New From AN is a product that protects your plants....
.......from reptiles. It's called 'Snake Oil'. Later in the year it will be re-labelled as 'Snake Oil Plus', then in 2012 'Snake Oil Supreme'.
Self-adjusting Ph and PPM. Not possible. Let's look at AN's track record.
A company that gives away a very glitzy magazine called Rosebud yet gives no mention in its pages of Marijuana. That's right, we're all growing tomatoes. When was the last time you saw a reference to what their products are really being used for. Commercial cowardice ?
And how much profit are these guys making if they can give away a mag with a $7.00 cover price. "COMPLIMENTARY TO ALL HYDROPONICS GROWERS" Should be replaced with "WE REAMED YOU WITH YOUR LAST
ADVANCED NUTRIENTS PURCHASE SO HERE'S SOME VISUAL VASOLINE."
What IS the deal with the centerfold ? A little disrespectful to women growers, don't you think ? Oh that's right it's only men who grow weed.
Bud Factor X is one of AN's newest products at a street price of $85 a liter.
It's 0.5% Magnesium and not much else. Recommended dosage is 8ml per gallon of water for hydroponic usage = 112 gallons.
Azomite provides the same amount of Magnesium plus about 60 micro nutes that are mainly beneficial to Marijuana. None of them are harmful to weed.
A 44 lb bag is $32 and will dose 4,400 gallons of water. If you bought Bud Factor X for the same quantity of water it would cost you more than $3,300.
So the Bud Factor X is more than 1,000 times the cost of the Azomite. Now we know how AN can give their magazine away. This analysis can be applied to any of their nutes. Just read the label and search for non-proprietary chemicals.
Last year in a moment of lazy craziness I bought a Trim Reaper. At the time most of them were being held up at the Canadian border, but I found one in on Ebay out of New York. The machine arrived and I gunned it up. I was not impressed. It was removing small amounts of outer leaves and leaving buds ragged and ugly. I called AN. Tech support was less than useless and the gentlemen I spoke to whose name would be common in Russia, admitted he knew little about the machine.
Luckily a local hydro shop did know the machine well. The owner took one look and pointed out that the blades had been installed with the washers under them instead of over them. Apparently when the machines were stopped at the border they were shipped in parts and assembled by monkeys in the US. I was not happy, having run 10lbs of Sour Diesel through the machine.
The one page 'instruction manual' that comes with the machine is more annoying than useful. How wet or dry should the weed be ? AN thinks it should be as wet as possible. From much experimentation I got the best results when the bud was about 6 days dry. It just rolls the outer leaves off at this point and leaves a pretty good looking bud.
So to the chase. Do you really think that a nutrient self-adjust when it doesn't know what the starting Ph of your water is ? How can it adjust for PPM when that's changing with every feed. Not possible. Come on AN tell us how it is. And BTW you owe me for 20 hours of hand-trimming the messy buds that went through your incorrectly set up machine. Come on you can afford it. I would even take your overpriced product in payment.
The Grim Reefer
