have you ever wanted to learn more about green cleaner the pesticide fungicide well in this
video we're going to get into it you're here with mark dowell at perfectgardens.com please remember
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for people that need their questions answered a little quicker just want to say thanks much
to buster mr green and charles brown and also a few other people you guys brought this product up
i was actually going to avoid giving a review on this product because i do know both the owners of
this company one owner some chill with the other owner i've had conflicts with that being said
let's go ahead and get into the product so green cleaner green candler comes in many different
sizes from 2 ounce all the way up to 55 gallons obviously at first glance this product looks
really good it says that it is soybean oil it talks about how it coats the pests and it smothers
them suffocating them basically and that the isopropyl alcohol and the citric acid dehydrates
and kills on contact the initial application of how to use this you're going to use two ounces
per gallon on the initial application secondary application you'll use one ounce per gallon apply
every one to two days and then you'll move on to a weekly application of a half ounce per gallon
all that initially sounds really good and if i didn't know the person that actually created
this product i would think personally myself why not give it a shot back when i owned the 9000
square foot hydroponics store back in salinas california the owner was actually one of our
customers for a while him and i used to butt heads i found him to be somewhat disrespectful and
he would always dismiss me obviously because i'm a young buck and he's older i kind of get
that energy all the time like what is his young bucket no and he'd always dismiss me and go and
talk to my father which is fine who kids should although later down the road when he came into
our store and wanted to sell his product i asked him what was in the product and he wouldn't tell
me he said that was a proprietary product and at that moment i refused to hold the product in
our store because i didn't want to sell something and be liable that ended up becoming the kind of
the final nail in the coffin in the relationship between him and i obviously because he's from our
hometown he wanted his product into the store in the hometown of salinas california and it took a
few years to get his product in the store because i wouldn't hold it because he wasn't willing to
release more information later down the road i ended up learning more about it and let's go ahead
and break down each and every ingredient in this product and see if we can get an understanding of
what it actually is soybean oil all that oil does is smother the bugs it has no
other pesticide benefit and let's go back over to neem neem oil actually inhibits the growth of the
bugs this product all it does is just smother them so it just suffocates them an additional
thing about a soybean oil is that the soybean oil all it is is just the food grade oil that you can
buy at the store it's literally the same soybean oil that is in your cooking shelves obviously
that is 100 soybean oil and when you go back up here in the ingredients he's using 39 soybean
oil let's go ahead and get into the next one which is the sodium chlorine sulfate initially at first
glance this is a product used as a wetting agent so what is a wedding agent right a wedding agent
breaks the surface tension and so it allows for a more even coat of the product because what are we
doing right we're putting oil onto the plant and an oil needs to have a thin layer so it actually
just doesn't glob up in one spot the bad thing about this product though is that for a number
of years people thought that it was a precursor for cancer or that it caused cancer that has been
debunked although what it has been proven is that it does remove the first layer of the mucous layer
in your mouth and the sores that you might get in the inside of your mouth they did the study where
people that were getting those sores on the inside we all get them it could be caused by trauma
brushing your teeth any one of those things they learned that in a blind study that this chemical
when used in the toothpaste people were like 17 percent likely to get a sore in their mouth
and then when they remove this one product that 17 went down to something like 5 and then this
study was actually published in journals and went on i'll make sure to include the link if you want
to look about it my point to this is that when you think about this how it actually has the ability
to remove the first mucous layer in your mouth to the point where a sore can be cons the sooner or
more likely you're going to get an internal sore i do think about that with the plant as well is this
product actually because i know it's being used as a surfactant to break the surface tension but
is it also in some level also causing some type of damage to the top layer of the leaf and the
stems of the plant which later down the road could cause pm or possibly patrice issues i know they're
saying that you could use this product all the way into flour but i would never do so i talked about
this a lot about oils and boiling points and how if you don't put another oil on the plant that oil
will actually fuse to the oils on the plant and it will become another product and the only way to
separate these oils is through boiling points and and distillation so i would never use this product
probably max we can have two weeks into flowering although if you've been using it in veg and two
weeks into flowering and you get off of it my question is will there be trauma to the plant
where the plant is actually more likely to get pm or some type of fungal issue as you go later into
flowering because that defensive layer has been destroyed because of the sodium lauryl sophie next
thing i don't like is that they're using isopropyl alcohol versus ethanol alcohol and i know why this
guy is doing this the person that created this product i've been in his grow rooms ten years
ago he was a tinkerer he always wanted to do it himself he thought that his method was better than
anyone else's and he wasn't really willing to hear someone out i don't want to call him cheap because
i met a lot of people that don't like to spend a lot of money but they're incredibly creative
people and to be able to make a product that people want to buy and that does work that takes
creativity in itself so i'm not knocking that down i'm not knocking this person down whatsoever and
on his creativity side what i am kind of bringing up though is this product in line with your values
i always talk about that right once you become aware of the chemicals that are being used and
yes there they have a surfactant property but they also have this trauma of the side of it too that's
not being discussed and i know this guy he was it was probably recommended or probably you knew
that it could be used as factor but he didn't do any research and he didn't realize that there's
controversy behind these chemicals as well the isopropic alcohol i know this person again he's
ethyl alcohol when you digest it let's say you're drinking it it turns into sugars in the liver but
the isopropyl alcohol converts into acetone in the liver again i know we're not digesting this i know
that these products are being used as a inhalant although even the extraction people do not use
isopropyl alcohol well yes they do the cheap ones do the people that don't care but the good ones to
use ethanol alcohol for extraction so once again i don't want to use isopropyl alcohol because i
i do understand that 99 of it evaporates away but one percent of it stays on the plan and when he's
encouraging you to use this once a week through a three-month growing cycle form with growing cycle
those residuals will add up over time and that's my point the next ingredient is the sodium citrate
i do understand that this product is in pretty much everything we eat i know it's used as an
emulsifier a preservative and as a buffer and when i think about this product the one he's putting in
there i would actually think that he's actually using it for all those purposes because he's
dealing with an oil and he's using a cervactin most likely the surfactant oil separates and i
remember actually in one of his earlier products it would do this because i was getting some of his
sample products from the original first six months to a year so most likely he's using this to keep
it even so that it's also not separating when it's just sitting on the shelf i could see him using
this as a ph buffer two because the citric acid which is the last thing we're going to talk about
is used as a fungicide and that's a pesticide so obviously he wants to keep a very stable ph
so if it's at 5.5 he wants to make sure that it's going to stay but 5.5 so obviously he's
using this as a buffer the preservative properties around this probably doesn't really matter to this
brand like i said the citric acid even talked about it it dries out the soft body insects
same with the isopropic alcohol my grease are that he's using two chemicals that i probably
wouldn't put in there and he could very easily just swap it out most likely he's not swapping it
out because the ethanol alcohol is more expensive than the isopropyl alcohol and he's probably just
trying to max out the roi behind this product so let's go ahead and break down actually the
manufacturing costs of this product because i'm just going to break it down to 55 gallon jug size
so all they're doing is soybean oil it is nothing special they're just probably using the food grade
same thing that you're buying on the shelf you buy a 55 gallon drum of the soup soybean oil
it's going to cost you about 615 if you buy the surfactant it's going to cost you about
405 dollars 55 gallons of the isopropyl alcohol is going to cost you 865 dollars one pound of the
citric acid is going to cost you 12 and the citric acid at a 55 gallon drum is going to cost you 170
so all i did was pull up all these products the size that i'm getting their pricing from and then
this is the percentage that each of these products make up the chronic green cleaner and i know that
they say that these four products right here make up forty two percent but most likely guys broke
alcohol it's like two percent two percent same with these other ones and the water is probably 36
that being said it allows me to very quickly take this percentage times it by this amount and you're
get we're getting a total amount when you add this totally up a 55 gallon drum of manufacturing costs
probably cost them roughly around 340 bucks and they sell the 55 gallon drum for seven thousand
one hundred forty two dollars if they broke it down diamond it out just on the gallon size each
gallon it cost two hundred and twenty nine dollars you times that by 55 gallons that would be 12
hundred and ninety five dollars personally i don't sell this product you can't get it here at perfect
gardens i wouldn't make this product available at perfect gardens i would stick to what i
made the decision ten years ago to not hold it at my store i don't care that i don't like the person
that made this product this product's not in line with my values i would never put isopropyl alcohol
onto my plants and i don't like to use oils past two weeks into flowering and one of the other
chemicals the sodium lauryl sulfate in my opinion probably causes some type of surface damage to the
plant that is being gone unnoticed because we have short growing cycles to these plants and
very often when we buy a product to kill or solve one problem and it does that rarely will we think
that it is the issue that causes other problems later down the road i hope you liked this video
please remember to like share and subscribe have a great day everyone okay so what is smite so smite
is comprised of rosemary oil condensate oil peppermint oil and germanium oil rosemary
peppermint and germanium are all repellents constituted oil works in suffocating the bugs