Welcome back to the lb journal, hopefully I was missed. I’m
Enjoying my Holiday weekend
in the states. Good things are
in the air, puts me in the frame
of mind to drop some jewels.
I wanted to write about plant
nutrients but not from the
normal stance, where I layout
what products I’ve noticed work
best with certain growing varieties.
Let’s talk about the basics, the difference with nutrient
source quality. I’ve come across many growers in my day
that are stuck in stone on certain plant recipes that the
grower will use.
Ever used one of these products in your custom feed
recipe?
(Lab results- Tests conducted on PGR Containing Products in
The specific recipe changes nutrient profile based on NPK
ratios and plant booster and occasionally naturally occurring
hormones, sometimes day by day or week by week. These
recipes usually form from the grower or growers painstaking,
time, and investment growing the variety for years with many
different products and coming together with what they think
works best.
Many growers that I have came in contact with don’t have the
slightest clue on nutrients sources and important considerations the grades of the fertilizer materials used to make the
formula, or sometimes what is in the product that is giving the
desired effect.
March,2011 [FOIA Data obtained from Californian Department of
Food and Agriculture]
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