Hey everyone, what's going on?

Hope your day is going awesome.

I hope fall is treating you well.

Today we're going to talk about an element, an element that plants use.

As we all know, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, right? but there are quite a few different

elements besides those three that plants use when it comes to their growth and

one of them is magnesium now in hydroponics a lot of people will talk about

adding a cow mag supplement to the water. So people will do this often because

their their water, let's say they're using reverse osmosis water, which is effectively just pure H2O as far as its composition.

Not a lot of dissolve solids in it, and so then they'll realize that some of the hydroponic nutrient solutions that are commonly

sold don't offer a whole lot of magnesium or calcium and they'll have to supplement with a

cow mag which harder water actually would already have some of.

So they've kind of removed a problem, removed and additive to

water and then they have to re-ad it because the plant needs it. But in soil, you know, it's not like a plant

doesn't need it in soil as well. So let's go ahead and talk about first of all how

do plants actually use magnesium and of course I'm not a botanist but you know on my

cursory research and my experience growing plants this is what I know about it.

And if you have any extra tips, please let me know.

We're going to talk about how they use it, and then what a deficiency looks at looks like,

and then how to provide it for your plants if you do believe that they are deficient in

magnesium. So first of all, magnesium is the powerhouse behind the process of

photosynthesis in plants. Without magnesium, chlorophyll cannot capture sun energy needed for photosynthesis. So pretty important little

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