I hope you're ready for today's episode everyone.

Kevin is here from the Epic Gardening Podcast.

We have Mike Chang back on the show.

He is the in-house agronomist for Growers House, which is a large online hydroponic retailer,

and he's got a bunch of history.

He's studied academically, he's got tomato, cucumber, and cannabis industry, practical

experience growing.

And as you heard in yesterday's show, you know, quite a bit of knowledge on the science

of plant nutrition and plant growth.

So Mike, I know yesterday we did tease a little bit about, you know, the difference between

NPK and these micronutrients, but I figured we could go a little bit deeper into this.

Honestly, even just for my own curiosity, because I'm always trying to learn more about

the, you know, the hard science of plant growth.

So what do you think we should start with macro and micro?

I mean, let's start right at the beginning with macros, I suppose, you know, everyone

is probably at this point pretty familiar with the NPK being the big nutrients that plants

need, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium.

A lot of the times people don't know why the plant needs these, and it's kind of important

because certain symptoms on the plant will show you that, you know, this is a nutritional

deficiency because I know the nutrient that would cause this type of problem with that

deficiency.

So for instance, nitrogen, nitrogen, it's taken into the plant usually in two inorganic

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