How Far Each X Nutrients Grow Nutrients Container Goes
Five containers, one formula, and a spread of coverage wide enough to be worth doing the arithmetic on. The liquid is the same in all of them: a pH buffered vegetative feed guaranteed at 1.6-2.1-5.5. It carries boron, manganese, molybdenum, zinc and copper, with calcium and iron left to the companion bottle. At the general rate of 15 mL per gallon, one gallon of concentrate makes roughly 252 gallons of feed. The 2.5 reaches about 630 and the five-gallon about 1,261. From there the jump is steep. A 15 gallon container mixes near 3,785 gallons of finished solution and the 55 gallon drum lands somewhere close to 13,879. Shipping weight rises with it, from 50 lb on the five-gallon upward. The base is inorganic, so none of these carry an OMRI listing.
Matching a Base Nutrient Drum to Real Consumption
Work out weekly feed volume first, then divide. A single room mixing a hundred gallons a week empties a gallon of concentrate in roughly two and a half months. That makes the smallest container a sane first take and the drum an expensive mistake. Two or three rooms justify the middle sizes. The two largest containers only make sense where a dosing system or an injector is already plumbed in. Measuring millilitres out of a drum by hand defeats the point of having one. Shelf life deserves a thought as well. A concentrate that takes two years to empty has sat open for two years. Everything else stays constant across the range. One product at a time into the reservoir, pH adjusted last, reservoir changed every one to two weeks. And the same caveat holds at every size, that this is half a system and the Micro bottle has to scale alongside it.
Key Features
- Sizes: 1, 2.5, 5, 15 and 55 gallon containers of the same concentrate
- Guaranteed analysis: 1.6-2.1-5.5, identical across every container
- Coverage: From about 252 gallons of feed up to roughly 13,879
- Rate: 15 mL per gallon, with a separate week-by-week schedule
- pH buffered: Buffers hold the tank at the number you set it to
- Pairing: Runs with the Micro bottle, which supplies calcium and iron
- Handling: The two largest sizes want a dosing system rather than a measuring jug
- Certification: Inorganic based and carrying no OMRI listing
Technical Specifications
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Brand | X Nutrients |
| Guaranteed analysis | 1.6 - 2.1 - 5.5 |
| Nutrient type | Inorganic based, liquid |
| OMRI listed | No |
| Micronutrients | Boron, manganese, molybdenum, zinc, copper |
| Supplied separately | Calcium and iron, in the Micro bottle |
| pH | Buffered, with a working window of 5.5 to 6.5 |
| General rate | 15 mL per gallon |
| 1 gallon | XNUTAGA, about 252 gallons of feed, UPC 609722311137 |
| 2.5 gallons | XNUTA2G, about 630 gallons of feed |
| 5 gallons | XNUTA5G, about 1,261 gallons of feed, 50 lb, UPC 609722311199 |
| 15 gallons | XNUTA15G, about 3,785 gallons of feed |
| 55 gallons | XNUTA55G, about 13,879 gallons of feed |
| Reservoir change | Every 1 to 2 weeks on a recirculating system |
| Smaller size | Also made as a 1 quart bottle |