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Green Planet Nutrients Icon Guide

Green Planet Nutrients includes many types of fertilisers in our lineup, including dry and liquid fertilisers. These fertilisers include base nutrients, additive nutrients and maintenance products. Whether it’s to provide a base level of nutrition, increase resin and aroma in flowers, and maintain your growing environment, each fertilizer is designed to optimise performance. Green Planet Nutrients has a product for you, no matter your style. We’re passionate about formulating the best, cleanest, and most highly bioavailable nutrients on the market. High quality nutrients = happy and healthy plants.

FERTILISER TYPE

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Liquid Fertiliser

This icon symbolizes liquid fertiliser.

If you’re all about indoor growing and hydroponics, liquid fertilizers are probably your go-to type of plant nutrient.

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Dry Fertilizer

This icon symbolizes dry fertilizer.

If you’re a “leave it and forget it” type of person, dry fertilizers are for you. Dry plant fertilizers consist of small beads or pellets that release nutrients into the soil. They also allow you to feed less often apart from watering.

NUTRIENT TYPE

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Base Nutrients

This icon symbolizes base nutrient.

Base nutrients are the most essential type of nutrient, as they encompass the foundation of your plant’s diet. Just like your diet consists of three basic food groups, plants have three basic elements they need to survive: Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P) and Potassium (K).

You’ll notice “NPK numbers” on the front label of most fertilizers. Different stages of plant growth require these elements in varying amounts.

Base nutrient systems also provide secondary macronutrients like Calcium, Magnesium, and Sulfur. Additionally, base nutrient systems also provide micronutrients, including: Boron, Chlorine, Cobalt, Copper, Iron, Manganese, Molybdenum, Nickel, Sodium, Silicon, and Zinc.

All in all, base nutrients are essential to plant growth, and you really can’t grow without them. As important as it is for you to eat in order to sustain yourself, your plants need to eat too. Although you can’t share a sandwich with your plants, you can give them a good base nutrient program that will supplement their growth.

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Additive Nutrients

This icon symbolizes an additive nutrient.

Additive nutrients are performance boosters. They can enhance aroma, resin production, and even the size of blooms, when included in your feed program.

Some additives, like Massive, have PPM (parts per million) which is indicated by NPK numbers on the front label. To avoid overfeeding, you need to adjust your base nutrient system to keep your PPM in the ideal range. PPM can range anywhere between 100 ppm to 1350 ppm, depending on your base feed program, your style of gardening, and the stage of growth your plants are in.

That said, some additive nutrients do not have PPM. This is indicated by a lack of NPK on the front label. Rezin can be added on top of your base feed program. No need to adjust anything!

Whether you want bigger flowers or sweeter fruit, or just better vegetative growth, add some additive nutrients to your feed program.

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Maintenance Products

This icon symbolizes a maintenance product.

If you know someone who is high maintenance, chances are they and your plants might have a lot in common. Maintenance products maintain a certain aspect of your garden, and help you to help your plants.

Things can go very wrong very fast if you don’t maintain your garden. The wrong pH, for example, can prevent ideal nutrient uptake, destroy root systems, and can even harm–or in the worst case scenario–kill your crop.

In conclusion, it is essential that your plants have the right environment to grow. As refreshed as you might feel after a nice massage, your plants will also be happy after some maintenance. Maybe some music will help too. Hey, it’s science.

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GROWTH STAGE

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Vegetative Stage

This icon indicates this product is formulated for use during the vegetative stage of growth.

The first stage of growth is the vegetative stage, which includes seedlings/cuttings and vegetative growth up to the start of pre-flower.

Green Planet Nutrients Hydro Fuel is our 4-Part feed program dedicated to each growth stage. Hydro Fuel Grow is excellent at providing your plants with ideal vegetative growth! Additionally, adding Vitathrive and Root Builder to yo

Vegetative growth builds the foundation to support flowers. Good and healthy vegetative growth is incredibly important in bloom production. Poor vegetative growth will result in smaller and fewer flowers.

In the event you’re growing to harvest leafy vegetables (or you’re growing a mother plant to use for cuttings), vegetative growth is equally important. Although vegetative plants will not bear flowers or fruits, you still want loads of growth. The larger your plant, the more you can harvest (or cut for clones!).

But, no matter what your goal is, having healthy and vigorous plant growth in the vegetative stage sets your plants up for success. The bigger your plants, the more weight they can bear. Bigger weight = bigger harvest.

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Flowering Stage

This icon indicates this product is formulated for the flowering stage of growth, including fruiting.

The second stage of growth is the flowering stage, which involves pre-flower, flowering, and fruiting in some plant varieties.

Flowering is the reproductive stage of growth. Plants are more concerned about reproducing and less concerned about developing their vegetation. Due to this fact, base nutrients designed for flower have lower levels of Nitrogen and higher levels of Phosphorus and Potassium, which help support bloom development. For example, Hydro Fuel Bloom is the 2nd part of our 4-part feed program, which focuses solely on flower development.  

Additive products can boost bloom development even further. In particular, products like PK Spike boost available phosphorus and potassium to your plants. In fact, P and K help your plants grow denser and larger flowers, so supplementing this in Bloom is often a good idea! 

Another key point is if you want more resin production, there are additive nutes that do just that. For instance, you can achieve larger and more aromatic flowers, or sweeter fruits, by including products like Massive and Rezin in your feed program.

Making sure your plants receive optimum support and nutrition throughout all growth stages is crucial in achieving a great harvest. Additives which support your plants throughout every growth stage is an excellent way to accomplish this. Ocean Magic, GPF Uptake or GPH Uptake, Pro Cal and Plant Guard help support your plants throughout their whole lives. Happy, healthy plants result in great yields.

GROWTH STAGE

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Coco

Products with this icon are great for use in coco mediums.

Coco mediums are any type of medium that is derived from coconut fibres.

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Hydro

Products with this icon can be used in hydroponic systems.

Hydroponic systems include anything from drip systems, nutrient film technique, water culture/deep water culture, aeroponics, and wick systems.

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Soilless

Products with this icon can be used in soilless mediums.

Soilless mediums include perlite, peat moss, sand, gravel, pebbles, rock wool, vermiculite, rice hulls, sawdust, straw, etc.

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Continuous Liquid Feed (CLF)

Products with this icon are suitable for continuous liquid feed (CLF) programs.

CLF programs provide plants a constant feed of nutrients and recycles nutrient solution continuously. In other words, they are referred to as a “recirculating” system.

Whatever style of growing you decide, we want to help you achieve the best results possible. Our icon system aims to aid you in choosing the right product to suit your individual growing needs.

 

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