By Luis Corrales and Melissa Gonzales
Amigo Bob’s Seaweed Gro’s product line is the culmination of more than 150 years of experience and success, trials and tribulations. Everything we have learned from our research can now be focused for your success.
Our five, simple-to-use products offer a comprehensive array of macro and micro-nutrients. Your plants are with Amigo Bob’s an ensured a complete and balanced nutrient profile. Vigorous, healthy plants from the vegetative stage to flowering stage will result in organic and potent product that is free of excess salts and metals found in chemical-based fertilizers.
Organic produce in the United States is more popular than ever and the market has expanded at an increasing pace. Affordable organic produce is available to more demographics nationwide than ever before. The culture of cannabis has traditionally been characterized by earth-friendly, sustainable and socially-responsible cultivation practices. Amigo Bob’s Seaweed Gro enables this proud tradition to continue. As more and more of the states develop guidelines for regulated and clean cannabis, both medical and recreational, cannabis growers will have to comply with those rules.
Organic product availability and certification in the medical cannabis industry is now the norm. As cannabis is most often grown in a “monocultural” environment, the potential for issues like pests and fungal pathogens increases as canopy square-footage and plant count increases. If a strain of disease effects one plant, it could affect them all.
A diverse and thriving community of micro-organisms is the immune system that protects any plant from pathogens. Damping-off disease is vital, and mites are kept at bay from agricultural products through the application of organically-certified and synthetic pesticides/fungicides. A less-toxic approach is to feed your plants a bio-available array of nutrients. Trillions of microbes, engineered to stimulate both the growing medium and the root zone, allow the plant to feast on the raw nutrients it needs to flourish and produce inherently better and top-tier organic medical cannabis.
Whether the consumable is smoked, vaped, or turned into an extract or concentrate, any pesticide, pathogen, and fungus residue will become concentrated in the final product. As most medical cannabis users have either a compromised or weakened immune system, or reduced kidney and liver function, it is imperative that cannabis grown
for medicinal purposes be free of mold, spores, pesticides, and molecular contaminants. Growers must feed the soil in order to feed the roots. Even in a hydroponic setup, a biofilm of beneficial organisms can maintain the health and balance of the substrate by slowly extracting and liberating nutrients from readily available organic sources naturally and without heavily processed chemicals.
Amigo Bob’s Seaweed Gro provides an ideal nutrient base on which soil micro-organisms and roots can thrive. A living community of symbiotic and beneficial fungi, yeasts, and bacteria is the best insurance against pathogens. Root-rotting fungi such as pythium can quickly invade sterile or processed soils, reducing seedlings to mush. There is forest-green and helpful fungi such as trichoderma subsist on raw, organic sources of nutrients to out-compete root-rotting pythium, rhizoctonia, and many other diseases.
The naturally produced organic nutrients in Amigo Bob’s Seaweed Gro are released slowly. This encourages the continued growth of micro-organisms while preventing rapid fluctuations in nutrient levels and pH levels which lead to the burning of the roots and leaf tips.
Cannabis absolutely relishes and depends on calcium to lend structural integrity to its’ cell walls. Calcium-rich soils result in hearty, heavy leaves and flowers that are resistant to bending or physical damage. Conventional sources of calcium can raise pH, or tie-up other nutrients.
Amigo Bob’s Seaweed Gro’s organic nutrient sources, such as seaweed, are naturally good sources of calcium and magnesium in the proper proportions for growing a calcium-loving plant such as cannabis. Our unprocessed organic nutrients are also natural sources of trace elements such as cobalt, nickel, silicon and others. These trace elements are necessary for vital enzyme processes in some plants and in helpful micro-organisms.
It’s a common misconception that copious levels of phosphorus leads to larger cannabis flower clusters. New research, and phosphorus-polluted waters, have changed our understanding of the need for excess phosphorus. Phosphate salts in particular can impair the growth of important mycorrhizal fungi. The levels of phosphorus in Amigo Bob’s Seaweed Gro are released slowly, moderated by the activity of micro-organisms and soil temperature ,matching the activity and needs of the plant.
Urea and ammonium used in conventional feeds can burn the roots–especially under the high temperatures here in the deserts of the Southwest. Chemical salts used in conventional fertilizers raise the conductivity of the soil, impairing the ability of the roots to take in water. Most chemical fertilizer salts are produced using mining, chemical extraction and purifying processes that also harm the environment. Amigo Bob’s Seaweed Gro is free of chemical salts; it is produced from renewable resources in a sustainable way that reduces waste, while nurturing the earth and your plants.
Plants, just like the human body, depend on organic raw nutrients to feed the flora of the gut (or for plants, their soil). The end result is overall health and resiliency. It is precisely that resiliency that allows the plant to resist drought, intense heat, or pests.
As the state of California ventures into the regulated market, contaminated soil in conventionally-farmed agricultural areas has become a major issue. The question is: Are California’s soils too contaminated for Cannabis to meet the new stringent lab testing requirements that will be put forth by the California Department of
Food & Agriculture (CDFA)?
One particular type of contamination that affects the agricultural industry is caused by phosphorus; the “P” in the “N-P-K” ratio. The over-application of phosphate fertilizers is a main culprit. Phosphoric acid is highly soluble and leaches readily, potentially contaminating soils, water and habitats. We have decades of scientific evidence on the toxic effects of phosphorus leaching on the environment, like dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico for example. Amigo Bob’s Seaweed Gro has a highly bio-available form of phosphorus that is derived from organic raw materials found in nature. The soil microbes convert the phosphorus into a soluble form, which then allows the plant to uptake as needed, rather than inundate the plant with an amount that is impossible for a plant to absorb. Amigo Bob’s is focused on preventing that leaching the excess phosphorus into the environment.
Studies indicate many plants, including cannabis, require rather small but consistent amounts of phosphorus during flowering. Because phosphorus can easily become unavailable to the roots as it lingers in the soil, it is the quality and availability of phosphorus that is paramount. Availability of phosphorus depends on the action of micro-organisms and mycorrhizal fungi.
At Amigo Bob’s Seaweed Gro, we believe that the many ways to grow top-tier organic medical cannabis require individuals and businesses to be responsible stewards to the plant and to the land. We also believe that we can improve on and build an industry that further nurtures the land and provides the purest, organic medicine that you can feel good about.
