Is the Magic Lung really magical?
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is sea magic fertilizer, magic?
Comments (0)this product is sold by burpee and park's seed. does anyone have any experience with it? LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL The Best Seaweed for ALL Your Plants! Contains cytokinins and 17 amino acids to encourage stronger, lusher growth, more sugars production in fruiting crops, and increased blooms! We've all been hearing great things about the uses of seaweed as a plant growth stimulant, and we've tested lots of products to find out how they really measure up. Well, far and away the best -- hands down, barring none -- is Sea Magic, a seaweed concentrate suitable for use on all your garden plants! This dry seaweed is just amazing. It doesn't just encourage plants to grow -- it shoots them up, increasing root production and strength so that they not only gain in size and bloom, but develop a healthy root system to maintain that increased growth all season long! They grow greener, lusher, and more resistant to pests and diseases. In combination with an all-purpose fertilizer, Sea Magic is unparalleled! Entirely organic, this seaweed concentrate works wonders on flowering ornamentals, foliage plants, houseplants, shrubs -- you name it, Sea Magic will help it! It is a seaweed called Ascophyllum nodosum, harvested from the cold, clean water of the northern Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Canada. Unlike fish emulsion, it doesn't stink (let's be frank about that!), and it's great at preventing leaf decay and stimulating foliage production when sprayed directly onto the leaves. It hastens the absorption of nitrates, potassium, and calcium -- minerals plants need to flourish, and it actually makes them more drought-resistant. Very effective against Botrytis in strawberries and damping off in Tomatoes, it also superb on lawns and ornamental grasses. Here are some specific results observed by Dr. T.L. Senn, a Clemson University seaweed expert: Fruits and vegetables literally taste better, due to increased levels of BRIX (fruit sugar content) Roses produced 23 percent more blooms, Carnations 13 percent more. Vegetable and fruit crops are more prolific: 77 percent more apples, 47 percent more peppers, 24 percent more tomatoes Insect damage is minimized -- 89 percent reduction in red mites, 77 percent reduction in leaf hoppers Each 30-gram pouch produces 250 quarts of solution. It is a growth enhancer containing 17 key amino acids and cytokinins, which absorb into plant cells and increase their productivity and strength. Use it in conjunction with a fertilizer for best results. You just won't believe the power of this terrific seaweed...See Morehelp! vent a hood magic lung vs. m series or other
Comments (6)I just finished struggling with the same issue. There seems to be a great deal of controversy about the magiclung and the ease of cleaning. I have spoken to some owners and they love them. As to their claim of their 600CFM being equal to other baffle or screen filter hoods rated at 900 CFM that appears to be valid based on two factors. First, there is at least a 20% loss due to the filters and second, many other units use a 7" or 6" duct further reducing their effective rate while VAH uses an 8" duct. All of these numbers are ideals that are never achieved in real world application so you have to take them as relative comparisons and not much more. I finally chose the Modern-Air duct as the best compromise as it uses an 8" duct, has an excellent reputation (made here in CA where I live) and very high quality construction and polished baffles with smooth rather than sharp edges. It was a little less than the VAH though that was not the deciding factor....See Morecfm question; vent-a-hood insert w/magic lung blower
Comments (4)If the function of the hood were to air out the house, then the number of burners running at once might determine the desired flow rate. But that is not how hoods are intended to be used when cooking. The hood is intended to immediately capture the rising and expanding effluent (from any burners) and then contain the effluent using sufficient air velocity at every point under the baffles to both contain and partially degrease the rising effluent as it winds past the baffles. To do this the air velocity generated by the hood blower has to be high enough that smoke not "reflect" out of the hood aperture when it reaches it and finds a restriction. Uprising velocity can be 3 ft/s. At the very least the baffle gaps need this flow rate to assure containment. My rule of thumb is to take the capture aperture area in square feet and multiply by 90 cfm/sq.ft. This will be the desired actual achievable flow rate. No blower system will achieve its rated flow rate in a real environment. Even if we give VAH credit for an actual flow rate of an entire hood and blower assembly (in this case 600 cfm or 1200 cfm), once the ducts and make-up air (MUA) restrictions are included the actual flow rate reduces. And no information has ever crossed my attention horizon that specifies how VAH measure their purported flow rates, so we can't be sure that they are anything other than magic numbers. If I were to use a VAH in this context, I would buy the 1200 cfm rated unit and hope that I could run it at less than full speed for reduced noise and still achieve capture and containment of hot rising effluent from pans, griddles, or whatever. Boiling eggs will not require this level of flow rate (or any for that matter). But unless the 48-inch range is purely a poser installation, at some point you will use it to cook something that generates grease and smoke. Even capturing much of the oven output when it is opened will require a decent flow rate. Don't forget that for either blower there has to be a source of MUA. The actual flow rate out of the hood is always matched by the flow rate into the house, and if the latter is small, then so will the former. But worse, while that is happening the house pressure falls, and combustion appliances can back-draft, potentially inducing CO into the house. This is hazardous. So plan ahead how you intend to provide low pressure drop MUA. kas...See MoreVent-A-Hood M Line Hood vs Wall Mounted Hood with Magic Lung
Comments (5)Vent-a-Hood systems have an advantage and a disadvantage. The advantage is no baffles and hence no baffle pressure loss. The disadvantage is that the squirrel-cage blowers have a fan curve that loses flow rate with pressure loss faster than the radial and axial blowers used by others. Hence, use of VaH hoods is best done with short, straight ducting and low pressure loss make-up air approaches. For any serious hot cooking, you should plan to have 90 CFM per square foot of hood entry aperture, which you have not yet specified. With ideal ducting, the result would be met by a VaH blower just slightly more powerful than the result value. However, with more typical ducting and MUA pressure losses, the blower rating will need to be a larger factor over the requirement, possibly higher than the 1.5X I suggest for baffled hoods. Low noise can be achieved using a remote blower (external or in-line) with a silencer between blower and hood. All fans moving a lot of air per second when located next to the cook will be noisy. I don't own any magic VaH hoods, so I can't compare and/or contrast their noise levels....See Morethull
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