Trying to grow plants

I'm just a bit worried to hear about you adding 1/4 teaspoon here an 1/2 teaspoon there. I'm thinking that is a serious overdose and too much nitrate is a bad thing,

Like I said I was adding until I got a reading but I used the test kit incorrectly. when I used it correctly and got a reading it was 10ppm nitrate. This was with 1 tsp. So I was going to dose 1/2 tsp but since djlen has recommende 1/4 I will stick with that. I never planned on making a quarter here and a half there a habit. I like your idea of the solution and I think I will try that once I get the basic application down. Thanks for the amount refrences annonapersona!

Djlen i have read all of the posts and I thank everyone. I added 1/4 tsp of nosalt for the K and plan on doing so again tommorrow after a 50 percent water change. I have not done anything for phosphate yet. I am dosing the excel and flourish according to the bottles. Thanks for all of the help everyone!
 
chuck's fertilizer dosage calculator

If you are going to mix solutions to add fertilizers to your tank, you'll want to visit the very best site for that info.

Chuck's Planted Aquaria -- Fertlizer calculator

If you try, for nitrate in potassium nitrate, put in 2 teaspoons, then 200 ml, then 9 gallons (then hit your enter on the keyboard) you'll get 1 ppm per ml added of that solution to a 9 gallon tank.
 
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