Give your Plants a Real Boost

In order to understand how CANNABOOST works, we first have to understand what nutrients are. Most people know that plants need nutrients to grow, even if they may not know exactly what plant nutrients really are, or what they consist of.

Plants take up nutrients through their rooting system from the medium they are grown in. This medium can be of natural origin, such as peat or coco, or can be artificial, such as rock wool or clay pebbles.

Some plant species, such as many orchids and other epiphytes (plants that grow non-parasitically on other plants) take up nutrients through their leaves. They mainly use their rooting system for holding onto the branches or other structures on which they are grown.

Macro elements and trace elements

Nutrients can be divided into macro elements and micro (trace) elements. Macro elements include:

• Nitrogen (N)
• Phosphorous (P)
• Potassium (K)
• Calcium (Ca)
• Magnesium (Mg)
• and Sulfur (S)

These elements are taken up by plants in relatively large quantities. The first three are known as primary nutrients N, P, and K. The next three are secondary elements Ca, Mg, and S. Minor or trace elements are used in smaller quantities. Trace elements include (amongst others):

• Chlorine (Cl)
• Iron (Fe)
• Zinc (Zn)
• Copper (Cu)
• Molybdenum (Mo)
• Boron (B)
• and Manganese (Mn)

In spite of being consumed in tiny amounts, this last group of nutrients is still vital for a plant’s metabolism and health. Carbon (C), Oxygen (O), and Hydrogen (H), not listed here, are nutrients as well, but obtained from the environment.

Even if all nutrients are available to a plant in optimum quantities, the actual uptake depends on the plants’ health and metabolic rate. This is an important distinction. It is here where a metabolism boosting product can play a key role. In addition to a balanced fertilization regime, a booster can help in optimizing a plants’ performance and allow it grow to its full potential.

Over the last decade a number of boost style products have evolved worldwide that claim to do just that: speed up the plants metabolism and improve its nutrient uptake. The actual content of these products vary widely, which means that not every booster is of the same quality. Many don’t even speed up the plants metabolism process but are just Phosphorous-like fertilizers that were given the name booster.