Let me quote AN directly:
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Now, off-color leaves, slow growth and low yields because of pH and PPM fluctuations are a thing of the past…
Because pH Perfect GMB contains “pH Perfect” technology which eliminates the need to manually check and adjust pH levels two times per day.
In short, as long as your water falls between 4.5 and 8.5 pH (which is pretty much everyone’s water)-this technology adjusts your pH for you and keeps it buffered there throughout your plants’ growth and bloom phases!
Which means you’ll never have to manually adjust your pH… you’ll never have to worry that your plants aren’t in the premium growing environment… all you have to do is use pH Perfect GMB as directed and the “pH Perfect” technology takes care of all that for you!"
Bullshit!
Now go read what they have to say about chelates, more bullshit! Chelates are only needed for a few specific mirco nutrients, and has nothing to do with NPK, but they intentionally mislead with statements like this:
"During the growth phase: when your plants need nitrogen, calcium and other necessary nutrients, pH Perfect GMB’s chelates force these nutrients directly and immediately into your plants roots, leaves, cells and flowers-greatly speeding the growth phase."
magnesium, sulphur,Boron, copper, Manganese, Molybdenum, and Zinc are what needs chealtion, all other elements and minerals are absorbed as is. Microbes in soil chelate the micronutrients in organics.
An AN uses industry standard EDTA or EDDHA as a chelate, where Greenleaf are the only ones to use amino acids.
It's sad that companies AN this can get away with such crap!
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Now, off-color leaves, slow growth and low yields because of pH and PPM fluctuations are a thing of the past…
Because pH Perfect GMB contains “pH Perfect” technology which eliminates the need to manually check and adjust pH levels two times per day.
In short, as long as your water falls between 4.5 and 8.5 pH (which is pretty much everyone’s water)-this technology adjusts your pH for you and keeps it buffered there throughout your plants’ growth and bloom phases!
Which means you’ll never have to manually adjust your pH… you’ll never have to worry that your plants aren’t in the premium growing environment… all you have to do is use pH Perfect GMB as directed and the “pH Perfect” technology takes care of all that for you!"
Bullshit!
Now go read what they have to say about chelates, more bullshit! Chelates are only needed for a few specific mirco nutrients, and has nothing to do with NPK, but they intentionally mislead with statements like this:
"During the growth phase: when your plants need nitrogen, calcium and other necessary nutrients, pH Perfect GMB’s chelates force these nutrients directly and immediately into your plants roots, leaves, cells and flowers-greatly speeding the growth phase."
magnesium, sulphur,Boron, copper, Manganese, Molybdenum, and Zinc are what needs chealtion, all other elements and minerals are absorbed as is. Microbes in soil chelate the micronutrients in organics.
An AN uses industry standard EDTA or EDDHA as a chelate, where Greenleaf are the only ones to use amino acids.
It's sad that companies AN this can get away with such crap!
You and others seem to be misunderstanding AN's 'hype,' somehow assuming that 'pH Perfect' involves the pH after mixing being normalized in a set range or pH being adjusted. I don't recall AN making that claim.
Rather (as I understand it), 'pH Perfect' involves the nutrients being higher quality chelate complexes, better bioavailable to and better taken up by the plant over a much wide range of soil pH (not changing the pH) vs. conventional nutes, with the actual pH of the mixed solution rather irrelevant, don't need to check or adjust (presuming you start with low ppm water and don't add too much other salt-based supplements).
As far as I know, adjusting the pH of mixed pH Perfect feed is counter-productive, just wrong, involves adding salts that can only negatively affect the pH Perfect functionality and nutrients' uptake.