N-P-K Are NOT The ONLY Macro Nutrients Plants Need
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🗓️ 26 July 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
NPK, the three macronutrients a plant needs...or are they? Charles Malki shares his six macronutrients that a plant needs in today’s show.
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| 0:00.0 | What is up everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are joined for our final |
| 0:18.9 | episode for now with Charles Malki, the author of Saving the World with the Home Garden, |
| 0:23.4 | improve our planet's health with natural gardening lessons. |
| 0:26.8 | Charles has a degree in biology and is also the Plant Expert for IV Organics, |
| 0:31.2 | which is a gardening product company and he has a |
| 0:34.3 | YouTube channel you do a lot of things Charles I just have to say that right out of the |
| 0:38.2 | game so we're talking today about MPK, but you have mentioned actually earlier on in this week of |
| 0:46.8 | episodes that you say that there are three other macro nutrients that plants need, right? |
| 0:52.0 | Absolutely, thanks Kevin, an epic gardening pot. macro nutrients that plants need, right? |
| 0:52.7 | Absolutely, thanks Kevin and Epic Gardening Podcast for having me and absolutely positively, |
| 0:57.8 | yes, like it has been troubling me for many years that I would be listening to these lectures and |
| 1:06.0 | and these so-called plan experts, which I again, you know, respect and admire and so forth, |
| 1:12.0 | but when they get up there and they basically share you know plants only have |
| 1:17.0 | three nutrients that they need and if you just simply Google or you can research if you don't like the word Google but if you |
| 1:25.2 | research what are the plant macro nutrients it's not just three and in fact it's |
| 1:30.6 | six and ivory organic came up with a product called Six Macros. |
| 1:35.0 | It also goes under its all-purpose fertilizer as well. |
| 1:38.0 | And what Ivory Agistics offer |
| 1:42.2 | is all of the macroronutrients plants need in one. |
| 1:46.0 | And we are taught for those of us that have some experience in gardening that plants have |
| 1:51.7 | NPK, which are the elements that represent n for |
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