Advanced Nutrients. So many people love them and so many people hate them. There is no other nutrient company so divisive. I think what most people do not know or have forgotten that it is actually illegal for companies to list a lot of ingredients that they use in their nutrients. You can list N-P-K, some secondaries (calcium, magnesium) and micros (iron), and some random things like humic acid or beneficial bacterias if they are listed on the bottle as, "non plant food ingredients." If everyone knew all the different things that Advanced Nutrients puts into their nutes compared to say General Hydroponics or Technaflora or Canna, all lot more people would love Advanced. I heard someone say on this forum that you shouldn't but Bud Candy because all it lists on its bottle for ingredients is Magnesium Sulfate and that Magnesium Sulfate is just epsom salts, therefore Bud Candy is just epsom salts and molasses. This is ludicrous. First of all Advanced uses complex carbohydrates that are also in CarboLoad that no other company uses, not cheap molasses. Moreover, there are all sorts of amino acids, proteins, botanical extracts, terpenes that are in Bud Candy but that they are not legally allowed to list on the bottle. They use humic and fulvic acids in a lot of their ingredients and stuff that i can neither pronounce, spell, or describe because I am not a chemist. When companies can only list a few things then it seems as thought Advanced Nutrient's chems are just like any one else's but more expensive. Of course this is what General Hydroponics wants and why they continue to control laws over labeling of nutrients to sway in their favor. They know their ingredients cannot compete with Advanced Nutrients so they make sure that the purchasing public is kept in the dark on the truth of what they are buying. Moreover Advanced uses only pharmaceutical grade materials. Something that almost no other company does, (Bloom by Hydro International does now also but they are a little organic for my taste). So the magnesium sulfate they use is not the same magnesium sulfate that makes up epsom salt or is found in other companies nutrients. I personally like Advanced a lot. They are really the only company that makes nutrients for the plants we grow and caters to the medical marijuana community. They have been kicked out of all the major grow shows ran by Sun Systems, General Hydroponic, Maximum Yield and the rest of the establishment. They released a free magazine Rosebud that was the only indoor gardening magazine that appealed to the marijuana grower. You may not like their nutes, you may think they are overpriced, but regardless, Advanced deserves respect for the isolated stand they have taken for the indoor growing and marijuana community. And I wish people in this community would give a little more props for the only company that speaks the truth about marijuana, makes nutrients designed to grow marijuana, and has been ostracized by the other hydro businesses for their views and for their actions. Well thats my little diatribe.
p.s. What other nutrient company would actually tell you to buy a chem made by the competition. It's true, Big Mike from Advanced actually tells growers to buy Roots Excelurator by House and Garden. A company not affiliated with Advanced Nutrients at all. Roots Excel is simply the best rooting chem on the market. Advanced knows this and they told the growing community this fact and pulled their own competing comparable chem until they could reformulate it and make it better. Why? Because whats good for the goose is good for the gander as my grandfather says. When Advanced customers use Roots Excel their gardens do better and the Advanced chems work better and look better to said gardener and he is more likely to keep gardening and buying from Advanced. Advanced Nutrients understands this business philosophy that companies like General Hydroponics does not.
p.p.s. What is a gander? And why is the goose good for it?
p.s. What other nutrient company would actually tell you to buy a chem made by the competition. It's true, Big Mike from Advanced actually tells growers to buy Roots Excelurator by House and Garden. A company not affiliated with Advanced Nutrients at all. Roots Excel is simply the best rooting chem on the market. Advanced knows this and they told the growing community this fact and pulled their own competing comparable chem until they could reformulate it and make it better. Why? Because whats good for the goose is good for the gander as my grandfather says. When Advanced customers use Roots Excel their gardens do better and the Advanced chems work better and look better to said gardener and he is more likely to keep gardening and buying from Advanced. Advanced Nutrients understands this business philosophy that companies like General Hydroponics does not.
p.p.s. What is a gander? And why is the goose good for it?
