They are listed because they are there , they didn't say how much so they left it blank. Look at all the nutrients. They don't have the same chemicals and metals listed. I think You are misinterpreting it. Why would it be listed if its not there. Example fox farm. They list on the label and on the site that they have edta but it doesn't say how much
they don't make a random list and check off the ones they have and don't have. The companies disclose as little info as they are legally allowed. They are another shady company. They are part of general hydro. They even sell fake compost .
Yes, they do. I assure you that you are not interpreting the table correctly. Just click on a bunch of random entries and this should be readily apparent.
First, they all list heavy metals in ppm, for example.
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[TH="colspan: 5, align: center"]Heavy Metals (in Parts Per Million) [/TH]
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Arsenic: < 6.0
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Cadmium: < 0.50 [/TD]
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Mercury: < 0.05 [/TD]
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Lead: < 5.0 [/TD]
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Nickel: < 1.0 [/TD]
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And then the next table is for the Guaranteed Analysis, this one was 0-3-0.
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[TH="colspan: 3, align: center"]Guaranteed Analysis [/TH]
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Total Nitrogen: [/TD]
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Avail. Phosphate: 3% [/TD]
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Sol. Potash: [/TD]
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Calcium: [/TD]
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Magnesium: [/TD]
[TD="width: 33%"]
Sulfur: [/TD]
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[TD="width: 33%"]
Boron: [/TD]
[TD="width: 33%"]
Chlorine: [/TD]
[TD="width: 33%"]
Cobalt: [/TD]
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[TD="width: 33%"]
Copper: [/TD]
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Iron: 1% [/TD]
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Manganese: [/TD]
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[TD="width: 33%"]
Molybdenum: [/TD]
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Sodium: [/TD]
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Zinc: [/TD]
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Finally the non plant food ingredients:
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[TD="class: fieldtitle, width: 25%"] Humic Acid [/TD]
[TD="class: fieldtitle, width: 25%"] Indole3 Butyric Acid [/TD]
[TD="class: fieldtitle, width: 25%"] Naphthaleneacetic Acid
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[TD="class: fieldtitle, width: 25%"] Phosphorous Acid [/TD]
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[TD] 1.5% [/TD]
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[TD="class: fieldtitle"] Kelp [/TD]
[TD="class: fieldtitle"] Vitamin B1 [/TD]
[TD="class: fieldtitle"] Polyacrylamide
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[TD="class: fieldtitle"] Potting Mix [/TD]
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[TD="width: 75"] [/TD]
[TD="width: 75"] [/TD]
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That table is there for every entry that has at least one of those plant food ingredients (most commonly for Humic and Kelp). These are just default/common ingredients that would be considered as such. Indole3 Butyric Acid is rooting hormone, and would be present in such products. NAA is a growth hormone commonly used in tissue culture. Polyacrylamide is a cross-linked polymer sold as a soil conditioner (SoilMoist). Obviously the liquid products are not "Potting Mix".
This is just the way that webpages that show database results often work. The tables are predefined, static, and the value is displayed if present. In the case of the Non Plant Food Ingredient table, that entire table is displayed when there exists at least one corresponding value.
Here is the listing for Tiger Bloom:
http://oda.state.or.us/dbs/heavy_metal/detail.lasso?-op=eq&product_id=3092
EDTA is not mentioned anywhere, because this does not really give you the actual product ingredients: it gives you the max. heavy metal contents and guaranteed analysis. Notice there is no "Non Plant Food Ingredients" table shown there, because there are no non plant food ingredients in the product.
As far as my thoughts on the taste between MG and HF....the MG DID taste better, smoother, and didn't make either of us hork-up a lung...unlike the mother. I will admit much probably had more to do with the curing than anything.
I don't know why someone is so fired up about smoking something grown in bat-shit and poo-poo's nutrients like Jacks. Nitrogen is nitrogen, Phosphates are phosphates, and minerals are minerals. The plants don't know the difference.
More power to those of you that grow organically. There's a market for your product.
Who knows what that singular experience had to do with, but yes curing to improve smoke quality would make sense.
Otherwise you are missing the point (and you aren't the only one). Other than the fact that plant nutrition is derived from much more than just bat guano (which is often virtually absent from soil), people grow "organically" for different reasons. There certainly are differences between "organic"/all natural inputs and chemical salts, but the primary difference is the actual plant available/soluble or you might even say
ionic portion of it. Of course, what you need to understand about soil is that it is much more complex than you could have imagined. Soil is not inert, and a healthy soil is full of life: mostly the kind you can't really see including bacteria/archaea, fungi (yeast, mold, etc.), protozoans (amoeba, ciliates, flagellates) and nematodes. There can be tens of billions of microbes in just a tablespoon of soil. All of them have a place in the soil food web, and playing some role to keep it healthy and balanced. Most of the these microbes are beneficial to the soil, and ultimately to plants growing in the soil as well. Plants did not evolve on Earth alone. In nature most plants are involved in symbiotic or mutually beneficial relationships with plants. Plant roots actually exude various substances, including carbohydrates in order to stimulate the microbes in the rhizosphere (root zone), and attract microbes as well.
One of the most well known and also one of the most important symbiotic associations is between plant roots and fungi. Several species of fungi are known to be "mycorrhizal". Mycorrhizal fungi intimately associate with plant roots, either growing in between the root cells or penetrating the cell wall. The network of fungal mycelium goes out in search of water and plant nutrients (esp. phosphorous), which it brings back to the plant in exchange for carbohydrates. The fungi can take insoluble P and make it soluble (other nutrients too), which the plants cannot do, and the hyphae of fungi can grow in a manner in which plant roots cannot. Yet another good example is that of N-fixing bacteria and archaea. Various species of bacteria can take the Nitrogen gas from the atmosphere and turn it into ammonia (itself plant available, other bacteria will further it into nitrate). Species in the genus Rhizobium do this in association with legumes, while Azotobacter is able to perform the function by itself.
Another major function of many soil organisms is decomposition of organic/once living (dead) matter, plant material, insect/animal wastes, etc. The breakdown of organic matter not only results in plant available minerals, but also increases the humus content of the soil (not to mention if not for this the whole world would be covered in shit- life probably wouldn't be possible). Humus is thoroughly decomposed amorphous, stable, matter which has reached a point where it will not readily decay further. Humus increases the soils ability to hold water and nutrients, and support life. Humus has a high cation exchange capacity, which means it can hold onto nutrient cations, or positively charged ions, such that they do not leach away easily.
All in all, the microbes in the soil are mineralizing/releasing plant available nutrients, retaining them within their bodies so they don't leach from the soil, or providing some kind of direct assistance to the plant. Some do this by fending off the bad organisms that would do the plant harm, or at least out competing them. Others by providing nutrients for the plant, directly or indirectly. Soil microbes can also produce other compounds such as plant growth hormones and antibiotics (this is where we got them from). Plants are able to influence the populations of specific microbial kinds of microbial communities by the exudate it releases into the soil.
Refined/chemical fertilizers are much stronger than organics, they have a more pronounced long-term effect on soil (we're talking outdoors, in the ground, nature) because they do nothing to sustain the soil itself and in fact drive away beneficial micro/organisms and reduce humus formation, depleting the mineral content of the soil, its water holding/nutrient holding capacity and arability in general. Most the fertilizer applied isn't even absorbed by the plants, and it can easily wash away. A plant can only absorb nutrients in the rhizosphere, where the root meets the soil.
Forests used to grow on this Earth, you know. Massive rain forests full of giant trees; all kinds of plants all growing, somehow, without any man ever dumping any fertilizer on the soil.
