we're going to be breaking down floritech botanicare mpk nutrients and down to earth you're
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answered a little quicker just want to say thank you so much to a new client of mine ricky he came
to the realization that botana care which is owned by monsantos which i encourage everyone to boycott
is heavily watered down and he actually wanted to switch to floor tech because he's been on the
forums and it looks like to him that it might be a better switch obviously not just to save money
but maybe even increase the quality who knows so before he bought anything on this next go around
i asked him if i could do a chemical breakdown of the nutrient lines and see if maybe i can
bring some awareness to the forefront of his mind and maybe encourage him to go down one direction
versus other sorry for my voice being a little messed up i'm losing it right now although i
still want to get a video out to you guys okay so real quick what i've been doing with these
nutrient lines guys is if it's in red obviously i don't recommend it well if it's a red it's because
it does not fall in the natural pathway of the nitrogen cycle right although if you see them
in yellow you'll realize that some of these chemical compounds are kind of like in the middle
they're not the exact same chemical structure but they're using raw materials that are derived from
the main chemical compound so i put them in a yellow because i would i still i wouldn't use
them personally but i would still say that they're more beneficial than obviously the ones in the red
and then if they're in the green that means that they already fall into the natural nitrogen cycle
even though they're man-made synthetic chemical which they all are here they're more closely in
line with the natural nitrogen cycle which is actually the types of food that microbiology
enjoy eating so if for some reason you decide to go in the microbiology direction midway through or
halfway through or whatever you can actually use them in combination together and they're not going
to be hindering each other so as you can see right here we have fluorotec botanica and mbk nutrients
i'm going to actually go through down to earth at the very end i'm going to go to the website and
just i'm going to read you something at the very end so i highly recommend you stay tuned to the
area because i think it's going to really blow your your mind around these things but just to
give the quick answer who wants to switch over to botanicare to floratec and one of the things i'm
realizing even though i don't support botanicare some of their nutrient lines they do use some
more of a healthier or better chem chemicals than the other ones especially the ones that
he's using he's using the pureblend pro ingrow and the pureblend pro soil formula
the calmac plus the liquid karma and the silica blast and by him switching over to a fluorotec
these are completely different types of nutrients or chemicals and the thing i would and kind of
bring his awareness to the surface is that if everything's not working right or or he maybe
he falls behind on his watering i could be wrong this but he's probably going to be running into
some real serious issues with fluoroflex it's a really high salt based fertilizer content and
if you allow your your soil or whatever you're using to dry back too quickly salts will bind in
your root zone and before i know it you're going to get you're going to have nutrient lockout or
nutrient deficiencies you're going to flush and then they're all going to become available and
then you're going to fry your plants i'm not saying that's going to happen every time i'm
not going to say you're going to fall behind your watering cycle and this now i'm talking to general
and just everyone in general i'm not going to anyone that wants to use four attack they might
be getting great results but i'm pretty sure this this nutrient line if you don't have everything
doubted in your room and you get preoccupied doing one thing and you once again fall behind
on your watering i'm pretty sure you're going to be running into some issues also florida flex uses
urea which isn't my favorite obviously and then in addition to this they're also using the sodium the
reason if you haven't checked out my other videos i don't recommend sodium because it makes it an
alkaline environment the reason why they are using the sodium is because of two main reasons when
you get into using these higher nitrogens to make malignant and other trace minerals more available
it's all about the positive negative exchanges the way i like to kind of explain is the sodium
makes things like water soluble and they form and they you make it you kind of like force it into
the root system that's the best way how i explain it is probably completely wrong i'm explaining
it but that's how i imagine in my mind is that sodium makes things water soluble just because
you can use sodium as a degreaser or a cleaning agent and i know how it works as a cleaning agent
so i use that same mindset in the growing aspect when they're trying to break down or make those
minerals more water soluble so what i also did in addition this was i pulled up the mpk nutrients
and i pulled up their feed schedule oh real quick before we get into that fee schedule let's get
into the floor tech feed schedule because there is a couple of benefits to this company right they're
making very concentrated fertilizer and even in what they're selling all you need is their
nutrient starter kit it's for most growers it's going to be 140 bucks they're going to send you
every everything i'm talking about right now you can buy it at perfectgardens.com if you want if
not no big deal and the thing about this is that you're going to be mixing up 200 grams
of veg 1 and 200 grams of veg 2 2 not in the same gallon you're going to be mixing a highly
concentrated gallon and then you're going to be siphoning it off at a 1 to 100 ratio if you're
on a drip irrigation system if you're not on a drip aeration system you're still going to mix
up 200 grams and one gallon 200 grams on another ground of the v1 v2 or the b1 b2 whatever stage
you're in as you can see right here is v1 plus v2 equals 400 grams you're not going to mix those two
gallons together that will make those salts bind together you're then going to draw 19 ml of v1 and
90 ml of v2 and you're going to mix it that in the same gallon so there'd be a total of roughly 38
ml of nutrients in that one gallon and then at that point you would feed to your plants if you
needed 100 gallons you would just take 100 times 19 1900 ml and a hundred and same thing down here
put it in your main reservoir and feed it to your plants i'm not sure how all your systems are set
up so you have to mentally think through this process if you need help let me know i do more
in-depth one-on-one on the vip gross coaching side or just on the youtube membership site as
well if you want to join if you come over to the mpk nutrients you're going to have veg a b
phosphorus calmag amino acid and enzymes which obviously i'm letting you know firsthand you're
definitely going to be spending a little bit more money i'd probably say you're going to be spending
about 200 bucks maybe 220 bucks on the same amount to mix up the same amount of batch let's just say
like same total content although depending upon this grow you're most likely going to have more
than enough to buy on the smaller amount bags and finish up your grow and probably still have enough
to get into the next grow but the floraflex you're going to have enough for this grow
next grow and maybe even the next row after that before you run out so definitely you're going to
be paying more money although when i once again when i go over and i compare the nutrient lines
like what's the difference i could definitely see mpk nutrients is a little bit cleaner
obviously they're using more of the red nitrogens but mpk's using some of the reds but
these other supplemental nutrients that they're recommending is definitely 100 the green then they
have some yellows they have some yellows up here they have some greens if it's not highlighted it's
just because i haven't done enough research around the edta i don't support the edta or the ddta this
is the chemical they use for a key leading agent they need to use key landing agents to basically
make these minerals not bind together when they're in solution and make them more water soluble so
that they can be taken up by the plant if not if you've ever picked up a fox farm bottle it's
not this video is not about fox farm and you can always hear the salts it's because the amount of
salts that are being binded together in just one bottle bind and then fall out of solution this is
why they have a veggie or an avenge b it doesn't matter if it's the fluoroflex or the mpk they have
a a and a b same thing a and a b it's two keep these salts separated until they go into a diluted
solution and then yeah so this is right here you know i would say when i just roughly look at it
they're almost about the same you know and they're almost about the same they really are you know i'm
not gonna lie to myself i'm not gonna try to look at it although there are a couple additives that
i would say that probably are gonna make a little bit of a difference you're probably gonna get a
little bit higher quality on the mpk and i'm not just saying that i'm just i'm literally saying
that there is a little bit better nutrients and recommendations in this i don't know i would just
at this point make an assumption and remember if i make an assumption i'm making i could be making an
ass on me and you and i don't want to do that but at this point i'm making an assumption
i would have to say that it'd be a really nice if anyone's out there that is doing a flora flex or
mpk side by side i'd love to see the difference in the quality in in my mind i bet apk might come
off with a little bit better cleaner product especially with that urea and also i'd love to
see the in finished product they are only using it as a foliar so it probably won't make that
big of a difference okay so obviously when you go down the mpk nutrients on the cost as you can see
right here the smaller bags the two ounces are going to be 750 if you do up to the two pound i
believe they're about 28 bucks so you're going to need each of these that's going to be 120 then you
jump over into the phosphorus and the phosphorus and all the other products you're not going to
need a lot of it probably going to be actually only need let's say an 8 ounce so you're going to
that's 28 bucks okay so the enzyme is not actually is not using a lot of nutrients so depending upon
your reservoir size come over here probably going to be needing an 8 ounce still going to be about
75 bucks and amino acids say another 8 ounce coming back over and checking out there
still not a lot of amino acids so yeah you're probably going to be a good way with the 8 ounce
and another 75 bucks so like i said you're gonna be probably about 250 dollars into the nutrient
line okay so this was the jargon actually i wanted to read to you guys because i actually found this
article talking about the feed that they give to cattle and i thought it was really interesting
because what they what they had to extracted just around the food so obviously when i say the parts
per million of a certain amount don't think too much about the plants we're growing just take
this into consideration of what they have realized why is it important to know the difference between
nitrate nitrogen and nitrates and what do i mean by this is when you come over here you'll see that
nitrate nitrogen falls outside actually outside of the nitrogens that are in the natural nitrogen
cycle and if you want to check out that video of the benefits of nitrogen you can check that out
but the type of nitrate is you're looking for is the no3 negative so let's go back
over the article why is it different to know the difference between nitrate nitrogen and nitrates
well using the example above if the score was 3 000 parts per million they're just giving you an
example 3000 parts per million of nitrate nitrogen then the forage may have a nitrate concentration
that is almost 50 percent higher than what is often considered to be potentially toxic levels
for nitrate nitrogen however if the score is 3 000 parts per million of nitrate there should be no
worries since this is less than one-third of the danger level for nitrates so for the same score or
value can range from quite dangerous to perfectly safe depending upon how it is reported so what is
the reason for the big difference basically it comes down to how each laboratory tests for the
reports result for nitrates and i'm not going to get too much into this but basically what i'm what
we're trying to explain here is that they can have a much higher capacity for nitrogen that are not
as toxic but the other types of nitrogens they become toxic at a much lower level so the reason
why i'm explaining this is that when you come over here and you are looking at dry amendments
and you're thinking like for me at least when i started to initially look at this i was like man
this is kind of complicated back guano blood meal how do i know what to give what you know and it
wasn't until i started to come to the realization that the microbiology actually has a lot of
control over this stuff and just because you put it in your soil doesn't mean that it is available
and the microbiology will actually determine when it is available in the right dosages because
they're all alive and they're all kind of like to create their own community and if we kind of
leave them alone and kind of just give them clean water they will continue to keep accessing things
based upon what they need so when i for me this is how i kind of relevate the stress of how to decide
when i'm thinking about amendments i'm putting into my soil first off i want to kind of get
the basics in there i want to definitely know the mpk right like that's needed and then i also want
to be aware that certain other amendments let's say like bone meal very often they're going to be
like okay it has nitrogen but bone also has iron in it because bone when you look at the molecule
of blood just like how chlorophyll the center molecule is magnesium for a blood cell it's
actually iron so blood meal will actually have more than just nitrogen well it will actually
have an arrangement of trace minerals in there through those trace minerals the microbiology is
capable of actually making other trace minerals because microbiology just keeps breaking down
and making things smaller and smaller making these other trace minerals more available in
your soil so for me like if i was just looking at winging it not knowing really what i'm doing
i would say i know what i'm doing but just at the store like what should i buy right i'm gonna look
at the alfalfa mill that might be interesting the azomite is going to be some rock minerals i
probably wouldn't recommend azomite just because i know the mine where they're getting it from is
in my viewpoints deleted i'd recommend accelerite which is uh i'm not sure they're even still in
company but i think it's a much a little bit better product if you don't want either of these
and you want to provide them with liquid trace minerals then you can check out drops of balance
you have bakunos and i like the guanos why do i like the guanos i actually don't know exactly how
they if they steam press or if they do anything but to to my understanding of why insect frask
and all these other things are so beneficial is because of the microbiology that lives on the poop
right so when i look at back guano that's what i want i want an arrangement of microbiology and
obviously you're going to have you're probably i'm going to recommend something like recharge
micros or asos to boost up the microbiology and kind of get it started a little quicker
but the reasons why you want different types of back guanos because they have back guano here
and they have some insect flasks here is because of the fungi and the bacteria that
lives on the poop because of it going through the digestive system of the animal so i'm probably
going to want some asomite some blood meal some bat guanos they have some bone meal so there's
going to be some calcium in there a little bit of nitrogen if you want to go more vegan not use bone
meal or blood meal you might want to look into the other fit like the feather meal by also let's
say look into some oyster shells all right people are talking about how do you put a pesticide into
your soil in the very beginning well get some neem seed meal that's it's a pesticide that's
this is where they derive azimax and neem oil from right so so measure soil with it in the
beginning probably a little green sand i already broke down a lot of these things in other videos
i'm not gonna do it now but you're gonna want some laying at night that's gonna be for some flowering
that's gonna be a lot less than the calcium i talk about why you don't want calcium into later into
flowering in other videos so this is why you're going to want this one more into flowering then
you have some rock phosphate some sea bird guano and then some soybean meal and you might want to
actually look into why you want shrimp milk actually and and shrimp milk there's actually
this other what do they call it it's chick chickling chicken chitlin i think the video was on
we were talking about a specific type of thing that they extract from actually shrimp and other
stuff on the shelf and i'm pretty sure there's probably it's like chippling the bottle was like
200 bucks so super expensive i can't remember the brand name actually even though i like the
product i think you probably get the same result if you add this into your soil obviously when you
buy these things this is part of the recipe of cooking right you're going to go in there you're
going to mend your soil you're going to be kind of relieved that the microbiology is going to
be doing a lot of work for you but then when you put all your stuff in there and you at from this
point you'd just give good clean mineralized water always throw out the drops balance thing then from
that point forward you might want to maybe do at times some microbiology teas uh for example
the reason why i like that is because as you're transitioning you can start to boost up different
uh like linga knight you might throw a little bit in the beginning but you might want to jack it up
as you go later into flowering well you make your teas out of this and then you you hand or pump
them to your plants that makes your microbiology and your minerals a lot more water soluble and
kind of speeds up the process because all these things don't really become bioavailable into this
in the soil for roughly about two weeks it takes the microbiology about two weeks to make these
things alive so you kind of have to prepare the soil put it in there you might see a little bit
deficiencies in the first week or so but once you get things going and you keep reusing your
soil your humiculator only gets better and better and it's only capable of actually retaining more
trace minerals all right so i hope this video was somewhat helpful in kind of breaking down
a couple nutrient lines and understanding the difference because there's not in my viewpoint a
big difference between flora flex and mpk a little bit not much i love to see a side-by-side botanic
hair if you actually really like the quality off the botanicare you're probably not going to get
the same quality off of floraflex and mpk i'm probably sure i almost can guarantee you there's
going to be something different happening but i agree with you i don't support big county care i'm
super proud of you getting away from the nutrient line because we can't be giving our money away to
these international conglomerate corporations that don't take responsibility for bad decision making
all right guys please remember to like share and subscribe have a great girl everyone so fungi eat
dead things fungi are a kingdom in their own right fungi are more related to animals than to plants
because they have to eat other organisms fungi produce enzymes amino acids to break down rocks
into soil scientists look for different fungi because of the compounds amino acids