hey everyone you're here with mark bowell at perfectgardens.com so today we are talking about
lotus nutrients grow this is part two from lone wolf a question that was posted on our youtube
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series and scroll down they're going to give you a little bit of a description so it says
lotus pro grow is specially formulated to give your plants exactly what it needs to produce
less rapid vegetative growth lotus pro series grow will add in producing thick stems tight internal
inter-nodal spacing and dense canopy development and massive root systems all of which are for the
building blocks of sufficient harvest so right here they're talking about the kinetic sand and
that there might be some inconsistencies so some of the fertilizer might get blocky and you're
going to have to break it up basically okay so when i come down here to the i they have a
description contains 14 separate ingredients full spectrum of macro micro elements all the micro
nutrients is 100 chelated fortified with naturally occurring amino acids organically sourced 100
water soluble and available to all plants i think that there i'll show you later it's a little bit
of a trick when they say organically fully soluble low sodium seaweed extract to talk about fulvic
acid and chelation which i'm going to talk to you a little bit about that and they say that their ph
is stable when they put their nutrients in so you come down here to guarantee analysis and i'm going
to begin to roll through these i've done something very similar to this with the fox firm line and
is so i'm going to show you some comparisons where i think lotus is getting their nutrients bottled
up from the same manufacturer that fox arm is bottling their fertilizer or they're buying
their nutrients their bulk nutrients from the same company so let's go ahead and dive into the first
one and i'm just gonna roll through this each one at a time so i'll start with this one but then i'm
gonna just jump down to where it's derived from okay so let's go ahead and start with the first
two because i think this is pretty significant to understand okay so this specific type of nitrogen
right here when you look at it this nitrogen is a measure for the amount of amino a toxic pollutant
often found in land filled so i thought that was kind of just when you stop right there such as
seaweed liquid manure and other liquid organic waste products so i thought that was kind of
interesting when you think about this so they have a nitrogen here that's toxic and pollutant second
when you come over here i want to show you guys what it looks like when you have a nitric nitrogen
so nitrates create dead spots in the ocean and in water and so this is basically what it looks like
so right there in the very beginning of this i'm identifying two nitrogens that
aren't in line with my values in the phosphorum line i really recommend you go back and listen to
that i talked about similar things but i talked about things around picking nutrients in line
with your core values and why are you going to get something to your plant that is toxic
right when here you look google it google it for yourself you just see it right here
a toxic pollutant and then the next one right here creates extreme algae blooms
and ends up destroying the water systems so let's go and go to the next one the next one is calcium
aminum nitrate so two things to point out here is it is a synthetic fertilizer uh it's created
from limestone and it's mixed with this right here next it says that calcium amino nitrate
is used as a fertilizer okay so it's commonly used but it is a synthetic fertilizer next one is
your magnesium nitrate so once over here magnesium nitrate right there okay so this magnesium nitrate
is pulled out from mines and caverns it's also used as a fertilizer for nitrogen so
once again i've talked to a lot of people about nitrogen a lot so remember nitrogen is a gas
right and our plants absorb nitrogen from their stomas under their leaves that's when the plant is
functioning properly like if you go out into the forest or anywhere in the world and all the trees
on the mountains just go outside and look at stuff that's growing is anyone fertilizing that stuff
no the plant it's because the plant has a full microbiology system that keeps the plant growing
healthy throughout the entire year and dormant at specific times so when you see this right here
and they're telling you all these different types of nitrogen they're telling you how much nitrogen
is incomplete these are all man-made chemicals right and they have taken toxic stuff pilled it up
and are now trying to convince you to use this nitrogen versus using microbiology and allowing
your plants to take up the nitrogen from the atmosphere which it's capable of doing as long as
the microbiology in the growing environment isn't dormant which i've talked a lot many times about
what makes microbiology dormant and we won't get into that right now so let's go into the next one
magnesium nitrate just telling you again another nitrate that they're sourcing to sell you versus
teaching you that your plant can just absorb the nitrogen from the atmosphere next one is magnesium
sulfate i talk a lot about sulfates i think sulfates are the highest quality minerals that
your plants can absorb i think they're the perfect key for the slot and what i mean by that is if you
can imagine a key the large handle where you turn the key is this right here the magnesium but the
teeth is sulfate or the secondary bond the these secondary bonds can be beyond sulfate they can be
phosphate bonds it could be a number of things and so right here you have the magnesium
and then right here you have the secondary bond but we all know that this is the leverage
but right here is what unlocks the lock right so what allows you to unlock it and walk through the
door same thing with mineral absorption your plant can leverage the fertilizer it's using
right here the nitrogen but what makes it properly be uptaken and the plants stay
healthy throughout the entire growing season is a secondary bond right here so imagine that key
going in and you trying to twist it and those key if the teeth are off at all in any way
that key isn't going to work very well you can jiggle it a little bit and if you jiggle it
it might work but you know that the teeth are slightly off so let's go ahead and go
into potassium sulfate again i think this is solid mineral you have your potassium sulfate
another name for it is sulfate of potash i've created another video where i talk about if
you burn down your wood and collect your ash you can use that ash and mend your soil and
you can actually create ash teas for your plant so yes once again this is basically broken down
cellulose this is normally commonly extracted from the burning down of wood and then you're
refining that ash collecting potassium sulfate okay so far they have a couple products i like
and a couple products that don't next one is going to be your mono amino phosphate right here this is
also another name for mono dihydrophosphate is a major ingredient for agricultural fertilizer
and some fire extinguishers so not much more to say once again we're talking about the key right
you have the large key but then you have the teeth and the phosphate or phosphorus acid is a weaker
acid than sulfuric acid the next one is your mono potassium sulfate not much here to talk about
it's a fertilizer food additive buffering agent so once again static fertilizer is not organic
next one was your soybean fertilizer so right here soy protein hydro plate what i thought was
interesting here is right when you put it in the first thing that popped up was miracle grow so
if you really want to be buying a miracle grow that is 64. for let's say this about four pounds
when right over here you could buy the same thing for four and a half pounds for thirteen dollars
once again i'm not saying that this is miracle grow obviously this is a better
product than miracle growth but when i just type in this product right here soil protein
milk grows first thing that pops up next thing i point out in the fox farm fertilizer is greenway
biotech so when you look at greenway biotech they produce the iron chelate the magnesium
chelate right here the zinc chelate and so i think this is where they're buying their
nutrients from so once again and i'm not saying they're just buying the same product and pulling
off the shell i'm thinking that most likely they're buying their large bulk fertilizer from
a company and then mixing it themselves but i mean this is really really cheap
fertilizer these are not the types of fertilizers i personally would use when i'm growing something
meant to go into my lung or even into my food and into my digestive system so that's just more
than my thought process to it so that's going to get into boric acid boric acid is an antiseptic
insecticide flame retardant and a neutron absorber again maybe the plants use it but when i go
through on the wikipedia side i don't really see much of anything intended for plant use so
why is it being put into my plant and then borac borax right here so boric acid may be prepared
for reacting borax so right here we talked about this last time in the once again the phosphorum
videos the sodium increases your ph and makes your growing environment slightly alkaline which
allows your nutrients to be more water soluble or absorbed in the water although when you do this
it affects the ph of your rhizosphere and begins to shut down your microbiology so once again
i don't know i'm not really liking this product when i begin to get to the end of it another
copper eta and so i come over here right here iron magnesium edga coppery dta greenway biotech buying
super cheap fertilizer and they're probably just mixing in small amounts obviously this but this is
probably where they're getting their stuff from last but not least is your potassium hydroxide
i'm really wasn't able to find much of a use for this product so i'm if any of you guys can
throw out a reason why they would have this in my fertilizer i'd love to know i also noticed a
couple other things about this nutrient line but i wasn't able to find it when we were going through
one of the things i thought found though was that when they talk about its amino acids right here
that was pretty much a scam because their amino acids i believe was the soy right here and i think
that's what we saw right here yep the soy protein plants can bio synthesize all the amino acids they
need with other nutrients so they're using this as amino acids and what do the amino acids do the
amino acids are coenzymes that make minerals available so once again we're talking about
chelation so i i don't like this nutrient line when i go over it on a deep level i think they are
using their flashy product and marketing to get people to buy the product a lot of people in the
cannabis industry are into something called the flower of life the flower of life is often shown
as a two-dimensional situation but what it really it looks like is a three-dimensional situation
and how i have interpreted the meaning of the flower of life in how it creates all structure
for all things is that when you start off with the singular circle and you begin to in the center
and then you have then you attach this circle this circle this circle this circle this circle in this
circle which are the six circles around the center circle all connecting in the center right here
it then begins to develop different geometric shape so you start off with the circle which is
in many people they say is the feminine and then when you draw these circles around it creates
a box which is the male energy right so a woman's energy is circular and a male's energy
is rigid and feminine and male energies don't always mean women and men they i'm just using
them as structure versus circular but as you begin to redo this over and over and over and
once again remember this is not a two-dimensional experience this is a three-dimensional experience
so every single time it's not just six circles that are being circled around it is actually a
three-dimensional situation happening so it's lots more than one circle this is a sphere it's
an actual complete circle and then each complete circle that begins to orientate itself around
creates more and more geometric shapes and when you create more and more geometric shapes
we're talking about its ability of creating infinite abilities of life that's how i
interpret the flower of life and is that as you get more complex structures you're able to
create more complex living beings whether we're talking about a physical experience being the
actual physical shape of things or we're talking about a higher consciousness creation either way
that's how i've interpreted what the actual flower of life meaning is this geometric shape the flower
of life is pretty heavily predominant in the cannabis industry because obviously when you're
using the medicine you get it go into an euphoric experience and then these geometric shapes really
look beautiful so people do like to have use this or see you see it a lot in the artwork
in the campus industry and so they use this as a marketing experience and then when you use lotus
i talked about in the first video it's also referencing a woman's sexual vagina so they're
using this to kind of use sexuality to pull you in and their marketing is like oh wow fire of life
you know this person's cool but what's actually happening i think when you look in the back of the
guarantee analysis they're living a complete cognitive dissonance reality there's still three
or four more bottles left in the this nutrient line so i'm going to go ahead and dive into the
second video thank you so much and please like share and subscribe have a great grow everyone
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