synthetic. All the recipe cards are there for orientation purposes only. What I want to achieve with this video is to make it simple, break it down, tweakable as per necessity because some people like nutmeg and other people prefer all. All spice in their cookies and cakes but the basic recipe is there and then it is easily tweaked based on personal preferences. Now I am very very well aware of how sensitive the subject of fertilizing is to every grower. I am not imposing my method or what I do on anybody. I just want to break it down, have screenshot available little recipe cards as a foundation for everybody who needs them. I have a playlist of my products where I deep dive into each and every one of them with a little bit more detail. Doesn't mean that you can't ask your questions in the comments but I really really hope that the intention of this video was to keep it simple, easy to follow and to build confidence in anybody that feels overwhelmed when it comes to the subject matter. That is the aim of this video and I really really hope that I achieved that. Your time was very much appreciated, your feedback is also always appreciated. Thank you so very very much for watching. Have yourself a beautiful day on one condition that you stay safe because I look forward to seeing you in the next video. Take care. Bye!