DIY 2-part question for Randy or others

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I have switched to your 2-part recipe 1 back in October with great success and its saving me a ton of money on my 2-part since I am dosing 75ml a day on my 50 gallon cube SPS system right now. It's starting to look like I am going to have to up my dose again here soon as everything is growing so quickly right now. My question is can I make the solution 2x the concentrate in part a and b so that I do not have to keep feeling my 1500ml dosing containers every 2 weeks? If so I am assuming that I just double the amount per 1 gallon and it's going to be harder to mix. Has anyone done this successfully? Thanks for all your help.

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No, you certainly can't double it....it's a solubility issue. I'd suggest getting larger dosing containers. I use one gallon cereal containers that I picked up at Walmart.

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No, you certainly can't double it....it's a solubility issue. I'd suggest getting larger dosing containers. I use one gallon cereal containers that I picked up at Walmart.
I was afraid of that and its why I asked. Thank you for confirming.
 

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Another option is to put Kalk in your ATO and then supplement with the two part. You can pick up pickling lime (Mrs. Wages) at Walmart and start with 1 tsp per gallon.
 
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I have some I don't like the idea of adding it to my ato and my 4 dosing pumps are all used lol. Looks like it's time for me to DIY some custom dosing containers out of acrylic.
 

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