Grozine Cultivation Tech & Lifestyles Mag Issue 12 | Page 59

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] • F DR