๐ฑ Everyone judges the plant by its flowers. But the leaves, stalks and roots are each running their own chemistry โ and it's a carbon story top to bottom. ๐งต
Practical takeaway:
Treat sugars and PK as partners, not competing strategies. Keep PK sufficient. Keep sugar levels healthy.
Deep-dive on the pathway biochem in our Discord โ link via https://t.co/AMgK78wZEx ๐ฑ
Old-school growers feed molasses. New-school growers bump PK in flower.
Both camps are quietly arguing about the same biochemistry. Here's where they actually meet ๐๐งต
Nuance from recent cannabis lit: more PK isn't always better.
Shiponi & Bernstein (2021) found P above ~5 mg/L progressively reduced THCA/CBDA via yield dilution.
Aim for SUFFICIENT, not maxed.
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Want one lever that actually moves the needle on plant performance?
It's not light. โ๏ธ It's not feed strength. ๐ง
It's carbon โ and the data backs it up. ๐งต
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Push COโ from ambient toward 1,000โ1,200 ppm and biomass can jump ~40% in optimal conditions.
But COโ isn't the only way carbon gets into a plant. The root zone is the other lever โ and it's the one almost no one's pulling.
๐งช What if instead of feeding a plant CO2, you fed it one step past CO2?
That's the question Nik's pulling apart here โ and the answer has real implications for how you think about fertilizer inputs. ๐งต
@MTGrowsFiyah@MedicallyfitTv@Ben_grows@grok@NightOwlSeeds Our hydro feed plan in the autopot res along with top feeding the supplements and/or foliar spraying a few times a week will def outperform Cropsalt.
Keep an eye out for the 420 sale. We'll put out a code for 42% off that will be good for a few days before and after the holiday.
The science behind the formula is at https://t.co/AMgK78wZEx.
Worth a read if you want to understand why it works, not just that it does. #plantscience#RootedLeaf#carbonbased
โก Photosynthesis isn't "plant absorbs sun." It's hundreds of proteins and enzymes running an electron transport chain so complex, Nik calls it alien technology. And it has everything to do with how you feed your plants. ๐งต
The Rooted Leaf connection: organic acids correlate directly with electron transport activity - supporting plant energy at the bioenergetic level, not just the mineral level. And it's not dependent on water pH at all.