In that part of the reply, I was addressing your mention of the Purpinator product. Did I not quote that mention properly or something? It's just some nutrients dissolved in water, like the vast majority of nutrients that people who run "bottled" nutrients use. What I was getting at is that it only makes a positive difference if the plant can use the stuff in the first place - and, if that's the case, adding the elements via one's other stuff works just as well. Aside from that, it's people believing that a thing works because they paid money for it and keep reading... that it works. That kind of thing gets discussed in high school psychology - and business - class. It's not like it's any big secret or anything,
As for the cinnamon part of your posts: I cannot say whether you're actually producing cinnamon-flavored bud. Or whether some of it is getting in the air and landing on your cannabis flowers. Or whether it's just all in your mind. Or... some other reason, if one is conceivable. Ive neither tried feeding it to my plants nor researched what (if anything) happens when someone does. Ergo, you and, maybe Bob, should know about it than me.
There may be something to the VOC argument. I know that plants can absorb things like benzene and toluene in their gaseous form, in the same way that they take in CO2. Possibly via their root systems when it's in a liquid form. But volatile organic compounds have a low water solubility, so... IDK.
Uh... Microbes in the soil break down organic matter - such as cinnamon, cloves, bat guano, and fish - and excrete (secrete?) the resulting (to them) waste. That waste is in a form that the plants can use - as food. That's the difference between the so-called "organic" nutrients and synthetic ones; the latter comes out of the bottle already in a form that the plants can use, it doesn't have to be processed into microbe shit first.
. Everyone's input is appreciated, and much of it is useful.
