OP, I just wanted to give you kudos for posting finds like this. Someone previously said that the cannabis nutrient market is one of the biggest ripoffs, and quite frankly, it really is. I don't even know where to begin. I mean, there are companies who put together some of the weirdest NPK ratio's in their base nutrients, which requires you to buy another one of their thirty to sixty dollar bottle of watered down, overpriced, crap. From a marketing perspective, it is smart because these companies make A LOT of money from this business model.
Retail and marketing 101, it is no different than any other industry of commerce.
When it comes to your newb, new, greenhorn, cannabis grower, 9/10 times they haven't yet obtained even a basic level of botany knowledge and instead they learn as they go. The thing is, they fall for this exact thing!!! Instead of buying good nutrients, they fall for gimmick art logos, false statements, and compartmentalized nutrient lineups that have saturated the shelves of hydro stores all over the US.
How many gardeners do you know that have a basic level of botany knowledge, I am pretty sure those who are growing fruits and veggies in there backyard have zero knowledge they just head over to the local store (Lowes, Rona, Home Depot, etc.) in summer and pick up the young plants go home and shove them in the ground.
My wife has been growing veggies every summer for years and every year we harvest more than we can eat, better yet she handled my perpetual for almost 3 weeks when I was away on business and when I returned we harvested more than we could smoke
Also; what are good nutrients?
When I started growing I was not that bad, but looking back I wish I had obtained the knowledge I know now, (it would've saved me some money). I mean, there are nutrients you can buy at Wal Mart or Home Depot that will grow better cannabis than your "best" lineups that cost hundreds of dollars can. A lot of these new growers truly don't take enough time to understand basic Macro, Micro, and secondary nutrients and they are the ones who feed the machine.
Sorry for the rant.
-SB
What are these nutrients found at Walmart and Home Depot that will grow better cannabis then other lineups, and where is your proof?
Agreed.....A lot of new growers and greenhorns are minds to be molded and if they aren't wise enough to clear the smoke away themselves they will end up being told wrong information and fall for horrid marketing gimmiks that cost them hundreds and hundreds of dollars....... The products from companies like AN and Cyco might work but they are BS marketing schemes!!! They can easily package their product together and have at minimum 2-3 products that you need to buy instead they Rip their NPK's apart package the rest in different bottles with different micro nutes in each bottle then slap a $30 price tag on each bottle and BAM! They made about $300 on 10 products that could easily be put into 2-3 products and sold for maybe 3-4x less and still at a profit......
This cannabis growing industry is all about making money.....and a lot of people are stoner potheads that buy into and others just don't really care because they make so much money off their crop the price for the nutes is meaningless....
Every industry of commerce is about making money, take a look at what apple is gonna release next as there "NEW" iphone, and you know there will be hundred of thousands people who run out and upgrade.
100-200 on nutes isn't bad at all. I am speaking of companies like Advance nutrients that takes their product and splits it into 15 different bottles and charges $50 per bottle.... or any company that just rips apart their product and repackages it in separate bottles just to make you think you can customize the system or claims they HAVE TO separate everything. When if you really in fact wanted to customize the product you are using you could spend half of what that company charges for a bottle of 3% silica and buy soluble silica powder that is a way higher % and spend over 50% less for like 200% more product...
I am an AN user for the last 3 or so years, I have 5 bottles that I purchase which costs me about $78.00
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We got another Advance nutrient Fan boy !
Get lost everything you said is a bunch of nonsense....how many types of nitrogen?? what micro nutes? what they need to ight off pest lmao go read a book and you will find out the answer to all those
Educate yourself!
Of course my plants are average you fuckin nub It was my first MJ grow with all types of RETAIL NUTES!!! lmao
I did not see anywhere in his post that says AN
, but if you must know I am an AN fanboy.
regards,
. I am assuming the buds will swell like 2-3x what they were when they were full of seeds.
