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🤏Micronutrients, Hollow Stems, and Nutrient Antagonization, with Nik from Rooted Leaf | Otter.ai

🤏Micronutrients, Hollow Stems, and Nutrient Antagonization, with Nik from Rooted Leaf

Jordan River1h 8min

Jordan River

00:00

Greetings, podcast listeners. Jordan River here back with you with more grow cast the macronutrients to your brain garden. Today, we have Nick back on the line. We're continuing our nutrient exploration, and we are wrapping up the soil, fertilizer, nutrients. Micronutrients are what we're covering today. Now there are many micronutrients out there, a vast amount of them, but we focus on a handful, and we tell you why they're important in your cannabis garden. I know you're gonna love today's deep dive, but before we get into it with Nick, shout out to pulse grow, baby. Pulse grow.com. Is where you can find the world's most advanced garden monitor systems. Code growcast is still active. You can get savings on the best garden monitor system in the world. Now they have the new pulse hub, which allows you to not only keep track of all the other environmental factors that pulse has allowed you to control, like temperature and humidity and dew point and vapor pressure deficit and light intensity, but now with the pulse hub, you can plug right into your medium you can detect medium moisture. You can detect EC and things like this. It all goes into one nice, clean app. It's the best garden monitor system in the world. You can find it at Pulse grow.com and I want to thank pulse for hosting our Pesta Palooza class at their amazing headquarters. It's a small team here in America down in SoCal, and they invited us into their warehouse to teach a pestapalooza class. It was an awesome Los Angeles class. And we want to thank pulse for being not only the makers of an incredible grow monitor system, but also supporters of our community. So thank you to pulse. Pulsegrow.com when you're ready to pull the trigger on the best around you got to keep an eye on your environment, just like you got to keep an eye out for those pests. Pulse, grow.com, everybody. Code, grow. Cast, thank you to pulse. All right, let's get into it with Nick from rooted leaf, thank you for listening and enjoy the show. Hello, podcast listeners, you are now listening to grow. Cast, I'm your host, Jordan River, and I want to thank you for to thank you for tuning in yet again today, before we get started, as always, I urge you please help grow cast by sharing this show, send this link to a fellow grower, or turn a smoker on to growing. It's the most impact that you can make on the cannabis community, and it helps us out. See everything we're doing at growcast podcast.com There, you'll find all the classes, the seeds and the awesome membership. I do seriously appreciate all of you members and all of you listeners. Today, we are continuing a series of nutrient deep dives. I know you guys love this series. We're getting into the weeds deep and we're kind of rounding out a big portion of the series by moving into micronutrients. So you know him. You love him. He's back on the line. Nick, from rooted leaf is here. What's up? Nick, Hey, Jordan, how's it going? Excellent. Man. Listen, we've got more of these nutrient deep dives to go through, but we're kind of rounding out the soil, fertilizer element portion here by getting into micronutrients, you've done an amazing job so far through all of the different macronutrients and secondary nutrients, it's been awesome. And so I just want to thank you here for doing an awesome series. I'm really excited to get into these smaller minute minerals with you.

Speaker 1

03:16

Yeah, yeah, me too, and I appreciate all the support we've gotten over the past. I don't know how many episodes we've done so far, it's been, you know, we've gone through all of the elements pretty much, and we've heard really, really positive feedback. So I just want to thank the audience as well. I'm glad you guys are getting useful information that you can apply to your gardens and start to see some benefits associated with just looking at things a little bit differently, understanding to a greater level, what exactly is going on and just knowing how to read your plants as a result of this, this is an awesome feedback loop for us, because it's one thing to just do these deep dives over and over again, but it's another thing to have so many people come back and say, hey, my plants are super healthy now, I kind of solved the problem, you know, that I've been facing for a while now. So all that is super helpful, and I appreciate everybody's support.

Jordan River

04:00

So far it's been awesome, man. And just really quickly, if you enjoy these deep dives, and if you're not 100% satisfied with your nutrient regimen currently, go to rooted leaf.com grab a starter pack. You'll never go back. You don't need to pH. They're loaded with carbon code. Grow cast for 20% off. Supports. Nick supports the show, and you will not regret it. Obviously, Nick knows what he's talking about, and I've been loving it running those rooted leaf nutrients, man. So just real quick in the beginning here, rootedleaf.com always code grow cast. But regardless of how you grow, we are here to educate you and continue these deep dives. You know, I love a good deep dive, so let's get right into it. Nick, micronutrients. Tell me why there is a classification that is specific as to what a micronutrient is and what defines a micronutrient. Micronutrients

Speaker 1

04:50

are really interesting. So in the grand scheme of things, the essential nutrients that are required by plants, all of them are required. It's not like one is a. More important than the other. But when you start looking a little bit more closely at what are some of the functions that are fulfilled, you know, the macronutrients are taken up in large concentrations, and they're used for a variety of different things. So you have a lot of enzymes within plants that might somehow interact with these elements and utilize them in a way that really benefits the primary growth and the secondary metabolic pathways, which we'll kind of get into a little bit micronutrients. Even though they're just as essential as some of the macronutrients that we're more familiar with, they're required in much smaller quantities, and oftentimes the roles that they fill or that they serve in plants is going to be a little bit more limited than some of the other elements. So again, this is not to say that they're unimportant, but rather that their importance is more defined by, you know, smaller concentration of them being present inside of the plants. And we'll kind of look specifically at what are some of the benefits of these micronutrients, what are some of the things that they're commonly associated with? That sounds a good definition for people? Yeah,

Jordan River

05:58

just literally, they are utilized in smaller quantities by the plant. Therefore, they are a micronutrient. That makes sense. How small are we talking here? Like, when you take a look at zinc, and like, how much zinc you need in your soil versus, I don't know, potassium, what

Speaker 1

06:12

does that ratio look like? That's a good question. I mean, so it kind of depends. With the micronutrients, typically you find them in the range of, like, one to 10 parts per million, sometimes a little bit more. When you compare that against something like nitrogen or potassium, you know, those two can be accumulated in plants in the several 100 parts per million. So it's not uncommon for us to see somewhere between 150 to 200 parts per million of nitrogen, right? And we can in excess of 300 parts per million of potassium. But when we're talking about iron, copper, zinc, manganese, molybdenum, even boron, these typically are more confined to, let's say, the one to 20 PPM range, wow. Like magnesium is a good example. Magnesium and phosphorus, we would still consider those major plant nutrients. In fact, Phosphorus is considered a macronutrient, even though it's taken up in pretty small quantities. But the optimum sweet spot, I guess, you could say, for phosphorus nutrition in plants, is somewhere around 30 to 50 ppms of elemental phosphorus and magnesium is going to be pretty close to that as well. So you know, for for the range of the micronutrients to be anywhere from one to 10, maybe 15 to 20, it's not that far behind some of the other elements. But still, I think a lot of people understand micronutrients are required in just very small concentrations relative to some of the other elements.

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