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Ⓜ️ Energy Banking Phosphorous, Chlorophyll's Relation to Magnesium, and Maximizing Biomass...

Jordan River1h 15min

Jordan River

00:00

Greetings cultivators from around the world. Jordan River here back with more grow cast powered by ATP, we have Nick from the rooted leaf back on the line. I'm very excited for today's episode. You guys have asked for it. We are continuing the nutrient deep dive this time. We're focusing on phosphorus and magnesium. It's going to be a great episode as we explore these two minerals, make sure to check out the community cup to come and see Nick speak live along with a whole host of other speakers. I'll be there. Farmer John will be there. Brandon Russ will be there. Okay? Calcs will be their soil guru, Nick Kyle from the foop, touched by cannabis, so many more. It all goes down May 7 in Oklahoma City. Come on down and see us folks. Nick will talk about that in this episode. He's going to talk about the production of ATP. He's going to talk about the importance of phosphorus and magnesium during the photosynthetic cycle, and a lot of other goodies jam packed in there. They're going to help you optimize your plant's health in your garden. Before we get into it with Nick, though, shout out to AC infinity, the best grow gear in the game. Code grow, cast one five saves you 15% at AC infinity.com they've got the thick, sturdy tents with the thick canvas and the thick tent poles, the best tents in the game. They've got the fans that you need, the inline fans, the cloud Ray oscillating fans, now again. Code grow, cast one five for 15% off the best quality grow gear you can find. They've also got lights and scissors and pots and hangers and so much more. But when it comes to the fans and the tents, there's no one else out there that does it better. The inline fans, the cloud Line series are fantastic. The S series is the simple series still comes with a 10 speed fan controller, and the T series comes with a controller that lets you automatically dial in your temperature and humidity. Acinity.com, code grow, cast one five for 15% off. They even have grow kits that come with everything you need to expand. Get that second veg tent. Get that second flower tent you've been thinking about save with the kit and use code grow, cast one five, which now works on those kits, saving you extra money with the best gear in the game. Acinity.com they've been our partners for years. We brought these guys along a long time ago. They've really, really expanded and done a great job. Acinity.com code, grow, cast, one, five. Alright, let's get into it. Thank you for listening and enjoy the show. How Jordan, hello, podcast listeners, you are now listening to growcast. I'm your host, Jordan River, and I want to thank you for tuning in yet again today. Before we get started, as always, I urge you to share this show. It's how we grow. I do appreciate you, telling a friend, turning someone on to growing. It's the best way you can help out this community. If I do say so, find everything we are doing at growcast podcast.com/action there you will see all the action with the membership and the seeds and the classes and all the fun stuff. Today we are continuing our nutrient Deep Dive. You guys know I love a deep dive, and here we are. We've already covered nitrogen, deserving of its own episode, and certainly calcium, which was a huge hit, and now we are moving on to two other minerals, phosphorus and magnesium. As always, for this series, our guest is Nick from rooted leaf. What's up? Nick, how's it going? Hey, Jordan, I'm doing pretty well. How are you doing? I'm doing good, man. I'm excited about this. Phosphorus, magnesium. I mean, these are subjects that come up a lot on the show. And really, I feel like these minerals, the way that we look at them, has changed even during the time that I've been growing. So I imagine that there's, like, a lot of evolving kind of science on this. And I'm excited to dig into the best practices for home growers growing cannabis, and how they should be thinking about phosphorus and magnesium. You

Speaker 1

03:43

ready to rock this one Absolutely. I'm definitely ready to go. Well, let's

Jordan River

03:48

just jump right in. Man, of course. Nick from rooted leaf, you can find them@rootedleaf.com as always. Code grow, cast active there. Thank you, Nick, for giving us discounts, and thank you for doing this episode series with us. Man, I just want to dive right in and start the same place that we started the other two episodes, which is, how do these minerals, phosphorus and magnesium, how do they function in nature? What are their cycles? Right? What do they do out in the natural world for plants, and how are they cycled? In general?

Speaker 1

04:16

It's a good question. We've done episodes in the past where we've looked at individual nutritional elements, the nitrogen and the calcium. I'm glad those two were very well received by the audience. And so in preparation for this episode, I wanted to think about what the underlying features or functions of both magnesium and phosphorus are, because it makes a lot of sense to tie them together. I think people are going to be able to understand the connective tissue a little bit better if we treat them together rather than separate, because a lot of their functions, as we're about to get into they're really tightly coordinated with each other, and so we'll get into that in a little bit. But the main thing that I want to explain to people up front is that the basic way of thinking about magnesium and phosphorus is that they're utilized for the purpose of. Of energy energy storage, energy transduction. So when we're talking about photosynthesis, we'll kind of get into it a little bit. So it's really important to understand the specific roles, just in terms of energy production, energy transfer and energy storage, that both magnesium and phosphorus play a role in now, in terms of how it's naturally formed and where it comes from in nature, magnesium and phosphorus are both parts of a biogeochemical cycle, meaning that they're found in rocks. And these rocks are obviously abundant across the entire crust of planet Earth. When we're talking about things like volcanic eruptions and other tectonic types of activity, we're looking at major sources of where phosphorus is introduced back onto the surface layer of the planet. So yeah, in reality, it's a couple of different flavors of rocks. We're going to be looking at things like appetite and biotite, which are sources of phosphorus. There are common minerals found all over the world. And then for magnesium, we're looking at olivine and serpentine. These are groups of minerals. They contain magnesium. There's also some other elements. There's a couple of other rocks that are a lot more commonly used for agricultural purposes, like dolomite, for example, which is a carbonate mineral. It does contain a little bit of calcium and it also contains magnesium, so that is a little bit more of a common source. And then obviously, everybody knows rock phosphate is obviously a source of phosphorus in organic agriculture, and you can also use things like bone meals that are also good sources of phosphorus, and those also provide calcium. So in reality, there's a lot of different flavors of phosphorus and magnesium, and most of them are going to be tied up either in rock forms, mineral forms, like carbonates, for example, and then also in things like bone meal, we actually get our magnesium that we use to make solar rain. It's a pharmaceutical grade magnesium. It's actually derived from sea water. So yeah, it's kind of an abundant thing that is available pretty much anywhere on the planet, both of these elements.

Jordan River

06:55

Wow. And then that does make sense, like you said, The Rock forms for the phosphorus, and then also bones, rocks and bones everyone. It's where we get our phosphorus and the lava rock, the eruptive magma, right? Rich in these types of elements. That's really cool,

Speaker 1

07:10

correct? Yeah, yeah. And volcanoes, whenever they blow up, they do introduce a large supply of minerals. That's why, you know, plants grown in volcanic soils tend to have more interesting, unique and robust flavor profiles. Obviously, if we're dealing with like a pineapple, for example, that's grown on the slopes of a Hawaiian active volcano, helioque, you know, it's going to carry with it a certain type of flavor profile. It's going to reflect, right, so to speak. And that is largely due to the presence of certain minerals. Obviously, Phosphorus is just one component of that larger deposition. But, yeah, the point is, ultimately, the phosphorus can be cycled. And I do want to touch on the concept that magnesium and phosphorus are infinitely renewable elements in terms of energy production, but they are not infinitely renewable in terms of the natural resources that we have to look at. So we'll kind of get into that a little bit more. But phosphorus, it's an element that you definitely want to make sure that you're utilizing appropriately, so that you get the most out of any amount that you put on. We want to strive for 100% bioavailability for a particular set of reasons.

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