HOW TO GROW

BIGGERBUDS
A Brain Dead
Simple System
• Plus, GREAT News For Growers Who Want A
Complete, “Done For You” Systematic Solution
To Growing And Much, MUCH MORE!................... Page 8

• The Japanese Engineering Breakthrough

That’s Allowing Growers To Multiply Their
Yields Within The Same Bloom Time!......................... Page 14

• The “Secret” Grand Master Growers Have Used

To Win Every Major Growing Competition In
The World!................................................................ Page 18

• Here’s How Grand Master Growers Force More

Nutrients Into High-Profit Plants, Incredibly
FAST! .......................................................................... Page 24

• Discover How This Easy Way Of Boosting Your

Plant’s Roots Gets You Bigger Harvests.. Page 34

• Getting The Biggest Yields… From Your Bloom

Booster.............................................................................. Page 38

• Now You Can Greatly Speed Your Plant’s

Growth Phase And Give Them The Extra-
Strength They Need For Maximum Size, Weight and
Potency When They Finally Bloom!.............................. Page 108
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Advanced
Nutrients
Charter of responsibilitY
And Ethics (C.O.R.E.)
ADVANCED NUTRIENTS BELIEVES THAT a business that earns
money from its community has a social responsibility to put
that community first, directly support, be an integral part of, and
give back to that community, it must have a deep respect for
individuals inside and outside of the communities of which they
are a part of.
And that's why Advanced Nutrients has a progressive, non
partisan responsibility to help meet human needs and eliminate
social and economic injustices and inequalities in our local,
national and international communities by integrating our
principles into practices.
What's more, we feel we have a moral and social obligation
to take a stand when our community is being treated unfairly
or with prejudice. Especially when those injustices are coming
directly from other companies that are making a profit from our
community.
We also understand our clients and communities power to
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make a difference and will work with and support those individuals
and organizations who are actively committed to making a
difference for our community and the people in it.
Look running a business that is ethical and responsible isn't
the easiest thing to do. But it's absolutely the right way to run a
business-and the only way.
We believe leadership comes from the front and must set an
example for other businesses in our community, and because we
are an international organization the companies that we touch
and do business with around the world must see this.
Moreover, we believe we have no choice because we are
doing this as a lifelong commitment. In fact, it's that very belief
that drives the C.O.R.E. of Advanced Nutrients team members
and is our way of doing business on a daily basis.
Talk soon,
Big Mike :-)
what’s different
about us
W
hen you decide to buy an Advanced
Nutrient product what you’re really
buying is peace-of-mind. Here’s
why. You’re a client to us not a customer.
What’s the difference? A customer is
somebody you do business with and then for
all practical purposes forget about. A client
is under the care, guidance and protection of
an expert in the field. Think about it, because
that’s a very important distinction.
Moreover, all Advanced Nutrients team
members take this responsibility seriously.
In fact, they realize the importance of
putting your success first. That’s one of the
reasons all team members are so passionate
about getting you using the best products,
information and results for your crops.
Because they realize anything less, and
they’ll be putting you at a disadvantage.
And that doesn’t mean just using Advanced
Nutrients products, if there is a better product
out there they have been given very clear
instructions to recommend that product even
if it’s a competing product with one of our
own products.
Now when you think about that last
statement it obviously puts a tremendous
Advanced Nutrients: The leader in developing cutting-edge scientific solutions for your
unique hydroponic needs.
amount of pressure on every team member
in our entire organization to continually
give you the very best products, information
and drives constant innovation -- anything
less and we would have to suffer the
embarrassment of having to send you to one
of our competitors.
And this isn’t lip service. It’s absolute
doctrine at Advanced Nutrients, you are a
client first and foremost, your long term
success is the essential part of our company
culture.
You see, Advanced Nutrients is the
Hydroponics industries thought leader and
innovator. When you use any Advanced
Nutrients product you are getting the best
technologies available to you. I realize this
may sound like a bunch of “ yea sure that’s
what they all say” to you. Maybe it is to
you... But maybe it’s not. And if it’s not.
Then what? So I want you to take the time to
consider this for a moment.
Advanced Nutrients has created more
Industry firsts for our growing community
than any other hydroponics company, period.
In fact, here’s your very long list of them.
Take a quick look and judge for yourself...
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“Advanced Nutrients
has created more
Industry firsts
for our growing
community than
any other
hydroponics
company,
period.”
• First to do testing on the types of plants you
grow, and in the types of gardens you grow
in.
• First and still the only Hydroponics
company to have an all out “real” PhD
staffed research team.
• First to develop and deploy a self adjusting
pH line of base nutrients and supplements
so you won’t have to balance or adjust your
nutrients pH ever again.
• First to invent and use beneficial microbes
to balance and maintain pH.
• First to use 100% chelated micronutrients
giving you full protection over an ultra
wide pH range.
• First to use chelated macro nutrients.
• First to use a new class of pH buffering
technologies.
• First to invent pH activated and balancing
molecular technologies.
• First to do daily tissue samples in relevant
garden settings.
• First to invent sealed grow rooms for
the hydroponics community with total
environmental controls (these rooms are
known in the industry as “The Perfect
Room”).
• First to create patented engineered fertilizer
programs.
• First to give you beneficial bacteria and
fungi.
• First to give you root zone enhancers.
• First to offer you toll-free and online
technical support.
• Invented the feed chart.
• Invented the nutrient calculator.
• First and only company to offer a 100%
performance guarantee.
• First and one of the few to use hot water
manufacturing for superior dissolving of
all liquid products.
• First to use multiple element filtering of all
products.
• First hydroponics company to use bloom
cofactors, and other specialty components
that stimulate growth to get you bigger
yields.
• First to use ultra-purified reverse osmosis
water for manufacturing products. Most
hydroponics nutrient companies still use
tap water to manufacture their products.
• First to use standardized reverse osmosis
water “tuning” in all manufacturing
facilities and labs. This enables all water
used to manufacture and test with is
exactly the same anywhere in the world.
And is the same technology used by
Coca Cola, Pepsi and Anheuser-Busch to
ensure you always get the same consistent
product.
• First to use hormone-producing microbes.
• First to use beneficial enzymes.
• First to offer varietal nutrient mixture ratio
and formulation.
• First to offer email tech support,
entertainment media, and gardening
videos.
• First to create products that stimulate plant
immune systems.
• First to offer symbiotic synthetic-organic
hybrid fertilizers.
• First to make hydro-organic formulas that
work perfectly no matter what garden you
use them in.
• First to do competitive product testing.
• First to offer products in easy to use
packaging, foil pouches, and hydro-
friendly configurations.
Advanced Nutrients: The “Da Vinci” of
hydroponics companies.
• First to offer a total system that takes care
of your entire plant.
• First to offer beneficial microbes and other
products that protect grow rooms without
toxic effects.
• Invented carbohydrate supplements for
plants.
• First to use amino acids in bloom boosters.
• First to identify the specific ratios of macro
and micro nutrients your plants need for
bigger yields.
• First to have perfectly balanced cations
and anion based nutrients that control pH
in your growing medium.
Ok enough already, and I’m sure there are
lots more that I haven’t remembered yet.
It’s a fact the entire hydroponics nutrient
industry has been chasing and imitating us
for years. Which brings me to something
else...
Imagine just for a few moments you could
jump into a time machine and be transported
back to the year 1504. Boom! There you are
... it’s Saturday morning and you’re standing
in the outdoor market in Florence Italy.
It’s a sunny day, the sky is clear blue, the
temperature is in the mid 70’s, and there’s a
gentle breeze blowing across your face.
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“...if there is a
better product out
there they have
been given very
clear instructions
to recommend
that product even
if it’s a competing
product with
one of our own
products.”
So you start to take a walk around and
see merchants everywhere. As you come
around a corner there he is, the great master
himself, Leonardo da Vinci sitting in a chair
surrounded by all these really wonderful
inventions and beautiful works of art. So
you stop and stare at all of his original works
and inventions.
To your amazement they’re all for sale
and when you reach into your pocket -- sure
enough -- you have plenty of money. So you
start to negotiate for one of his works of art.
But just before you’re ready to hand him
your money you notice another merchant 30
feet away and he has what looks like some
of the same stuff Leonardo has.
So you approach him and ask him his price.
He offers you better prices and he says to
you that he has a similar work of art like the
one you were just looking at, in fact he even
claims it’s exactly the same as Leonardo’s
work.
However under very close scrutiny you
discover it’s not “just the same”. In fact,
the workmanship is shoddy and it lacks
inspiration. Well which one are you going to
buy? The answer is really obvious. Isn’t it?
So why would you want to compromise
when it comes to buying your hydroponics
nutrients? Truthfully, you wouldn’t
knowingly do so, would you? And
personally, I don’t want you to either, that’s
why I listed all of Advanced Nutrient’s
hydroponics industry “firsts” and leading
inventions for you More importantly, I want
you to be absolutely sure when you make
your choices -- it’s going to be the right one
for you and your plants. Thanks for taking
the time to read this, you’ll find the rest of
this magazine interesting and informative.
Enjoy:-) BigMike
Announcing:

pH-
PERFECT
TM

Tired of pH Pens
and Complicated Feed Charts?
Amazing Breakthrough “Brain-Dead-Simple”
Flowering System Uses New pH and PPM
Technologies So You Can Throw Away Your
Pens and Meters Forever!

Think about it, a Flowering System that will give you…

l Proven Bigger Yields
l Potent, Easy Mix & Use Formulas

l New, Powerful, Flower

Fattening Formulas
l Formulas That Work Together

For Your Biggest Yields

l A Driving Push That Flowers

Your Plants To Their True

Genetic Potential
l pH-Perfect - No More Balancing
TM

Your pH And PPM Ever Again!

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 World Exclusive!

H
ave you had enough of all those mind numbing
complicated feed charts, schedules, pH-PPM
pens, meters, different feed rates and all kinds of
other hard to figure out gadgets? It’s messy. It’s
time-consuming. It’s virtually impossible to figure
out, let alone get it right. Plus, all those bottles of calibration
solutions, pH-up, pH-down chemicals and the tiny holes they
burn into your shirts and pants.
You’ve been frustrated asking: “Hey, will somebody just give
me a fast, easy and simple to use bigger yield getting nutrient
flowering system?”
Advanced Nutrients listened to you. The answer is yes. You’ll
find out how in just a minute.
But first a little about the charts, schedules and programs.
Heck we invented the things to begin with, and since then all
the other nutrient companies have got in line and followed like
a shadow with their own feed charts and take on things. This
whole nutrient thing has gotten out of hand, and a whole lot
more complicated. We never intended for it to get this way. We
had created an industry wide monster and had to make things
right... because there had to be an easier way.
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 Now You Have the
Nutrient Flowering System
You Asked For
When we decided to create the
world’s easiest to use and most
powerful flowering system, it was
important that we get it right. So we
interviewed hundreds of growers
worldwide, just like you, to find out
exactly what you wanted from your
hydroponics nutrients.
And guess what? It was back to work
we went. We gathered up the team
of 12 scientists with their army of
research assistants and “worked our
butts off” over the next 33 months,
reworking everything from the ground
up and made it purpose-built to
give you a continuously bigger yield
producing punch than ever before,
streamlining your workload. That’s why
you’ll certainly appreciate The Bigger
Yields Flowering SystemTM. It takes
all the guesswork out of you getting the
biggest yields, no matter what level of
gardener you are.
From Hamburger
Millionaires to Bigger-
Harvest Hydroponics…
How You Can Use the Time-
Proven-Power of a “System”
and Get Your Bigger Yields
Advantage “Right Now”
Ever wondered why so many savvy
people spend millions of dollars to buy
a McDonald’s franchise?
New Breakthrough Formula
Connoisseur, Sensi Bloom and Grow-Micro-Bloom now contain & combine at a
higher level with these extra products to give you even Bigger Yields Guaranteed
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I realize you’re probably saying to yourself right now,
what the heck does this have to do with me getting bigger
yields? Just hang with me for a few moments and I will
explain it all.
It’s because the McDonald’s system is powerful,
consistent, simple and so comprehensively effective that
owning a McDonald’s franchise is literally a license to
print your own money.
And that’s not all, even first-time business owners make
big bucks running the McDonald’s system. Because the
entire well being of your business has been thought out
and everything your business needs is taken care of for
you. All you do is follow the system and harvest your big
piles of cash.
What does all this have to do with you? The Bigger
Yields Flowering SystemTM provides a rock solid
complete, consistent and comprehensive system that
automatically takes care of your entire plant for you at every
stage of growth, from its roots to the very top of your flowers
and everything in between.
Stop and imagine what it would mean to you to walk into your
garden and see the kind of crops you’ve always known were
possible and always dreamed of.
Big fat juicy harvests with towering buds, so sweet and
succulent that when other growers see pictures of your crop
they ask: “damn what the heck did you do?” and when your
friends and customers look at your finished product and take
those long intoxicating smells... they’ll have that look on their
face, which says it all.
Here’s how The Bigger Yields Flowering SystemTM will
continually deliver your dream harvests…
Amped-Up Base Nutrients, Special
Supplements and the Simplest Bigger Yields
Flowering System Ever Devised!
You told us you wanted to spend even less time and fuss in
your garden while getting still bigger harvest rewards. So
 University Developed
Finally Someone Who Gets It
Never being one to get in over my head, I’ve always
kind of stuck with a base nutrients two-part and a bloom
booster. My friend said I’d see bigger harvests using
your System, but I was scared it would make more work
for me. But when I looked at your System I realized you
guys really understand what its all about and have it all
figured out. So I got two Bigger Yields Bundles (Hobbyist
and Expert) and put them together like the chart says,
along with the new Sensi base. Not only was mixing this
stuff easier than ever, but I didn’t have to pH it and I also
found that the plants grew quicker and the bloom time
was shorter but a larger harvest. Your system worked
better than expected. Much thanks for getting it right.
Mark, from Gainesville, Florida

we developed the System to have a bold and broader range

of nutrient availability than you’ll ever find with any other
company’s nutrients.
How did we do it? The Bigger Yields Flowering SystemTM
nutrients are coated with multiple sources of unique and
powerful compounds, causing your Macro and Micro nutrients
to become powerful microscopic magnets attracted to your
plant’s roots.
These coatings give your nutrients tremendous flexibility to
work at an extremely wide pH range. Opening up your plants
cellular floodgates to rapidly inhale everything you feed them
so they steadily make larger and fatter flowers to give you
1. Chemists ensure all your nutrients give
you the widest pH absorption range with-
out any nutrient precipitation or lockout.
branch-bending-bounties.

Imagine Never Again Having to

Check and Adjust pH
Let me be a bit more specific... The Bigger Yields Flowering
SystemTM has a proprietary technology called pH-PerfectTM that
automatically puts your nutrient solutions pH and PPM into the
“sweet spot” for optimum growth and flowering, and it’s built
into every growing level of The Bigger Yields Flowering
SystemTM eliminating you having to fool with pesky pH meters
and PPM calculations.
Here’s how easy it is: if the water you use to mix your nutrients has
a pH between 4.5 and 8.5 pH (and that’s pretty much everyone’s
water) then you’ll never have to balance your pH or for that matter
ever add a single drop of pH up or down to your reservoir.
And how about never again having to remember complicated
measuring and application data?
Well, we heard you. All the base nutrients have been standardized
at 4 ml per Liter, so mixing and use is ridiculously easy.
Now get this, all the supplements have been standardized as
well.You only need to mix 2 ml per Liter. In fact it’s this way for all
the supplements used in all four of the growing levels: Hobbyist,
Expert, Professional and Grand Master with each level “stacking”
on top of each other, then you choose your base nutrients, and 2. Microbiologists meticulously select all
beneficial microbes for ‘super strains” to
guarantee you a bigger root mass and
away you go, that’s how The Bigger Yields Flowering SystemTM plant development.
works. Incredibly simple, isn’t it? turn page ¾

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 Who Advanced Nutrients Is
NOT For
Our nutrients are certainly not for
everyone…only growers who want
to see a difference and take their
gardens to the next level, growers who
want to really increase the quality of
their product and get bigger yields.
Advanced Nutrients is not the right fit
for those people who...
l Are Looking for Cheap Nutrients
and Could Care less What Goes Into
Them – Advanced Nutrients cost more
because you get more: High quality
and bigger yields, but in order for us
to give you that it cost us a lot of money.
We use premium ingredients and run a
full blown research staff of 12 PhDs, full
tech support and a 100% guarantee on
all products.
l Don’t Take Pride in Their Crop
– If they don’t care about the quality,
appearance or outcome of their harvest.
They can look elsewhere. Because
everything Advanced Nutrients does is
all about our pride in carefully crafting
GET THE STACK!
Start Stacking your Bigger Yields Bundles for Eve
Hobbyist
Bundle
products for growers that do just that: Create off-the-chart quality,
pristine appearance and bigger yields.
l Don’t Have Compassion For Their Fellow Man – If they’re not
willing to give a helping hand to people who are in need of their
assistance or expertise. Then listen up: Advanced Nutrients gives
all the time. We’ve donated hundreds of thousands of dollars in
nutrients and equipment over the years. Obviously giving is the
right thing to do.
No Dinosaurs Allowed:
Unleash Your Plant’s True Genetic Potential
and Get 9 Products for the Price of 4
It’s now really easy for you to realize the fact that your grower
friends are stuck in the “old hard way,” formulas and charts that,
well... qualify as dinosaurs. Not you though because you’ll be using
new state-of-the-art flowering technologies and five brand new
hydroponics industry breakthroughs that like a world class athlete,
will push your plants to their true genetic potential.
Even Better, you’ll save more money with the new Bigger Yields
Flowering SystemTM when you buy the all new 5 in 1 Connoisseur,
Sensi Bloom or Grow-Micro-Bloom base nutrients along with the
Hobbyist Bigger Yields BundleTM. Because it’s exactly the same as
getting 9 products for the price of 4, Sensi Bloom or Grow-Micro-
Bloom base nutrients now contains and combines at a higher level
the award winning products H-2, F-1, Wet Betty and a special blend
of Amino Acids; when you buy the Hobbyist Bigger Yields Bundle
which contains Big Bud, Voodoo Juice, B-52 and Overdrive, you’ll
also get the Overdrive for Free.
Actually we do mean it when we say award winning products and
breakthrough technologies. Let me explain, and these are absolute
facts, we’re not trying to brag or anything like that (well ok ...
maybe just a little), and because you’re probably not aware of these
facts, and of course they’re important ones when you’re buying The
Bigger Yields Flowering SystemTM.
l Advanced Nutrients has won every major growing competition
in the world, no other nutrient company has even come close to our
continuing string of victories.
l Advanced Nutrients is the hydroponics industry’s “technologies
leader” responsible to date for 31 technological breakthroughs
and patents that has elevated the science of hydroponics for the
Expert Professional
Grower Bundle Grower Bundle
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 entire industry and made your growing easier and more profitable,
Inside Look
including the five new pioneering technologies employed now in
The Bigger Yields Flowering SystemTM.
Anyway, back to what I was saying, here’s the deal. At the Expert
Grower Level you get Final Phase for Free. The Professional Grower
Level gives you SensiZym for Free and at the Grand Master Grower
Level you’ll receive your Rhino Skin absolutely Free.
So go right now and ask the store owner or one of the staff to
show you The Bigger Yields Flowering SystemTM and remember
to ask for your Bigger Yields Bundle. As you have clearly discovered
getting bigger yields and bigger savings has never been so easy.
Enjoy.

Company Founders’ NO-RISK, 100% Money Back

GUARANTEE 1. pH- balancing technologies automatically
make sure your plants get maximized
feeding no matter what pH your water is.
When you use the Bigger Yields Bundles along with one of our new and improved
super-potent base nutrients, you get the easiest, most valuable, biggest yields ever.
And in addition to that... you never have to bother yourself with pH or PPM again
when you use your Bigger Yields Bundles with any of our base nutrients. That’s right…
just mix your Bigger Yields Bundle formulas and our base nutrients in any type of water
with a pH range of 4.5 to 8.5 and you’ll see your plants rapidly inhale all the nutrients
they need for bigger yields. No pH metering or adjusting needed!
And get this: your Bigger Yields Bundles continually fattens your flowers while
making them taste so much better. Special carbohydrates and other natural ingredients
make your flowers taste like cotton candy. Unique chelates rinse unused nutrients from
your crop to give you a clean, sweet taste that everyone will crave.
Your entire plant - from your huge root mass to the tops of your gargantuan flowers
is automatically taken care of when you use our Bigger Yields Bundles along with one of
our superb new and improved base nutrients. 2. Cellular pathways are powerfully
activated so you get increased quantity
and quality of yields.
Best of all, you’re using the only pH-PerfectTM nutrients The System guaranteed to give
you bigger more consistent yields, much less work and you never
risk even one penny because if for any reason you are not
absolutely delighted just return this Bundle for a full refund.
As always, dedicated to your gardening success.

“Big Mike” Straumietis Eugene Yordanov Robert Higgins

To watch pH-PerfectTM Technology in action go to:

www.advancednutrients.com/ph-perfect
3. Bud building amino acids are paired
with special proteins that immediately
transfer the L-amino acids for enhanced
floral growth.

en Bigger Harvests and Savings

Grand Master
Grower Bundle

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4. Immerse your roots in highly active bud
potentiaters that surge through your
plants to get you thicker bigger buds.
 PART B

12 Plant PhD’s Discover

The Japanese Engineering Breakthrough
That’s Allowing Growers To

Multiply Their Yields

Within The Same Bloom Time!

W
e all want our plants to get into
peak bloom phase faster and to
yield a bigger harvest. Now, a
team of one dozen plant PhD’s
and their research assistants
believe they have found the
answer …
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“The secret”, says Dr. Savov, “Is we implement
the Japanese engineering principle of continuous
improvement – called kaizen – into developing a better
2-part premium bloom base fertilizer. The principle
of kaizen states that small, continual improvements
at each step of a multi-part process equals a much
larger, compounded total increase in performance in
the final product.”
 floral production, the scientists developed a
Compound Improvement … proprietary blend of floral growth co-factors to
The Most Powerful, Plant Growing activate and control these core issues.
Force In The Universe? These co-factors include amino acids and

M
amino acid precursors essential to protein

Nutrient
uch like Albert Einstein called compound formation which promote cellular metabolism,
interest, “the most powerful force in the replication and other bloom processes. In

universe” — these small, continuous
improvements at each phase of a multi-part
process yield a very powerful, impressive
end result.
So, when it comes to a premium bloom base
fertilizer — a team of 12 PhD’s working for
Advanced Nutrients in a leading Bulgarian
research lab simply found multiple ways to
improve upon each stage of the two-part
process of growing plants.
In the end, it worked exceptionally well to
achieve a bigger, compounded, yield — in
at least one documented head-to-head,
consumer trial — over 40% bigger!
Base
addition, other proprietary co-factors create
enhanced changes in how plants carry out
bloom phase functions.
Let’s examine how the scientists improved
these phases in developing the ultra-premium,
2-part bloom base nutrient for Grand Master
Growers – Connoisseur!
Instead of using low-quality, questionable
ingredients — the team at Advanced Nutrients

How This Scientific Breakthrough

Gets Your Plants Into Bloom Faster
and Multiplies Their Yield Without
Increasing Your Bloom Time

F
irst, the scientists wanted to improve upon
the actual ingredients used in their 2-part
formula. The idea was to give you better
“building blocks” for your plants to use to
get bigger yields, more colorful flowers, a
stronger aroma and maximum potency. This
was the first stage the team improved upon.
Next, they wanted to enhance your plant’s
abilities to get the maximum absorption of
these nutrients because having the highest
quality ingredients without ensuring your
plants can fully absorb them is worthless.
The scientists discovered that most growers
aren’t seeing bigger yields with other
fertilizers because their plants aren’t able to
effectively absorb the nutrients being used.
Obviously, improving the absorption
abilities of your plant greatly compounds A team of 12 scientists completely reengineered every
the effectiveness of the high quality aspect of bloom phase base nutrients and discovered
ingredients being used! Lastly, in an effort to how to get your plants into bloom phase faster so you
maximize every part of your plant’s deepest get bigger, more potent buds that are worth more to
core levels of plant bloom metabolism and you, your friends, and your associates.
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 invested heavily in putting to use only the
most potent, most effective, most proven
ingredients possible (ingredients no other
company uses because of the high cost
to both source and manufacture these
Nutrient

ingredients into bloom fertilizers!)

Base

HOW TO ENSURE YOUR

PLANT GETS THE MAXIMUM
UPTAKE OF NUTRIENTS ...

T
o start with, every single one of the micro-
nutrients used in Connoisseur is chelated so
you get maximum absorption and uptake of
these amino chelates into your plants. With
a theoretical absorption range of pH 1-10,
this in effect means you get the highest
absorption rate possible of these life-giving
micronutrients for as long as your plant is
alive! Connoisseur actually changes your plants’ bloom
metabolism and timing so your flowers go into peak bloom
What’s more, Advanced Nutrients, has earlier and stay there long, giving you more essential oils
also invested heavily into chelating a high and size. The kicker is that your bloom phase doesn’t get
percentage of the macro-nutrients used in
any longer. You get heavier, more devastating buds, in the
Connoisseur to get your plants to bloom
same amount of time as your previous crop cycles!
faster and keep them in that bloom phase
longer!
you get more satisfied and repeat customers!
l The bottom line? You get more profits per each crop cycle!
HOW GROWERS OF HIGH
PROFIT PLANTS ARE
MAKING MORE MONEY WHY NOT GIVE CONNOISSEUR
WITH THIS ONE, SIMPLE A RISK-FREE TRY TODAY?
SCIENTIFIC BREATHROUGH

I
l You’ve seen how the proprietary 2-part fertilizer formula
...
was developed by a team of 12 PhD’s working for the
f you count on your plants to make you
leading plant growing research laboratory in the world …
money, you’re going to love Connoisseur!
l You’ve seen how the unique principle of small continuous
Here’s why commercial growers of rare
and profit-producing plants love this improvements to each phase of the 2-step base formula
comprehensive hydroponics fertilizer produces a more powerful, compounded total yield in your
formula … plants …

l You get a faster time to peak bloom time
… meaning you get to sell your plants
faster!
l You get more flowers and more weight
per flower … which means more money
per plant!
l You get more aroma, more taste, and
more color in your plants … which means
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l You’ve seen just a few of the most potent, most pure,
most effective ingredients that went into the Connoisseur
blend …
l You’ve met other growers like yourself, who were skeptical
at first but now praise Connoisseur because it’s giving them
up to 40% increase in their harvest yields …
l And you know Advanced Nutrients fully stands behind
Connoisseur and every other product they sell with their

Connoisseur gives you the world’s leading flower-boosting base nutrients formula.
100% full money back guarantee. Either you’re ecstatic
about the results you get in your plants — or you get your
money back.
DON’T DECIDE NOW ... PUT CONNOISSEUR
TO THE TEST WITH YOUR PLANTS!
F
irst, make sure there’s enough space in your
grow room to handle the increase in size
you’re going to be seeing in your plants
in just a few short weeks. Next, simply go
to your favorite retail shop that carries
Advanced Nutrients products and tell them
you want to try out Connoisseur.
Then when you get home, follow the
simple, step-by-step directions included to
put it to the test with your plants. Then watch
in amazement as you see your flowers go
into peak bloom phase faster and develop
in peak bloom longer.
The only thing left will be answering all
your friends’ questions about what you’re
doing when they want to know what’s
causing the bigger growth … more flavor
… and more color in your plants.
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How You’re Guaranteed To Get More Size,
More Flavor and More Value From Your Plants
In The Same Bloom Time …
Company Founders’ NO-RISK,
100% Money Back
GUARANTEE
Connoisseur was specifically built for growers just like you, who
have very specific demands and expectations from your hydroponics
needs. When you use Connoisseur it must perform flawlessly for
you. You’ll find it will mix easily and quickly into your reservoir and
deliver the goods you’re looking for.
What’s more..., Connoisseur will work every time for you using
any and all hydroponics, soil or sphagnum growing mediums and
all hydroponics, aeroponics, drip irrigation, NFT, flood & drain,
drip emitters and continuous liquid feed growing systems. We
guarantee it.
And when you use Connoisseur you’ll never have to risk even one
penny because it’s 100% guaranteed, as always if for any
reason you’re not absolutely delighted
we’ll refund all your money back it’s
that simple.
As always, dedicated to your
gardening success.

It’s The Latest In Scientific, “5-in-1” Bloom Phase Technology …
The Secret Grand Master Growers
Have Used To Win Every Major
Growing Competition In The World!
N
ow, you don’t have to be an expert, grand
master grower in order to get bigger, juicier,
more aromatic, and more potent buds from your
plants. All you have to do is put the same secret grand
master growers have used to win every major growing
competition in the world to use with your plants.
Here’s the story: recently, a respected team of over a
dozen plant scientists and graduate assistants discovered,
after 109 man-years of research, how to combine 5
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Part A
Part B
different plant improving formulas into one breakthrough
2-part bloom base nutrient.
What’s more: you’ll never have to worry about pH issues
again because these scientists have completely eliminated
the need for pH-PPM metering or even adjusting pH
levels with their patented pH-Perfect™ Technology.
All this in effect means it is now possible for even
the most inexperienced hydroponics rookie to start
experiencing “pro level” juicy yields and buds!
 The “Secret” 5 Part Plant Maximizing Formula How To Get The Optimal Amounts
and How Science Ensures Get You Bigger, Juicier Of Micro and Macro Nutrients
Buds From Your Plants Because of It! For A Bigger Yield
Ingredient #1 ensures that the nutrients in this formulation To ensure your plants get the most out of the

Nutrient
get into your plants as quickly as possible. It’s an organic nutrients you’re feeding them, the scientists
surfactant called Wet Betty and it does something every

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rely on chelation to enhance absorption. In
plant grower wants … fact, this 5-in-1 formula contains the optimum
… Surfactants are wetting agents that lower the surface number of chelated macronutrients that your
tension of a liquid (in this case, nutrient-rich water) allowing plants need for faster growth and bigger
easier spreading and uptake of nutrients into your plants. blooms.
Which of course means your plants will get the organic In addition, the following micronutrients
nutrients they crave faster and more efficiently than ever are 100% chelated: iron, zinc, manganese,
before — which greatly increases your plant’s bloom yield. molybdenum, copper, boron and cobalt …
Ingredients #2 and #3 are humic and fulvic acids. These which of course means … your plants more
organic acids give your plants an edge when it comes to easily absorb and use these nutrients — giving
growing quicker, stronger, and bigger … with less stress … you bigger buds and more yield from the same
than with any other formulation. Here’s how … bloom time!
The humic provides natural carrier
compounds that transport nutrients and
vitamins into plants more efficiently, so your
plants grow faster and have stronger cellular
processes. In addition, the fulvic here gives
you quicker nutrient absorption, nutrient
transport, and more cellular metabolism.
Together, they work synergistically to
maximize the time your plants spend in
bloom.
And ingredient #4 completes the package
because it’s ...

The Bodybuilding Secret

That Gives Your Plants Bigger,
More Potent Buds!
In the sport of bodybuilding, athletes
supplement with amino acids to help fuel
muscle growth because they’re the essential
“building blocks” on which protein growth is
based.
But your plants can benefit from the
addition of amino acids too! That’s why the
4th ingredient in this one of a kind 2-part base
nutrient is amino acids. These amino acids
are the building blocks of proteins that fuel
metabolic pathways for enhanced floral and
essential oil production.
Sensi Bloom contains surfactants, amino acids, fulvic
Ingredient #5 is, of course, the actual plant- acid, humic acid, macronutrients, secondary nutrients and
maximizing nutrients themselves. But, you micronutrients scientifically combined to power your flowers
should know … to bigger value, potency and weight.

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 How This New Plant Growing
Technology Maximizes Your
Bloom Phase So You Get A
Huge Harvest You Can Be Proud Of
Nutrient
This team of respected scientists and their
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graduate assistants worked around the clock to
ensure this nutrient worked unlike any other:
• You get earlier flowering with more budding
sites …
• You get a shorter internode length and more
buds per stem …
• You get thicker diameter flowers with better
floral structure because the powerful, pure
ingredients feed your plants more effectively …
• You get more time in peak bloom because your
plants flower earlier giving you more weight,
more aroma, more color and more potency …
If they had stopped there, you would still have
seen an impressive increase in your total yield.
How do you get bigger, higher quality flowers
without working extra hard to do it? Use Sensi
Bloom and you’ll get more from your plants with
less work and time. That’s because Sensi Bloom
is pH perfect, so it feeds your plants faster and
more efficiently, with no worries about pH
metering!
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KICK-ASS FERTILIZER
HYDROPONICS GROWER SATISFACTION
SENSI
BLOOM
OK, BUT
NOTHING
SPECIAL
CANNA
GENERAL
HYDROPONICS
BOTANICARE
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VERY
UNHAPPY
ADVANCED NUTRIENTS ALWAYS WINS THE GROWER SATISFACTION
Growers justTRYlike
AWARD. you who’ve
SENSIBLOOM NOW, ANDcompared Sensi
YOU’LL SEE WHY.
Bloom to competing bloom bases say that
Sensi Bloom kicks ass, but the other nutrients
are disappointing, not worth the money, and a
waste of time and electricity.
Why You’ll Never Have To
Worry About pH Levels Again
However, in developing this advanced 2-part bloom
fertilizer – Sensi Bloom — this team of scientists
went the extra mile!
If you’ve ever experienced off-color leaves,
slow growth or low yield with your plants … then
you’ve probably noticed these problems coincide
with mysterious pH and PPM fluctuations. It’s one
of the biggest obstacles to getting “pro level” yields
from your plants.
In fact, many growers find that manually checking
and adjusting pH levels two times per day, to try
to keep their plants growth stable and maximized
is tiring, time consuming and one of the biggest
challenges of trying to get bigger yields.
However, these scientists discovered how to
completely eliminate pH checking forever with
their proprietary pH-Perfect™ Technology. In
short, as long as your water falls between 4.5 and
8.5 pH (which is pretty much everyone’s water)—
this technology adjusts your pH for you and keeps it
buffered there throughout your plants bloom cycle.
Which means you’ll never have to manually adjust
your pH … you’ll never have to worry that your
plants aren’t in the premium growing environment
…all you have to do is add the bloom base nutrient Sensi
Bloom and the pH-Perfect™ Technology takes care of all
that for you!
The Ideal Ratios, Already Dialed In For You ...
l You’ve seen how Sensi Bloom started with
only the purest, most potent ingredients
and then was improved upon with the ad-
dition of amino acids … fulvic and humic
acids … and the correct use of both macro

Nutrient
and micro chelation to ensure you get only
It’s a known fact that the further you move away from
the best, most effective components …

feeding your plants their ideal nutrient ratios, potency and
yield rapidly deteriorate.
You see, your plants use a small amount of phosphorus
during flowering, but what they really love to use is nitrogen
and potassium. The scientists at Advanced Nutrients
discovered this only after taking thousands of weekly tissue
samples from buds, stems, leaves and roots of many varieties
using gas chromatography analysis throughout all phases of
plant growth.
Other nutrient companies are over-using phosphorus in
hydroponic bloom fertilizers. And to compound problems,
they use high levels of ingredients like mono ammonium
phosphate (MAP) or diammonium phosphate (DAP). These
substances are what give some plants their harsh taste.
But the good news is: with Sensi Bloom you’re guaranteed
to have the correct nutrient ratios for your plants!
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l You’ve seen how the addition of Advanced
Nutrient’s proprietary pH-Perfect™ Tech-
nology makes it possible for you to never
worry about pH or PPM monitoring ever
again …
l You’ve met other growers like yourself,
who were skeptical at first but now will
never use anything but Sensi Bloom be-
cause it’s giving them nearly double the
harvest yields and up to 3 inches of growth
per day …
l And you know Advanced Nutrients fully
stands behind Sensi Bloom and every other
product they sell with their 100% full mon-
ey back guarantee. Either you’re overjoyed
about the results you get in your plants — or
you get all your money back.

“I can’t afford some of the better fertilizers So why not

you offer. I have a student loan to pay off get started today?
and a rusty car. I have to be careful with
my money. One day I will be able to afford
Connoisseur, which I have heard is the
most powerful two-part bloom fertilizer ever
made. Until I can afford it, I am quite happy
with Sensi Bloom two-part. I have nice, juicy
harvests from it and it’s easy to use. It costs
less and it works just fine. That’s all you can
ask for in a bloom fertilizer. Good price and
good value.”
Irv, from Bend, Oregon

How You Are Guaranteed Bigger, Juicier, More

Potent Yields From Your Plants ...
Advanced Nutrients offers a 100% money-back guarantee
of satisfaction with this product.
Isn’t It Time You Gave
Sensi Bloom A No-Risk Try?
l You’ve seen how a team of scientists found a way to com-
bine 5 different products into one powerful 2-part bloom Scientists designed Sensi Bloom to increase the
fertilizer … yields of your plants.

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 There’s No Need To
Decide Now Put Sensibloom
To The Test With Your Plants!
Nutrient
If you’d agree that getting bigger, juicier,
more colorful, more aromatic and more
Base
potent plants with your next cycle is
something you’d love to see.
If you’re tired of wasting time adjusting
pH or monitoring PPM levels … yet you
refuse to accept anything less than maximum
growth from your plants …
If you will accept nothing less than the most
potent, most pure, most effective ingredients
… combined with the most advanced
methods possible of ensuring your plants
more effectively use those nutrients …
And you’re convinced that only companies
that fully stand behind their products with a
risk-free money-back guarantee are worth
your time and loyalty …
Then there’s only one logical thing to do.
Simply go to your favorite retail shop that
carries Advanced Nutrients products and
tell them you want to try out Sensi Bloom
completely risk-free.
Then when you get home, follow the simple,
step-by-step directions included to put it to
the test with your plants. (Remember, this is
as simple as it gets, no need to worry about
Now you’ve found your big-flowering base nutrients formula!
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pH or PPM monitoring—just add the nutrients as
directed.) Then you’ll sit back and watch as your
plants grow bigger and heavier and with more color
than ever before.
The only thing you’ll have to do after that is tell
your friends the truth about how you’re getting
bigger yields, more flavor, and more potency from
your plants with almost no more effort than before.
Company Founders’ NO-RISK,
100% Money Back
GUARANTEE
Sensi Bloom was specifically built for growers just like you,
who have very specific demands and expectations from your
hydroponics needs. When you use Sensi Bloom it must perform
flawlessly for you. You’ll find it will mix easily and quickly into
your reservoir and deliver the goods you’re looking for.
What’s more..., Sensi Bloom will work every time for you using
any and all hydroponics, soil or sphagnum growing mediums
and all hydroponics, aeroponics, drip irrigation, NFT, flood
& drain, drip emitters and continuous liquid feed growing
systems. We guarantee it.
And when you use Sensi Bloom you’ll never have to risk even
one penny because it’s 100% guaranteed, as always if for any
reason you’re not absolutely delighted we’ll
refund all your money back it’s that simple.
As always, dedicated to your
gardening success.
 If You Want The Biggest, Most Colorful, Most Aromatic, And Most
Impressive Flowering Possible, Here’s How Grand Master Growers
Force More Nutrients Into
High-Profit Plants, Incredibly FAST!
R.K is a Grand Master Grower of high profit
plants from Santa Rosa, California. For over
15 years he used the same 3-part General
Hydroponics fertilizer in his 20-light grow
room.
In his own words:
“You know how it is when you get used to
something. You stop paying attention to whether
you can do better. It’s like inertia. It’s easier to stay
the same than to change, even if you could do
better …
… My yields were not all that large and
sometimes I noticed that the same mix amounts
of this general hydroponics stuff would create a
way different pH or PPM. Once or twice I saw that
I was losing an entire crop, but it was hard for me
to figure out that it was the general hydroponics
fertilizer, not diseases or other problems. It was
hard to admit I needed to change what I was
using in my hydroponics system.”
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But luckily, R.K. heard about a brand-new
3-part formula … and … he had a lot of clones
he could afford to try a new fertilizer on.
Although he was sceptical, he decided to test
this new scientist-developed formula against
the fertilizer he had been using for over fifteen
long years in a straight up, head-to-head,
growing test.
And the results amazed him …
“… Right off the bat, it was easy to see that
my clones grew faster, they were greener and
stronger, and they were ready for flowering
about two weeks earlier.
“My bloom cycle was more productive … I
used less fertilizer overall … and got better
growth and yield. I guess I learned to keep an
open mind and to always look for the best way
to do something, not just the way you’re used
to. Now, Grow-Micro-Bloom (GMB) is the solid
foundation for my 20-light garden!”
 Why Big-Time Growers Of High-Value
Plants Demand A Superior 3-Part Formula
While a premium 2-part formula like our Connoisseur is actually

Nutrient
the most effective way to precisely dial in the exact nutrients and
ratios your plants need … many growers enjoy the simplicity of

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an easy-mixing 3-part formula … and they still want the most
effective formula possible.
That’s why they demand only the best when it comes to:
l Using 3-part formulas designed for their high-value plants …
l Using formulas with the most potent nutrients and ratios …
l Using the most advanced, state-of-the-art, “carrier molecules”
to ensure their plants get the maximum amount of nutrients
in the least amount of time …
l Using the formulas which have been proven, in multiple
scientific studies, to get more color, more aroma, more size,
and more potency from our plants …
l And using formulas which are not only highly-advanced and
easily customizable, but easy to mix and use …
Now you can use the only 3-part hydroponics
In fact, Grand Master Growers have found Grow-Micro-Bloom
base fertilizer tested and designed by scientists
(GMB) from Advanced Nutrients is the only 3-part formula on the
to give you guaranteed larger harvests and more
market which meets all these criteria. Here’s why the others don’t
convenient use.
measure up ...

even if … you do manage to get a formula

The 3 Biggest Problems
With Other 3-Part Formulas
If you’ve been growing for any amount of time, these three
problems will be very familiar to you:
Big Problem #1: Most 3-part formulas are not made for the
types of plants we grow because you’ll discover they’re about
the same as the little $3.50 bottles of granulated fertilizers the
average homeowner uses on their garden flowers. They’re made
in generic ways with generic ingredients.
Big Problem #2: Is directly related to the fact other 3-part
formulas are not made for high-value plants like ours … and that
is … they’re hard to mix and monitor and are the direct cause of
many of your plant growing problems.
Many include artificial dyes of an unknown amount and
molecular structure which could harm your plants (instead of
harmless, organic dyes) … they don’t have the right PPM or pH
… they burn roots … they don’t feed plants the right nutrients
leading to slow growth and reduced harvests … and they may
contribute to other growing problems. The bottom line? They
basically wreck crops and waste your garden’s potential!
Big Problem #3: If you’re using other, different, formulas …
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with nutrients which are good for your plants
(which, as you’ve seen, most don’t have) … then
… you’re probably still wasting most of those
nutrients because those formulas don’t have
carrier molecules to drive those nutrients straight
into your plants faster and more efficiently. This
is actually a big problem because most of your
nutrients are not getting into our plants which
wastes your money … and … this causes longer
crop cycles which wastes your time. But it doesn’t
need to be this way …
How You Can Get At Least
31% More Nutrients Into Your
Plants At Least 37% Faster
One of the most important ways GMB gives you
faster growth and bigger yields is through the
special ingredients it contains that drive more
of the nutrients in the formula into your plant
faster than ever before. These nutrient delivery
compounds are called “chelates” which are
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 compounds that bind with nutrients and help
them get inside plants so the plant cells can use
them more quickly and more efficiently.
It’s these chelates which give GMB an almost
“unfair” advantage over every other 3-part
Only for
Nutrient

formula on the market because it drives the

Your Type
nutrients into your plants in the most efficient,
of Plants
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fastest manner possible. In fact, these exclusive

chelates are so effective that tests (with our types
of plants) show they deliver at least 31% more HIGHEST Faster
nutrients into your plants at least 37% faster!
Consider this also: your plants will make better
YIELD Absorbing

use of the formula you give them which means

you’ll save money on fertilizers, equipment and
electricity because you’ll have a faster, more
productive crop cycle.
Maximum
Flexibility
Grand Master Growers everywhere understand
it’s especially important when you’re using non-
Easy Mixing
soil hydroponic systems including rockwool, and Use
aeroponics, NFT and other types of materials in
indoor gardens to make the most out of every
ounce of nutrients you feed your plants.

But Chelation Is Useless Unless

It Helps Deliver Only The Most
High-Quality, Bud-Potentiating
Nutrients Into Your Plants!
While chelation is extremely important because
it helps your plants get more total nutrients and
faster … you have to make absolutely sure …
you’re feeding your plants the correct nutrients
in the first place! That’s why GMB contains only
the most proven, most potent and most effective
nutrients in the correct ratios you need to get
maximum growth and yield from your plants in
every stage of your crop cycle.
During the growth phase: when your plants
need nitrogen, calcium and other necessary
nutrients, GMB’s chelates force these nutrients
directly and immediately into your plant’s roots,
leaves, cells and flowers — greatly speeding the
growth phase.
During the bloom phase: GMB feeds powerful
chelated potassium, phosphorus and other
nutrients that boost flower size and weight
directly into the heart of your plants so they
get the maximum size, weight and budding
possible. And if this still wasn’t enough, here’s …
You’ll see the widest range of harvest-boosting benefits
from this powerful 3-part formula.
What Grand Master Growers
Do Differently To Get Huge Yields And
Impressive Harvests From Their Crops!
As we’ve seen: if you want to dial in the exact nutrients and ratios
your plants need, it’s best to use a premium 2-part formula—like
our exclusive Connoisseur blend.
But, one big benefit of GMB is … even though it’s a 3-part
formula … you can now customize it more fully than any other
3-part blend to work better with your plants. While many
hobbyists and growers with small gardens will choose to stick
to the standard, extremely easy-to-mix and use 1-1-1 ratio …
you also have the option to customize this 3-part formula for the
specific strain you’re growing.
Here’s how: a band of scientists, mathematicians, and computer
experts spent years developing and testing a nutrient calculator
(available on Advanced Nutrients’ website) that helps you create
the optimum growing blend so you can make adjustments to
get the absolute best growth and production from your plants.
The formula is studied, buffered and constantly upgraded

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based on dozens of international research projects conducted
in hydroponics, aeroponics, indoor gardens, and commercial
agriculture projects across the world … so that you get … the
absolute best 3-part formula for whatever strain of plant you
want to maximize.
You can get as in depth and involved with your plants as you
want … or … you can simply stick to the basic 1-1-1 ratio of
mixing and never have to worry about pH, PPM, or any of the
other problems associated with other 3-part formulas!
Plus, You Will Never
Have To Worry About Your pH Again!
Now, off-color leaves, slow growth and low yields because of
pH and PPM fluctuations are a thing of the past because GMB
contains pH-Perfect™ Technology which eliminates the need to
manually check and adjust pH levels two times per day.
In short, as long as your water falls between 4.5 and 8.5 pH
(which is pretty much everyone’s water) — this technology
adjusts your pH for you and keeps it buffered there throughout
your plants growth and bloom phases. Which means you’ll never
have to manually adjust your pH … you’ll never have to worry
that your plants aren’t in the premium growing environment …
all you have to do is use GMB as directed and the pH-Perfect™
Technology takes care of all that for you!
Here’s How
GROW-MICRO-BLOOM (GMB)
Is Actually 5-Products-In-One!
The fact of the matter is: GMB offers you more value for your
money than any other 3-part formula on the market and it’s
simply because you get 5-products-in-one with this formulation.
Here’s how …
l GMB now contains Wet Betty which is an organic surfactant
that lowers the surface tension of your water, allowing easier
spreading and uptake of nutrients into your plants.
l The second ingredient is humic acid which provides natural
carrier compounds that transport nutrients and vitamins into
your plants more efficiently, so they grow faster and have
stronger cellular processes.
l The third ingredient is fulvic acid which gives you quicker
nutrient absorption, nutrient transport, and more cellular
metabolism. Together, these two acids work synergistically
to maximize the time your plants spend in bloom.
l The fourth ingredient in GMB is the highly-potent bud-
potentiating nutrients themselves that feed your plants
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exactly what they need for fast, high-powered
growth and impressive finishing harvests.
l And the fifth and final ingredient is the
specialized “chelates” we’ve already talked
about that get these high-powered nutrients
Nutrient
into your plants as fast and as efficiently as
possible!
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Together, these five products combine to create
the most effective 3-part formula possible. Just
how effective is GMB?
What You Can Expect When You Put
This Grand Master Growing Secret
To Work in Your Grow Room!
Imagine walking into your grow room after
using Grow-Micro-Bloom (GMB) in your next crop
cycle …
You’ll own a plush, productive garden where
clones, seedlings or transplants grow way faster
than ever before … they’re bushier … they’re
bigger … and they’re way more aromatic and
potent. Even better is: you’re spending less time
fussing with your nutrients, PPM and pH because
the formula is better balanced and mixes easy.
l Your plants mature faster and are ready for
flowering earlier.
l They start putting on more flowers sooner.
l The flowers are bigger and more developed.
l The plants are greener, more lush and
healthier because they’re getting the right
nutrients at the right time … and … in the
right way.
l These happy plants resist pests and diseases
and give you a beautiful harvest you can be
proud of … and … count on for profits.
… In fact, your friends might just hound you
to know how you got such big buds … such
delicious smelling plants … and such potency!
Why Not Give GROW-MICRO-BLOOM
(GMB) A Risk-Free Try Today?
l You’ve seen how the proprietary 3-part
fertilizer formula was developed specifically
for growers like you and our high-value
plants …
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 Now You
Can Join The
HYDROPONICS
REVOLUTION
That Saves You Time
And Money While Increasing
Your Yields

Hobbyist Bundle is: TM

l Specially designed for use with all hydroponics, soil and

sphagnum growing mediums.
l Developed for use with any and all hydroponics,
aeroponics, drip irrigation, NFT or flood and drain
growing systems.
l You’ll get guaranteed bigger yields over any and all
other feed programs, formulas or charts.
l Bigger and more consistent yields.
l Fast, easy and simple mixing so you save time.
l Bigger Yields Flowering System is the only flowering
TM

system that takes care of your entire plant from roots to

the very top of your flowers and everything in between.
l No-Risk 100% Guarantee or your money back.

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 H i, it’s Big Mike here.
I haven’t met you
personally, but I bet I can
But, Big Mike, How Can It Be That
The System Totally Revolutionizes
describe you pretty well. Hydroponics Gardening?
You’re a resourceful, Let’s remember…you wanted to be a grower, not a chemist.
free-thinking person whose You don’t really want to fool with meters, calibrations and all
friends and family see you as those foul-smelling pH adjustment chemicals… stuff that will
burn your skin and puts little holes in your shirts and pants no
forward-looking and someone matter how careful you are.
who is open-minded.
And that’s exactly why
I’m betting you’ll join with
Advanced Nutrients to create
a new generation of growers
who’ll stand the hydroponics
industry “good ol’ boys club”
on it’s head and prove what
those hydroponics “experts”
said couldn’t be done,
actually has been done.
It’s the hydroponics
equivalent of Putting A Man
On The Moon, and Took A
Total Of 109 Man Years to
develop.
Let me be a bit more
specific... remember how
you’ve had it drilled into
your head that your plants
will suffer or even die unless
you spend lots of money and
time using pH meters, ppm
meters, pH up and pH down? The Hobbyist BundleTM and the Flowering System are designed
Well it’s not true; you can by a team of PhD plant scientists who’ve spent years discover-
now slay the pH-PPM dragon ing the secrets of how your plants grow and bloom. You get ex-
for good. actly the right ingredients for larger, more potent flowers.

Here’s how, with this
Hobbyist Bigger Yields
Bundle and any of the
new 5-in-1 Base Nutrients.
Because together they have
a new built in proprietary
technology called pH-
PerfectTM that automatically
puts your nutrient solutions
pH and PPM into the “sweet
spot” for optimum growth and
flowering. Eliminating the
need for you having to fool
around with pain-in-the-butt
pH and PPM metering and
adjustments.
Being once a grower for over 20 years of my life, I realize
your pain, so I worked together with our 12 scientists and
their army of research assistants and created a Nutrient
Flowering System that helps you grow massive, astounding
flowers without having to fiddle around like meter-addicted
lab rats when all we really want to do is put nutrients into
water, listen to the pump hum, and kick back while our plants
deliver gold coins into our hands.
The team and I worked our “butts off” testing all kinds
combinations of edgy formulas, proprietary compounds,
chelates and secret stuff, I’d be a fool to tell anyone about,
because then our competitors would try to copy us just
like they’ve always done ever since we designed the first
professional approach to hydroponics nutrients.
And my biggest fear today? Other nutrient companies are
going to wreak havoc on everyones’ crops because they’ll
be forced to compete with unproven technology (I don’t
è
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have to tell you, some companies may never figure out this
technology) and they’ll try and sell you their undeveloped
“copycat formulas”.
No More pH-PPM Metering Or Adjusting,
It’s All Done For You
Here’s how easy it’s going to be for you, if the water you
use to mix your nutrients has a pH between 4.5 and 8.5 (and
that’s pretty much everyone’s
water) then you’ll never have
to balance your pH or for that
matter ever add a single drop
of pH up or down to your
reservoir. You’ll have to agree
that really makes growing
a whole lot easier for you,
doesn’t it?
From roots to shoots and
everything in between, your
Hobbyist Bigger Yields Bundle
contains the four proven
formulas that will deliver
precise nutrition to every part
of your flowering plants…
• VooDoo Juice beneficial mi-
crobes. Hundreds of university
studies have shown that big-
ger roots equal bigger yields.
VooDoo Juice produces an
enormous root mass during
your flowering cycle and that
means your plants will support
bigger flowers. VooDoo Juice
also makes your plants’ roots
grow faster so your plants will
inhale the maximum amount
of nutrients quicker for larger,
faster-growing flowers.
• B-52 contains a unique blend of 9 different B vitamins
keeping your plants healthy and driving hard during rapid
flower formation.
• Big Bud, watch as your flowers swell up week after week.
Your Bigger Yields Bundle contains legendary Big Bud, the
bloom booster containing the perfect ratio of flower building
L-amino acids and other awesome ingredients that power up
flower metabolism and production.
• Overdrive bloom enhancer, you’ve always wanted to max-
out your flowers at the end phase of your bloom cycle, and
that’s why we’re giving you Overdrive absolutely free. You use
it in the last two weeks of bloom phase so your flowers really
“pack on the weight”.
Here’s The Bottom Line
The bottom line is the mighty band of scientists and research
assistants have succeeded in liberating you from ever having
to care about pH or PPM again.
As if that wasn’t enough... they also figured out how to
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Hobbyist
BUNDLE™
standardize your products. You use just 4
ml per liter for the Systems base nutrients
and 2 ml per liter for all supplements. So
mixing and using them is ridiculously
simple and quick.
I’m proud you’ve chosen to experience
the power and simplicity of the weight-
shattering Bigger Yields Flowering
System™, so you just plug and play, go
have fun, and watch your flowers get
significantly more valuable than you ever
thought possible.
“... join with Advanced
Nutrients to create
a new generation of
growers who’ll stand the
hydroponics industry
“good ol’ boys club”
on it’s head and prove
what those hydroponics
“experts” said couldn’t
be done, actually has
been done.”
Big Mike
Here’s something you should be aware
of, I’ve staked my entire company on the
revolutionary new formulas you hold in
your hands right here, right now, inside
this box.
So here’s my promise to you, and you can
take this to the bank: you buy this Hobbyist
Bundle™ box, along with one of our base
nutrients, right now today, follow the
easy instructions, and you are absolutely
positively 100% guaranteed to get bigger
yields while spending less time metering,
mixing and measuring your nutrients.
PS- If your hydroponics store tries to sell
you somebody else’s nutrients, ask them
if those other nutrient feeding programs,
wheels, schedules or whatever give
you the Systems pH-Perfect™ rock solid
performance, a 100% Money Back Bigger
Yields Guarantee, and free products.
n
DISCOVER HOW THIS EASY WAY OF BOOSTING
YOUR PLANT’S ROOTS GETS YOU

BIGGER
HARVESTS!

You’re about to discover how easily you can enlarge the Plus, microbes help oxygen to penetrate more into
power dimensions of your plant’s roots and guarantee your roots … capture nitrogen … and help pump more
yourself bigger harvests with custom-designed microbially phosphorus into your plants.
active supplements ... The question has now
These powerful supplements become…what is the best way
create ideal root zone to install beneficial microbes
environments better able to into your hydroponics root
intake nutrients … resist stress zone?
and diseases … and your roots To answer this question,
stay stronger because beneficial Advanced Nutrients scientists
microbes break down old root   conducted a multi-phase
VooDoo Juice enhanced control plant
material, providing nutrition research project on a unique
Root mass of tomato plants, same seed, same
while enabling roots to repair age,same number, harvested after 42 days of suite of beneficial microbes
themselves and create new tissue. growth. Plants on left received VooDoo Juice. contained in VooDoo Juice.

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 They discovered, when used as directed, VooDoo Juice
provides:

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l Faster-developing roots on your seedlings, transplants

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and clones
l Your roots have more branching, root density and root Most hydroponics companies save money
mass on costs by hiring a third-party company
to bulk produce/bulk combine microbes
l Increases in your root size up to 117%
without testing them for specific plant
l Faster, more efficient intake of nutrients; saving you appropriateness or microbial compatibility.
time and money Not only that, but their process includes
l Your plants give faster growth, larger flowers a generic view of microbes. For example,
when someone talks about the microbe
l Your roots are more resistant to heat, stress, drought,
“bacillus subtilis,” that strain name is really
nutrient burn and other common problems
just the tip of the iceberg… it’s exactly like
Not All Beneficial Root Microbes saying “General Motors” to describe a car,
and you have no idea if it’s a Pontiac or a
Formulas Are Created Equal Chevy.
You know beneficial microbes will help your plants, but And if it’s a Chevy, it could be either a
it can be confusing when you go to the store and see so Malibu or Corvette. So if you’re lucky, you got
many of these formulas made by different manufacturers. the Corvette – but you’re still left guessing
The obvious question is which one will give you the best if your Corvette has the 430 hp motor or if
bang for your buck? it’s a ZR1 Corvette with the 620 horsepower
The answer is that there are two very distinct processes motor! That’s how much difference there is
manufacturers use when they want to offer microbes between individual types of “bacillus subtilis”
products ... microbes. Obviously we absolutely make
sure VooDoo Juice microbes are always the
ZR1 Corvette with 620 horsepower motor,
not the Chevy Malibu!

Here’s How It’s Done...

l Advanced Nutrients hires the sharpest mi-

crobiologists in the world. One of them is
especially impressive: she has three Ph.D.
degrees! We have a team of scientists test-
ing and breeding hundreds of sub-variet-
ies of bacillus subtilis and other beneficial
microbes in a continual research program.
In fact over the last two years VooDoo
Juice’s root-producing abilities have been
increased by 117%
l Specific beneficial microbes work bet-
ter with certain plants than others. That’s
Make the direct connection between larger, more powerful
why we put so much time and money
roots and bigger, more valuable buds.
into our breeding program. We’re driven
to find the needle in the haystack of mi-
crobes that work absolutely the best for
the plants you grow
l Our scientists demand that we buy them

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 rates and we have to ensure total uniformity and maximum
GROWER LEVEL colony forming units (CFUs). After breeding, the microbes
are taken to the evaporation tower and dried, and then all
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eight strains in VooDoo Juice are carefully recombined
l To ensure VooDoo Juice has very long shelf life and superior
viability, VooDoo’s microbes are put into hibernation with an
“antagonist” compound that keeps the microbes dormant
until you mix VooDoo Juice into a nutrient reservoir and the
antagonist is diluted
l As soon as the antagonist is diluted, VooDoo’s microbes
immediately exit dormancy, replicate quickly, and burst
into action for you by wrapping themselves around and
penetrating into roots, creating flower-boosting hormones,
and increasing root size and function
The bottom line is: VooDoo Juice feeds your roots so you get
safer, healthier plants, and more aboveground growth of larger,
mega-potent flowers. It’s a basic but important step you can
easily take today to upgrade the health and productivity of
your garden immediately.

VooDoo Juice Benefits

VooDoo Juice contains designer microbes
created by leading microbiologists. These VOODOO JUICE BENEFITS
superstrain microbes fatten, strengthen and
supercharge your roots , and the result is more
valuable harvests. STRONGER
SAFER
all the expensive, precision equipment PLANTS
needed to identify each microbial strain’s FASTER
special characteristics and compatibility GROWTH
with each other that make them “Super- BIGGER
Strains.” That’s why our microbes are also
extremely fast-replicating so they quickly
YIELDS
colonize root zones for rapid results (Yes,
we test for fast versus slow replicating mi-

l
crobes)
VooDoo Juice is not outsourced. We’re the
117%
only hydroponics nutrient company in the ROOT MASS
world manufacturing all our microbial
products ourselves with a full-time Ph.D.
INCREASE
microbiologist personally supervising all
aspects of production at all times. (The
same is true for our Piranha and Tarantula Bigger roots that more than double in mass are the foundation
root zone products) for faster growth and bigger yields.
l Each microbe strain is individually bred
(not in a bunch of vats or tubs) in a pur-
pose-built 10,000 liter breeding reactor.
This is a very critical, time consuming step,
but it’s necessary because different strains
of beneficial microbes breed at different

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 Frequently Asked Questions

GROWER LEVEL
HOBBYIST
QUESTION: Will VooDoo Juice make my roots too big? MIXING DIRECTIONS:
Use 2 mL per Liter during weeks 1 through 2
ANSWER: Your roots will get much bigger, but only in the most
of your flowering phase, and during weeks 1
efficient way for your root zone so you get larger harvests.
through 2 of vegetative growth.
QUESTION: If I use VooDoo Juice, why would I use your
Tarantula beneficial microbes and your Piranha beneficial fungi GROWER EXPERIENCE LEVEL:
formulas too? Hobbyist, Expert, Professional and Grand
Master Growers
ANSWER: Each of these three products contains unique
beneficial microbes that contribute to the healthiest root
zone so your plants grow better via different pathways. The
individual microbe formulas in these three products combine “I live in the desert near Tucson.
in a synergistic fashion with your roots and each other to I grow outdoors and two big
provide even more root enhancement and protection. problems are heat and dry, sandy
QUESTION: Does your previous version of VooDoo Juice work soil. After using VooDoo, the plants
with your new version? were wilting a lot less and their
color was much better. When I
ANSWER: Yes, our previous VooDoo Juice works well in all removed them at the end of the
types of gardens and systems, and is compatible with our season, their roots were better
stronger new & improved version of Voodoo Juice. Always than any plant I’ve ever grown. I’m
store our beneficial microbes formulas in a cool, dark place to
sold.”
extend shelf life. Jorge, from Pima County, Arizona
QUESTION: Is VooDoo Juice compatible with an all-organic
fertilizer program?
ANSWER: Yes, VooDoo Juice, Tarantula and Piranha are organic Company Founders’ NO-RISK,
supplements that work perfectly in all-organic gardening (and
all other types of gardening).
100% Money Back
GUARANTEE
VooDoo Juice was specifically built for growers just like
Fast Facts you, who have very specific demands and expectations
from your hydroponics needs. When you use VooDoo
Juice it must perform flawlessly for you. You’ll find it will
PRODUCT TYPE: mix easily and quickly into your reservoir and deliver the
Beneficial Bacteria Root Booster goods you’re looking for.
GARDEN TYPES: What’s more..., VooDoo Juice will work every time for you
VooDoo Juice has been specially designed for use with all using any and all hydroponics, sphagnum, coco coir and
hydroponics, sphagnum, coco coir and soil growing mediums. soil growing mediums. VooDoo Juice has been developed
VooDoo Juice has been developed for use with any and all for use with any and all hydroponics, aeroponic, NFT,
hydroponic, aeroponic, drip irrigation, NFT, flood & drain, drip flood & drain, drip emitters and continuous liquid feed
emitters and continuous liquid feed growing systems. growing systems. We guarantee it!
And when you use VooDoo Juice you’ll never have to
WHEN TO USE: risk even one penny because it’s 100% guaranteed, as
Early Veg Phase, Early Flowering, Cloning, Transplanting, always if for any reason you’re not absolutely delighted
Growing from Seedlings we’ll refund all your money back it’s
that simple.
As always, dedicated to your
gardening success.

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 GET THE

BIGGEST
YIELDS
FROM YOUR BLOOM BOOSTER

Most likely, you’re one of the 91.7% of growers who use bloom boosters
every bloom cycle, because you want to be sure your boosters give you
the biggest yields possible for your garden ... to be precise ... you look for
bloom boosters that give you:
l Larger, heavier, denser flowers
l Flowers with more essential oils, aromatics, terpenoids, phenols
and other potency factors
l Measurable, significant increases in overall harvest weight and
market value

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 But most bloom boosters don’t measure up to these
goals. In fact, until recently poorly-absorbed forms of
phosphorus and potassium (P and K) were the main
ingredients in most bloom boosters.
Worse, almost all bloom boosters have incorrect ratios
or types of phosphorus and potassium. Most provide
double the amount of phosphorus to potassium. That’s
not useful. Your plants need much more potassium than
phosphorus during bloom phase.
And when too much phosphorus is dumped into your
plants, it creates a potential for phosphorus toxicity that
works against flower production and overall plant health.
Not only that, your crops may taste harsh so they hurt
your throat and lungs.
Potassium And Phosphorus
Are Only Part Of The Real Story
There’s a lot more to fueling bigger flowers than giving
your plants correct ratios and types of potassium and
phosphorus.
Studies show floral production revs up most when your
plants get the full range and correct forms of substances
You need a bloom booster proven to make your buds bigger and more valuable.
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called amino acids (which are building
GROWER LEVEL
blocks of proteins, terpenoids, phenols
and alkaloids). This means you want
HOBBYIST
to give 20 “L-form” amino acids to your
plants, with especially important doses
of L-tryptophan, L-Cysteine, L-Glutamate
and L-Glycine.
Why the special emphasis on these
four L-form amino acids? Here’s why:
Your plants utilize L-tryptophan to
create an important floral growth
hormone called indole acetic acid (IAA).
Boosting synthesis of IAA creates larger
flowers with more potency.
L-Cysteine provides sulphur, and along
with L-Glycine is a prime element in
formation of an internal plant protectant
compound called glutathione. Plants
respond to bloom phase stress by making
glutathione, which has a number of
functions including helping plants deal
with heat stress, other environmental
stressors, and free radicals.
Because many hydroponics nutrients
provide no amino acids, and because
indoor gardening is inherently stressful
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to plants, tissue samples show many
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plants have glutathione deficiency ...
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slowing metabolic functions ... and ...
results in lower yields.
Now that you know the crucial role
amino acids play in floral production
and overall plant health, it’s important
to have the L-form of amino acids rather
than the less-complex “D” form aminos.
This is because your plants’ cells need
all 20 amino acids, but even the bloom
boosters that do provide amino acids,
contain aminos that are hard for your
plants to create or absorb, because they’re
less water soluble, called D-aminos.
Make Your Flowers
Bigger By Helping
Your Plants Breathe,
Metabolize
And Produce
For this reason, please remember, only
L-form amino acids are the ideal forms
for easy absorption and proven yield
increases.
You’ve seen how bud builder product
research shows that precise and
appropriate ratios of potassium and
Get yourself the world’s most popular and
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How do most bloom boosters stack up in meeting these
goals? Not as well as they could. In fact, until recently poorly-
20%
YIELD INCREASE
absorbed forms of phosphorus and potassium (P and K) were
BIG
the main ingredients in most bloom boosters.
BUD
10%
HYDROPLEX
KOOL
BLOOM
SUGAR
DADDY
0%
BIG BUD ABSOLUTELY DELIVERS LARGER YEILDS
Big Bud absolutely delivers larger yields than any competing
THAN ANYCOMPETING BLOOM BOOSTER!
bloom booster!
phosphorus create larger flowers, and that L-form amino
acids help plants make larger, better-formed flowers that
carry more potency and value.
The bottom line is ascorbic acid, all 20 L-form amino acids,
potassium, phosphorus, and magnesium are found in the
correct ratios in the easy-to-use liquid bud potentiator
created by our scientists called Big Bud.
Here’s what you’re guaranteed to see when you use Big
Bud:
l More flowers
l Bigger flowers
l More potent flowers
l Flowers with higher market value
l Liquid formula for easier mixing and absorption
When you look at the facts and see the results, you
agree that Big Bud offers you a convenient, reliable way
to deliver a unique suite of bud potentiator ingredients
into your flowering plants. Get Big Bud today and feed
L-aminos and other plant maximizing ingredients to your
plants and you’ll see larger, richer, more glistening flowers
in less time than ever.
 “When I used the other bloom
booster, the PPM would spike. The
damage was clear, and once I had
to flush everything. Since I started
using Big Bud my friends keep
asking: what’s your secret?”
Claude, from Mobile, Alabama
Frequently Asked
Questions
QUESTION: Can I use Big Bud as my only bloom
booster or should I use it with other bloom
boosters you recommend?
ANSWER: Big Bud can be used as a stand-alone
bloom booster and you will see bigger buds as a
result. Additionally, our research shows using our
bloom booster series (Bug Ignitor, Big Bud, Bud
Candy and Overdrive) will result in even larger and
more market-valued products.
QUESTION: Will I have problems with overfertil-
ization when I use Big Bud with your potent base
nutrients?
ANSWER: Our scientists have designed customized
programs for each of our base nutrients so you use
Big Bud as directed by the base feed chart and get
bigger buds with no worries about nutrient burn.
When you use Big Bud as part of the Bigger Yields
System, the System is configured to balance pH
and PPM to optimum levels so you don’t have to be
concerned about them.
QUESTION: Why does Big Bud come in a liquid
formulation?
ANSWER: The liquid formulation provides more
absorption and is easier for growers to use.
QUESTION: What can I count on as regards the
crop size increase that Big Bud gives me?
ANSWER: Depending on your strain, growing
conditions and what level you are on in our Bigger
Yields System, you could see as much as 27% increase
in harvest weight from Big Bud.
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Fast Facts
GROWER LEVEL
HOBBYIST
PRODUCT TYPE: Bloom Booster
GARDEN TYPES:
Liquid Big Bud has been specially
designed for use with all hydroponics,
sphagnum, and soil growing mediums.
Big Bud has been developed for use
with any and all hydroponic, aeroponic,
drip irrigation, NFT, flood & drain, drip
emitters and continuous liquid feed
growing systems.
WHEN TO USE:
Peak bloom phase.
MIXING DIRECTIONS:
Use 2 mL per Liter during weeks 2
through 4 of your flowering phase.
GROWER EXPERIENCE LEVEL:
Hobbyist, Expert, Professional and Grand
Master Growers
COMPANY FOUNDERS’ NO-RISK, 100%
MONEY BACK GUARANTEE:
If for any reason you’re not absolutely
delighted, we’ll refund all your money
back it’s that simple.
Company Founders’ NO-RISK,
100% Money Back
GUARANTEE
Big Bud was specifically built for growers just like you, who
have very specific demands and expectations from your
hydroponics needs. When you use Big Bud it must perform
flawlessly for you. You’ll find it will mix easily and quickly into
your reservoir and deliver the goods you’re looking for.
What’s more..., Big Bud will work every time for you using any
and all hydroponics, sphagnum or soil growing mediums and
all hydroponics, aeroponic, NFT, flood & drain, drip emitters
and continuous liquid feed growing systems. We guarantee it!
And when you use Big Bud you’ll never have to risk even one
penny because it’s 100% guaranteed, as always if for any
reason you’re not absolutely delighted we’ll
refund all your money  back it’s that
simple.
As always, dedicated to  your
gardening success.
 ARE YOUR PLANTS MISSING OUT ON THIS COMMONLY
IGNORED, YET INCREDIBLY VITAL SECRET TO

GETTING BETTER HARVESTS?

P lus,
IT BOOSTS YOUR PLANT’S STRENGTH,
IMMUNITY AND OVERALL HEALTH TOO!
You’re already giving your plants the best environment fuels flower growth.) ... B1 strengthens plant
and nutrients possible, but did you know you may need immune systems to avoid disease and stress ...
vitamins too? activates Systemic Acquired Resistance (SAR),
In fact, scientists tested identical clones side by side which is what happens in humans when a
in identical systems. The clones are fed the same diet, vaccination produces an increased immune
except that half of the clones receive a vitamin that the response to future disease attacks. Plus, B1
other clones do not receive. assists in root development so your plants get
more nutrients faster, and are more resistant to
Both sets of clones were closely monitored during shock from transplanting or cloning.
growth and after harvest with scientists taking plant
tissue samples to measure plant metabolism, nutrient WHY YOUR PLANTS NEED
absorption, and overall plant health. Plus, total yield size,
EXTRA B VITAMINS FOR
quality and essential oil content are also measured. Using
statistical analysis and other criteria, scientists determined
SURVIVAL AND PRODUCTION
As you can
if the vitamin had any effects, and if so, what those effects
see, B vitamins
are.
are absolutely
essential. Truth
How B Vitamins Improve is: your plants
Your Plants and Your Yield can’t synthesize
Fortunately our scientists have repeatedly run hydro- enough B
ponics tests showing many B vitamin benefits for your vitamins from
plants, including: the nutrients
you feed them
● Folic Acid helps plants maintain healthy metabolism fast enough to
and DNA and upgrades the weight and quality of your get fast growth,
harvest. But because folic acid breaks down easily earlier maturation,
(especially under intense lighting), it’s a good idea to stress/disease
supplement with folic acid in your plants. resistance, and
● Vitamin B5 is essential because without sufficient B5, heavier, more
plants die, grow slowly, or are susceptible to stress potent harvests.
disorders and pathogenic diseases. Enough said! When you
● Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) helps your plants use and create provide additional
carbohydrates so your plants have enough energy for vitamins, your
strong growth and production of flowers and essential plants have less
oils. It also helps your plants’ use of phosphate (which metabolic work to do
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and they use more of their nutrients for growth and floral
production because they don’t have to make B vitamins
“I had a complete feed

GROWER LEVEL
themselves. Plus, studies show when plants are stressed
(which is when they most need B vitamins), that’s when program with high-end

HOBBYIST
they are least able to make their own vitamins. nutrients. But something was
In fact, there are several stressful times in your plants life
missing. I found what I lacked
when they need extra B vitamins, like when your plants with B52. Now I have stronger
are seedlings, new clones, transplants or flowering ... when plants and more weight in my
you’re using CO2 augmentation ... and when your plants harvests.”
are under other stresses like seed production, extreme Randall, from Missoula, Montana
temperatures, or pest and disease attacks.

IS THE LACK OF ESSENTIAL VITAMINS HOLDING

YOU BACK FROM YOUR BEST HARVEST POSSIBLE?

Vitamins help plants grow stronger and more vigorous. Maximum blooms are heading your way.
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 a b vitamin formula
that boosts yield too? B-52’s
GROWER LEVEL Scientists discovered a B vitamin formula PROVEN BENEFITS
HOBBYIST
is an ideal platform for vitamin-rich
components that double as yield-boosting
substances. For example, our B-52 formula
45%
INCREASED RESISTANCE
contains kelp and seaweed extracts which
TO STRESS & HEAT
contain a variety of compounds, including
auxins that increase cell replication and
stimulate roots and stems. Plus, several

INCREASED
EFFICIENCY
OF NUTRIENT
UPTAKE

0% INCREASED YIELD

B-52 IMPROVES YOUR PLANT’S

B-52 pumps up your plant’s stamina, energy and
productivity so you get larger harvests.
PRODUCTIVITY AND HEALTH

studies show B vitamins, combined with seaweed and

kelp extracts, assist in floral development and ripening,
with increases in floral weight and potency as much as
31%!
Combine this with the crop protection provided by:
● Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin): Enhances systemic resis-
tance so your plants are less susceptible to com-
mon grow room diseases that often disguise
themselves as nutrient disorders while insidiously
harming your crops.
● Vitamin B3 (Niacin): An essential substance that
contributes to your plants’ metabolism and other
basic life functions. Insufficient amounts of B3 lead
to slow growth, poor yields and lowered disease re-
sistance.
● Vitamin B7 (Biotin): Involved in enzymatic activity,
carbohydrate energy production and amino acid
Your plants benefit from the best scientists, the synthesis. All three of these areas are implicated in
best labs and the best research in the world. the basic health and productivity of your plants.

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 YOUR B VITAMIN FORMULA
INCLUDES PLANT NUTRITION FREQUENTLY

GROWER LEVEL
FOR HIGHER YIELDS ASKED QUESTIONS

HOBBYIST
Compounded with the B vitamins mentioned above, B-52
contains humates and other sources of plant nutrition that QUESTION: Why do I need to
are more easily absorbed by your plants because they are give B-52 to my plants when I
administered with B vitamins. And these substances aid am already feeding them a high-
the transference of B vitamins into your plants. nutrition fertilizer?
With B-52, you can feed either the roots or foliarly, which ANSWER: Plants can make B vitamins
makes the healing, stimulating and protective effects of from some fertilizers. But, they expend
energy and nutrition to make the
B vitamins immediately and completely available to your
vitamins. When you provide B vitamins
plants. Plus, B-52 works in all types of growing systems in B-52 ...giving your plant a ready-
and root zone material, including aeroponics, rockwool, made vitamin source ... your plants can
soil, coco coir, hydroton, ebb and flow, and all the other focus on floral production.
hydroponics gardening methods. QUESTION: I’ve heard that B-52 is
really good for young plants. Is this
true?

FAST FACTS ANSWER: Yes, B-52 is definitely a

powerful anti-stress tonic that increases
survival of transplants, seedlings and
PRODUCT TYPE: clones.
B Vitamin Supplement. QUESTION: I am growing all-organic.
Can I use B-52?
B-52 BENEFITS:
• Better Survival Rate For Seedlings, ANSWER: We make the only all-organic
Transplants, Clones B vitamin supplement, called Organic B,
• Plants More Resistant To Stress And Disease which you should use if you’re growing
only organically.
• Increased Growth And Yield
• Stronger Roots For More Nutrient Uptake
GROWER EXPERIENCE LEVEL: Company Founders’ NO-RISK,
Hobbyist, Expert, Professional and Grand Masters
100% Money Back
Growers
GUARANTEE
WHEN TO USE B-52: B-52 was specifically built for growers just like you, who have
Any time plants are under stress, especially during specific demands and expectations from your hydroponic needs.
early growth, cloning, transplanting and flowering. When you use B-52 it must perform flawlessly for you. You’ll find
it will mix easily and quickly into your reservoir and deliver the
GARDEN TYPES: goods you’re looking for.
B-52 has been specially designed for use with all What’s more..., B-52 will work every time for you using any and
hydroponics, sphagnum, coco coir and soil growing all hydroponics, sphagnum, coco coir and soil growing mediums
mediums. B-52 has been developed for use with any and all hydroponics, aeroponics, drip irrigation, NFT, flood &
drain, drip emitters and continuous liquid feed growing systems.
and all hydroponic, aeroponic, drip irrigation, NFT, We guarantee it!
flood & drain, drip emitters and continuous liquid And when you use B-52 you’ll never have to risk even one penny
feed growing systems. because it’s 100% guaranteed, as always if for any reason you’re
not absolutely delighted we’ll refund all your
MIXING INSTRUCTIONS: money back it’s that simple.
Use 2 mL per Liter during weeks 3 through 6 of your As always, dedicated to your
flowering phase, and during all weeks of vegetative gardening success.
growth.

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Kick Your Flowering Plants
Into Overdrive,
and Get Yourself a
PRIZE-WINNING
FINISH
You’ve spent lots of time, money and electricity for size and weight, as well as obvious changes in
several weeks of bloom phase ... your plants have been the morphology (appearance, shape, density and
blooming several weeks ... they’re showing signs of structure) of your flowers. As peak flowering ends,
finishing and being ready for harvest within 1-4 more your plants enter late flowering phase. During this
weeks. But it feels useless to wait because your flowers phase, flowers make slight gains or are in a holding
won’t get much bigger during those final weeks. At best, pattern, almost like suspended animation ...
only adding another 1-6% in weight and size ...
On the other hand, you remember that whatever weight
and size gains they make may come at the expense of
floral quality, as essential oil structures degrade.
In some cases, you just harvest your crops. Continued
investment of time, materials and money doesn’t seem
worth it. But you’ve never been a quitter, and you’re open
to a way to overdrive your crops so they come up bigger
winners at harvest time.

Latest Scientific Discoveries

Energize Your Plants Internal
Clock to Get Bigger Yields
Floral production is nature’s plan for your plants, and it’s
hardwired into them. But you can work their flowering
cycle to get bigger yields ... It starts when you flip your
lights to 12 hours, putting your plants into their flowering
schedule (determined by genetics and nature). You
witness the schedule visually as you see the tiniest floral
structures emerge a few days after you flip to 12 hours.
Over time, your flowers swell up, fill in, change their
appearance, gain aroma, taste, and develop essential
oil structures during your peak flowering phase in the
middle trimester of blooming (the precise timing & length
depends on the plant strain you’re growing).
During peak flowering you see the biggest gains in
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 Sadly, sometimes, flower quality declines at this

GROWER LEVEL
point. Soon, it’s obvious you need to harvest. It’s

HOBBYIST
all part of the natural time-clock built into your “This crop was the
plants ... but ... the good news is you can now
create a more productive finishing phase for your strongest I’ve ever
plants. had. It had to be the
Overdrive.”
Help Your Plants Jeb, from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Achieve Maximum Production
One way to rejuvenate your yield potential dur- tantly, if your plants are provided the
ing the final trimester of blooming is to give your typical form of nitrogen (ammoniacal
plants a special form of nitrogen called nitrate ... nitrogen) during blooming, it can cause
Yes, you’ve heard nitrogen is a bad thing during them to channel energy into stem and
bloom phase, but that turns out to be a bit inac- leaf production rather than into floral
curate. production.
Plants do need nitrogen during bloom phase But when they’re given nitrate, they
(just not as much as the veg phase). More impor- use it to create enlarged floral structures

Your plants will hit a home run in the last inning! Overdrive is your only bud builder created
specifically for late season use so you get larger, more potent harvests and increased production
at a time when most plants have stopped producing.
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 instead of stem and leaf. Also important
GROWER LEVEL is stimulating the growing tips of each
plant stem that go dormant in late
HOBBYIST
bloom phase (the reason why your
buds stop gaining size). It’s the same
thing that happens when our human
skeleton’s growth tips seal off around
age 18, and after that we don’t get
much taller.
Scientists have now discovered
we can keep the growth going
because folic acid, fulvic acid, nitrate,
potassium, phosphorus, magnesium
and ascorbic acid in late bloom phase
revs up photosynthesis & restarts cell
replication and expansion at the ends
of your growing tips!
Make ‘em do their best for you. You feed Overdrive to your crops in the last few weeks of bloom cycle
so you squeeze significant amounts of extra weight, value and quality from your late-bloom plants.
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Put Your
Crops Into Overdrive
Plus, giving your plants a 1-3-4 dose of properly-
chelated NPK in late bloom feeds precise ratios of
macronutrients needed to produce significant gains
in flower size and potency when most other growers
have given up and are just waiting to harvest.
Taken together, the combination of ingredients
featured in Overdrive provide your plants:
• Increased nutrient uptake & increased photo-
synthesis and energy
• Increased cell expansion & replication for larger
flowers
• Increased creation of internal floral structures
 GROWER LEVEL
and compounds for increased aroma, Some growers find that Overdrive

HOBBYIST
taste, potency and market value is especially useful in the following
• Increased resistance to drought, heat, situations:
stress, diseases, pests and end stage • When plants struggled earlier in
exhaustion due to folic acid and other blooming & need to make up for it
ingredients by putting on a lot of flower growth
• Potential 9-23% gains in harvest weight fast
and size during last trimester of growth • With varieties that traditionally do
As you can see, using Overdrive is a more not produce large floral clusters, to
sophisticated approach than what most bulk them up and make them fatter
other growers are doing (just throwing the
• When a grower learns they need to
same bloom booster at their plants from
get an extra large harvest from their
week one of flowering until the day of
crop due to sudden financial news,
harvest).
such as finding out that a new baby
The simplistic idea that during bloom, is on the way
all your plants need is an extra dose of PK,
and the last couple of weeks of blooming is In all cropping situations, you procure
just a waiting game without significant size, Overdrive now and use it in any
weight and quality gains possible … this hydroponics or soil system to get a prize
idea is now proven wrong. Using Overdrive, winning finish to your bloom season
you make your plants accomplish what was that makes every minute, every watt,
never before thought possible at the end of and every bit of your effort pay off more
bloom phase. for you.

PERIOD OF 7 WEEKS
FLOWER SIZE & WEIGHT

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
The Numbers Prove It! Without Overdrive, your crops stop producing size, weight and
potency in late bloom cycle. But when you use Overdrive, your crops get a new spark of
growth late in life, so they keep on producing for you far longer than they normally would.
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 Frequently Asked Questions
GROWER LEVEL
HOBBYIST
QUESTION: I use your Big Bud with Connoisseur and
“I can’t believe the get fantastic results. So why is Overdrive also very
difference in taste. I’m useful for me?
ANSWER: Big Bud is indeed a top-producing bloom
sold.” booster and Connoisseur is a premium bloom base
Jeb, from Tulsa, Oklahoma
nutrients formula. But our studies find that bloom phase
has sub-phases during which very specific types and
ratios of ingredients are required. For plants in their last
2-3 weeks of growth, the ingredients in Overdrive are
more effective at increasing crop value than Big Bud,
which is used earlier in bloom cycle. And no matter what

FAST Facts base nutrients you use, Overdrive gives you increased
late season production.
QUESTION: I used Overdrive and it did not increase
the size as much as it increased the potency, aroma
PRODUCT TYPE: and taste. Is this a normal thing to expect?
Late-Season Bloomer ANSWER: In some crops, depending on genetics, crop
environment, grower skill, and other nutrients being
OVERDRIVE BENEFITS: used, you might see both a crop size and a crop quality
increase. In other situations, Overdrive will primarily
Larger, Denser Flowers
increase the percentages of essential oils, aromatics and
More Essential Oils other value-adding compounds in your flowers.

More Aromatics QUESTION: What about pH and PPM when I use

Overdrive?
More Taste
ANSWER: If you are using Overdrive as part of our Bigger
More Attractive Flowers Yields System, you have no need to be concerned about
pH and PPM. Just use Overdrive as directed- the System
Higher Market Price For Flowers is configured to balance all formulas together to be at the
Larger Harvests ideal absorbability and strength. If you are using Overdrive
without using the System, it can increase PPM by as much
More Production Per Watt During Lasts Weeks as 200 PPM, and you would need to monitor your nutrient
Of Bloom Phase strength accordingly.

GROWER EXPERIENCE LEVEL: Company Founders’ NO-RISK,

Hobbyist, Expert, Professional and Grand Masters
Growers.
WHEN TO USE OVERDRIVE:
During last trimester of bloom phase.
GARDEN TYPES:
Overdrive has been specially designed for use
with all hydroponics, sphagnum, coco coir and soil
growing mediums. Overdrive has been developed
for use with any and all hydroponic, aeroponic,
drip irrigation, NFT, flood & drain, drip emitters and
continuous liquid feed growing systems.
MIXING INSTRUCTIONS:
Use 2 mL per Liter during weeks 5 and 6 or the
last 2 weeks of your flowering phase.
100% Money Back
GUARANTEE
Overdrive was specifically built for growers just like you, who have specific
demands and expectations from your hydroponic needs. When you use
Overdrive it must perform flawlessly for you. You’ll find it will mix easily
and quickly into your reservoir and deliver the goods you’re looking for.
What’s more..., Overdrive will work every time for you using any and
all hydroponics, sphagnum, coco coir and soil growing mediums and all
hydroponics, aeroponics, drip irrigation, NFT, flood & drain, drip emitters
and continuous liquid feed growing systems. We guarantee it!
And when you use Overdrive you’ll never have to risk even one penny
because it’s 100% guaranteed, as always if for
any reason you’re not absolutely delighted
we’ll refund all your money back it’s that simple.
As always, dedicated to your gardening success.

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FOR PROPAGATING CUTTINGS & SEEDS
 Have These Scientists
Discovered The
Perfect Rooting
Medium For
Propagating Cuttings?
Introducing Root Shooters™!

I
f you have ever been frustrated with your rooting Root Shooters™ is the ultimate plant plug rooting me-
medium... or... you’ve been forced to make compro- dium for indoor hydroponics. It’s made of a peat based
mises in your garden because media with a proprietary binder
of the limitations of your rooting holding it together to create the
medium... then... you’re going
to be thrilled with this new
. Roots automatically - all perfect blend of peat to air.
This peat and binder com-
scientific breakthrough. the work is done for you. bination helps avoid disease
Here’s why: until now, . It’s as easy and simple as cut and pH issues you’d normally
growers like us were forced see with bark based medi-
to suffer decreased yields
and stick. ums because in wet rooting
with our plants because of . No gels or powders needed. situations the structural fi-
the weaknesses of our root-
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bers of bark break down and
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. Most mediums are and developed by Jiffy® This negatively affects the
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need to grow...
. And most growers suffer from their mediums being
How This Unique Structure
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to get Root Shooters™
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Once you do that, you’ll be ready to go home and start your
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 You’re Getting All The
Right Ingredients For

YIELDS

The Expert Bundle gives you so much…

• Piranha Beneficial Fungi increases your root mass as well
as create a thick mat of lateral and vertical roots, enabling your plants
to support your larger yields and allow your plants to take in nutrients
faster during the critical phases of the flowering cycle where gains
are won or lost.
• Bud Candy is like cotton candy for your flowers, gooey, sticky and
radiating with colorful glints of light catching your eyes, and sparkles
flying off in every direction. Bud Candy is the world’s only 100%
organic aroma, taste and bigger yields enhancer that also cures your
plants’ mid-bloom stall so they have the energy to make larger, tastier
more aromatic flowers for you.
• Final Phase flushes your crops getting rid of any left over residual
fertilizer that sometimes can affect the taste of your harvest. This
Bigger Yields Bundle gives you a free container of Final Phase, the
super-efficient flushing formula and that won’t slow down bud growth
or decrease flower size!

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Congratula- You Use The Bigger Yields Bundles
tions, you’re And The System To Easily Grow Larger,
More Valuable Harvests
taking the next
Now you can have your cake and eat it too. Get the Hobbyist
step to a simple and Expert Grower Bundles and join the many prosperous
but highly growers using our simple, flowering System guaranteed to
give you reliably large harvests.
effective Expert Your Hobbyist and Expert Grower Bigger Yields Bundles are
the first two steps on your exciting journey to a place where
Grower Level
that takes your plants fur-
ther faster so you get bigger
yields like clockwork with
every harvest.

When you take home

this money-saving Expert
Grower Bundle™ and get the
benefits of the Bigger Yields
Flowering System™, you
step up and enter the door to
getting proven advantages
from the only hydroponics
nutrients system guaranteed
to give your plants
everything they need to
produce bigger yields.
Heavier harvests mean heavier profits.
Not only that, using the
System means you can stop huge harvests you’ve always dreamed of are guaranteed to
become reality for you.
worrying about pH and PPM
The bold truth is at every level of the System – Hobbyist,
metering and adjusting. Yes, Expert Grower, Professional Grower and Grand Master Grower
– you get fantastic yields. But when you step up to the next
you heard correctly! Just
use any of the Bigger Yields
Flowering System™ base The Bigger Yields Bundles are
nutrients in water that has a the only specifically engineered
pH range from 4.5 - 8.5, and hydroponics Flowering System with
your plants will perfectly all formulas guaranteed to work
absorb all the nutrients together so your plants give you
they need. You’ll agree that the largest flowers ever grown.
makes growing a whole lot
easier for you, doesn’t it? è
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 Expert Grower
level, you get even larger yields, even more protection for your BUNDLE™
crops. You’re climbing the stairway to heavier harvests!

Combining The Hobbyist And dle™, a Flowering System base nutrient

Expert Bundles Gives You:
• All the supplements you need for bigger flowers at the
Expert Grower Level from your plants’ roots to the top of your
flowers and everything in between.
• pH-Perfect™ formulas that work with all the Flowering
System base nutrients so you can forget about pH and PPM
metering and adjusting in all
types of water. Your plants
get all the nutrition they
need, and you never have to
use those meters ever again.
• The Bigger Yields Bundles
are the only specifically engi-
neered hydroponics flower-
ing System with all formulas
guaranteed to work together
so your plants give you the
largest flowers ever grown.
• Standardized mixing and
measuring just 4 ml per liter
for the System base nutrients
and 2 ml per liter for all sup-
plements.
• Exclusive bloom-feeding
ingredients for big fat flowers.
Get one of our new and im-
proved base nutrients along
with a Hobbyist Bundle™ and
this Expert Grower Bundle™,
and go to the checkout counter so you get started on bigger
yields right now.
Oh, one more cool thing we almost forgot to tell you about.
There’s a free formula in the Hobbyist Bundle™ and another
free formula in the Expert Grower Bundle™. Better yet, our
base nutrients are five in one products that combine four
powerful formulas F-1, H-2, Wet Betty and a special blend of
amino acids that you can’t buy as a stand alone product, you
can only get it in the “System” base nutrients. So when you
get your base nutrients and your two bundle boxes, you’ll be
getting 12 products for the price of 6!
Go ahead and start “stacking” your bundles, and take the
Expert Grower Bundle™ home and try it, then you’ll see the
power and elegance of this System. It’s backed by our No-Risk
100% Money Back Guarantee so you won’t even be risking
one penny and then you can see for yourself the bigger yields
you’ll be getting.
Even better, your plants are taken care of from roots to
shoots and everything in between, this Expert Grower Bun-
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and our Hobbyist Bundle™ combine to
deliver stacked nutrition to every part of
your flowering plant. The Expert Grower
Bundle™ gives you so much…
• Piranha Beneficial Fungi increases your
root mass as well as create a thick mat of
lateral and vertical roots, enabling your
plants to support your larger yields and
allow your plants to take in nutrients faster
during the critical phases of the flowering
cycle where gains are won or lost.
Combining the
Hobbyist and Expert
Grower Bundles
gives you all the
supplements you need
for bigger flowers at
the Expert Grower
Level from your plants’
roots to the top of
your flowers and
everything in between.
• Bud Candy is like cotton candy for your
flowers, gooey, sticky and radiating with
colorful glints of light catching your eyes,
and sparkles flying off in every direction.
Bud Candy is the world’s only 100% organic
aroma, taste and bigger yields enhancer
that also cures your plants’ mid-bloom stall
so they have the energy to make larger,
tastier more aromatic flowers for you.
• Final Phase flushes your crops getting
rid of any left over residual fertilizer that
sometimes can affect the taste of your
harvest. This Bigger Yields Bundle gives
you a free container of Final Phase, the
super-efficient flushing formula that won’t
slow down bud growth or decrease flower
size!
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 Discover How Increasing Your Root Mass by 700% Gives You
bigger yields
R
oots are what feed your
plants nearly everything,
and now you can increase
your plants’ root mass as much
as 700% so your plants get more
nutrition to make larger, more
potent flowers. You do this by us-
ing beneficial fungi that accom-
plishes the following for you:
l Beneficial fungi protect roots
against root rot, pythium, and
leaf/flower diseases such as
gray mold
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l Beneficial fungi increase
root absorption of oxygen,
nutrients and water
l Beneficial fungi increase
root size & mass for greater
efficiency so you get bigger
and better flowers
l Expand root mass surface
area by as much as 700%
l Beneficial fungi increase
production of floral essential
oils
 Getting The Right Types
Of Beneficial Fungi Is
All-Important For Your Maximum Yield
As you can see, beneficial fungi are a valuable tool you use
to make your garden produce more. But please remember
that it does matter what type of fungi you use. You need to
add the right types of the two major categories of beneficial
fungi:
l Category One beneficial fungi are called endomycorrhiza.
Believe it or not, these fungi actually have a form of “foot”
that enters into root cells to produce sacs or branched
structures increasing root mass and root function.
l Category Two beneficial fungi are called ectomycorrhiza.
These fungi create a hyphal sheath that covers root tips
and a hyphae net (“foot” net) that cloaks the entire root
system.
Scientists used to say endomycorrhiza were the only type
of fungi that inserted themselves into root cells, and that
the ecto variety stayed outside roots. But new research
reveals super-strains of ecto and endo beneficial fungi both
penetrate roots, so we’ve designated these strains as a mega-
category called “ectendomycorrhiza.”
The good news is no matter what you call them; beneficial
fungi form a web of root protection and enhancement called
a “fungal mycelium.”
One thing you see in hydroponics gardens without Piranha
is lots of harmful microbes in the root zone that aggressively
attack root zones, accounting for slow growth, poor yield,
lower survivability rates for clones and seedlings, and
sometimes complete crop failure.
Beneficial Fungi
Protect And Defend
Your Roots, Leaves, Flowers
The glomus and trichoderma beneficial microbes in Piranha
were selectively bred to provide crop protection. These
beneficial microbes are guaranteed to:
l Eat harmful microbes
l Deprive harmful microbes of their food supply
l Deprive harmful microbes of the space, oxygen and
water they need to survive
l Induce or create increased plant immune response to
fight off diseases and infections
l Create a protective physical barrier that shuts out harmful
microbial invaders
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Not All Beneficial Fungi
GROWER LEVEL
As an added benefit, Piranha’s glomus and
trichoderma strains protect your leaves and
EXPERT
flowers against harmful fungi, mold and other
problems. That’s important because there are
two different processes manufacturers use
when they want to offer microbial products ...
Most hydroponics companies save money
on costs by hiring a third-party company to
bulk produce/bulk combine microbes without
testing them for specific plant appropriateness
or microbial compatibility. Not only that,
but their process includes an overly generic
view of fungi. For example, you’ll hear their
product advertising talk about “endo and
ectomycorrhizal fungi.” Turns out this is so
vague that it borders on actually being an
inaccurate way of describing root zone fungi!
It’s exactly like saying “General Motors” to
describe a car, leaving you wondering are they
talking about a Pontiac or a Chevy. And even
if it’s a Chevy, it could be a Malibu or Corvette.
Ok, if you’re lucky, you got the Corvette — but
you’re still left guessing, because one model
of Corvette has the 300 hp motor, but the ZR1
Corvette has a 620 horsepower motor!
Using Piranha to enhance your hydroponics
roots gives you larger and more valuable
hydroponics flowers.
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 Here’s How We Do It...
GROWER LEVEL The good news is that we make sure PROTECTS
our Piranha beneficial fungi are the fully- PLANTS
FROM
loaded ZR1 Corvette with 620 horsepower
EXPERT

ROT
powerplant, not the Chevy Malibu!
BIGGER DISEASES
STRESS
l Advanced Nutrients hires world-class
microbiologists who practically live in MORE
the laboratory — that’s how competi- POTENT
tive and dedicated they are about de- FLOWERS
veloping what they call “superstrains”
of fungi that biologically bond with
the roots of your plants. One of our
scientists is especially impressive: she 700%
has three Ph. D. degrees! ROOT MASS
l Our perfectionist scientists demand
we supply them all the most expen-
INCREASE
sive, precision equipment and sup-
plies so they can identify each mi-
crobial strain’s special characteristics
that make them superstrains. That’s
why our fungi are extremely fast-rep- Piranha increases root mass so you get stronger
licating so they quickly colonize root plants that produce more valuable harvests.
zones for rapid results (yes, one of our
most important tests is comparing

You exploit the hidden world of your plants’ roots using Piranha beneficial fungi to increase the security,
productivity and value of your harvests.
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 fast versus slow replicating fungi).
l Piranha is never outsourced. We’re the only hydroponics
nutrient company in the world manufacturing all our mi-
crobial products ourselves with a full-time Ph.D. microbi-
ologist personally supervising all aspects of production
at all times. (The same is true for our VooDoo Juice and
Tarantula products).
l Each of our microbial strains is individually bred in a pur-
pose-built 10,000 liter breeding reactor (we’re the only
company that uses this technically advanced process, not
vats or tubs). Our microbes are later taken to an evapo-
ration tower and gently dried. Then the Piranha super-
strains are carefully recombined.
l To ensure Piranha’s reputation for very long shelf life and
viability, fungi are put into hibernation with an “antago-
nist” compound that keeps the microbes dormant until
you mix Piranha into a nutrient reservoir or foliar spray,
and the antagonist is diluted.
l As soon as the antagonist is diluted, Piranha fungi imme-
diately exit dormancy, replicate quickly, and burst into
action for you by wrapping themselves around and pen-
etrating roots, creating flower-boosting hormones, and
increasing root size and function.
The bottom line is Piranha increases your root size as much
as 700% so your plants’ roots are strong enough to give you
an upgrade the weight, value and potency of your harvest.
What’s more, when you get Piranha today, you’ll see why it’s
money-back guaranteed to pay for itself in increased yield
and overall plant health.
FAST FACTS
PRODUCT TYPE:
Root Zone Enhancer/Plant Protector
GARDEN TYPES:
Piranha has been specially designed for use with all
hydroponics, sphagnum, coco coir and soil growing
mediums. Piranha has been developed for use with any and
all hydroponic, aeroponic, drip irrigation, NFT, flood & drain,
drip emitters and continuous liquid feed growing systems.
WHEN TO USE:
Cloning, early seedlings, transplanting, early vegetative
phase, early bloom phase
MIXING DIRECTIONS:
Use 2 mL per Liter during weeks 1 and 2 of your flowering
phase
GROWER EXPERIENCE LEVEL:
Expert, Professional and Grand Master Growers
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Frequently Asked Questions
GROWER LEVEL
QUESTION: Is Piranha going to get
me bigger buds in soil and in an organic
EXPERT
program, not just in hydroponics?
ANSWER: Piranha enhances growth
and yield and protects plants in any type
of gardening situation, including soil and
organics. It is a 100% organic formula.
QUESTION: My friend told me that
Piranha can be used with some other of
your formulas to get even more impact.
ANSWER: It’s true that using Piranha
with our two other beneficial microbes
products (VooDoo Juice and Tarantula) will
create the most fertile, naturally-enhanced
root zone for stronger plants and bigger
harvests.
QUESTION: Does Piranha help protect
flowers, and does it leave a bad residue?
ANSWER: Piranha foliar spray protects
flowers and leaves from molds, mildew
and fungi, but it leaves no toxic residue. We
always recommend that you lightly mist your
flowers about a week before harvest and
then don’t apply any more foliars to them
after that.
Company Founders’ NO-RISK,
100% Money Back
GUARANTEE
Piranha was specifically built for growers just like you,
who have specific demands and expectations from your
hydroponic needs. When you use Piranha it must perform
flawlessly for you. You’ll find it will mix easily and quickly
into your reservoir and deliver the goods you’re looking for.
What’s more..., Piranha will work every time for you using
any and all hydroponics, sphagnum, coco coir and soil
growing mediums and all hydroponics, aeroponics, drip
irrigation, NFT, flood & drain, drip emitters and continuous
liquid feed growing systems. We guarantee it!
And when you use Piranha you’ll never have to risk even
one penny because it’s 100% guaranteed, as always if for
any reason you’re not absolutely delighted we’ll refund
all your money back it’s that simple.
As always, dedicated to your
gardening success.
Feed Your Plants
Carbohydrates, L-Aminos
And Vitamins, And You

Get Tastier,
More Aromatic,
More Potent Buds!

Seeing your room full of huge flowers that smell like candy (maybe like the cotton candy at an
amusement park), and then after harvest, savouring the fine taste, aroma and potency of huge
amounts of potent, sweet-tasting flowers with your friends is what REALLY makes you happy
right?
The smiles on their faces, and them patting you on the back, that’s what the good life is all about
... So, what can you do right now to grow the biggest harvests of the most potent, best-tasting
flowers?
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 Start by Providing “What I got was that
Flower-Boosting Energy

GROWER LEVEL
the buds are tighter and
When Your Plants Most Need It somewhat larger while also
smelling more sweet. Bud

EXPERT
Getting sweeter, bigger harvests is easy when you give
your plants carbohydrates that jolt them with an energy Candy worked well for me
boost. and people are asking me
Remember that during peak bloom cycle your plants’ how I got it to taste and
need for sugars exceeds their ability to manufacture smell so good.”
them. The more you push them, the more C02 and Mark, from Gainesville, Florida
nutrients you give them, the more they need carbs, and
the more they fall behind. The resulting carb deficit is
the same thing that happens when athletes collapse
near the end of grueling competition. And it’s why carb- For example, you see hydroponics
loading is a cherished tactic athletes use to keep going formulas containing “molasses.” But
strong for victory, when others fall and fail. like almost every individual ingredient in
hydroponics formulas, there are many
grades and types of molasses, and
the differences between them decide
Not Just Any Carbohydrates, whether they will deliver your bigger,
But The Right Ones For Your Plants better yields.
Fact is, most types of molasses are
Carb-loading your plants requires a specialty formula. loaded with sulphur or made from
In actuality, your plants best absorb simple or complex materials or processes that lower
carbohydrates when they are present as arabinose, their sugar content and quality. When
dextrose, glucose, maltose and xylose from raw cane sulphured, low-grade molasses are in
extract, malt extract, cranberry extract and other a hydroponics formula, the extraneous
premium carbohydrate sources.
Not only does this end mid-bloom slump but these
materials fuel beneficial bacteria and fungi in your root
zone. When you’ve installed beneficial bacteria and
fungi in your root zone, they thrive best when they have
externally-provided carbos to feed on (these beneficial
bacteria and fungi increase root mass, increase nutrient
absorption, protect roots, and produce hormones that
stimulate floral size, potency and value).
So you know carb-loading provides energy and root
enhancement, but what can you do to create gourmet
flowers with enhanced taste, size, potency, and aroma?
The good news is providing the list of carb sources we
just discussed also enhances the taste and aroma of
your plants!

The Benefits Of Using

Amino Acids And Other Compounds
In the Correct Form For Your Plants
Please remember: the advantages you get by feeding
your crops depends on the quality of specific ingredients How sweet it is when you send flavor enhancers
in the products. into your crops so your buds taste like candy!

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 minerals throw off your nutrient ratios
while providing smaller percentages of
sugars.
GROWER LEVEL
Now let’s see how this relates to the
types and forms of amino acids in
EXPERT
hydroponics formulas ...
Amino acids are crucial building
blocks for proteins that fuel metabolic
processes and physical structure in
your flowering plants. Few hydroponics
formulas contain amino acids,
but almost all the ones that have
aminos provide them in a form called
“D-Aminos.”
Although these aminos are cheaper
to source and manufacture, they are
not very helpful to your plants. On the
other hand, the L-form of amino acids
is totally biologically available for rapid
uptake and formation of proteins that
rapidly increase your crop health and
yield.
As with molasses and other ingredients
in hydroponics formulas, it matters
a lot what forms and manufacturing
processes are used.
Bud Candy feeds carbohydrate energy to your plants when they need it most so your plants avoid mid-bloom slump
and keep going strong for maximum flower production all the way to harvest.
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Sweeter Flowers
Are Worth More
Sweeter flowers are yours when you boost your crop’s
taste, potency and aroma by furnishing anthocyanins,
isoflavonoids, polyphenols, isoterpenes and tannins
found in cranberry and grape extracts. Growers using
these compounds report that a sudden bouquet of
pleasant scent arises from their flowers within moments
of the compounds being fed to plants in water ... and ...
after harvest, you and your friends will enjoy the extra-
sweet aroma and taste that your flowers provide (Plus,
there’ll be more flowers to enjoy too!)
Another technique for upgrading the aroma, taste and
value of your crop is to feed vitamins to your plants.
For example, Vitamin C stimulates photosynthesis and
cell replication while also protecting your plants from
negative effects of intense light and heat. To go along
with Vitamin C, studies show that feeding your plants
B vitamins provides many flower-boosting benefits while
also protecting crops from stress.
So how can you get this extensive menu of crop-
boosting compounds you’ve just found out about?
Fortunately, Advanced Nutrients scientists have
successfully managed the complex task of sourcing,
processing, and combining all these aminos, carbs,
and vitamins into Bud Candy so you get bigger, sweeter
Fast Facts

GROWER LEVEL
buds right away.
Best of all, you’re getting two products in one because

EXPERT
Bud Candy gives you everything in Sweet Leaf and PRODUCT TYPE:
CarboLoad, but it also gives you a lot more in an easy to Bloom Booster, Taste/Aroma Enhancer,
use formula. Whether your plants are in bloom phase Plant Protector
right now, or you’re preparing for bloom phase, this is
the time to procure 100% organic Bud Candy and get GARDEN TYPES:
cotton candy taste, fatter buds, and stronger plants. Bud Candy has been specially designed
for use with all hydroponics, sphagnum,
coco coir and soil growing mediums.
Bud Candy has been developed for use
“I love the way Bud Candy smells, and I with any and all hydroponic, aeroponic,
noticed that my crops started smelling drip irrigation, NFT, flood & drain, drip
and tasting the same way. I can see why emitters and continuous liquid feed
you call it Bud Candy!” growing systems.

Robert, from San Francisco, California WHEN TO USE:

Bloom phase.

MIXING DIRECTIONS:
Use 2 mL per Liter during weeks 1
100% through 6 of your flowering phase
POSITIVE RESPONSES FROM CROP TESTERS

GROWER EXPERIENCE LEVEL:

Expert, Professional and Grand Master
Growers

Company Founders’ NO-RISK,

100% Money Back
67% BETTER TASTE

GUARANTEE
Bud Candy was specifically built for growers just like you,
59% BETTER AROMA

who have specific demands and expectations from your

50% hydroponic needs. When you use Bud Candy it must
perform flawlessly for you. You’ll find it will mix easily and
quickly into your reservoir and deliver the goods you’re
43% FASTER GROWTH

looking for.
37% MORE POTENT

What’s more..., Bud Candy will work every time for you
using any and all hydroponics, sphagnum, coco coir and
soil growing mediums and all hydroponics, aeroponics,
29% LARGER YEILDS

drip irrigation, NFT, flood & drain, drip emitters and

continuous liquid feed growing systems. We guarantee it!
And when you use Bud Candy you’ll never have to risk
even one penny because it’s 100% guaranteed, as always
if for any reason you’re not absolutely
delighted we’ll refund all your
money back it’s that simple.
PROFESSIONAL
Blind GROWERS
taste tests IN A BLIND
conducted byCROP TEST FOUND growers
experienced BUD CANDYand As always, dedicated to your
IMPROVES FLAVOR, AROMA, GROWTH, PC, AND YEILD OF YOUR CROPS gardening success.
connoisseurs showed that Bud Candy buds have better
flavor, aroma, potency & market value.

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HIGHER
YOUR CROPS TASTE SWEETER AND HAVE

VALUE WHEN YOU FLUSH THEM BEFORE HARVEST

F
Final Phase
clearing flush solution

lushing is a simple
yet powerful process that
cleanses your crops just
before harvest so you get:
• Cleaner, Safer Crops
• Tastier, Sweeter-Smelling
Crops
• Higher Quality Crops
That Command Premium
Market Prices
Let’s take a look at this proven
method for immediately
improving the quality and
market price of your harvests…
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 Your Plants Are
Absorbing Things You
Don’t Want To Consume
As you’re aware, your plants grow by absorbing
compounds from nutrients, water, and the atmosphere.
These compounds become part of your plant tissues. But,
as your plants age, they accumulate excess nutrient salts
and other substances that decrease the quality and value
of your end product. Can you recall a time when you almost
coughed your lungs out? It was polluted crops that did it.
At times, this accumulation is visible as over-fertilization
or other crop failures. More often, it is an unseen burden
infiltrating your crops from the inside out. This burden
causes crops that have offensive taste and odor; crops
that burn with black ash or are hard to keep lit; and crops
that irritate and damage your respiratory system, causing
coughing and other health issues.
Your crops store excess nutrient salts that can make them taste bad, smell strange, and cure poorly. Final Phase
safely flushes your crops, and it’s easy to use too.
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Not All Flushes
GROWER LEVEL
Are Created Equal
EXPERT
Many growers try “flushing” their crops
or they use all-organic nutrients to deal
with accumulated salts that affect finished
crop quality. Unfortunately, most forms of
flushing, or the use of all-organic fertilizers,
does not purge crops of harsh residues.
For one thing, the most common way that
growers flush their crops is by giving their
crops water that has no nutrients in it. But
this doesn’t fully cleanse your crops. It only
starves your plants so they lose vigorous
floral growth and resin percentages just
before harvest.
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 Other growers use flushing formulas
GROWER LEVEL that generally consist of a few chemicals
that sometimes have the ability to pull
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MATERIALS
EXCESS MATERIALS
a limited amount of residues out of your
plants. These primitive flush formulas NO FINAL PHASE
EXPERT

remove plant nutrition, resulting in smaller

harvests and decreased harvest potency.
Not only that, but they don’t provide the
full-spectrum, value-enhancing cleanse

DETECTABLE EXCESS
you’re looking for.
Truth be told, the stuff that stores in your COMPETING FLUSH PRODUCT
plants comes from fertilizers, water, and the 50

TOTAL DETECTABLE
atmosphere, and organic fertilizer has no
crop-cleansing properties in and of itself.
Fortunately, there’s a better way to ensure
that your harvests are crystal-pure.

Here’s Your

TOTAL
Step-By-Step Guide
To Crop Cleansing 0 WITH FINAL PHASE
FINAL PHASE REMOVES EXCESS MATERIALS
The process of totally cleansing your Final Phase removes
BETTER THANexcess materials
ANY OTHER betterPRODUCT
FLUSH than any
flowers begins 4 to 10 days before you other flush product
USING ONLY PURE WATER Crops
or using only pure water.
intend to cut them for harvest. At that taste, look and smell better.
time, you drain your reservoir, fill it with
fresh water, and add just one formula: Final

Final Phase is scientifically engineered to cleanse crops without causing the problems that other flushing
formulas cause. Those other formulas rob your crops of their final days of flower growth and essential oil
production. Final Phase cleanses, but allows plants to continue to increase floral value right up until you cut.

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Phase, the only flushing formula ever specifically designed
and tested to provide complete, value-enhancing cleansing Now Sit Back, Relax

GROWER LEVEL
of the specific type of plants you grow.
And Enjoy The
By the way, it’s important for you to realize that Final Phase
Fruits Of Your Labor
is the only formula made for your plants. That’s important

EXPERT
because different species of plants respond in different Now that you’ve flushed your plants, what
ways to pre-harvest flushing, and because the testing can you expect from your harvest?
and design of hydroponics flushing products has a direct To start with, your Final Phase crops cure
bearing on whether those products work for you or not. better and faster, with less susceptibility
After you have added Final Phase to your plants’ water to storage diseases such as molds and
supply, you continuously irrigate your plants’ roots for fungi. You’ll notice that your curing crops
six hours to completely wash your roots and root zone smell better and maintain a more pleasing
with Final Phase. Then, you drain your reservoir and fill it appearance. Better yet, essential oils and
with clean water. You do not add any nutrients or other other resins will be preserved so your flower
supplements to your water supply. You just feed your plants clusters are more potent.
pure water right up to harvest time. But the real test comes when you first taste
As proven by thousands of tissue samples taken from your Final Phase - flushed crops. Imagine your
the exact type of plants you grow, this procedure results delight when you get a smoother, sugary
in crops that are almost totally purged of excess salts and taste that’s accompanied by enchanting
other burdens. scent and other highly potent effects.
That’s the Final Phase difference. The key
thing here is for you to get Final Phase today
What’s A Chelate and update your garden calendar to remind
And How Does It Make you to use this uniquely effective formula a
Your Harvests More Valuable? few days before harvest. Your friends, family
and other growers will notice the positive
How does this amazing process work to free your plants difference you create using Final Phase.
and make them more valuable? If you could see down to the
molecular level, here’s what you’d witness:
• Final Phase contains a broad range of ingredients known
as “chelates.”
• Chelates are like chemical “claws” that can grasp other
materials, such as individual nutrients, and bind to them.
• During the course of the six-hour Final Phase cleansing,
the formula’s proprietary, exceptionally broad range of
chelates removes excess nutrient salts, heavy metals and
pollutants from your plants’ roots and their root zone.
• Some of the chelates enter your plants and create a
downward mobility of excess salts that exit your plants
and are washed into the Final Phase/water solution.
• After the Final Phase/water mixture has done its job, you
remove all that water from your reservoir and refill your
reservoir with fresh water.
• Inside your plants, from the time of flushing until harvest
time, your plants are consuming on-board nutrients and
otherwise purging themselves of unwanted residues.
Increase the value, taste, aroma and safety
• By the time you harvest, your plants will be free of at least of your crops using Final Phase- the only crop
85% of the stored materials they held before flushing. cleanser that produces bigger harvests.

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And before you focus in on the powerful, guaranteed
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As you’re probably aware,
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 Professional Grower
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• New Tarantula Beneficial Microbes Give You Larger,

Faster-Growing Flowers from roots that inhale nutrients
Our formulas
faster and are protected from harmful microbes. Tarantula have all been
armors your roots while naturally producing bloom co-factors
that make flowers grow denser and standardized so
bigger. And get this, Tarantula is
the only beneficial microbes formula
mixing and feeding is
ever made, specifically for your automatically easy.
requirements. This means it’s more
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• Nirvana Rewards You With the in each bundle! Better yet, our base
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and the best news is Sensizym is
yours absolutely FREE in this bundle!
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Pump Up Your Root Size,
Protect Your Roots, and

GET
BIGGER,
More
Potent
FLOWers
R
esearch shows your plants’ roots are the key to
your yield size and potency ... yet ... the first thing
you notice about most hydroponics root zones is
they are biologically sterile. Nothing other than roots are
alive in them.
Or worse, sometimes, your root zone isn’t sterile because
your roots are attacked by harmful fungi, bacteria, and
diseases that eat your roots and rot them ...
And when you focus on your roots, you might notice
that they’re bare and spindly-looking. But healthy roots
actually look healthy, not like most roots you’ll see. They’re
“muscular,” intensely-branched, thickened, and robustly
alive.
You don’t see that kind of roots very often in hydroponics
gardens unless you’ve imported beneficial microbes into
your root zone. But how do you do that?
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the tiniest organisms produce

GROWER LEVEL
the biggest yields for you
Inserting beneficial microbes into your root zone is
easy when you administer Tarantula to your crops, so
let’s look at all the good things that’ll happen for your
plants when you do.
For example, scientists bred pseudomonas chloro-
raphis because it’s a “plant growth promoting rhizo-
bacteria,” or PGPR. Now here’s the really interesting
thing about pseudomonas and other PGPR’s: they
digest organic debris in your root zone by secreting
compounds called cytokinins that stimulate floral pro-
duction, plant health, and plant branching.
These cytokinins, otherwise known as phytohor-
mones, enter your plants and promote floral cell divi-
sion, branching, and also have an anti-aging effect.
Guess what…the anti-aging affect means your flow-
ers create more potent oils, and your plants have
more vigor longer into bloom phase than they nor-
mally would.
Installing Tarantula’s special breeds of
beneficial microbes in your root zone
You Put Up A Microbial Barrier pays off for you when you harvest your
That Protects Your Plants crops.

Beneficial root zone microbes protect your plants by
creating a barrier that keeps harmful microbes from
getting started in your root zone. Our studies found
that in hydroponic root zones that were not treated
with beneficial bacteria, there was a 39% chance
that harmful bacteria had crept in.
You may have experienced this as root rot, loss of
clones, slow growth, or smaller yields, without know-
ing that your root zone had been colonized by harmful
bacteria.
Along with the benefits outlined previously, beneficial
microbes establish a line of defense that outcompetes
with harmfuls so your roots are safer and stronger.
But that’s not all. You get leaf and stem protection
when you spray Tarantula as a foliar so it stops pow-
dery mildew and other problems that can harm your
leaves and flowers.
HERE’S WHAT TARANTULA’S
EXCLUSIVE MICROBES DO:
• Decompose organic matter to create extra nutri-
tion for your plants
• Increase plant growth rates and yields
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• Increase nutrient uptake and solubil-
ity of minerals
• Produce natural plant growth hor-
mones
• Improve aeration and water-holding
capacity of root zone material
• Increased viability of seeds, clones
and transplants
• Enhance availability of phosphorous
and increase conversion of atmo-
spheric nitrogen to plant-available
nitrogen
• Defeat harmful fungi, molds and bac-
teria
One other thing, for beneficial microbe
products to be successful for you, they
have to have a very high number of col-
ony-forming units per gram. In simple
language, this means that the formula
should have a high number of microbes
per gram. Tarantula clocks in at 1.4
billion viable bacteria per gram, making
it by far the strongest of its type.
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PROFESSIONAL
GROWER LEVEL not all beneficial root
microbes formulas are
created equal
It’s confusing and frustrating when
you go to a hydroponics store and see
beneficial microbes formulas made by
different manufacturers. Your obvious
question is which of these is going to
give me the biggest bang for my buck.
The answer is, there are two very
distinct processes manufacturers use
when they want to offer microbe prod-
ucts ...
Most hydroponics companies save
money on costs by hiring a third-party
company to bulk produce and bulk com-
bine microbes without testing them for
specific plant appropriateness or mi-
crobial compatibility. Not only that, but
their process includes a generic view
Beneficial microbes created by scientists
studying the roots of plants you grow
give you a wide array of plusses that
increase the stability and productivity of
your plants.
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STRONGER
ROOTS
INCREASE
YOUR
GROWTH RATE
PROTECT YOUR
AND YIELD
PLANTS
SPECIALLY-BRED
DESIGNED BY MICROBES
SCIENTISTS
Tarantula works for your plants in every type of hydroponics
and soil system, guaranteeing you increased harvest rewards.
of microbes. For example, when someone talks about
the microbe “bacillus subtilis,” that strain name is really
just the tip of the iceberg… it’s exactly like saying “Gen-
eral Motors” to describe a car, and you have no idea if
it’s a Pontiac or a Chevy.
And if it’s a Chevy, it could be either a Malibu or Cor-
vette. So if you’re lucky, you got the Corvette – but
you’re still left guessing if your Corvette has the 430 hp
motor or if it’s a ZR1 Corvette with the 620 horsepow-
er motor! That’s how much difference there is between
individual types of “bacillus subtilis” microbes. Obvious-
ly we absolutely make sure VooDoo Juice microbes are
always the ZR1 Corvette with 620 horsepower motor,
not the Chevy Malibu!
HERE’S HOW WE DO IT…
• Advanced Nutrients hires the sharpest microbiolo-
gists in the world. One of them is especially impres-
sive: she has three Ph.D. degrees! We have a team
of scientists testing and breeding hundreds of sub-
varieties of bacillus subtilis and other beneficial mi-
crobes in a continual research program and we are
always upgrading our formulas.
• It’s a known fact that specific beneficial microbes
work better with certain plants than others. That’s

why we put so much time and money into our
breeding program. We’re driven to find the needle
in the haystack of microbes that work absolutely
the best for the plants you grow.
• Our scientists demand that we buy them all the
expensive, precision equipment needed to iden-
tify each microbial strain’s special characteristics
and compatibility with each other that make them
“SuperStrains.” That’s why our microbes are also
extremely fast-replicating so they quickly colonize
root zones for rapid results (yes, we test for fast
Use Tarantula to feed carbohydrates which strengthen
your beneficial microbes so they increase your root mass
for even more flower-boosting power.
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versus slow replicating microbes).
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• Tarantula is not outsourced. We’re
the only hydroponics nutrient
company in the world manufacturing
all our microbial products ourselves
with a full-time Ph.D. microbiologist
personally supervising all aspects of
production at all times. (The same
is true for our Piranha and VooDoo
Juice products)
• Each microbe strain is individually
bred (not in a bunch of vats or
tubs) in a purpose-built 10,000
liter breeding reactor. This is a very
critical, time consuming step, but
it’s necessary because different
strains of beneficial microbes breed
at different rates and we have to
ensure total uniformity and maximum
colony forming units (CFU’s). After
breeding, the microbes are taken
to the evaporation tower and dried,
and then all the strains in Tarantula
are carefully recombined.
• To ensure Tarantula’s very long shelf
life and superior viability, its microbes
are put into hibernation with an
“antagonist” compound that keeps
the microbes dormant until you mix
Tarantula into a nutrient reservoir
and the antagonist is diluted.
• As soon as the antagonist is diluted,
Tarantula’s microbes immediately
exit dormancy, replicate quickly, and
burst into action for you by wrapping
themselves around and penetrating
into roots, creating flower-boosting
hormones, and increasing root size
and function.
When you pick up Tarantula today,
you’re on your way to making your garden
the maximum-yielding envy of all your
friends. Get your roots protected and
enhanced using Tarantula, and watch
the guaranteed bigger bud results.
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PROFESSIONAL frequently asked
GROWER LEVEL FAST FACTS questions
PRODUCT TYPE: 100% Organic QUESTION: I see that you also have two other
Root Booster / Crop Protector / formulas that go into the root zone. Will I get
Yield Booster more benefits if I use all three, or can I just use
GARDEN TYPES: Tarantula has been Tarantula?
specially designed for use with all hydro-
ponics, sphagnum, coco coir and soil
ANSWER: It’s true that we offer VooDoo Juice
growing mediums. Tarantula has been
beneficial microbes and Piranha beneficial fungi, both
developed for use with any and all hy-
droponic, aeroponic, drip irrigation, NFT, of which have unique root and yield enhancing benefits.
flood & drain, drip emitters and continu- We offer those formulas and Tarantula because the
ous liquid feed growing systems. combined array of beneficials when using the three
WHEN TO USE: Early Veg Phase, together gives you the most dynamic, supernaturally-
Seedlings, Cloning, First phase of performing root zone that revs up your roots, plant
bloom cycle. growth, and yield size. You can definitely use any of our
MIXING DIRECTIONS: Use 2 mL beneficials by themselves and get increased growth and
per Liter during weeks 1 and 2 of yield, but used together, you get the healthiest and most
your flowering phase. productive plants possible.
GROWER EXPERIENCE LEVEL:
Professional and Grand Master QUESTION: My buddy used your VooDoo, Ta-
Growers rantula and Piranha and said his roots got hu-
Tarantula Benefits: mongous. Can that be a problem?
● Natural, more-fertile root zone
● Bigger yields ANSWER: Your plants’ roots will get as big as they
● Plant protection and faster growth can get, given the space they’re growing in. This will give
● Resistance to disease and stress you more root support for bigger yields. Bigger roots
● Increased nutrient uptake
equal bigger yields. But we’ve never seen a case where
● Increased light intake and
the roots got so big that it caused problems for growers.
photosynthesis rates

Company Founders’ NO-RISK, QUESTION: I grow all-organic in soil. Why do I

still need to use beneficial microbes?
100% Money Back
GUARANTEE
Tarantula was specifically built for growers just like you, ANSWER: If you could import the richest, healthiest,
who have specific demands and expectations from your hy- most undisturbed and fertile outdoor soil into your gar-
droponic needs. When you use Tarantula it must perform
flawlessly for you. You’ll find it will mix easily and quickly den, you’d have a rich broth of beneficial microbes. But
into your reservoir and deliver the goods you’re looking for. that kind of soil will also have pathogens and insects in
What’s more..., Tarantula will work every time for you using it, and it is usually not the right porosity or pH for your
any and all hydroponics, sphagnum, coco coir and soil grow-
ing mediums and all hydroponics, aeroponics, drip irrigation,
types of plants or gardening. Truth be told, most soil
NFT, flood & drain, drip emitters and continuous liquid feed you buy is either biologically dead, or its diseases. So by
growing systems. We guarantee it! adding the right types of beneficial microbes to your soil,
And when you use Tarantula you’ll never have to risk even
you ensure that only beneficials gain dominance there.
one penny because it’s 100% guaranteed, as always if for
any reason you’re not absolutely delighted we’ll refund
all your money back it’s that simple.
As always, dedicated to your garden-
ing success.

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For Organic High Value Gardening,
Use This Premium 100%

ORGANIC
FORMULA
To Boost The Size And Quality Of Your Buds

I
n your relentless quest for larger buds that are
worth more to you and your associates, you now
have an all-organic formula called Nirvana.
When you look at what Nirvana has in it and how these
organics work for you, you’ll realize why Nirvana is the
number one choice for growers seeking an organic way
to increase yield and quality.
There’s a superstar list of ingredients on board for
you including alfalfa extract that stimulates growth
and yield in your hydroponic plants because it contains
triacontanol, a powerful molecule that increases
your plants’ absorption of C02. Alfalfa is particularly
important if you’ve invested money in C02 for your
grow room; it gives you more rapid intake of C02, faster
growth and larger yields.
Most manufacturers use acid hydrolysis, which destroys
L-aminos. When you use Nirvana’s enzymatically-
hydrolyzed soy protein, your plants get L-aminos that
stimulate floral growth, size and potency.
Another Nirvana benefit comes from two other plants:
Chilean Soap Bark and Yucca. These amazing plants
produce compounds called surfactants. A surfactant is a
compound that reduces the “surface tension” of liquids
so they and
whatever they
contain more
easily enter
your plants
via roots and
leaves.

Nirvana also gives you ascophyllum nodosum algae Surfactants

(along with kelp extracts). These rich compounds also help
contain auxins, betaines and cytokinins that are direct compounds
stimulators of root function, cell replication, flower travel deeper
size and flower growth rates. In addition, kelp and and faster
ascophyllum extracts increase your plants’ resistance to inside plants.
heat, stress, overfertilization and drought. What this
means is that
It’s interesting to note that these extracts can extend nutrients are
the shelf life of stored flowers. When you use Nirvana more available
starting in early flowering, its algae and kelp extracts to more of your
create more flowering sites, more flowers, and larger plants. Yucca
flowers. extract and
The benefits keep on coming when you use Nirvana Chilean Soap
because it contains soy protein that has been pre- Bark extract are
digested using enzymes instead of the acid process that two all-natural
most manufacturers use. Enzymatically-hydrolyzed soy surfactants
protein ensure that flower-boosting amino acids cysteine that transfer
and tryptophan are preserved in the biologically-active nutrients into
“L” form. your plants. Not

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only that, but, Chilean Soap Bark fights plant viruses contains 22 essential amino acids
and increases the strength and scope of your plants’ that build plant proteins, and it’s also

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immune systems. loaded with B vitamins. The most im-
portant of these are B1 and B6, which
help plants defend themselves against
The Only True Organic stress and also offer cellular protec-
Harvest-Boosting Gift For Your Plants tion. B vitamins are particularly useful
for cloning, seedlings and transplant-
Have you ever heard of tiny organisms called “krill?” ing, motherplants and gardens where
These little critters have an outer shell made of a chitin. plants are being pushed hard for pro-
When chitin is fed to your plants, it stimulates plant duction.
immune systems, similar to how a vaccination protects
you against disease. Chitin helps your plants defend Nirvana Provides
themselves against harmful fungi and insect attacks and it
assists beneficial root zone microbes that strengthen and Rich, Organic Nutrients
protect your roots. For Your Plants
Another of Nirvana’s potent bud potentiator ingredients Nirvana contains a miracle substance
is bat guano that contains chitin, along with nitrogen, called “azomite”. When you read the
trace elements, amino acids, nucleic acids, proteins list of substances that are contained in
and minerals. Bat guano is rapidly-absorbed by plants, azomite, you’ll see why it’s valuable
creating stronger plants that grow faster and produce for your plants.
bigger flowers. These include calcium oxide,
Along with guano, Nirvana has a yeast component that carbon, iron, hydrogen, silica,

Your flowers are safer, more potent, tastier, more aromatic, and more valuable when you use Nirvana,
the only true all-organic bud builder that provides vitamins, nutrients, L-aminos, carbohydrates, and
yield boosters.
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NIRVANA OUTPERFORMS ALL OTHERS

TASTIER FLOWERS
MORE POTENT FLOWERS
LARGER FLOWERS
RARE EXTRACTS
ALL ORGANIC
NIRVANA BEATS LIQUID KARMA AND ALL OTHER ORGANIC
Nirvana gives you a wider range of crop-boosting
BOOSTERS COMBINED
benefits than Liquid Karma, Pure Blend, and similar
competing formulas, and it’s 100% organic.

root zone. A related compound is fulvic acid, also derived

from leonardite. Fulvic acid similarly transports nutrients
into cells. It also has protective benefits that help plants
resist stress and toxins.

Scientists worked hard to give you

an all-organic bloom phase booster Putting it All Together For More Organic
that increases the dollar value of your Growth Boosters In One Easy Formula
harvests while adding quality and
pleasure to your gardening experience. As you can imagine, it’s difficult to individually source
or use these beneficial natural ingredients as individual
gold, magnesium, nitrogen, sulfur, supplements …
magnesium oxide, antimony,
chromium, cobalt, boron, molybdenum, For your convenience, Advanced Nutrients has
copper, phosphorus pentoxide, extracted, standardized and combined these powerful
manganese, indium, silver, zinc and compounds into one formula called Nirvana. Not only
dozens of others. In fact, virtually that, but Nirvana is triple-filtered, custom-blended for
every element on earth is contained you to easily apply as a foliar feed or in any type of
in azomite. You’ll notice that many hydroponics irrigation root zone system.
of azomite’s ingredients are essential Be aware that Nirvana is often placed on hydroponic
nutrients for your plants. store shelves along with competing products such as Pure
Another of Nirvana’s underground Blend Pro and Liquid Karma, but Nirvana contains more
benefits for your plants is humic acid. crop-boosting ingredients than any other organic booster
It comes from leonardite, which is product. Not only that, Nirvana is the only 100% organic,
amongst the richest veins of organic concentrated and easy to use formula of its type.
material in the earth. Humic acid In your quest to naturally increase the size, potency,
helps your plants intake and utilize weight and marketability of your flowers, Nirvana stands
nutrients faster, while protecting roots alone as a rich supplement that you want to feed your
and creating a healthier, more aerated plants right away.
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Fast Facts “Before I was using

GROWER LEVEL
Nirvana, I was kind of
PRODUCT TYPE: Organic Bloom Booster resigned thinking that the
and Plant Growth Enhancer price of staying organic
GARDEN TYPES: Nirvana has been specially designed was that I lost some
for use with all hydroponics, sphagnum, coco coir and soil harvest weight. But I
growing mediums. Nirvana has been developed for use gave Nirvana a try. I used
with any and all hydroponic, aeroponic, drip irrigation, it as a foliar spray about
NFT, flood & drain, drip emitters and continuous liquid
growing systems.
3 weeks before I went to
flowering and as a root
WHEN TO USE: During bloom phase, cloning, for feed after that. You could
seedlings, when plants are under stress see the difference right
MIXING DIRECTIONS: Use 2 mL per Liter during away. The flowers are
weeks 3 through 6 of your flowering phase bigger and they have a
GROWER EXPERIENCE LEVEL: sweeter taste!
Professional and Grand Masters Growers Qunicy T., from Athens, Georgia

NIRVANA BENEFITS:
l Boosts energy and metabolism so your plants
grow larger faster
l Increases nutrient distribution and uptake Frequently Asked
l Strengthens plants against day-to-day stress Questions
l Gives more harvest value for your investment
l Provides building materials for more and larger blooms QUESTION: I’ve heard that Nirvana
l Boosts energy and metabolism so your plants grow is good as a foliar. Can it be left on
larger faster blooms until harvest time?
l Increases nutrient distribution and uptake
ANSWER: Nirvana has two
surfactants that make it penetrate leaves
Company Founders’ NO-RISK, to deliver flower-boosting compounds
100% Money Back directly into floral clusters. Nirvana is
all-organic, so it’s safe to leave on your
GUARANTEE flowers. However, we recommend that
Nirvana was specifically built for growers just like you, who have specific demands you mist and cleanse your floral clusters
and expectations from your hydroponic needs. When you use Nirvana it must with pure water just before harvest as
perform flawlessly for you. You’ll find it will mix easily and quickly into your
a general way of creating the cleanest
reservoir and deliver the goods you’re looking for.
end product.
What’s more..., Nirvana will work every time for you using any and all hydroponics,
sphagnum, coco coir and soil growing mediums and all hydroponics, aeroponics, QUESTION: Does Nirvana do
drip irrigation, NFT, flood & drain, drip emitters and continuous liquid feed growing anything to improve taste and aroma
systems. We guarantee it! when using it in with synthetic
And when you use Nirvana you’ll never have to risk even fertilizers?
one penny because it’s 100% guaranteed, as always if
for any reason you’re not absolutely delighted we’ll ANSWER: One of the main effects
refund all your money back it’s that simple. of Nirvana is to add an organic, natural
As always, dedicated to your gardening success. component to synthetic feed programs.
Many growers report the improved
taste and aroma when they use Nirvana.

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GET THIS EASY WAY TO CLEAN
YOUR ROOTS SO YOU CAN

AND GET BIGGER YIELDS

I
f you want
bigger yields,
then you
should give your
plants’ a clean root
zone filled with active
enzymes that digest
debris and promote
nutrient absorption Turn Root Zone Waste
Into Faster Growth
... creates nutrition And Bigger Yields
for your plants ...
and even makes First of all, enzymes are molecules that take
apart other molecules, a fact that can get you
your root zone faster growth and bigger yields ...
material reusable You see, if you were growing outdoors in the
so you save money. healthiest, most fertile soil, your plants’ roots
would be surrounded by billions of beneficial
microbes that manufacture enzymes. These
enzymes are constantly breaking down dead roots,
other organic matter, and unused nutrients. They
transform them into materials that your plants use
for fuel to make faster growth and bigger yields.
Rich enzymes in the root zone are one main
reason outdoor plants get so huge and productive
... but ... you can’t just use any enzymes. You
have to give your root zone the most powerfully
appropriate enzymes for the job. Specifically, the
most useful enzymes are chitinases, proteases,

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 SUPPLEMENT

PROFESSIONAL
“I used some other SensiZym
enzyme
stuff and when I opened the

GROWER LEVEL
PRODUCT TYPE:
Root Zone Cleanser, Root Enhancer, Plant bottle it smelled bad. That
Protector happened twice. Then they
GARDEN TYPES: recommended Sensizym
Rockwool, Coir, Soil, Sphagnum, Ebb & Flow, and I got it and it was clearly
NFT, aeroponics, aquaponics, vertical stacker, superior. I’ve used it in
rotary, indoor, outdoor, organic, synthorganic, rockwool and aeroponics
synthetic.
and it works great in both.”
WHEN TO USE: Sensizym works in all kinds Josh, from Kitchener, Ontario
During all phases of growth, but especially of hydroponics systems to
protect your crops, save you
beginning in early bloom phase and continuingmoney, and activate your
to harvest. plants for bigger yields.
100%

STRENGTH
ENZYME STRENGTH
MIXING DIRECTIONS:
Ullabore henditate

SENSIZYM
hydrolases, glucanases and cellulases.
GROWER EXPERIENCE LEVEL:
When you insert
Professional live, thriving,
and Grand Masterconcentrated
growers amounts of

AND ENZYME
these enzymes into your root zone, you create the vigorous
enzymatic environment your roots need so they’re protected
against nematodes, pathogens and rot. At the same time, the

CONCENTRATION AND
enzymes are turning debris into pre-digested food for your
plants!

ENZYME CONCENTRATION

CANNAZYME
You Get What You Really
50%

HYGROZYME
Need In An Enzyme

MICROZYME
Formula
LIFE,ENZYME

You should know a lot of hydroponics companies take

shortcuts that short circuit the value of enzymes. Instead of
using the precise types and ratios of enzymes that have been
SHELFLIFE,

shown to work the hardest and fastest in your root zone,

some companies outsource their manufacturing so they
SHELF

don’t know what’s in their enzyme products.

0%
Because when you want to deliver a guaranteed effective SENSIZYM gives
GIVES YOU
Sensizym you LONGER SHELFlife,
longer shelf LIFE, MORE
more
enzyme formula to gardeners, you have to get enzymes that BIOLOGICAL ENZYME ACTIVITY, AND MORE
biological enzyme activity, and more
have been specially extracted in professional bioengineering CONCENTRATED ENZYME POWER THAN ANY OTHER
laboratories ...
concentrated
HYDROPONICS enzyme power
ENZYME than
FORMULA
any other hydroponics enzyme formula.
Scientists in these labs grow huge amounts of beneficial
soil microbes (the kind that manufacture the enzymes your
plants need), and then they ferment those microbes to get
concentrated doses of enzymes. After that, the enzymes are “I started using Sensizym to get more
tested individually and together to ensure that they have out of Piranha, VooDoo and Tarantula.
maximum shelf life, viability and effectiveness in the root I saw that my veg phase plants grow
zone. faster now, and the
Sometimes our scientists found that an individual enzyme roots are stronger.
might not work so well with other enzymes, or that a The rockwool is cleaner.
particular enzyme just cannot be kept active in solution. This stuff works!”
They also discover the optimum pH and liquid viscosity Naomi K.,
that works to preserve the bioactivity of enzymes for long from Guelph, Ontario, Canada
periods of time.

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PROFESSIONAL Of course, there are other
considerations. Our scientists “To be honest, I have no idea what an enzyme
GROWER LEVEL are aware of the pH and is or what it does. I bought this because the
temperature of nutrient water hydro store guy said to when I was having
in your hydroponics garden. problems with root rot. Well I don’t have the
They make sure that Sensizym’s root rot problems anymore and I also see that
enzymes function are at full Sensizym made the plants bushier. So I think
strength in your range of pH and
temperature.
this is a great product for sure.”
By the way, it’s interesting to Luke, from Chico, California
note that Sensizym enzymes
and beneficial microbes work
together to provide additional
benefits in your root zone. For
example, when Sensizym’s enzymes break down
material into sugars, beneficial microbes eat the
sugars, creating more enzymes, larger root mass,
hormones that boost flowers, and increased root
uptake of nutrients.

Now Save Money

On Rockwool, Coco,
Or Whatever Else
You’re Using
For Your Root Zone
The bottom line is: there’s now an easy way
for you to enhance your roots, put more nutrition
into your plants, protect your roots, boost floral
growth, deprive harmful pathogens of food, and
clean your root zone.
As you prepare to get 100% organic Sensizym
and bring all these benefits into your garden,
there’s one other interesting fact that growers
have discovered using Sensizym. According to
what we’re told by growers, and confirmed by
gardeners as well as plant scientists, Sensizym
does such a good job of decomposing root zone
debris that you can reuse root zone media such
as rockwool and coco coir.
This saves you money and time, because you
don’t have to buy root zone material as often.
You don’t have to buy it and then pre-treat it as
often. Nor do you have to dispose of it as often.
So get yourself Sensizym and give yourself the “Before I used Sensizym I had to throw out
root zone benefits that translate into safer, faster- my rockwool slabs after every crop. It cost
growing, higher-yielding plants. When you go me money and was messy. Now I can use
to your store to get your enzyme formula, rest the slabs for three or more crop cycles. The
assured that Sensizym is the only one with such a money I saved is going to LED lights.”
broad range of bioactive, concentrated enzymes Bruce, from Hartford, Connecticut
specifically researched and found to be perfect
for your root zone.
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PRODUCTTYPE:
Root Zone Cleanser,
Cleaner, more biologically
Root Enhancer, Plant Protector

GROWER LEVEL
active root zones will save you
money because you can use
your root zone media over
SENSIZYMBENEFITS:
again, and it will make you Cleaner Root Zone
money because your plants are
healthier and more productive. Less Pathogens and
Diseases in Root Zone
More Nutrition for Faster
Growth and Bigger Yield
Save Money on Root
Zone Materials
Feed Beneficial Microbes
GROWEREXPERIENCELEVEL:
Professional and Grand Master Growers
WHENTOUSESENSIZYM:
During all phases of growth, but especially begin-
ning in early bloom phase and continuing to
harvest.
GARDENTYPES:
Sensizym has been specially designed for use with
all hydroponics, sphagnum, coco coir and soil
growing mediums. Sensizym has been developed
for use with any and all hydroponic, aeroponic,
drip irrigation, NFT, flood & drain, drip emitters
and continuous liquid feed growing systems.

FREQUENTLYASKEDQUESTIONS
QUESTION: I definitely want to reuse my
rockwool, so how do I do it?

Company Founders’ NO-RISK, ANSWER: Use Sensizym throughout bloom

100% Money Back
GUARANTEE
Sensizym was specifically built for growers just like you, who
have specific demands and expectations from your hydroponic
needs. When you use Sensizym it must perform flawlessly for
you. You’ll find it will mix easily and quickly into your reservoir
and deliver the goods you’re looking for.
What’s more..., Sensizym will work every time for you using
any and all hydroponics, sphagnum, coco coir and soil growing
mediums and all hydroponics, aeroponics, drip irrigation,
NFT, flood & drain, drip emitters and continuous liquid feed
growing systems. We guarantee it!
And when you use Sensizym you’ll never have to risk even
one penny because it’s 100% guaranteed, as always if for any
reason you’re not absolutely delighted we’ll refund all your
money back it’s that simple.
As always, dedicated to your
gardening success.
phase. Make sure you do a Final Phase flush
before harvest. After harvest, flush your rockwool
thoroughly, and go through it to ensure that
no large pieces of root or other material are still
present. Keep the medium pH balanced and apply
Sensizym for a few more days. Then let the medium
dry to the regular wetness that’s optimum for your
plants, and reuse the material.
QUESTION: I went to the hydro store to get
Sensizym. The salesman said that it had been on
his shelf about 3 months. He said that he would
not recommend other enzyme products if they had
been in the store more than a couple weeks. So
how long is yours going to last on the shelf?
ANSWER: We have the
strongest guarantee and
the longest shelf life in the
industry. Under normal
storage conditions with a
reasonably temperature-
controlled store, the shelf
life is 18 months.

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 You’ll Get The
Extra Push That’s The
“ICING”
ON THE CAKE
You’ve Been Looking
For As A Grand Master Grower

Before I explain to you the details of how the

formulas in this box are guaranteed to give you the icing on
the bigger yields cake, I want to personally congratulate
you for being a Grand Master Grower.
Because let’s face it, being a Grand Master Grower means
you’ve seen it all and done it all in your grow rooms. You’re
the person other growers frantically turn to when their
leaves are yellowing and curling, when spider mites are
devouring their plants, when they want advice on how to get
the big yields you get.
You can walk into any grow room any time anywhere and
immediately provide information that fixes problems and
increases yield.

Turn page for more information è

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You’ve always You Get Much Bigger Yields,
been out in and Much Better Nutrients, Than You’ve
Ever Had Before
front of the
pack when As you’re probably aware, the Bigger Yields Nutrient Flow-

it comes to ering System offers you proprietary pH-Perfect™ Technology

that gives you maximum nutrients absorption in almost any
getting into kind of water you use, and without you ever having to worry
about pH or PPM again.
the latest
technology and
techniques that make
gardening easier and
more productive.
And now you’re at
the forefront of the
hydroponics revolution
that’s rocked the industr y
because it eliminates the
decades-long tyranny
of pH and PPM meters,
freeing you from time-
consuming chemistr y
so you can enjoy your
gardening. Here’s how…

When you step You’re liberated from the tyranny of pH and PPM worries
up to the Grand because scientists finally figured out how to give your plants
maximum doses of ideal nutrients in any type of water and any
Master Grower type of high value garden.
Level, you get
I want to make sure you understand everything you have
the largest yields here. Because some people may think that liberating you
and the most from the hassles of pH and PPM are the only benefits of pH-
Perfect™.
protection for But that’s just the beginning. What else does our system
your crops, with do for you? It delivers more nutrients into your plants faster
so you get better growth and bigger yields because our plant
a guaranteed scientist’s have developed proprietary chelates, coatings and
37.89% increase in manufacturing processes that make it easier for your plants to
absorb the nutrients they need the most.
yield as compared Not only that, but the System arranges base nutrients and
to all other supplements in the ideal sequence so your plants are fed ex-
actly what they need when they need it. Instead of following
nutrients made by confusing and illogical feed charts and wasting your time and
our competitor. money, you’re provided with a simple but powerful plan that
combines all the right elements at all the right times so your
plants always perform like world champions. è
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Oh, and there’s something else too, our formulas are now
standardized so you could almost mix them with your eyes
closed and still deliver perfect nutrition to your plants.
Formulas So Potent We Only Trust
Grand Master Growers To Use Them
Let’s remember that you’re using the only System that
“stacks” formulas to achieve bigger and bigger yields. With
one of our new and improved base nutrients and the three
bundles that come before the Grand
Master Grower Bundle, you enhance
roots, protect leaves, increase flower
size, boost yield, aroma, taste,
potency, and flush your crops before
harvest.
That leaves only the special crop
enhancing benefits you get from
these three Grand Master Grower
formulas that are so potent that we
trust only a grower like you to handle
their power (I’m not joking when I say
this, you better have the experience
if you are going to this level, and I’m
sure you do, and I just want to make
sure because this is serious stuff). Ok
I’ve said my little disclaimer.
• You’ll create more budding sites
and flowers that form earlier. Bud Ig-
nitor is a totally new product that con-
tains a mega-dose of 6 different initial
flowering co-factors working in uni-
son like a grand symphony orchestra
and delivered just as your plants start
flowering. It makes budding sites pop
out like popcorn. And then those budding sites turn into bigger
flowers so your harvests are faster and larger.
• You’ll protect plants from the inside out. Rhino Skin contains
a concentrated potassium silicate formula that builds cell
wall strength and armors your plants against heat, drought,
disease, pests, and other nightmares.
• You’ll create superior plants for free! Bud Factor X is “amped
up”, and it’s the only hydroponics formula of its kind that
stimulates your plant’s growth (big burley plants with thick
stalks and stems) and gives your flowers an extra “kick”,
while increasing essential oils and aromatic production all
at the same time. As a Grand Master Grower, you’re skilled
enough to use Bud Factor X also as a foliar spray and watch
your flowers get more valuable. Better yet, this product is free
when you buy the Grand Master Grower Bundle.
The bold truth is at every level of the System – Hobby-
ist, Expert Grower, Professional Grower and Grand Master
Grower – you get fantastic yields. But when you step up to
the Grand Master Grower Level, you get the largest yields and
the most protection for your crops, with a guaranteed 37.89%
increase in yield as compared to all other nutrients made by
our competitors.
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Grand Master Grower
BUNDLE™
Our formulas are now
standardized so you could
almost mix them with
your eyes closed and still
deliver perfect nutrition
to your plants.
And there’s a free formula in each System
bundle, and our base nutrients are 5-in-1
products that combine 4 powerful formulas
and a special blend of amino acids. So
when you pick up your base nutrients and
all the bundle boxes right now, you’ll be
getting 18 products for the price of 10!
We guarantee you’ll be thrilled when you
use all our Bigger Yields Bundles along with
one of our new and improved super-potent
base nutrients to get the most valuable,
biggest yields you ever grown.
You’re going to be ecstatic when you see
how our pH-Perfect™ Technology eliminates
you ever having to meter or adjust pH or PPM.
And get this; your Bigger Yields Bundles
continually fatten your flowers while special
forms of potassium and phosphorus combine
with exclusive plant co-factors in Bud Ignitor
to give you a galaxy of big budding sites.
Rhino Skin armors your plants against
attack. And you’ll witness enhanced size,
taste, aroma and value piling on top of
each other when you use Bud Factor X!
You’ll be excited when you see how our
System powers plants in ALL types of high
value gardens: ALL hydroponics, aeropon-
ics, aquaponics, greenhouse, bubbler, NFT,
flood and drain, drip irrigation, rotary, sealed
room, HID, high-intensity fluorescent, air ex-
change, C02, and in all root media includ-
ing rockwool, hydroton, perlite, vermiculite,
sphagnum, peat pots, seedling and clone
starters, and soil.
Best of all, you can use the Grand Master
Grower Level without having to risk even
one penny because it’s 100% guaranteed.
As always if for any reason you’re not
absolutely delighted we’ll refund all your
money – it’s that simple.
As always, dedicated to your gardening
success.
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Who Else Wants To
Multiply Their Plant’s Bud Sites ...
AND … Get FASTER Flowering
With This Scientific Secret?

N
ow you can make your plants
produce more flowers per inch
of stem while at the same time
triggering earlier onset of flowering and
flowers that swell and ripen faster so you
harvest sooner. Plus, you can control the
genetic clock ticking inside your plants… the
clock that regulates your bloom phase resin
production.
In the past, you’ve triggered your plants’
genetic clock by suddenly shifting them to
a 12-hour light cycle and changing them
over to bloom fertilizer. All this is useful, but
scientists have discovered something else
you can also do.
The secret is to provide your plants
specially-configured forms of potassium
carbonate, potassium phosphate, potassium
sulfate and co-factors during the first two
weeks of bloom phase.

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continuous floral structures that run
You Get More virtually the entire up and down length

Flowering Sites Per Stem
Your plants absolutely will give you more flowerings
sites per stem when you provide specialized nutrition
to your plants during early bloom phase so your plants
ramp up internal production of metabolic triggers that
result in stems that have way more budding sites than
they normally would, and faster too.
The result is that instead of only the typical 30-55%
of your stem nodes becoming hosts for flowering sites
within two weeks of flowering, 70-100% of your nodes
show floral initiation in a much shorter time!
Flat out you see more flowers per plant. And as
bloom season moves forward, you notice your stems
are crammed full of dense floral growth that buries
your stems in thick, gooey floral clusters so you have
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of your stems!
Earlier Flowering
Gives You More
Harvests Per Year
When you give your plants Bud Ignitor
compounds, your plants respond not only
by creating more budding sites, but also
by creating more budding sites sooner.
This means that on average you get 27%
more budding sites, and your budding
sites show up on average 19% sooner
than they normally would.
Seriously, think about how good this is

Bud Ignitor is the only hydroponics formula that makes more budding sites so you get more use of your plants’
stems. It also spurs earlier budding, so you get accelerated crop cycles.

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GRAND MASTER for you. Because that 19% faster flowering
onset translates into fewer days you have
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sites
BUDDING SITES
to support your plants during bloom cycle.
Not only are you getting more flowers, but With

OFbudding
they’ll be ready for harvest sooner. You Bud Ignitor
spend less time and money getting larger
harvests earlier. You can run more crop

& NUMBERof
cycles per year with the time you save.

& number
The proof is in the numbers. Add up
27% more budding sites with 19% faster Without
Bud Ignitor
flowering and you get a much more

DEVELOPMENT
productive flower per watt ratio at harvest

development
time, and you also get more efficient use
of your grow room for more finished crops
per year.

FLOWER
Your Plants Get

early
What They Need

EARLY
For Bigger Harvests
Bud Ignitor gives you significant percentage increases in
What do your plants really need? Most how soon your flowers start forming, and in how many
bloom fertilizer programs underplay flowers your plants form. This adds up to larger, earlier
potassium and nitrogen too much, while harvests.
providing too much phosphorus too
late. This includes the reliance on bloom
boosters used on top of base nutrients.
Scientific testing from thousands of Help Your Plants Store Potassium
tissue samples on the type of plants you And Phosphorus So They Use It To
grow shows that if you fail to provide Make Bigger, More Potent Flowers
the right amounts and right types of
potassium and phosphorus early in the What makes this so special? It means your plants have
bloom phase, you create a permanent extra reserves of raw materials to draw on so you get
deficit that lowers your harvest size no larger floral structures with more essential oil production.
matter what you do later on. I want you to really focus on what I just said, because it’s
It’s like missing the starting gun for a important for you: Bud Ignitor creates extra reserves on
race, and then scrambling like crazy to potassium and phosphorus that directly feed production
catch up later on. But you can’t catch of essential oils and flavoring compounds when your
up: after those first two weeks are gone, buds are swelling and ripening.
your plant is not going to create any So now you have the total picture, and it’s a sweet
more budding sites. You see why early picture indeed. Using Bud Ignitor during the first two
application of Bud Ignitor is crucial to weeks of bloom phase, you create more budding sites,
maximizing everything your plants do more flowers, larger flowers, more potent flowers, heavier
later in bloom cycle. harvests, and more valuable harvests.
Your plants are smart. They bank their And if you want to further increase the potency, size and
early cache of potassium and phosphorus profitability of your crop, get Bud Ignitor today, along
in extra floral structures and other tissues. with our proprietary series of bloom phase-specific bud
They also instruct their roots to make and boosters such as Big Bud, Bud Candy, and Overdrive.
bank extra cytokinins that boost floral This is the full spectrum of bud potentiator fuel for your
production throughout the bloom cycle. garden.

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You’re going to love seeing your plants produce floor to earlier flowers. Later on, your plants need
ceiling buds ready for harvest earlier, when you use Bud different formulas as they move into peak

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Ignitor at the start of every bloom phase. bloom and then to harvest.
QUESTION: Should I use Bud Ignitor as a
foliar feed?
Fast Facts ANSWER: No. The ingredients are designed
to be fed into roots, where they will be
PRODUCT TYPE: Early phase budding site and absorbed, converted and transported up
bloom booster into your plants to increase your floral
GARDEN TYPES: Bud Ignitor has been specially designed development and quality.
for use with all hydroponics, sphagnum, coco coir and soil
growing mediums. Bud Ignitor has been developed for
use with any and all hydroponic, aeroponic, drip irrigation, “One thing I noticed about
NFT, flood & drain, drip emitters and continuous liquid Bud Ignitor it mixes easy with
feed growing systems.
other additives and the hy-
droponics nutrients program.
WHEN TO USE: Use in the first two weeks of bloom phase.
I could see that the flowers
MIXING DIRECTIONS:
Use 2 mL per Liter during the first 2 weeks of your popped out on the plants a lot
flowering phase. quicker. And also I could see
that later on they were big-
BUD IGNITOR BENEFITS: ger. So this is what I wanted
• Bigger yields/More budding sites
• Earlier floral development
when I bought it and I am glad
• Save time and money it came through for me.”
• Larger flowers Charles, from Needham, Massachusetts
• More essential oils
• More crop cycles per year

GROWER LEVEL: Grand Master level only Company Founders’ NO-RISK,

Frequently Asked
Questions
QUESTION: Bud Ignitor looks pretty strong. Is it going to
raise my ppm?
ANSWER: Bud Ignitor is concentrated and powerful. If
you are using it as a stand-alone formula without also
using our Bigger Yields System, you should monitor ppm
and you’ll see it goes up about 200 ppm. But when you
use Bud Ignitor in our System, pH and ppm are already
balanced for you so you don’t have to think about it at all.
QUESTION: Looks like Bud Ignitor is going to give
me a big boost. Why do I need to use any other bloom
boosters?
ANSWER: Your plants have a bloom season, but during
that season, they need different types of ingredients to
produce larger, more potent buds. Bud Ignitor starts your
season by creating rapid, numerous budding sites and
100% Money Back
GUARANTEE
Bud Ignitor was specifically built for growers just like
you, who have specific demands and expectations from
your hydroponic needs. When you use Bud Ignitor it must
perform flawlessly for you. You’ll find it will mix easily and
quickly into your reservoir and deliver the goods you’re
looking for.
What’s more..., Bud Ignitor will work every time for you
using any and all hydroponics, sphagnum, coco coir and
soil growing mediums and all hydroponics, aeroponics,
drip irrigation, NFT, flood & drain, drip emitters and
continuous liquid feed growing systems. We guarantee it!
And when you use Bud Ignitor you’ll never have to risk
even one penny because it’s 100% guaranteed, as always
if for any reason you’re not absolutely
delighted we’ll refund all your money
back it’s that simple.
As always, dedicated to your
gardening success.

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 Safeguard
Your Hydroponics
Investment By Putting A

COAT OF
ARMOR On Your Plants Right Now!

L
et’s face it, high-level hydroponics
gardeners like you live with the threat
of powdery mildew, gray mold, spider
mites, aphids, root rot, harmful fungi,
diseases, stress, heat, drought and other
problems that can crush your crops and rob
your march towards a better future.
After all, hydroponics problems plague
even the most careful growers. That’s why
growers have long demanded a formula that
armors their plants to stop problems without
using poisons, pesticides or other harmful
additives.
Finally, help has arrived because one of
nature’s most abundant elements helps you
make your garden safer and more productive
today.

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The Super Silica

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That Protects
Your Valuable Plants

Look around at the ground outdoors and

you’re seeing an important element that
protects and strengthens your plants when
you supply it in your hydroponics garden.
That element is silica, which is the second
most abundant element in the earth’s
crust (oxygen is the most prevalent) ... but
the problem is ... Silica is missing from Your plants are protected from
hydroponics root zones and fertilizers. your roots all the way up to
your flower tops so you can
Your plants desperately need silica. They rest assured that your valuable
evolved to intake it so it becomes part of plants are safe.
their cell walls. That’s important because
cells are the building blocks of your plants
and cell walls are the structural features that by your plants and built into their structures. Also,
determine the strength of your plants’ stems, be aware that once your plants have absorbed all the
leaves, flowers, floral structures and metabolism. silica present in soil or whatever else you’re growing
Not only do your plants accumulate silicon to build in, they of course won’t be able to absorb any more
their cells, they also store it as protection and because there isn’t any more for them to absorb —
foundational support between cells. In fact, your even though they have a constant need for more silica
plants contain as much as 10% of their weight as especially during peak bloom phase.
silica. The problem is silica isn’t supplied at all in What I’m explaining is that plants intake silica, make
most hydroponics fertilizers or root zone media, it part of their structure, and then they need more
and even if it is, it usually isn’t the right type or when they build new structures. When is this most
amount of silica to maximize silica’s benefits as a important?
crop protector and potency enhancer.
• Number one, the right silica
is great for your plants
Why You Have To Add when they’re in veg phase
Silica To Make Better building the structure your
branches will need if they’re
Plants And Bigger Harvests going to be able to handle
huge floral clusters in
Providing silica to your crops is necessary bloom phase.
no matter what type of hydroponics
system or nutrients you’re using. • Number two, silica is a
sweet treat for your plants
For example, if you’re growing in coco during peak bloom phase
coir, rockwool, aeroponics, aquaponics, when flowers are swelling up
or other “sterile” hydroponics methods, overnight, fattening, ripening
you’ve got a serious silica deficiency and adding trichomes.
Rhino Skin is
that weakens your crops, lowers produced and
their potency, and makes them more manufactured Now let’s explore the proven
susceptible to disease and stress. using the lastest connection
hydroponics between silica
If you’re growing in soil, you might believe science targeted
and increased
your silica levels are ok, but research specifically for the
shows that adding silica to gardening soil plants you grow. potency for your
increases the amount of silica absorbed crops.
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GROWER LEVEL
When you want gigantic, healthy plants and
truly impressive yields, you use Rhino Skin to
infuse your crops with the best form of silica
for your garden.
Now You Can
Make Your Trichomes
Safer And Abundant
During bloom phase, your plants
channel most of their energy,
metabolic processes and materials
towards building flowers and floral
structures.
As you’re aware, the most important
of your floral structures are
trichomes, where the highest-value
essential oils, aromatics and resins
are made and stored. Of course,
trichomes are very fragile, easily
damaged and subject to degradation
from light, heat, oxidation and aging.
Indeed, a key indicator of when your
plants are ready for harvest is that
trichomes begin to fall, lose their
crystal-clarity, and disappear off of
floral surfaces. Feeding silica to make
better and more trichomes gives
you higher-value crops that produce
more essential oils, terpenoids, and
potency so your friends, family and
consumers are more impressed than
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ever by the big bang of your flowers.
Imagine a peak bloom phase in which your
trichomes are more resilient, larger, longer-lasting
and more packed with the natural goodness you
seek from your crops. That’s exactly what happens
when you add silica to your garden.
Finding The
Right Silica Formula
For Your Plants
If you’ve tried other silica products, you discover
that most hydroponics manufacturers have found
it difficult if not impossible to effectively deliver
silica to your crops. You can see why that is.
Silica is the main element in sand. It is very thick
and solid. It doesn’t easily dissolve in water. It
isn’t easily taken into plants.
The scientists who created Advanced Nutrients
Rhino Skin knew all this before they started the
product design and testing process. That’s why
they experimented with many different types of
silica, as well as different concentrations and
manufacturing methods. They found that the
form of potassium silicate used in Rhino Skin
produced the highest crop silicate percentages.
But they also found other benefits. For one
thing, silicates increase and balance distribution
of other nutrients inside your plants. This creates
better growth and yield, and also protects
plants from toxicity, salinity and other chemistry
problems common in hydroponics gardening.
Not only that, but the scientists discovered
how silica combined with a high PPM nutrient
program resulted in larger flowers that had more
color, freshness, taste and aroma. But there’s
even more! Silica armors your plants against the
tiny sucking faces of mites, aphids, thrips and
other pests.
So when you’re ready to armor your plants
against biting insects, diseases, and harsh
conditions while increasing the structure,
material support and metabolism that creates
larger and more potent harvests, get Rhino Skin
today to immediately provide the extra silica your
plants need.
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GROWER LEVEL
50% ANSWER: Rhino Skin is a safe, non-
GROWER-REPORTED RHINO SKIN EFFECTS
toxic way to armor your plants so they

49% STURDIER PLANTS

resist all types of attackers. However,
it is not able to completely stop all

43% INCREASED VALUE OF FLOWERS

attackers from harming your crops. A
41% INCREASED TRICHOME STRUCTURES

lot depends on how dedicated you are to

controlling your grow room environment
and vectors so that mites and other
35% INCREASED HEAT RESISTANCE

pests aren’t there in the first place.

QUESTION: Why can only Grand
Master Growers use Rhino Skin?
27% INCREASED MITE, MILDEW,

ANSWER: Rhino Skin is the most

effective, concentrated silica product
on the market. It affects pH and must
be carefully monitored and applied.
MOLD RESISTANCE

Grand Master Growers are dedicated

to spending the time necessary to
maximize crop size and yields. They have
the time and expertise to properly handle
the power of Rhino Skin. As you use the
Bigger Yields Flowering System™ and
progress up the ladder of success while
educating yourself with our gardening
GROWERS REPORT THAT RHINO SKIN GIVES YOU PLANT information materials, you will one day
Growers report that Rhino
PROTECTION ANDSkin gives POTENCY
INCREASED you plant protection
be a Grand Master so you too can get
and increased potency.
the benefits of Rhino Skin.

Frequently Asked Company Founders’ NO-RISK,

Questions: 100% Money Back
GUARANTEE
QUESTION: Can I get the same protection if I spray Rhino Skin was specifically built for growers just like
Rhino Skin as a foliar feed? you, who have specific demands and expectations from
your hydroponic needs. When you use Rhino Skin it must
ANSWER: Potassium silicate armors leaves, perform flawlessly for you. You’ll find it will mix easily and
stems and internal plant cells best when the silica quickly into your reservoir and deliver the goods you’re
is drawn in through roots to become part of your looking for.
plants’ structure. Foliar feeding is not necessary or What’s more..., Rhino Skin will work every time for you
recommended. using any and all hydroponics, sphagnum, coco coir and
soil growing mediums and all hydroponics, aeroponics,
QUESTION: Can Rhino Skin affect pH? drip irrigation, NFT, flood & drain, drip emitters and
ANSWER: Yes, Rhino Skin is a powerful pH Up continuous liquid feed growing systems. We guarantee it!
formula that can dramatically raise pH, even when And when you use Rhino Skin you’ll never have to risk even
used in very small amounts. To ensure that Rhino one penny because it’s 100% guaranteed, as always if for
Skin is properly dissolved and distributed in your any reason you’re not absolutely delighted we’ll refund all
your money back it’s that simple.
nutrient water, add it to your reservoir at least two
hours before feeding, allowing it to solubulize. Agitate As always, dedicated to your
gardening success.
your water before you administer it to plants.
QUESTION: When I use Rhino Skin, will my plants
be completely free of mites and other pests?

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Make Your Plants Stronger & Bigger
So They Pump Out Increased
Amounts Of Essential Oils
Y
ou want healthier plants that give you the largest harvests of buds covered
in essential oils ... and ... you’ve seen how sturdier, more robust plants are
better able to resist stress and support extensive floral growth.
Plus, you want to increase your plants’ production of essential oils because these
rare oils carry the flavor, aroma, potency, color and medicating effects that we most
love about our buds.

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But it took until now for scientists to unlock the most
efficient methods to stimulate your plants to create
thicker stems and stalks that produce heavier harvests
and higher percentages of essential oils. The secret is a
special bud builder formula you use to stimulate your
plant’s immune system so they give you bigger plants,
higher yields and more potent crops.
Get Your Ticket To
Increased Potency
And Stronger Plants Right Now
Your ticket to more essential oils and stronger, larger
plants is stimulating your plants’ inborn defense
mechanisms using compounds that are now available for
you in a proprietary easy to use liquid formulation.
These compounds activate internal defense “systemic
resistance” mechanisms in your plants, making them
stronger and bigger so they thrive despite heat, disease,
stress, intense light and pest attack. When you stimulate
systemic resistance, your plants bulk up with as much
as 50% more infrastructure, especially stems and stalks,
prepping them for producing and handling larger flowers.
Plus, it turns out that one of the ways systemic resistance
armors your plants is by generating and secreting essential
Your flowers get bigger and more potent when Bud Factor X stimulates your plants’ immune systems.
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oils (most often in floral structures). It’s a form
of plant self-protection.
GROWER LEVEL
So when you skillfully turn on your plants’
systemic resistance mechanisms using the
right immune boost formula, your plants
believe they are under attack and that means
their vigor increases as they pump out more
essential oils, a wider variety of oils and more
potent essential oils. This process always
results in heavier yields of finished buds that
have more taste, aroma and effectiveness.
Bud Factor X-tra
Potency And Root Power
Bud Factor X is the new liquid bud builder
formula that contains powerful compounds
guaranteed to increase crop yields and
essential oil production by stimulating plant
defense mechanisms.
In a previous incarnation of Bud Factor X,
we used several proprietary compounds
that turn on your plants’ immuno-defense
network. Our upgraded Bud Factor X contains
a better and newer generation of proprietary
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GRAND MASTER compounds that strengthen and enlarge plants,
create tidal waves of essential oils and feed
GROWER LEVEL 50%

PERFECT INCREASE
PERCENT INCREASE
growth of beneficial microbes in your root zone.
These beneficial microbes (which can be easily
installed in your root zone by using Tarantula,
Piranha and VooDoo Juice) provide a variety of
services to your roots. For example, beneficial
microbes create larger root mass, protect roots,
provide flower-boosting hormones to roots and

35% ESSENTIAL OIL FORMATION

increase your roots’ ability to quickly absorb
nutrients.
What’s more, the special X Factor compounds
are derived from pure sources that add natural
power and potency to your crops so that Bud
Factor X is a one of a kind bud potentiator

23% FLOWER SIZE INCREASE

23% INCREASED HARVEST SIZE

containing the highest-ever percentages of

21% RESISTANCE TO
DISEASE INCREASE
proprietary immune-stimulating compounds.

17% OVERALL PLANT

SIZE INCREASE
Also onboard Bud Factor X’s powertrain is a
proprietary non-ionic surfactant that transfers
active ingredients directly into your plants’ cells
when you use Bud Factor X as a foliar spray and/
or root zone additive.
Hydroponics gardeners such as yourself are
stoked to see how feeding Bud Factor X leads
to bigger, more robust plants and your flowers
coated with an extra thick layer of essential oils. You’llYOU’LL
enjoy ENJOY SEEING YOUR PLANTS’ YIELD AND YOUR
seeing increases in your plants’ yield and
HARVEST VALUE WHEN YOU USE BUD FACTOR X
your harvest value when you use Bud Factor X.
As an added benefit, your plants are better able
to handle stress and other obstacles.

Bud Factor X helps your plants fight off crop diseases, drought & stress.

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MIXING INSTRUCTIONS:
Use 2 mL per Liter during weeks 1 through 6 of

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your flowering phase.

Frequently Asked
Questions
QUESTION: My plant got bigger when I fed it
Bud Factor X. Was this the result of the product?

ANSWER: Yes, plants bulk up when you

stimulate their immune systems. Almost all the
size increase is in floral clusters, which adds to
your total harvest weight.

QUESTION: What is the best way to get more

potent crops using Bud Factor X as a foliar
spray?

ANSWER: Follow the label instructions and

then spray Bud Factor X directly onto buds
just before lights go off so it will have time to
absorb overnight. You could also apply it about
20 minutes before lights go on. You want it to
have time to sink in rather than be evaporated.
Try for a pH of about 5.8 and closely monitor
your buds to make sure you aren’t overloading
them. Avoid spraying buds in high humidity or
when you are within 3 weeks of harvest.
Advanced Nutrients is the only hydroponics company using
PhD plant scientists to boost your yields and crop value.
Company Founders’ NO-RISK,
100% Money Back

Fast Facts
PRODUCT TYPE: Immune system stimulator
BUD FACTOR X BENEFITS:
• More essential oils
• More aromatics/More taste
• More resistance to stress, pests and disease
• Larger plants for heavier harvests
GROWER EXPERIENCE LEVEL: Grand Master Growers
WHEN TO USE BUD FACTOR X: During bloom phase.
GARDEN TYPES: Bud Factor X has been specially designed
for use with all hydroponics, sphagnum, coco coir and soil
growing mediums. Bud Factor X has been developed for
use with any and all hydroponic, aeroponic, drip irrigation,
NFT, flood & drain, drip emitters and continuous liquid
feed growing systems.
GUARANTEE
Bud Factor X was specifically built for growers just like you,
who have specific demands and expectations from your hy-
droponic needs. When you use Bud Factor X it must perform
flawlessly for you. You’ll find it will mix easily and quickly
into your reservoir and deliver the goods you’re looking for.
What’s more..., Bud Factor X will work every time for you
using any and all hydroponics, sphagnum, coco coir and soil
growing mediums and all hydroponics, aeroponics, drip ir-
rigation, NFT, flood & drain, drip emitters and continuous
liquid feed growing systems. We guarantee it!
And when you use Bud Factor X you’ll never have to risk
even one penny because it’s 100% guaranteed, as always
if for any reason you’re not absolutely delighted
we’ll refund all your money back it’s
that simple.
As always, dedicated to your
gardening success.

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 Part A

Part B

Now You Can Greatly Speed Your Plant’s Growth Phase

And Give Them The Extra Strength They Need For
Maximum Size, Weight and Potency When They Finally Bloom!

D
ue to a recent scientific discovery — the result of phase technology takes care of almost all of this for you!
over 109 man-years of research, by a team of over Yes, with this new discovery your crops will …
one dozen plant scientists and graduate assistants
— you can now set your plants up to grow faster and stronger l Get faster root development so they absorb more nutrients,
so you get the maximum yield when they bloom. more quickly …
It’s a proven fact: the better you “set up” your plants for l Grow stronger with sturdier main and side stems with
their bloom and finishing cycles — the bigger, heavier and dense lateral branching …
more impressive yield you’ll see. Just like constructing a l Achieve rapid growth and mature earlier so you get faster
large building, if you don’t have a strong base — you can crop cycles …
never build a big, sturdy and impressive structure!
l Get stronger and more easily resist disease, stress and
That’s why it’s so important to give your plants the correct
pests so you have safer crops …
nutrition, in the correct ratios … and … in the correct manner
… during the growth phase, if you want the absolute best from How is this possible? The secret is actually the result of two
your garden. Luckily, this advanced breakthrough in growth major breakthroughs in growth phase technology. First …

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 This Is The Only Growth Phase
Technology That’s 5-Products-In-One!
The first ingredient in this formulation gets nutrients into your
plants as quickly as possible. It’s an organic surfactant called Wet

Nutrient
Betty and it does something every plant grower wants …

Base
… Surfactants are wetting agents that lower the surface tension
of a liquid (in this case, nutrient-rich water) allowing easier
spreading and uptake of nutrients into your plants. This of course
means your plants will get the organic nutrients they crave faster
and more efficiently than ever before—which greatly increases
your plant’s growth abilities.
The second and third ingredients are humic and fulvic acids.
These organic acids give your plants an edge when it comes to
growing quicker, stronger and bigger … with less stress … than
with any other formulation and here’s why …
The humic provides natural carrier compounds that transport
nutrients and vitamins into plants more efficiently, so your plants
grow faster and have stronger cellular processes. In addition,
the Fulvic in this formula gives you quicker nutrient absorption,
nutrient transport, and more cellular metabolism. Together, they
work synergistically to maximize the time your plants spend in
bloom.

The Same Nutrient That Gives You Bigger,

Stronger Muscles, And It Gets Your Plants
Stronger And Bigger Too!
Many athletes supplement with amino acids to help fuel muscle
growth and build muscle strength because they’re the essential
“building blocks” on which protein growth is based.
But your plants will greatly benefit from the addition of amino
acids too! That’s why the fourth ingredient in this one of a kind
two-part base nutrient is amino acids. These amino acids are
the building blocks of proteins that fuel metabolic pathways for
enhanced floral and essential oil production.
Here’s How You Can Get Your Plants
To More Efficiently Absorb The
Nutrients They Need Most ...
While your plants need the absolute best nutrients for maximum
vegetative growth … what they need more of … is the ability to
absorb those nutrients more efficiently!
That’s why the scientists who created this new growth phase
breakthrough — Sensi Grow — went the extra mile to ensure that
the most important ingredients in this formula were chelated for
maximum absorption. (Chelation simply means the ingredients
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What does a grow phase fertilizer have to do
with you getting bigger flowers? Everything.
Your plants need Sensi Grow to set them up for a
spectacular bloom phase later on.
are bound with other nutrients which help them
get inside plants so the plant cells can use them
more quickly and more efficiently.)
This 5-in-1 formula contains the optimum
number of chelated macronutrients that your
plants need for faster vegetative growth. Many
growers wonder what the difference is between
Sensi Grow and Sensi Bloom … and one of the
biggest differences is … the actual nutrients
they feed your plants. Because your plants
require different macronutrients in the grow
stage than they do in their bloom phase.
For instance, during the growth phase, when
your plants need nitrogen, calcium and other
necessary nutrients, Sensi Grow’s chelates
force these nutrients directly and immediately
into your plant’s roots, leaves, cells and
flowers—greatly speeding the growth phase.
Plus, the following micronutrients are 100%
turn page ¾
 chelated: iron, zinc, manganese, molybdenum,
copper, boron and cobalt … which of course
means … your plants more easily absorb
and use these nutrients … and you get faster
vegetative growth and much stronger plants!
Nutrient
Oh, and probably the best part about the
two-part base nutrient Sensi Grow is it’s the
Base
easiest two-part grow phase nutrient you’ll
ever use! In fact, even if you’re a hobbyist
grower … or … you’re just getting started
growing hydroponically — you’ll find you
will be getting “pro level” results in no time
because Sensi Grow completely eliminates the
biggest obstacles to growing great plants.
With pH Perfect™ Technology,
You’ll Never Have To Worry
About pH Levels Again!
If you’ve ever experienced off-color leaves,
slow growth or low yield with your plants …
then you’ve probably noticed mysterious pH
and PPM fluctuations happen at the same time.
It’s one of the biggest obstacles to getting
“Grand Master Grower” yields from your
crops.
Rest assured that scientific research has given
you the most modern, most effective grow
phase fertilizer that’s guaranteed to increase
the value of your indoor garden.
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In fact, many growers find that manually checking and adjusting
pH levels two times per day, to try to keep their plants growth
stable and maximized is tiring, time consuming and one of the
biggest hassles of trying to get their plants through the growth
stage quicker.
However, with Sensi Grow you’ll eliminate pH checking
forever because of the proprietary pH-Perfect™ Technology it
uses. In short, as long as your water falls between 4.5 and 8.5
pH (which is pretty much everyone’s water) — this technology
adjusts your pH for you and keeps it buffered there throughout
your plants growth phase!
Which means you’ll never have to manually adjust your pH …
you’ll never have to worry that your plants aren’t in the premium
growing environment … all you have to do is add Sensi Grow to
your water and the pH-Perfect™ Technology takes care of all that
for you!
How To Get The Correct Nutrient Ratios,
Every Single Time ...
It’s a proven fact that the further you move away from feeding
your plants their ideal nutrient ratios, the slower your plants will
grow and the weaker they will become.
You see, your plants use a small amount of phosphorus during
growing, but what they really love to use is nitrogen and potassium.
The scientists at Advanced Nutrients discovered this only after
taking thousands of weekly tissue samples from buds, stems,
leaves and roots of many varieties using gas chromatography
analysis throughout all phases of plant growth.
You see, other nutrient companies are over-using phosphorus
in hydroponic fertilizers … and to compound problems … they
use high levels of ingredients like mono ammonium phosphate
(MAP) or diammonium phosphate (DAP). These substances are
what give some plants their harsh taste.
But the good news is: with Sensi Grow you’re guaranteed to
have the correct nutrient ratios for your plants!
Is There Any Reason To Not Get
Started Growing Stronger,
More Sturdy, More Rock-Solid And
Ready For Maximum Yield Plants Today?
The answer is a resounding “no!”
l You’ve seen how this growth phase base nutrient is actually
5-unique-products-in one …
l You’ve seen how it contains only the most potent, most
proven and most effective ingredients for growing stronger,
 more rapid “time-to-bloom” plants …
l You’ve seen how it takes full advantage of the latest scientific
discoveries in the field of “chelation” — so the nutrients get
absorbed more efficiently, more fully and more quickly …
l You’ve seen how it’s the easiet 2-part growth phase nutrient
you’ll ever use … and how … the unique pH-Perfect™
Technology ensures you’ll never have to worry about your
pH levels again …
l You’ve seen how Sensi Grow uses only the correct and best
ratios of the most effective ingredients so you never get any
harsh taste with your plants …
l And you’ve seen how it’s completely risk-free for you to put
Sensi Grow to the test in your own garden—starting today!
Now, when you really think about it … there’s only one logical
thing to do. You simply need to put Sensi Grow to the test with
your plants – completely risk-free – starting your very next growth
phase! Here’s an easy way to test the effectiveness of this growth
phase discovery with your plants, at home:
l Take some clones or transplants of your best performing plants …
l Divide them in half and start a new growth cycle with each half
where you use Sensi Grow for the one group and your current
growth phase nutrient for the other …
● Then simply sit back and watch them run, head-to-head, against
each other … and … decide for yourself which nutrient makes
your plants stronger, healthier, more robust, and gets them into
the bloom phase faster!
Now you can use the only grow phase two-part fertilizer that contains five different formulas that work together to
make your plants grow faster, stronger and sturdier.
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Advanced Nutrients strongly believes – in
fact, they stand behind this belief with their
100% money-back guarantee – that you will
find Sensi Grow greatly outperforms your
current growth phase nutrient by a large margin!
Nutrient
Company Founders’ NO-RISK,
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Sensi Grow was specifically built for growers like you, who
have very specific demands and expectations from your
hydroponics needs. When you use Sensi Grow it must perform
flawlessly for you. You’ll find it will mix easily and quickly
into your reservoir and deliver the goods you’re looking for.
What’s more..., Sensi Grow will work every time for you using
any and all hydroponics, sphagnum or soil growing mediums
and all hydroponics, aeroponics, NFT, flood & drain, drip
emitters and continuous liquid feed growing systems. We
guarantee it!
And when you use Sensi Grow you’ll never have to risk even
one penny because it’s 100% guaranteed, as always if for
any reason you’re not absolutely delighted
we’ll refund all your money back it’s
that simple.
As always, dedicated to your
gardening success.
 Coco Coir: A Growing
Medium From “The Tree of Life”
Since ancient times, the coconut tree has been called the
“Tree of Life” for its uncanny (nearly miraculous) healing
properties and usefulness. A study of the coconut tree reveals
an almost supernatural evolution to become one of the most
useful species of plant life known to man.
The anomaly of medium chain fatty acids, lauric acid in
particular, as well as anti-microbial, anti-bacterial,
and anti-fungal ingredients in the coconut
fruit itself have made for an unusual but
incredibly potent immune system
booster in humans. Coconut oil has
been used by Pacific Islanders
and Asian cultures to effectively
treat everything from skin
conditions like eczema and
psoriasis to the common flu
virus, hepatitis C and the
measles.
The coir from coconuts (the
brown fibers that surround
the outside of the shell of the
nut which, surprisingly, are
found to be swarming with all
the beneficial nutrients found in
the fruit itself ) has been used for
making brooms, rope, and bindings
to doormats, fishnets and even frames
for housing.
The famous explorer Marco Polo even used
coco coir to bind together planks for ship building.
Recently, it's been discovered that coco coir is an incredible
growing medium with a near perfect pH for hydroponic
growing!
What Makes Coco Coir The 800lb.
Gorilla of Growing Mediums
l Because of its naturally aerated structure, coco coir
is almost impossible to over water. In fact, coco coir
can hold up to 8x its weight in water, and rather than
over-saturate, will simply reject what it can't absorb
comfortably. If you provide too much moisture to peat
bases, for example, you run the risk of water logging. Not
so with coco coir.
l Coco coir is a 100% environmentally friendly and
completely renewable resource. You can use coco-
coir with a perfectly clean conscience, because there
exists nothing more environmentally friendly.
l It is also odorless and easy to handle (besides a thorough
rinsing if you buy low-quality, sodium-packed varieties.
See note below.).
l Numbers vary depending on who's reporting them,
but in general, coco coir is known to have
a nearly neutral pH balance (average
of 6.0-6.7), making it ideal for
hydroponic growing because it
won't interfere with the balance
of your choice of nutrient
solutions and supplements.
l Coco coir is naturally
anti-fungal, anti-microbial
and anti-bacterial (though
oddly it creates a wonderful
and friendly environment
for “good” bacteria). It can
help protect your plants
against pathogens like
Pithium and... at the same
time, it will allow beneficial
bacteria to thrive. It's almost
eerie how true to its name, “The
Tree of Life”, really is.
l Erik Biksa, of HydroponicsSecrets.
TV, reports that “The coconut is teaming
with naturally occurring growth hormones and
other bio-stimulants that are inherent to the survival of
the species, which fortunately for growers may be found in
the fibers surrounding the “seed” which may be processed
for use as a growing medium.” Among the useful
nutrients the coconut is teeming with are calcium
and magnesium, and especially present in coco coir,
is potassium. Potassium is critical for plant growth...
but... the amount of potassium must be managed
because too much runs the risk of potassium toxicity.
Which brings us to a very important point about using coco
coir as a growing medium...
If the nutrients you're using are not designed to be coco
coir safe, you'll not only be missing out on the gigantic
yields you could be getting using coco coir... you run the
risk of poisoning or starving your plants!
 It's true that calcium and magnesium both occur naturally
in coco coir. But the amounts of each aren't sufficient to feed
your plants.
Not only that, but calcium and magnesium are both
naturally attracted to bind to coco coir!
Which means only the highest quality, chelated forms of
magnesium and calcium (like the kind used in Advanced
Nutrients' products) are able to succeed in a growing
environment that uses coco coir.
Lesser forms of either will bind to the coir and
your plants will be left hungry!
And if your nutrients don't use chelated magnesium
and calcium, you're missing out on better yields. (A lot of
inferior brands will try to add dolomite lime as a quick-fix to
solve this problem, but don't be fooled... it's not effective.)
That's why our calcium and magnesium supplement,
Sensi-Cal, has performed so well. It was designed to operate
in a less-than-ideal environment and bring everything up to
speed.
It's also true that if a hydroponic nutrient or supplement
doesn't account for the levels of potassium already present in
coco coir, you risk potassium toxicity.
One final note:
Many lower quality forms of coco coir are chemically
treated or at the very least... aren’t rinsed before they’re
packaged. So it’s best to be aware of the brand of coco coir
your purchase. Also, coco coir naturally retains a lot of salt.
The higher quality brands of coco coir will usually make sure
to rinse their product before it gets to the shelves, but it’s a
good idea if you’re buying coco coir (even if it’s a high quality
brand), to thoroughly rinse the coir before you use it.

Coco-Coir Safe Products From Advanced Nutrients:

(B-52, Bud Candy, Bud Factor X, Bud Ignitor, Carboload, Final Phase, Grandma Enggy’s F1, Grandma Enggy’s H2, JumpStart, Mother
Earth Super Tea Bloom, Mother Earth Super Tea Grow, Nirvana, Bud Blood, Tarantula, Organic B, Overdrive, Piranha, Revive, Rhino Skin,
SensiCal Bloom, SensiCal Grow, Sensizym, VooDoo Juice, Wet Betty, Organic Wet Betty, Juicy Roots)
 Special B
onus
Report

• The three things that form a circle, that when kept in balance...hold the keys to the buried
treasure … page 117

• The best growers in the world know this one simple secret: “having really great ____ guarantees
great crops and award winning finishes” (Find the surprising answer on page 122)

• The secret beneath your plants … gives you more control... it’s the most important link in the
growing chain! … Page 124

• A perfect growing medium? It sounds outrageous, but this one combination is easy-to-use,
inexpensive, pH friendly, charged with NPK, a wetting agent, and gives excellent aeration—it makes
getting bigger yields almost automatic! … Page 129

• Do you know where and how to measure your pH like award-winning growers for the most
accurate results? Quiz yourself, with the step-by-step directions on Page 131

• How to get a theoretical plant absorption range for your nutrients from pH 1 to pH 10 … so
you’ll never have to worry about pH again! (And no! It’s got nothing to do with adding acids to your
nutrients!) Page 143

• The amazing plant maximizing secret discovered by a street racer named Allan
— put this same secret to work in your grow room and you’ll see the most impressive
yields of your life—GUARANTEED! … page 145

• Plus much, MUCH MORE!

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 pH Manifesto
Your Buried Treasure of pH Growing Secrets
One of the biggest misconceptions in hydroponics
growing is that the pH in your nutrient reservoir is the
single biggest thing having to do with pH that affects the
outcome of your crops.
Well, it’s simply not true. It’s actually the pH and
alkalinity of three things:
technical here, but not too much. So let’s take a journey
and uncover the really important points about pH so that
we can leverage it to get you bigger yields.
First Things First
OK, pH stands for potential hydrogen and is actually
a measurement of hydrogen and hydroxide ions, and is
measured on a scale from pH 0 to pH 14.0 with pH 7.0
being neutral, aha, so we’re interested in those pesky little
hydrogen and hydroxide ions. They’re the culprits? Yes
they are. Here’s how.

When your water, growing medium or nutrient solution

is acidic (below a pH of 7.0) it contains more hydrogen ions
than hydroxide ions. And when your water, growing medium

Hydrogen Ion Molecule

Almost all the world champion growers who I’ve talked to have
Hydroxide Ion Molecule powerfully harnessed and utilized the synergistic punch that the
circle of big bud getting power delivers to their prize winning
crops. This report will show you how to start putting it to work
1. YOUR WATER. for you immediately.
2. GROWING MEDIUM.
3. NUTRIENTS. or nutrient solution is alkaline, also referred to as base or
basic (above a pH of 7.0) it contains more hydroxide ions
Unfortunately, this circle of big bud getting power isn’t than hydrogen
talked about, and it’s responsible for more growers silently ions.
losing loads of buds and quality they weren’t even aware
of.
Let me explain...we’re going to have to get a little

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 And these hydrogen and hydroxide ions interact
with each other and perform a balancing act of sorts that
determines the pH in your water, growing medium and
nutrients.

Don’t Sweat It
Wow that’s a lot of stuff, but it’s important you
understand all this because it’s one of the keys to you
getting bigger and better yields.

Anyway, these hydrogen and hydroxide ions are

also in the elements that make up our macro and micro
nutrients of the nutrient solutions we use to grow our
plants with.

And because of this the elements that make up our

macro and micro nutrients are classified into two distinct
groups. One group of elements are called cations and
contains more hydrogen ions. The other group of elements
are called anions and contain more hydroxide ions.

Also our growing medium pH is dramatically affected

by these cations and anions contained in the macro, micro
and secondary nutrient elements we use. Remember this
because it’s important and we’ll be referring back to this in
the growing medium and nutrients sections.
Mastering The Subtleties
Of The Balance
The macro, micro and secondary elements that
are cations are urea and ammonium (both are forms of
nitrogen), potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron zinc,
manganese copper and cobalt.
Shown here is a pH scale a reading below pH 7.0 is considered
acidic and a reading above is considered alkaline. A pH of 7.0 is
said to be a neutral pH, further in this report you’ll find that is
not exactly true. Also some common products are given for pH
reference points.
And the best part, it will absolutely give you bigger
more consistent and higher quality yields when fully
understood and implemented.

And the elements that are anions are nitrates (another So let’s explore this circle of power a little deeper...
form of nitrogen), phosphates (phosphorus) sulfates,
carbonates and bicarbonates. This list covers the most
common cations and anions. This topic will be covered
more in the nutrient section.

So what does all this stuff have to do with you getting

bigger yields? Well a whole lot. We’re almost there.

These three things, your water, growing medium and

nutrients powerfully form a circle that when kept in balance
with each other truly hold the keys to the buried treasure
that is commonly overlooked and waiting to be unlocked
in a grower’s garden.

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 Your Water
Misconceptions About Your Nutrient Solutions pH
Like I mentioned
earlier, the most
common misconception
is that the pH of your
nutrients is the most
important factor that will
drive your plants ability
to give you bigger yields.

You would think

that your biggest
concern would be about
One of the critical elements the pH in your reservoir.
of successful growing is the This is just not true. Unfortunately, more growers’ money goes down the drain every
precise balancing act of your single day — and its not your fault — because of the lack of infor-
hydrogen ions and hydroxide mation that has been given to us. Oh sure the PhD’s know this
You should be
ions and having total control over stuff but they’re not putting it out to us in plain English. And no
them at all times in your water, more concerned with hydro books have covered all this in great depth. And quite frank-
growing medium and nutrients. your water’s alkalinity. ly I find that puzzling. Because the importance of water, nutrients
This is one of the major and growing mediums all working together will absolutely give
culprits that will affect your yields. In fact, one of the all of us bigger yields.
biggest problems with water is its alkalinity.

This is something that must be taken care of if you
really want to easily manage the pH of your nutrients and
growing medium and get those bigger crops.
The Simple Truth Of “Alkalinity”
And what is this “alkalinity”, anyway?
Your water is not just water. There is a lot of other
stuff in it. The alkalinity of water is the concentration of
all sorts of ions in it, like calcium, magnesium, sodium,
potassium, both come in the forms of carbonates and
bicarbonates. And bicarbonates are the worst offenders
of the two.

Making matters worse, alkalinity insidiously

accumulates in your growing medium in a vicious cycle
that will cause your growing medium pH to climb faster
than a speeding bullet and give you pH stability problems
in your reservoir and growing medium, substantially
Field Crop Pumping Station — Here’s one of the critical
steps farmers —who grow field crops that are irrigated — decreasing your yields.
take to ensure they get the best harvests possible. To do this
they inject acid directly into irrigation lines to neutralize their
source waters alkalinity. Then depending on the desired pH
of their growing soil they will use a cation rich fertilizer to
bring the soil’s pH down or a anion rich fertilizer to raise their
soil’s pH. The field pumping station above also filters the
source water.
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 When the amount of alkalinity in your source water hasn’t been measured and is then used to mix your nutrient solution - even with a
properly pH balanced nutrient reservoir - your plants can suffer from a continuous build up of alkalinity that will silently sneak up on
you and quickly raise your growing mediums pH, locking out your plants vital elements, and hijacking you from your crops true harvest
potential.

In fact, farmers who have to irrigate their field And then there’s the subject of water hardness.
crops and have alkalinity in their water supply have to Shouldn’t you be concerned about that? Well, It’s important
continuously inject different types of acids - depending on not to confuse water hardness with the alkalinity of water.
what the farmer is trying accomplish with the crop and soil These are two different things.
- into their irrigation lines to counter balance their alkalinity.
An easy way to think of alkalinity is pH up. Unfortunately
a very bad form of pH up. Once alkalinity is neutralized, Here’s The Difference:
fertilizer is then injected into the lines.
“Hardness” is the measure of the combined
concentration of insoluble calcium and magnesium in the
Here’s something to think about, depending on what
water, not the presence of the carbonates or bicarbonates
crop is being grown, the fertilizer being injected will be
mentioned earlier.
balanced with the correct cation to anion ratios for that
crop’s soil pH requirement. If they need to lower their
soil’s pH they’ll use a fertilizer that has more cations than
anions. And if they need to raise the soil’s pH they will use
a fertilizer with more anions than cations. We’ll go over
this more in the nutrient section.

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 Using a water softener to handle the hardness will
only displace the calcium and magnesium ions and leave
the carbonates and bicarbonates behind, which doesn’t
change the alkalinity at all. So this is not the thing to do.
And a BIG WARNING, using a water softener will add
unwanted sodium to your water severely decreasing your
yields.
If you’re using well water it is almost guaranteed you
will have alkalinity problems. In fact most municipalities
have water that is poor quality and has alkalinity. I have
personally seen municipal water that’s 900 PPM and
chocked full of alkalinity.
Here’s the thing, if your water is 30 PPM or below
you’re safe. And I’ve seen city water that has less than
10 PPM, Vancouver, Canada being one of them. Anything
over 30 PPM and you should invest in a reverse osmosis
system.
Magnified Calcium Carbonate
Potassium Carbonate
Calcium and Potassium Carbonate are a major contributor
to alkalinity that will steadily raise your pH in your growing
medium.
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Let’s Explore How To Measure
And Manage All This
So now the question arises, “how do we measure
alkalinity?” Well, the way that alkalinity is measured is
how much carbonate and bicarbonate is in the water.
Alright, so now we have to test the water. But how
do we do that? Well, there are several ways to test water
alkalinity. One way is with an alkalinity meter (which
measures it in PPM) which is quite different than an EC
meter.
As an aside you can use an EC meter to do a quick
check but it is not the same measurement. And the least
expensive way to check your alkalinity is with a test kit
where you add dilute acid until a color change occurs at a
specific pH.
Hach Alkalinity Meter- Shown here is the Hach digital alkalin-
ity meter it’s used to check for the harvest robbing alkalinity of
your source water. It costs a couple hundred dollars, for the
same price you can go out and buy a reverse osmosis system
and not have to worry about your waters alkalinity.
Now, you can get a digital meter for about $200
at www.hach.com. But if you want to go easier on the
pocketbook, there are kits as cheap as $30 to $40. And
you should get one that uses titration which is actually the
most accurate method of testing.
 Here’s Something Interesting
About pH Readings
OK, so that seems simple enough, but now I’m going
to add just a little variance into the subject to make it more
interesting. Taking pH readings during the light cycle will
give you a different result than when you take pH readings
at night.
The reason for this is, during the dark periods, both
microbes and the plants are resting and give off alkaline
molecules and the pH tends to go up a bit. During the day
the plant and microbes are active and they give off acid
molecules which make the pH go down some.
The Best Way To Measure PPM
One way people have measured the PPM is with TDS
(total dissolved solids) but I would not advise this because
TDS was intended for determining the acceptability of
drinking water, not nutrient solutions.
Instead use a meter that measures EC (Electrical
Conductivity) this type of meter was made specifically for
measuring nutrient solutions.
Here is one of the biggest secrets the best growers
in the world figured out along time ago: if you want a world
class crop you have to use really great water.

If you’re running a recirculation system this is And a very simple way to ensure that is get a reverse
important to consider, especially because your tank should osmosis water system. It’s an absolute must for bigger
be outside your grow room. And you might be taking your yields.
readings when your plants are in their dark cycle.

RO System Wall Mount And

Commercial Units- Pictured
on the left is a typical wall
mount unit that will produce
around 25-50 gallons
per day. On the right is a
commercial system that
produces 200 to 500 gallons
per day. WARNING: When
you get your RO system
DO NOT get a water soften-
er with them, because they
will put unwanted sodium
into your nutrient solution
and substantially cut down
on your yields.

An assortment of different manufacturers EC meters- EC

meters are made to measure fertilizer solutions. TDS meters
measure total dissolved solids and were originally designed to
check drinking water not nutrients.
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 Float Valve System Diagram Of RO Storage And Reservoir — Pictured above: is a tank mount float valve shut off set up.
Reverse osmosis systems are priced and rated by how many gallons or liters of water they produce in a 24 hour period. Because
of this a lot of growers run theirs 24 hours a day into a separate reservoir. So to avoid over flowing your reverse osmosis water
reservoir a float valve shut off should be installed.
You May Want To Read That
Last Line Again...
Think about it, you spent all that time and hard work
building your grow room and in the final hour you skimp
on the water, it just doesn’t make sense, you really should
invest in a reverse osmosis system.
They aren’t that expensive these days, prices start
for under $100. A reverse osmosis system will take the
alkalinity out of your water and give you bigger yields. And
obviously alkalinity is one of our limiting factors we want
to get rid of, isn’t it?
When You Invest In RO
Remember These Tips
One word of advice: you should have a tank mounted
shut off float valve installed on your R.O water storage
tank and nutrient reservoir that shuts off automatically
when the tank is full, and you should keep your nutrient
tank topped off because, as water level lowers, the pH will
be magnified as either acidic or alkaline. You can get one
at: www.autotopoff.com/products
One Last Thing About
Your Water
Now here is the last thing I will say about the water
you use and then we’ll take a look at the growing medium.
There is one more thing to pay attention to when it comes
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to your water. The temperature is important as well.
Cooler water holds more oxygen as well as affects
your pH level, but if it is too cold, it will cause your pH to
rise, and if too warm, it will cause it to go down.
Here’s a little known fact, excessively high water
temperatures above 79°F or 26 °C start to negatively
impact your plants ability to absorb macro nutrients.
High temperatures also encourage fungal and
bacterial diseases, and you don’t want that either. In fact,
it is best to maintain a nutrient reservoir temperature of
65°F or 18°C to 69°F or 20°C. And colder water holds a
lot more oxygen.
And here’s another fact, scientists who study our
oceans consider warm tropic waters to be the “deserts”
of the oceans because they contain way less life than the
colder waters of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans, that are
teeming with life because of the colder water temperatures
holding more oxygen.
In the end if you want bigger yields go out and buy a
reverse osmosis system it will be some of the best money
you’ll ever invest in your grow room.
 Your Growing Medium
The Secret Beneath Your Plants

Your plants roots are actually pH producing “machines” creating either hydrogen ions (pH down) or hydroxide ions (pH up)
depending on whether the roots are taking in elements that are mostly cations or anions.

All my labs grow rooms use reverse osmosis water.

In fact it’s so important all Advanced Nutrients products
The Most Important Link
are made with ultra pure zero PPM and zero alkalinity In The Chain
reverse osmosis water.
Out of the circle of big bud getting power, it’s your
OK, let’s explore your growing medium – A lot has growing medium that you need to be most concerned
been said about measuring pH in the nutrient solution, but about. Because if you want a really great crop, your plants
where the real money is being won or lost by the buckets must have an acidic pH growing medium. In most cases
full, is in the actual growing medium itself. your pH will be climbing and your challenge will be to keep
your pH from going up.
Here’s why... your plants’ root system is actually a pH
excreting machine that manufactures and pumps hydrogen
ions (pH down) or hydroxide ions (pH up) directly into your
growing medium and will directly change the pH of the
growing medium depending on the elemental composition
of your nutrients make up.

And you can imagine how having a thorough

understanding of this is going to give you even more
control over your plants that will lead to bigger yields,
right?

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 Here’s the typical pH absorption range of non chelated elements in soil and hydroponics.
Sure, the water, the growing medium, and the
nutrients should all have to work in perfect harmony
with each other, but it’s the roots in the growing medium
that drives the pH chemical reactions that is the most
overlooked by growers and it’s not your fault it’s just most
books out there don’t go into great depth about it.
And naturally this is very important because, the pH
in the root zone is going to determine the availability of
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nutrients and your plants ability to produce world class
buds. And we all want to grow kick ass buds, don’t we?
It’s This Sort Of Knowledge That
Leads To Real Mastery In Growing
You just got another gem that’s not even talked about
or even considered by most growers, except by growers
who have a very deep understanding of plants. And this is
where your big money is going to be made or lost.
So you see, it’s going to be essential then if you want
big consistent yields, you should check your growing
medium pH every week.
 An Important Lesson To
Nutrient Company Owners
I have extensively tested the competitors hydroponics
nutrients, and unfortunately the vast majority of them don’t
work with the plants root system to even remotely come
close to maintaining a stable or ideal pH in the growing
medium. Because they use too much nitrates as their
source of nitrogen .

Here’s the straight goods... and an education for a

lot of the nutrient manufacturers out there, to balance a
growing mediums pH, nutrient manufacturers must be
using the correct balance of cations to anions to guarantee
you the right pH in your growing medium.

And...One more thing, the right balance of elements

(cations to anions) that will give you a stable and ideal
growing medium pH is different from plant species to plant
species.

And by not being aware and acting on this vitally

critical piece of knowledge is exactly like growing with one
foot on the gas and the other foot on the brake at the same
time.

Why Would Anybody

Work Against Themselves
Like This?
So why are nutrient companies not building there What are you really feeding your plants? Your plants macro, micro
products with this in mind? and secondary nutrients are really a lot like the foods you eat. Think
about it, are all sources of protein, carbohydrates and fats you eat
the same? No they’re not. And its exactly the same for your plants
Well, I will give you two reasons for that. One is the
food it eats. Your plants are what they eat.
high expense and the other is the amount of research and
knowledge needed to prepare the nutrients for a specific
your insulin while others are a slow burn and give you
type of plant.
sustained energy.
I admit it... I go on the forums every once in a while,
What about fats? Some are actually good for you
and it always amazes me when I see people making
like Omega-3 and others will slowly clog your arteries and
statements like, “all base nutrients are the same and salts
eventually give you a heart attack. Obviously it all makes
are just salts”.
a difference. And in the nutrient section we’ll take a look
at this in depth.
Think about it... is there a difference in the foods
you eat. Are your sources and quality of proteins,
carbohydrates and fats you eat, all the same? Absolutely
not, some proteins are assimilated and utilized by your
body faster and more completely than others.

And some carbohydrates release quickly and spike

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Coco Coir
Sphagnum Moss
Coco Coir Sunshine #4 Mix
What’s Your Favorite
Growing Medium?
Now if you’ve looked lately, you probably noticed that
there is a variety of growing mediums to choose from.
You have sphagnum moss – that stuff from bogs. And
there is coco coir, the fiber that comes from the coconut’s
outer husk. And let’s not forget about the special mixes
and all the other hydroponic growing mediums.
Now you might want to keep it simple so what I
recommend is that you use Sunshine #4 mix. This is a mix
that is pretty close to ideal and will save you a lot of work.
We’ll talk a bit more about that later.
You might even choose coco coir since it is also a
good growing medium and has a special line of compatible
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Pete Bog Sphagnum Moss Harvest Expanded Clay Pellets
Perlite Rock Wool
fertilizers. The thing about different hydroponic mediums
is that they have varied abilities to maintain and control
pH.
So Let’s Take A Closer
Look At Them
OK, so we had a look at some growing mediums.
Now we’ll look at them and a few others in a different
perspective. In hydroponics, there are two basic types
of growing mediums: those that are pH independent and
those that are pH dependent. Let’s take a closer look at
these mediums differences.
Well, each one of them has a certain ability to stabilize
or buffer pH, which is another way of saying they have
varied abilities to keep the pH from changing on you. This
ability is called cation exchange capacity or CEC.
In other words, CEC refers to the ability of the medium
to absorb and release cations. Remember the cation stuff I
mentioned at the beginning of this report? We’ll be looking
at this a little bit closer now.
 Dependent Vs. Independent
Mediums that are pH dependent have little to no CEC
and cannot resist a change in pH and this results in the pH
going high or low very rapidly.

So, then, mediums that are pH independent have a

high CEC, are more buffered and can resist a change in
pH for long periods of time. And that’s good! That’s what
you want.

As an example your everyday, garden, soil-based

medium contains some humus and clay and is pH
independent with a high CEC because of the humus and
clay. They are great to grow plants in because it is not
affected by rapid pH swings.

But Indoor Growers Have To

Follow Different Rules
Now, hydroponics is different. Many of its mediums
have a low CEC and needs to have the pH continually
balanced and monitored. More on this later. Of course, there
are some that have a higher CEC and are better buffered
than others. For example, coco coir and sphagnum moss
have higher CEC capacities. This means they are capable
of maintaining a more stable pH level. These are said to
be pH independent. Sphagnum actually has eight to ten
times the CEC as soil pound for pound, but there are other
drawbacks.

But not to worry, these could be easily remedied,

though no manufacturer has done this yet. You see,
Sphagnum doesn’t have the bulk density that soil has.
After all, it is a moss and is light in weight. But you can add
something called calcined clay to solve that problem.

These are the cation exchange capacities of different

soil structures at pH 7.0. You can clearly see how impor-
tant the addition of humus is to your soil and growing
mediums ability to hold a stable pH. You can easily build
more humus structure in your soil and growing medi-
ums by adding humic and fulvic acids to them. As an
aside, if you’re an outdoor grower you can now see the
importance of growing in soils with high humus values
because it will definitely make a difference in getting
you bigger yields.

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 Calcined Clay and this would be a near perfect medium for growing
your plants. Sunshine #4 also contains a wetting agent
All you need to do (surfactant) to ease surface tension and allow for better
is add is 5% – 7% to initial water penetration to the growing medium.
your sphagnum growing
media. And what is
calcined clay? Well, this
Coco Coir (And How To
is clay that has been Overcome Its Limitations)
heated to drive out
Let’s have a look at coco coir. It starts out with a
volatile materials. One
better pH of 5.5. But the problem with this medium is that
word of caution though.
Calcined Clay magnesium and calcium binds to coco and doesn’t want
Make sure you use a
Calcined Clay can be added to to easily release. And that’s not good. Your plants need to
low sodium source of
sphagnum moss and coco coir be able to get to those nutrients.
calcined clay because
growing mediums to increase
it’s (CEC) cation exchange you don’t want extra
Now if you add dolomite lime, as a lot of companies
capacity so your growing sodium in your growing
out there will do because dolomite is cheap to use and
medium will have a much more medium.
made up of magnesium and calcium carbonate and a
stable pH.
source of alkalinity, that will eventually raise your growing
Now what about
mediums pH and this is not what you want to do. So
low CEC growing
what do you do? You would solve the problem by adding
mediums? Some hydroponic mediums that we use, such
chelated calcium and magnesium either to the coir or in
as rock wool, expanded clay pellets or perlite, have a low
the base nutrients.
CEC and so they have a hard time stabilizing the pH. We
call them pH dependent and, you probably have already
Unfortunately, other nutrient companies won’t do
guessed by now, you will need to correct the pH more
this because of the very high added expense, but that is
often.
exactly what we put in all the base nutrients at Advanced
How about the Sunshine #4 mix that we mentioned
earlier? Actually this is a very, very good medium. When it
comes out of bogs, it has a pH of 3.5 to 4. This is actually
too low, so dolomite lime is added to it to raise the pH.
(We’ll talk about adding dolomite a bit later.) This brings
the pH of the Sunshine #4 to 5.8 to 6.3 for a 6 week period.

More About “Sunshine #4”

And How It Can Make Your
Life A Lot Easier
So what’s Sunshine #4 mix made of? It’s made
of 60% – 70% peat and 30% – 40% perlite. This is the
combination you want and gives you excellent aeration
which you’ll need for great big thick root development.
And as hundreds of university studies have conclusively
shown the bigger the root system the bigger the yield. And
that’s what we’re after isn’t it. BIGGER YIELDS. Coco coir comes from the outer husks of coconuts.

It also has a starter charge of fertilizer that gives it an

NPK ratio of 6-5-11 meaning it has a ratio of 6% nitrogen
(N), 5% phosphorous (P) and 11% potassium (K). All you
have to do, then, is add a bit more nitrogen to the mix
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Nutrients. However Advanced Nutrients doesn’t make a
specific coco nutrient yet.
Coco coir also has a lot of potassium so you’ll need
to use a fertilizer with reduced potassium so you don’t end
up with potassium toxicity.
There is one other thing to be aware of: low quality
coconut husks are often soaked in salt water as part of
the manufacturing process to break down the husks and
quite often not properly flushed by the coir manufacturer
overseas.
You’ll need to make sure that the extra salt is flushed
out of your medium with water by either yourself or the
manufacturer you’re buying it from before using it.
This Step Is Very Important
Because if you don’t, you will have high sodium
content in your growing medium and that will severely
reduce your yield when using cheaply produced coir, and
this problem is more common than you might think.
Monitoring Your Growing
Medium pH
Remember, we talked about monitoring growing
medium pH? One of the most overlooked areas by
growers is checking their growing medium pH on a regular
basis. That is probably the biggest single culprit for yield
inconsistencies from crop to crop and it could be costing
you a lot of money.
Let me explain how this happens. As the roots take
in an element, it gives off a positive charge, pH down
(hydrogen ion) or a negative charge pH up (hydroxide
ion), and depending on the nutrient elements being used,
some carry more of the same charges than others.
What’s more, because of this it affects the pH of
the surrounding root area and growing medium. If it’s
hydrogen ions being excreted, it becomes more acidic,
and if it’s hydroxide ions, it becomes more alkaline.

If you’re thinking about using coco coir as your

growing medium, you’re going to find coir still has some
inherent problems with it that have not been resolved
completely, that’s why you’ll probably have to use a Cal
Mag product when growing with coir.

At one point Advanced Nutrients pulled Sensi Cal

calcium and magnesium product off the market because
we figured if a nutrient was built right you didn’t need it.
Man, stores started calling and demanded we keep it on
the market, so we did.

Here’s what the hydro store owners told us was You don’t want to take your growing mediums pH readings
happening: Growers growing with coco coir were using from the top third of your container because there usually
Sensi Cal to fix the calcium and magnesium deficiencies isn’t enough root activity there. Instead take your readings
from the bottom two thirds of your growing medium where the
caused by the coir they were using. Which of course told
most root growing activity is to ensure an accurate reading.
us that there hasn’t been a correct coco nutrient formula
made yet that addresses the needs of the growers using
coir growing mediums.

So, at some point we will bring out a coco coir

nutrient and then later on down the road, a coir growing
medium that will be perfectly aligned with each other. We’ll
be doing the same thing for a sphagnum moss growing
medium too. Enough of the commercial.

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 How To Measure Your
Growing Medium pH
So it’s important to monitor the pH levels in your
medium as well as your nutrients and the alkalinity of
water you are using. So how do you measure your growing
medium pH? Basically, there are three ways to do it:

1. Saturated media extract – you add distilled or

de-ionized water to the medium just to the saturation
point and measure.

2. Pour-through method – the water is poured

through the pot to replace the water that was in there
and collected.

3. Squeeze method – the water that already

exists in the medium is gently squeezed out in a
measured amount and pH readings are taken.

In all three of these, you just use a pH meter or color

test to measure the pH. The easiest of the three is the
squeeze method. If you are using rock wool, you just take
one of the cubes after a feeding and you gently squeeze it.

Repeat this with at least six different cubes so that

you get a couple ounces or 60 milliliters from each cube.
After combining and mixing these six extractions together,
check the pH. This tells you what the pH is in the growing
medium.

What you’re looking for is a pH range of 5.3 to 6.8.
In our labs we’ve extensively tested pH ranges and
yields, this is the “sweet spot” for nutrients that are not
fully chelated. The range is even wider for fully chelated
macro, micro and secondary nutrients.
pH Meter With Soil Probe — This is a very good
growing medium pH meter to use when you’re
checking your growing medium’s pH.

When your growing medium is coco coir or sphagnum

moss, you water your medium to the point of being
saturated (but not leaking out the bottom) and then take a
sample from the bottom 2/3 of your pot where your roots
are most actively growing.
There’s An Easier Way
A much easier way is to get a pH meter with a metal
spike probe and take readings simply by sticking the
probe deep down into the growing medium and calculate
the average of all six containers.

Next...you take the same amount from six different

pots and mix them together. Make sure to take the same
amount from each pot. Then gently squeeze it and get
an extraction from which you will measure the pH. Look I
realize that taking samples from grow buckets is a hassle
however; it is the most accurate.

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 Laboratory Grade pH And EC Meters- Here are high end laboratory grade EC, pH meters and probes that cost from several
hundred to over a thousand dollars.
Now, don’t take the sample from the top third of the
container, here’s why. There isn’t as much root growing
activity at the top of the soil. So use the bottom two thirds
of your growing medium to take your pH readings because
that is the active zone for root growth.
pH Temperature Chart — Contrary to popular
belief a pH of 7.0 is not always neutral, in fact
it really depends on the temperature of your
nutrient solution as the chart above shows.
That’s why it’s critical to make sure you buy a
pH meter that compensates for temperature.
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There’s another reason for taking the samples near
the bottom of your container, and that’s because nutrients
will tend to crystallize near the top and can precipitate out
a little bit and will give you a false reading.
Using pH Meters
So now, we should look at the meters we need to
measure the pH. There are so many different pH meters
available, but get one that uses dual solution to calibrate
your pH meter. It’s a good idea to get one that auto adjusts
and has ATC (automatic temperature compensation).
This will be more expensive but worth it. The cheaper
ones are a pain to use while the auto-adjust ones calibrate
at a press of a button, which makes it a lot easier. You
want to make sure that calibration is done every week.
If you’re fanatic to detail like I am you’ll want to have
a pH meter with ATC because as your nutrient solution
temperature changes so does the pH of your nutrients
when your nutrient temperature gets warmer your pH
goes down and when your nutrient temperature gets
cooler your nutrient solution pH goes up.
Here’s an interesting side note, a pH of 7 is considered
to be pH neutral, but in fact is only an approximation and
is accurate only at 25 °C or 77°F. A true neutral pH is
when the concentration of hydrogen ions (H+) is exactly
the same as the concentration of hydroxide ions (OH- )
and those concentrations are effected by temperature so
your pH neutral point varies from pH 7.47 at 0°C or 32°F
to pH 6.14 at 100°C or 212°F.
 A Good Resource
If you’re looking for really high quality pH measuring
instruments and electrodes check them out: www.
pulseinstruments.net

Bacteria In Your
Growing Medium
It may surprise you to find out just how much activity
is going on under the surface of the growing medium.
There is actually a lot going on there including bacterial
activity.

But before we get into that, we need to say a bit about

beneficial bacteria and nitrogen. Plants need nitrogen as
an essential element for its survival. There is a process
that bacteria is involved in called nitrification. Microbe Circle Diagram Showing Daytime H+ Nighttime OH-
Beneficial microbes release hydrogen ions (pH down) during your
light cycle and hydroxide ions (pH up) during your dark cycle.
The Role Of Nitrification
Nitrification is a process where specialized beneficial (65°F or 18°C to 75°F or 23°C) so it will encourage active
bacteria in your growing medium take the urea and growth of beneficial microbes. This will help to keep your
ammonium from the nutrients and convert them into pH stable, and your growing medium more acidic.
usable forms. Then the plant roots can absorb it and use
it for plant growth and development. A Valuable Secret!
Here goes... I’m going to reveal something I’ve never
By the way, an important thing that happens in this
told anyone before. And I’m sure it’s going to give my
process is that these beneficial bacteria then give off
competitors something to start researching into.
an acid molecule which actually lowers your growing
mediums pH as well. And that’s a good thing.
Advanced Nutrients beneficial bacteria products
have microbial interaction with each other that’s balanced
Now, if you have a pH that is too low, nitrification will
in a way that assists your growing medium in holding its
be inhibited. The same happens when your medium has
pH.
too low a temperature or there is a lack of oxygen through
over-watering. Then the pH goes up and the medium
And here’s something else you may find interesting.
becomes more alkaline. Not good!
Advanced Nutrients is the only hydroponic nutrient
company to breed and produce their own beneficial
Beneficial Microbes Switch microbes in house.
Gears At Night
At night beneficial microbes are at rest and respirating,
and they give off alkaline molecules instead of acid as they
do during the day, and the pH goes up.

Some interesting facts, some microbes give off

more hydrogen ions (pH down) in a 24 hour period than
hydroxide ions (pH up). And some do exactly the reverse.

Also make sure that you do not over water your

plants, and provide a somewhat warm growing medium
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 By hunting down and selecting specific beneficial microbes Advanced Nutrients can now select microbes that either give off
equal amounts of hydrogen ions (pH down) and hydroxide ions (pH up) or more hydrogen ions (pH down) or more hydroxide
ions (pH up) in a 24HR period. Obviously the importance of this is significant because we can now use these to help you control
your growing mediums pH.

Making Your Own Growing Sometimes There’s An

Medium Mix
Now, you might have decided to make your own
media mix. If so, alright. But if you start with pure sphagnum
moss, you will need to add at least 30% perlite (between
30 – 40%) so that the sphagnum moss can breathe and
aerate properly, allowing the roots to pass through quickly
and infuse into your growing medium.
When using sphagnum moss you could add 5 to 7%
calcined clay to increase the cation exchange capacity
(CEC). This would help stabilize the pH in that growing
medium. I would not use calcined clay in a recirculating
system only in a “one way” feeding program.
Unexpected Aspect To
“Do-It-Yourself” Mediums
You Should Be Aware Of
There is something else that you might run into when
mixing your own medium. And that is inconsistent growing
medium. The number one cause of pH problems for
growers mixing their own mediums is inconsistencies in
source materials.
When mixing your own growing medium you need
to know the sources of your sphagnum moss and lime
because they differ in pH from year to year and locations.

Of course, if you are new to hydroponics, I would
suggest you start by using Sunshine #4 mix, which has
very good CEC and is very forgiving. You will get a good
crop even if you make a few mistakes.
The only way to be certain you are working with the
right pH materials in your medium is to test it frequently.
See “Laboratory Registry for the United States and
Canada 2nd Edition,” CRC Press (ISBN 1-57444-179-5)
to get a comprehensive list of soil-testing laboratories in
the United States and Canada.

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 Calcium Hydroxide Limestone Screenings

Dolomite Calcitic Limestone

Pictured above are the different types of limestone it’s important to be aware of which type you’re using because they all have
different release rates.

Adding Limestone and it affects the long-term buffering capacity of your

Earlier I mentioned adding limestone or lime. When
you have a medium that is too acidic, you have to add
something to bring it up into a better range. For example,
you will find that sphagnum (pH of 3.5 to 4.0) is very acidic
to use as a medium.
growing medium.
It is the residual limestone that you want to measure
regularly in order to test how good your limestone source
is. Actually, each limestone source is different, so there is
no way to determine the residual fraction except to test it.

So you’ll want to use limestone to neutralize this acid There is also a variance in the limestone you get
and raise the pH to a level acceptable for plant growth. depending on what part of the quarry it comes from. You
The amount needed depends on different factors such as will find a variance in pH with sphagnum moss as well,
sphagnum sources, types of ingredients, and limestone depending on what part of the bog it is harvested from and
type. what time of year or even what year.
Another thing, when limestone is added to your
growing medium, only a fraction of the lime reacts to
increase the pH to a stable level in 5 to 10 days after
planting. And this is called the reactive fraction.

So what happens to the rest that doesn’t react?

Well, this is called un-reacted or residual limestone,
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 The Three Main Features
Of Lime
So when you use sphagnum as your medium, there
are three main features of lime that determine how much
is needed to raise its pH. These features are limestone
type, particle size and hardness.
Limestone Types
In dealing with limestone type you actually have two
choices:
1. Calcitic which is straight calcium carbonate.
2. Dolomite which is a combination of calcium
and magnesium carbonate.
I do not recommend Calcitic limestone as your
optimum choice because it releases too fast and usually
raises the medium pH too high. Dolomite is slower and
doesn’t do that, so it is a better choice. With dolomite you
get a more even pH and buffering over a longer period of
time.
Just remember that different sources of dolomite will
give you different reaction fractions or percentages of the
limestone. The only way to really ensure you have the
dolomite lime with the right residual balance and the right
reactive component to it is to test it by doing the following:
l After placing the medium in pots, irrigate with tap
water avoiding any leaching to take place.
l Reapply the water daily as needed to keep the
medium moist.
l Measure the pH at days 0, 3, 7, 10, 14, and 21.
l Plot your results on a graph. You should see the
pH stabilize after some time and see what the final
pH was as well as how long it took to stabilize.
Particle Size
Now that we looked at limestone type, let’s look at
particle size. Particle size also makes a difference in how
reactive the limestone is. The finer the particle size is,
the more reactive the limestone is. Just so you’re aware,
limestone is sold in mesh sizes. The higher the mesh size,
the finer the particle size.
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Hardness
Hardness is the third important feature of limestone.
A soft crystal reacts more quickly with acid than a hard
crystal. Of course, there is no real way to tell if the
limestone being used is soft or hard except by testing it.
You have to add it to your growing medium and raise the
pH to 5.3 – 6.8 and observe what happens.
You can conduct a test for determining the reactivity
of your limestone by adding 4 to 6 pounds of limestone per
cubic yard of growing medium. If this adequately brings
the pH up to 6.0, you know that the limestone is reactive,
and there is little residual left once a stable pH is reached.
Needing to add 8 – 12 pounds of limestone indicates
the limestone is moderately reactive. Adding more than 15
pounds per cubic yard indicates an un-reactive limestone
and that is not good.
Hydrated Limestone
(A More Volatile Option)
If you use hydrated limestone, it’s another story.
Hydrated limestone is known as calcium hydroxide and
is a white, crystalline, slightly-soluble alkali used in the
neutralization of acid soils.
It reacts completely and rapidly and does not have
any available residual limestone. You have to be careful
with it because it will quickly shoot your pH way up.
Some Challenges You
Should Be Aware Of
Now you might run into a problem with adding
limestone. Because adding too much limestone adds
alkalinity to your growing medium which could raise the
pH levels too high.
In limestone, the bicarbonates settle around a pH of
6.5 to 6.7 and this is dangerously close to the pH where
precipitation of iron and manganese start to happen unless
they are properly chelated.
 If you use Sunshine #4 growing mix, you don’t want
to add limestone as it already has sufficient limestone in it,
and adding more will increase your growing medium’s pH.

Be careful...if you’ve been using limestone in your

Sunshine #4 mix you might end up with your pH going high.
You might even cause your nutrient elements locking out
in the growing medium. However, if you use fully chelated
macro, micro and secondary nutrients, this won’t happen.

We will talk about chelates in a bit. Many of the

nutrient companies don’t bother with using any chelates
and the ones that do usually only chelate the iron and
manganese. Properly chelating nutrients is an expensive
endeavor. And the lack of proper chelation is likely costing
you bigger yields, and you end up having to monitor your
nutrients and growing medium continually to get the right
pH.

Reusing Your Growing Medium

One thing to remember if you re-use your growing
medium is that you may not get consistent yields. You
should be exceptionally cautious re-using your growing
medium if any of the following happens during your
growing and flowering cycle: your pH is currently running
wild, you’re using a lot of limestone, not watering regularly, Pictured above are urea and nitrate molecules. When
properly used together they will help balance your growing
or not leaching all the nutrients out at the end of your medium’s pH. Plus, will give you more robust thicker stalk
flowering cycle. plants and bigger yields. Plus, urea is also a great food
source for your beneficial microbes.
This is especially applicable to re-using sphagnum
moss or coca coir. You might want to store your sphagnum
or coir from one crop to the next and, while the other Here’s the bottom line: you have to be interested
crop is growing, you can work with the stored medium to in your growing medium’s pH and make sure it’s clean if
replenish it and get it to the right pH level for the next crop. you’re going to re-use it to grow your plants. Otherwise, it
will be difficult for you to grow a consistently high-yielding,
The Advantage Of Expanded high-quality crop.
Clay Pellets If you don’t want to invest the time and money in this
project, you’ll be better off to go to your hydro store and
Expanded clay pellets are my personal choice for get new growing medium for each crop.
running hydroponics systems because it’s easy to work
with and cleans up easy for re-use. You can also re-use
perlite just sift it and clean it with very hot water or use a
weak solution of hydrogen peroxide and then rinse. The
same can be done with expanded clay pellets.

If you’re using rockwool just throw it out after every

crop. Though I’ve seen and personally re-used rockwool,
it’s a pain in the ass and I wouldn’t do it because it has too
many down sides. You’re better off buying it new.

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 Shown above are the different outcomes that your nutrients will have depending how their cation and anions are balanced
when formulated. When done right, they will work in your favor and give you a great crop. When done wrong you’ll find your-
self battling constantly with your nutrient solutions pH. Worse yet, your growing medium’s pH will be on the rise. And if you’ve
never measured your growing mediums pH you would never be aware of this yield reducing trap that’s been silently stealing
your crops true harvest potential.

Your Nutrients
Lets Take A Closer Look At This Critical Piece Of The Puzzle
Let’s have a look at how the different elements that
make up your nutrients affect your pH. We mentioned this
earlier at the beginning of this report. Your nutrient solution
is made up of macro, micro and secondary nutrients.
Macro means large and micro means little. Macro
nutrients are those elements like nitrogen, phosphorus
and potassium that your plants use a lot of.
And of course, that’s something Advanced Nutrients does.
Cations include potassium, magnesium, calcium,
zinc, copper, cobalt, manganese, iron and ammonium.
Anions include nitrates, phosphates, sulfates, carbonates,
bicarbonates. And different forms of these elements carry
different amounts of anions and cations.

Micro nutrients, on the other hand, are nutrients

that are only needed in very small quantities like iron,
manganese, boron, copper, cobalt, molybdenum and zinc.
Secondary nutrients are calcium, magnesium and
sulfur and are used in smaller amounts than macro
nutrients.
How It All Comes Together
Your plants roots take in both anions and cations but
when they do, different things occur. Like when the roots
take in cations, they give off a hydrogen ions-which are
acidic-and is then released into your growing medium.
This makes your growing medium acidic and the pH is
lowered.

All of these elements, macro, micro as well as Now, when anions are taken in by your roots,
secondary nutrients carry either a positive charge (cations) hydroxide ions are released which are alkaline and that
or a negative charge (anions) and will effect the pH of your raises the pH of your growing medium.
growing medium as your plants use them up.

In fact, most macro, micro and secondary elements

can be manufactured to carry more cations or anions if
a manufacturer is willing to go the extra mile and spend
the additional money required to have them custom made.
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 But as it goes, cations and anions actually work
together.

Like I Mentioned Up At The

Beginning...“It’s A Balancing Act”
The whole trick is to balance the cations and the
anions; then you can maintain the ideal pH in your growing
medium. This does take a lot of work and research, but it
can be done.

Why is this important? I’ll let you in on the secret.

When you use the cations in an ammonium based

nitrogen source, it gives off acid molecules and that helps
to maintain the ideal pH around the roots and in your
growing medium.

But when you use a mainly nitrate base nutrient,

you are working with anions which gives off alkaline
molecules and that raises the pH. This means you’ll need When you get it right your plants will have nice vibrant green
leaves.
to continually adjust your pH down.

Why do the extra work when you can just maintain A Few More Fundamentals
the right balance of ammonium and nitrates, cations to
anions, right from the start. Of Nutrients
So let’s talk more about your nutrient. Since a lot
And I don’t know for sure, but because of this
goes on in a nutrient, you’ll need to have one that takes
imbalance of anions to cations you may have a high pH
everything into account and makes the proper adjustments
in your growing
for you. It should work with and within the pH range of
medium. And the
where your plants are growing and not against it.
worst part is, you
aren’t even aware
Plants that are subjected to stress due to limited and
that this harvest
incorrect ratios of nutrient elements show slower growth,
robbing culprit
smaller bud size and weaker potency. In fact your plants
is lurking in your
use very little phosphorus they are actually nitrogen and
growing medium.
potassium hogs.
Also, if you
use a recirculating Unfortunately, other nutrient companies haven’t taken
system you’ll the necessary tissue samples to find this out. We’ve taken
be continually thousands of samples for all parts of the plant through all
adjusting your phases of growing and rigorously tested many different
reservoir’s pH in an nutrient ratios and have optimized your plants nutrients
unending cycle of based on that research.
pH balancing. And
this directly affects
Too much nitrates as a source of nitro- the bigger yields
gen will give shorter petioles, smaller that you could be
leaves and thinner stems that won’t be
able to support heavy flower weight.
getting.

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 To make matters worse, we found that as nutrients
move away from your plants ideal ratios and element
The Source Of Nitrogen And...
forms, yield and essential oil production rapidly deteriorate. How It Makes A Big Difference
We explored the importance of nitrogen for plant
For example, when you feed your plants with growth and bud growth, but it’s the source of nitrogen and
ammonium nitrogen you will get a greater petiole leaf the amount of that source that makes the biggest difference
expansion. But fertilizing with too much nitrate nitrogen in your nutrient. For example, there is potassium nitrate,
will give you shorter petioles, smaller leaves and thinner magnesium nitrate, and calcium nitrate.
stems making it difficult to pack on a lot a weight because
your plants can sense whether they have the proper When a plant
support to grow bigger flowers. takes in nitrates, it
gives off an alkaline
But Wait, There’s More! molecule, and you get
a rising pH near the
The form of nitrogen used also affects the color of your roots making the pH of
plant, as is seen in the case of fertilizing with ammonium your growing medium
nitrogen component which develops richer vibrant hues of alkaline.
green leaves.
Now, temperature is something you have to take into A great cation rich
account also. When the growing medium temperatures nitrogen source that
are below 60°F or 15°C, you are wiser to use nutrients we use at Advanced
high in nitrate-nitrogen. Remember the ideal root zone Nutrients is urea. It’s a
temperature is between 65°F and 75°F or 18°C and 24°C. great source because
it acts like ammonium
This is because at below 60°F or 15°C temperature, and keeps the pH
the little microbes are just not working as fast and the nice and acidic in the
nitrification process is inhibited. And this means the growing medium.
ammoniacal nitrogen is just not converted as well to Urea and nitrate molecules.
ammonium. Urea also makes
great microbial food and beneficial microbes love urea.
The only problem with that is that over time the The combination of urea and nitrates actually makes for
nitrate-nitrogen will cause the pH to increase in the a bigger, more vigorous growing plant and increases your
growing medium. crop yield. And yes, I just gave up another inside secret.

As an aside the fertilizers that you find in garden
centers and nurseries marked as “high acid” are high in
ammonium and have a lot of cations in them.
Here’s how it works; as the plant begins to take in
these cation nutrients through their root system, it releases
acid back into the soil or growing medium and that brings
the pH down.
Remember, when your plants root’s take in elements
that are cations they excrete acid molecules into your
growing medium. And when your plant roots take in
anions they excrete alkaline molecules into your growing
medium.

So adding a “high acid” fertilizer to the reservoir does

not make your nutrient solution have a lower pH; as you
can now see the process comes about in the soil as the
plant roots use the cation rich fertilizer and excrete acid
into the soil.

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 The Next Step For soils are very diverse not only in the macro, micro and
secondary nutrients they hold, but also in their availability,
Nutrient Companies as well as the soil’s pH .
So if a nutrient company actually cared enough, knew
what they were doing and was willing to spend the extra However that’s not all, soil has a high cation exchange
time and money they could make a perfectly balanced capacity, so companies also wouldn’t - if they chose to -
nutrient solution that would keep the pH in the ‘sweet spot” have to use as much if any pH buffer.
in your growing medium at all times.
Bottom line is... saving a few bucks per bottle for
How would a nutrient company do that exactly? First them is more important than building a sound and sturdy
they would have to tune the cations and anions of all the nutrient platform that delivers to you, one high quality
elements in the nutrient solution to a specific type of plant. formula built right from the get-go, so to speak, for both
And once you also knew what the exact macro, micro and hydroponics or soil.
secondary nutrient ratios of that specific plant was...
And with that being said, Advanced Nutrients
You could then use your nutrient solutions nitrogen base nutrients can be used in all hydroponics including
sources to help do the “balancing” act for you, because rockwool, expanded clay pellets, perlite, volcanic rock,
nitrogen is abundantly used by your plant and it is available foam, styrene, sphagnum or soil growing mediums, and
in both cation (ammonium) and anion (nitrate) forms. Now any combination of those, it’s totally your choice. The only
we’re getting some place. growing medium the base nutrients are not made for, at
this time, is coco coir. That requires a totally separate
Only problem base nutrient and bud enhancer.
is, if you look at
the hydroponics Even better, all Advanced Nutrients base nutrients
nutrients out there and supplements can be used in any and all growing
most of them use systems like flood and drain, nft, drip irrigation, continuous
only nitrate forms feeding and aeroponics.
as their nitrogen
source, which is And while we’re at it, almost all Advanced Nutrients
an anion form of supplements can be used in all your growing mediums
Alkalinity can run out of control nitrogen and drives including coco coir. Just look for the coco coir safe emblem
faster than speeding bullet in your your pH up in your on your supplement bottle or jar.
growing medium and severely growing medium as
reduce your harvest, or worse, in fast as a speeding
extreme cases kill your crop.
bullet.

The Straight Goods On

Different Formulas For
Hydroponics And Soil
Here it is, simply put it’s cheaper to make nutrient
formulas for soil than hydroponics. Because soil has some Some nutrient companies save a few bucks per bottle, by
nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, selling separate soil formulas instead of an-all-one high
magnesium, sulfur, and for the most part small quantities of quality hydroponics and soil nutrient.
iron, manganese, copper, zinc, boron, and molybdenum)
already present in them so companies just figure that they
don’t have to put as much of those elements into their
nutrient formulas.

There’s a danger with that kind of thinking, because

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 Pictured are various stand alone pH and EC meters and combo meters that do both pH and EC at the lower to medium end of the price
scale.
Balancing Your pH
When adjusting your reservoir’s nutrients to adjust
your pH. For example, potassium hydroxide (also called
caustic potash) can be used to raise your pH up. Use nitric
and phosphoric acid to lower your pH down.
You can use nitric acid in your vegetative cycle
because it will add nitrogen to your crop and phosphoric
acid in your flowering cycle because it will add phosphorus.
And guess what? Personally I prefer to use nitric acid
in my flowering cycle because tissue samples have shown
your favorite plant doesn’t use a whole lot of phosphorus
during flowering. In fact, in most cases nitrogen use
increases.
If you’re looking for organic forms of pH down you
can use citric acid to bring the pH down. This you can get
at a vitamin store; just make sure that it is a really pure
type of citric acid.
You can even use vinegar (acetic acid) but the acetic
acid varies in different vinegars so you have to be a bit
more careful and watch what goes on. For this reason,
citric acid is the preferred acid to use.
How about Using Buffers?
Some companies promote using chemicals to buffer
your hydroponics nutrients. So what is a buffer? A buffer is
a chemical that helps maintain pH stability of the nutrient
solution.
A lot of growers aren’t aware of this little known fact,
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but a lot of nutrient companies use magnesium, calcium
and potassium carbonate or bicarbonate as their pH
buffers. This is absolutely not a good idea.
Here’s why: remember that carbonates and
bicarbonates are anions and add to the alkalinity of your
nutrient solution and growing medium, and even though
they might buffer the pH a bit, these “down and dirty” pH
buffers will cause your growing mediums pH to accelerate
up.
Vitally important last and final point: Calcium,
Magnesium and Potassium, using these carbonates
and bicarbonates will actually diminish your crops yield
potential.
So check out what’s in the nutrients you’re using and
see if they’re using any magnesium carbonate, calcium
carbonate, potassium carbonate, bicarbonates or worse,
a combination of them.
For all these reasons, Advanced Nutrients won’t use
them, period. Instead we invest our money in pH buffers
that give you rock solid stability over your nutrient and
growing mediums pH while never adding alkalinity in any
way that will diminish the size of your harvest.
 They do this
by binding them
to ions, and this
prevents those ions
from precipitating
or locking out with
other elements.

You can use

different chelates
to lower and raise
DPTA the pH level as
well, depending on
what you need. So Pictured is a simplified version of
the whole activity is the way chelates bind to elemental
another balancing ions.
act. Adding chelates
to the mix makes it
easier for the plants roots to absorb the macro, micro and
secondary nutrients that it needs.

There are several advantages of using chelates :

l It increases availability of nutrients.

EDTA
l Mineral nutrients are prevented from forming
insoluble precipitates.
l Toxicity is reduced of some metal ions to plants.
l It prevents nutrients from leaching.
l The mobility of plant nutrients increases.
l It suppresses the growth of plant pathogens.
l When formulated correctly can help stabilize
pH.

How We Give You The Best

EDDHA Advanced Nutrients micronutrients are 100%
Chelates- Pictured above are some of the different che- chelated, and our macro and secondary nutrients are
lates in their raw form that are used to chelate hydroponics chelated as well (although not as much as the micro
formula elements. nutrients because it’s not as critical). This makes them
more available to the plant over an extremely wide pH
range.
Adding Chelates
OK, so lets take an in depth look at chelates. What
are they, anyways? Well, chelates are complex organic
molecules used to allow the micro, macro and secondary
nutrients to remain available to the plant over a wider pH
range.

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The chart on the left shows the absorption range of typical non chelated macro, micro and secondary nutrients. The chart on
the right shows the absorption range of Advanced Nutrients pH Perfect macro, micro and secondary nutrients. The only limit to
absorption is the ability of the plants root system to keep growing it’s roots faster than they “burn” back from extreme pH levels.
Typically those extremes are around pH 2.5 and pH 9.5.

The chelates that we use in your nutrients are EDTA,

EDDHA, DPTA, Amino chelates and our own proprietary
blend. And together they will give you a theoretical plant
absorption range of pH 1 to pH 10.

I say theoretical because at pH 2.5 the roots are

being burned up faster than the plant can produce them
and the same thing happens at pH 9.5

And most other nutrient formulas will start to precipitate

and lock out at a pH of 6.8, at that pH, precipitation is
microscopic and easily stays in suspension and usually
pH 4.5 NON-CHELATED pH 8.5 NON-CHELATED can’t be seen with the naked eye. And it’s not until a pH of
7.5 to 8 you can visibly see it.

Then at the other end of spectrum at pH 5, iron and

manganese start to become way more available and can
lead to plant toxicity. You won’t have to worry about any
of this with Advanced Nutrient products because of all the
chelates that are used.

You can plainly see that without chelation your plants

ability to absorb nutrients is placed in a very narrow pH
range. And constant pH adjusting and monitoring will be
pH 4.5 CHELATED pH 8.5 CHELATED required.

The tanks on the left show precipitation at pH 4.5 and pH 8.5 of

typical hydroponics nutrients. The picture on the right shows
Advanced Nutrients chelated nutrients at pH 4.5 and pH 8.5.

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 This is what healthy roots should look like. With the exception of using organic formulas, which will usually stain your healthy roots with
a brownish tint.
Advanced Nutrients extensive use of chelates
powerfully protects your crop with a second layer of pH
protection and Advanced Nutrients is the only hydroponics
company to do this and obviously goes to great lengths and
expense to ensure you get the bigger yields you deserve.
Expensive Chelates And A
Street Racer Named Allan
Using these types of chelates is literally 7 to 10
times more expensive than using straight non chelated
elements in your nutrient solution. So why do we pay so
much attention to all the details when making your nutrient
formulas.
Well a long long time ago when I was a very young
man. I was just 19 years old. There was a street racer by
the name of Allan in my hometown of Aurora, Illinois and
he had the fastest car in a fifty mile radius.
It was a Chevy Nova and it turned very low 10 second
quarters consistently. Allan was a good 7 years older than
me, and late one night on a summer evening a group of us
were hanging out and talking to him. And I was asking a lot
of questions about his car.
Out of the blue he asked me if I wanted to go for a
quick spin. Man, I was in that front seat of that car in a split
second. I had barely gotten my seat belt on when we rolled
out onto Lake St.
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The light was already green in front of us and the
moment the car was in a straight line all hell broke loose
the engine came alive, the tires hooked up and the sound
of it all shattered the quiet of the still night air, echoing and
reverberating off the store windows like intense thunder in
a canyon of glass.
I was pinned to the seat as if a powerful magnetic
pull had gripped onto every cell in my body and firmly held
it into the seat. I glanced over and saw how effectively
the Hurst straight line shifter was making quick work of
changing gears.
And I was amazed how he deftly squeezed every last
RPM out of top end of every gear. By the time I looked
forward again we were already coming out of third gear
and into fourth gear.
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, the interval lines
on the road had all become a solid stripe and vision off to
my sides became blurred while my frontal vision became
razor sharp and all my senses were lit up like Las Vegas
at night and sensory overload was setting in. Just then the
run was over.
 He eased off the gas and just as quickly brought the
car back down to a somewhat normal speed. I turned to
Allan after we got done running that car through the gears
and my ears had a chance to adjust from the roaring
thunder. I asked him why his car was so fast.
I asked him, was it because he had a triangular valve
job, was it the headers, the dual Holley double pumpers
on the high lift manifold, 12 to 1 compression pistons? The
Muncie Rock Crusher transmission? Was it the ported
and polished heads? The 4:11 posi traction rear end with
traction bars? The roller cams?
He stopped me mid sentence and said words I would
carry with me for the rest of my life, and has served me
well.
He looked at me and said “Mike it’s all of it, and a
whole lot more things than you’ve mentioned. You see – it
all matters – a lot of guys think they can go out and do just
It was in a Chevy Nova similar to this one that I discovered from a street racer, one of my life’s important
lessons. One that I would take with me for the rest of my life.
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a few of those things to their cars and run hard.
But what happens is when they do just a few of those
things, there’s something they don’t realize and understand,
it effects something else that they didn’t think about, and
then something snaps or limits their performance.
When I built this car, I looked at everything and went
through the entire car, and then built up each system.
That’s why I don’t get beat.”
Little did I realize on that warm summer evening that
a street racer had just handed me one of my keys to life
that would open many doors.
For whatever reason those words have stuck with me
“it all matters” and throughout my life I’ve always put those
words to good use.
Talk Soon :-)
BigMike
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