Rooted Leaf Agritech

[Tennesseee]

As someone who enjoys trying different nutrient regiments for my own fun, has anyone tried the products from Rooted Leaf?

Rooted Leaf Agritech – Improving Plant Health and Returning Fertility to Soils

 

[ClaytonNewbilFontaine]

I've never heard of it, but I've not been doing this long. I checked out the site and the product, looks good but is pretty dang expensive.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

they have a good advertising department...but nutes are nutes...as long as you aren't buying cheap contaminated shit, the plants couldn't give a shit where they were derived from

 

[SBNDB]

I’ve heard the rooted leaf guy on a couple of podcasts. He seems pretty sharp. Their products are interesting, carbon based,no nitrates or phosphate salts, calcium without the nitrogen. I may give em a try one of these days.

 

[Tolerance Break]

I’ve heard the rooted leaf guy on a couple of podcasts. He seems pretty sharp. Their products are interesting, carbon based,no nitrates or phosphate salts, calcium without the nitrogen. I may give em a try one of these days.

Im calling bullshit. He sources his nutrients from the same places as every other brand.

 

[Tennesseee]

Are you calling bullshit because you know he sources them that way versus making their own or just because you THINK it's bullshit.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

Are you calling bullshit because you know he sources them that way versus making their own or just because you THINK it's bullshit.

Making your own requires fairly large manufacturing facilities, if you're part of an international, or even national company.
There aren't really a lot of organized sources for bulk raw salts and minerals. At the very least, the people he's getting raw materials from are all going back to the same few sources.

 

[SBNDB]

IDK about any of that.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

IDK about any of that.

That's the great thing about the internet...Now you will know about any of that...
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-3/Fertilizer.html
Lot of equipment for a relatively small company to be able to afford.

https://www.tfi.org/sites/default/files/tfi_soi_report.pdf
NO small company has the resources to even gather their own raw ingredients, they buy it bulk from wholesalers, like every business buys everything. They may have a "proprietary" formula, but they aren't out "sourcing virgin resources"...They're buying shit by the truckload and mixing it up to sell to you.

 

[SBNDB]

Well i aint mad at em about it.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

no, and i didn't intend to imply that you were.
It's just very easy for quick talkers to tell you a whole load of horseshit, and having grown up in an area that had huge industrial farms, i have some small idea of how the stuff is obtained.
There aren't a huge amount of wholesalers for raw potash...
this is short, and kind of tells a story if you read between the lines.
https://farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2022/03/war-in-ukraine-and-its-effect-on-fertilizer-exports-to-brazil-and-the-us.html

 

[Virginia Skunk]

Making your own requires fairly large manufacturing facilities, if you're part of an international, or even national company.
There aren't really a lot of organized sources for bulk raw salts and minerals. At the very least, the people he's getting raw materials from are all going back to the same few sources.

They aren't salts, they are carbon based, much if it derived from fermentation. They aren't anything like salts, they don't have any nitrates.

 

[Virginia Skunk]

no, and i didn't intend to imply that you were.
It's just very easy for quick talkers to tell you a whole load of horseshit, and having grown up in an area that had huge industrial farms, i have some small idea of how the stuff is obtained.
There aren't a huge amount of wholesalers for raw potash...
this is short, and kind of tells a story if you read between the lines.
https://farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2022/03/war-in-ukraine-and-its-effect-on-fertilizer-exports-to-brazil-and-the-us.html

They don't use raw potash dude. It's ferments of(Ginkgo biloba, Jasminum officinale)