dizzlekush
Well-Known Member
I'm sure you are all aware of the the leading enzyme product called Hygrozyme, and of its fairly steep $130 4 liter retail price. Given that it's QMI and OMRI approved and claims a 99 year shelf like it may seem like a fairly reliable product to spend such a large amount of money on. Personally I find enzymes one of the hardest products to choose between. With such an abundance of enzyme choices and absolutely no empirical data (or even shitty data) on concentrations, shelf live, and effectiveness it seems impossible to find one that's better than the rest and guaranteed worth the money. So I asked myself why Hygrozyme was the #1 selling enzyme, and decided to do a little research.
When trying to figure out what Hygrozyme was all about I decided to see what Sipco Industries, the makers of Hygrozyme, had to say:
From Sipco's Website:
"Simply explained: it is developed using a proprietary bio-fermentation process, made from ALL NATURAL ingredients that produce a supply of BACTERIA-FREE enzymes and complex chains of amino acids. With HYGROZYME there is no longer a need to introduce or create crop vulnerability by introducing a foreign germ culture to your sterile growing environment. After reviewing current enzymatic market products, it was determined that HYGROZYME actually incorporates all the benefits and capabilities offered by leading enzyme products AND MUCH, MUCH MORE - all in one Powerful Formula! With HYGROZYME though, there are NO concerns of a limited shelf life or spoilage." 1
Well that didn't help me figure out why Hygrozyme is the best out there and worth my money. Maybe Sipco is just a better enzyme manufacturer than all of the competitions? After a very quick search on Sipco I found that "somebody" had written a Wikipedia page for them! how legitimate!
From Sipco Industries Wikipedia page:
"A world pioneer in enzyme technology, Sipco is best known for helping the United States Postal Service (USPS) with Anthrax following the attacks on the US Senate shortly after September 11, 2001. Sipco supplied a proprietary enzyme technology developed from a product known as Hygrozyme" 2
WOW! DID YOU READ HOW FUCKING HEROIC AND PATRIOTIC (even though they're Canadian) THEY ARE!?!?
In one sentence "somebody" summed up Sipco's heroic saving of the USPS and the U.S. Senate and even somehow slipped 9/11 in there, followed immediately by.... a Hygrozyme reference! (or what people in the business like to call "a plug"). Unfortunately the "proprietary enzyme technology" was not developed from Hygrozyme, it was from another product Sipco makes called "Odour Away"... but nobody buys that shit and "somebody" had to figure out a way to plug Hygrozyme in there with all that fucking heroic shit. So "somebody" lied.
"Somebody" even managed to plug themselves in the second to last sentence on Wikipedias massive anthrax page:
"In response to the postal anthrax attacks and hoaxes the US Postal Service sterilized some mail using a process of gamma irradiation and treatment with a proprietary enzyme formula supplied by Sipco Industries Ltd" 3
That time they didn't have the balls to say it was Hygrozyme that saved the day (on a Wikipedia page that actually gets some hits) but even that weak shit is stretching the truth.
Here's what Sipco did, From The USPS's official website:
"Irradiated mail is treated with a chemical to neutralize any offensive odors before being processed at postal facilities. The "neutralizer" is a product called Odour Away, manufactured by SIPCO Industries." 4
Sometimes when the USPS treats mail that might be hazardous, the mail can smell like shit... so they spray it with the cheapest shit they can find that they can spray on mail without getting sued because its the cheapest anti-odorant that doesn't harm skin on contact a.k.a. "Odour Away". That's what "Sipco is best known for" and how they loosely manged to get a sales pitch on Wikipedia saying that Hygrozyme saved the United States government and postal service, which is a WAAAY fucking hardcore bullshit sales pitch lie of fucking pathetic proportions. Even Advanced Nutrients doesn't have balls like that, hell they don't even have the balls to charge even close to what Sipco charges for bullshit Hygrozyme ( average price for 4l of Hygrozyme=$130,average price for 4l of Sensizyme= $95), and AN is supposed to be the BIGGEST rip off you all say (and I'm not exactly disagreeing). Well you might be saying "Hey, just because Sipco is full of shit doesn't mean Hygrozyme isn't not worth $130." Well that where you'd be wrong again.
THIS IS WHERE THE LESSON ON SIPCO BEING BULLSHIT ENDS AND THE LESSON ON ENZYMES BEGINS
In case you don't know what an enzyme is (speaking in the agricultural sense) an enzyme is just a natural catalyst, a catalyst being "A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change." (Dictionary.com). wow! enzymes increase the rate of chemical reactions! stupid Dizzlekush, I want that! and you'd be right to want such a thing. Sounds great and enzymes, however many hundreds of percent the sellers want to mark them up, can have benefits... this is not going to be me bashing on enzymes telling you the uselessness of them, because enzymes are not useless. Expensive enzyme products being even remotely close to worth your money is a whole different thing though.
To tell you how commercial grade enzymes are made I will refer you to a company that makes commercial grade enzymes and isn't afraid of customers finding out how their product is made and that it might be horribly, horribly overpriced:
"Commercially available enzymes are derived from bacteria and fungi such as Bacillus, Aspergillus and Triochoderma species." 5
Wow, Ive heard of all of those Genera! Hell I ain't no Layman! Why I even know where to buy highly concentrated forms of all of these (any place that carries Subculture B, which has all three, or many other products)... so the enzymes I buy come from bacteria, which I can also buy... at a fraction of the price, that propagate themselves and create large amounts of enzymes as well as amino acids, root growth hormones and plant growth regulators.
SO WHY WOULD I SPEND SO MUCH MONEY ON ENZYMES? what do they do again? O yea, increase the rate of chemical reactions. but aren't the salts that I'm using already plant available and enzymes don't increase the rate they're absorbed by the plant or help break the salts down? correct. but I'm using organic stuff so I need the enzymes to help break my plant matter down... but my microbes already do that at a fraction of the price. but I heard that enzymes help clear out my roots because I'm a grower that likes my forum paradigms and all my roots are rotting because I buy soil with insects, or feed my plants molasses like they depend upon it, or I don't provide enough oxygen to the roots from water with not enough diffused oxygen or just have bad soil or a bad hydroponic design, or I grow all synthetic and cant keep a clean environment. Well for any of those problems I wouldn't say enzymes are your #1 problem solving choice.
If your going synthetic, steer clear from enzymes, they will do nothing for you and cost alot. If your going organic, you heard it from an enzyme manufacturer himself, it all comes from beneficials you can get from Subculture B or many other products. Plus if any of you make a good bennie tea or compost tea its gonna have more than adequate amounts of those enzymes that you might still, for some reason, need your sweet fix of. Like I said earlier, enzymes are not useless, but I am not aware of a single situation where enzymes is the #1 choice to help your crops performance, nor are they remotely worth the price most companies ask for them.
Sources:
1 http://www.sipcobio.com/agricultural/hygrozyme/
2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipco_Industries
3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrax
4 http://www.usps.com/news/facts/lfu_021202.htm
5 http://www.laguna-ltd.com/bacteria.htm
When trying to figure out what Hygrozyme was all about I decided to see what Sipco Industries, the makers of Hygrozyme, had to say:
From Sipco's Website:
"Simply explained: it is developed using a proprietary bio-fermentation process, made from ALL NATURAL ingredients that produce a supply of BACTERIA-FREE enzymes and complex chains of amino acids. With HYGROZYME there is no longer a need to introduce or create crop vulnerability by introducing a foreign germ culture to your sterile growing environment. After reviewing current enzymatic market products, it was determined that HYGROZYME actually incorporates all the benefits and capabilities offered by leading enzyme products AND MUCH, MUCH MORE - all in one Powerful Formula! With HYGROZYME though, there are NO concerns of a limited shelf life or spoilage." 1
Well that didn't help me figure out why Hygrozyme is the best out there and worth my money. Maybe Sipco is just a better enzyme manufacturer than all of the competitions? After a very quick search on Sipco I found that "somebody" had written a Wikipedia page for them! how legitimate!
From Sipco Industries Wikipedia page:
"A world pioneer in enzyme technology, Sipco is best known for helping the United States Postal Service (USPS) with Anthrax following the attacks on the US Senate shortly after September 11, 2001. Sipco supplied a proprietary enzyme technology developed from a product known as Hygrozyme" 2
WOW! DID YOU READ HOW FUCKING HEROIC AND PATRIOTIC (even though they're Canadian) THEY ARE!?!?
In one sentence "somebody" summed up Sipco's heroic saving of the USPS and the U.S. Senate and even somehow slipped 9/11 in there, followed immediately by.... a Hygrozyme reference! (or what people in the business like to call "a plug"). Unfortunately the "proprietary enzyme technology" was not developed from Hygrozyme, it was from another product Sipco makes called "Odour Away"... but nobody buys that shit and "somebody" had to figure out a way to plug Hygrozyme in there with all that fucking heroic shit. So "somebody" lied.
"Somebody" even managed to plug themselves in the second to last sentence on Wikipedias massive anthrax page:
"In response to the postal anthrax attacks and hoaxes the US Postal Service sterilized some mail using a process of gamma irradiation and treatment with a proprietary enzyme formula supplied by Sipco Industries Ltd" 3
That time they didn't have the balls to say it was Hygrozyme that saved the day (on a Wikipedia page that actually gets some hits) but even that weak shit is stretching the truth.
Here's what Sipco did, From The USPS's official website:
"Irradiated mail is treated with a chemical to neutralize any offensive odors before being processed at postal facilities. The "neutralizer" is a product called Odour Away, manufactured by SIPCO Industries." 4
Sometimes when the USPS treats mail that might be hazardous, the mail can smell like shit... so they spray it with the cheapest shit they can find that they can spray on mail without getting sued because its the cheapest anti-odorant that doesn't harm skin on contact a.k.a. "Odour Away". That's what "Sipco is best known for" and how they loosely manged to get a sales pitch on Wikipedia saying that Hygrozyme saved the United States government and postal service, which is a WAAAY fucking hardcore bullshit sales pitch lie of fucking pathetic proportions. Even Advanced Nutrients doesn't have balls like that, hell they don't even have the balls to charge even close to what Sipco charges for bullshit Hygrozyme ( average price for 4l of Hygrozyme=$130,average price for 4l of Sensizyme= $95), and AN is supposed to be the BIGGEST rip off you all say (and I'm not exactly disagreeing). Well you might be saying "Hey, just because Sipco is full of shit doesn't mean Hygrozyme isn't not worth $130." Well that where you'd be wrong again.
THIS IS WHERE THE LESSON ON SIPCO BEING BULLSHIT ENDS AND THE LESSON ON ENZYMES BEGINS
In case you don't know what an enzyme is (speaking in the agricultural sense) an enzyme is just a natural catalyst, a catalyst being "A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change." (Dictionary.com). wow! enzymes increase the rate of chemical reactions! stupid Dizzlekush, I want that! and you'd be right to want such a thing. Sounds great and enzymes, however many hundreds of percent the sellers want to mark them up, can have benefits... this is not going to be me bashing on enzymes telling you the uselessness of them, because enzymes are not useless. Expensive enzyme products being even remotely close to worth your money is a whole different thing though.
To tell you how commercial grade enzymes are made I will refer you to a company that makes commercial grade enzymes and isn't afraid of customers finding out how their product is made and that it might be horribly, horribly overpriced:
"Commercially available enzymes are derived from bacteria and fungi such as Bacillus, Aspergillus and Triochoderma species." 5
Wow, Ive heard of all of those Genera! Hell I ain't no Layman! Why I even know where to buy highly concentrated forms of all of these (any place that carries Subculture B, which has all three, or many other products)... so the enzymes I buy come from bacteria, which I can also buy... at a fraction of the price, that propagate themselves and create large amounts of enzymes as well as amino acids, root growth hormones and plant growth regulators.
SO WHY WOULD I SPEND SO MUCH MONEY ON ENZYMES? what do they do again? O yea, increase the rate of chemical reactions. but aren't the salts that I'm using already plant available and enzymes don't increase the rate they're absorbed by the plant or help break the salts down? correct. but I'm using organic stuff so I need the enzymes to help break my plant matter down... but my microbes already do that at a fraction of the price. but I heard that enzymes help clear out my roots because I'm a grower that likes my forum paradigms and all my roots are rotting because I buy soil with insects, or feed my plants molasses like they depend upon it, or I don't provide enough oxygen to the roots from water with not enough diffused oxygen or just have bad soil or a bad hydroponic design, or I grow all synthetic and cant keep a clean environment. Well for any of those problems I wouldn't say enzymes are your #1 problem solving choice.
If your going synthetic, steer clear from enzymes, they will do nothing for you and cost alot. If your going organic, you heard it from an enzyme manufacturer himself, it all comes from beneficials you can get from Subculture B or many other products. Plus if any of you make a good bennie tea or compost tea its gonna have more than adequate amounts of those enzymes that you might still, for some reason, need your sweet fix of. Like I said earlier, enzymes are not useless, but I am not aware of a single situation where enzymes is the #1 choice to help your crops performance, nor are they remotely worth the price most companies ask for them.
Sources:
1 http://www.sipcobio.com/agricultural/hygrozyme/
2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipco_Industries
3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrax
4 http://www.usps.com/news/facts/lfu_021202.htm
5 http://www.laguna-ltd.com/bacteria.htm
