Commercialism and greedy capitalism?

[AutoflowerChief]

If I may be a little bold.... I would like to give a general suggestion to nutrients (and those "expert" cannabis nutrient manufacturers)...

I'm cynical, I love humor vanta-black (you're warned now)... and since I saw the first bottle of fertilizer my guts said: "They're bullshitting you"

I will now show you a collection of nutrients, classical agro-chem products, absolutely state of the art. (Please forgive me for showing German stuff, but equivelants will exist anywhere in the world)

VEGETATION:

1kg price = 7 Euro-bucks, they refill/repackage that for you, cause producer makes nothing <25kg sacks... the whole sack comes at ~2 Euro-bucks per kg

BLOOM:

call it FLOWER POWER HYPERDRIVE BOOST or whatever you like:

PK "FINISHER":

THE MAG-Y-CAL for spaniards, or Cal/Mag:

(<- this is Epsom Salts in German, less than 2 Euro-bucks per kilo)

TRACE ELEMENTS:

1kilo ~30 Euro-bucks

(ALL FULLY CHELATED + EDTA)
this 1 kg sack is enough of the shit for ACRES OF GREEN

UH..... WAIT! Got an idea! Freaking genius, WE ARE RICH!!!!​

Let's make a company and call it.... mmmhhhh..... RES Inc.

Let us buy 100 of those 25kg sacks "Hakaphos Blue"... amounts to ~6,200 Euro bucks

Now let's buy:
-plastic bottles 12,500 pieces
-shitty print banderoles for our bottles
-some marketing guy/girl
-DYES (food grade)... IMPORTANT!
-12,500 litres of water, destilled

And now, muahahaha come closer....

We will take 200g of that Hakaphos Blue, solute in 1l destilled water, add some dyes to our taste, remember: the eye eats first!
Fill into bottles, stick our shitty banderols on the bottles. Sell a bottle at 14 Euro-bucks....
(that's a profit ratio of 20x or 30x if only taking raw materials into account)

I'm a rich boy, a f...ing rich boy.. oh thank god for my economical genius!

UPS! Forgot to name our product.

Let's call it "Res Inc,. - Dynamite Compound" cannabis experts for super mambo wambo blabla... NPK 3-2-3

*mic drop - speaker: off*

I hope you catch my drift...

Believe NOTHING! Question EVERYTHING! They bullshit us all.​

 

[AutoflowerChief]

Oh forgotten.... get this marketing guy back here NOW!

Let's mix other colors, reduce dest. water by 10%, make new banderoles... that's our "hydro" products.

Can do that! All those fertilizers above are fully water solutible nutrient salts.

Wow, that no one came up with this idea before me, unbelievable.

*speaker off - fade out*

 

[BII]

In terms of incredible markups and related marketing hype, even lies and deception, grow nutrients are no different than other usually simple mixture-based consumer products, including human and pet nutrients (e.g., vitamins), nutraceuticals, cosmetics, cleaning products, etc. Even water and salt are old with ridiculous claims and costs. It's far from ideal, but we are all left on our own when choosing these products, have to do our own research.

Yes, claims and quality of grow nutrients range all over the place. And you can use cheap "classical agro-chem products," agricultural grade nutrients, and get good results. But many prefer better nutrient processing, such as better chelation than EDTA; better quality ingredients, such as more use of pharmaceutical vs. commercial grade ingredients; better performance, such as remaining stable in reservoirs; etc.; marketing oriented to the intended use (cannabis growing); etc., and often willingly pay more.