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Instagram is full of “pretty” but low-quality, commercially grown flower. You can’t always judge by a picture — and sometimes, it might even look good but lacks the real medicinal value. Many growers who’ve experienced the difference firsthand know the truth. We only share images from those who’ve tasted the higher quality for themselves.

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The true goal of plant-based medicine is creating the highest forms of secondary metabolites — terpenes, trichomes, resin, and flavonoids. Once money becomes the priority, nutrient companies shift to meet the demand for output, often sacrificing quality. But we’re different. Our research-driven approach ensures that our products enhance quality first.

 

​All products lines can grow a plant, but not all have the proper carbohydrates and micronutrients to raise the secondary metabolites in those plants. We’ve taken the time to research and create products that address those gaps, offering the flexibility for growers to apply them to any line they’re already using — without needing to overhaul their entire system.

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The Issue with Commercial Grows

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Larger commercial grows prioritize output, and as a result, they often cut corners by eliminating essential microbial and fungal components that boost secondary metabolites. While their approach is efficient for mass production, it sacrifices quality. Our focus is on the opposite — enhancing plant health to achieve higher levels of secondary metabolites. For Commercial grows we have finally come out BrixSap, which can be used in any system with any nutrient line as just an add over the top.

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Many larger operations are about mass quantity not quality and due to the inefficient nature of the facility, they use the most basic nutrients to lessen issues that can reduce productivity. With our amendments, growers can approach much closer to genetic potential within their environment, with better terpenes and trichomes that translate to real medicinal value and overall higher value.

 

Nutrients for Higher Quality

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Nutrients are vital for getting plants closer to their genetic potential. But traditional salt-based nutrients can add stress to plants, reducing their efficiency. The plants may look great, but biology takes the path of least resistance, the less salt the faster the plants can move to raising secondary metabolites but only if the proper nutrients and micronutrients are available. Our products minimize salts and heavy metals, making nutrients more bioavailable with less energy required for uptake. This reduces plant stress, allowing them to focus on producing higher quality secondary metabolites.

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Our nutrients don’t just support growth — they’re designed to optimize the plant’s natural processes, from photosynthesis to protein and lipid synthesis, ultimately leading to higher quality, more potent flower.

 

Secondary Metabolites: The Heart of Quality

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Secondary metabolites are crucial for a plant’s survival and medicinal value. In cannabis, this means terpenes, flavonoids, trichomes, and resin — the compounds that define potency and aroma. Our goal is simple: help growers create plants with higher levels of these metabolites by optimizing every part of the growth cycle, from nutrients to environmental conditions.

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What are Secondary Metabolites?

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A few words about secondary metabolites as it's our foundation.  The reality is most plant-based medicine comes from secondary metabolites.  What hemp and cannabis growers are trying to achieve is the highest quality secondary metabolites, not the prettiest plant on Instagram.  Secondary Metabolites are not for the growth of the plant, but for the survival of the plant. They include pest and disease defense, viral dormancy, nutritional value, medicinal value and much more.  We will keep to basics, but of the thousands of secondary metabolites in the plant kingdom, we will only speak in terms of Resin, Flavonoids, Terpenes and Trichomes, as they are the most well-known secondary metabolites related to the cannabis plant.

 

The overarching goal is to create the healthiest plant possible eventually raising the secondary metabolites to higher levels, including high brix levels.  There are known reasons why cannabis is extremely hard to accomplish this with due to how the plants are "pushed" and intentionally stress manipulated.  It is not only due to genetic and environmental aspects, but because of what, when, and how much nutrients are applied throughout the plant life cycle.  We have pinpointed several inputs, as well as timing of inputs that contribute to less-than-optimal secondary metabolites, which in turn leads to lower brix levels and more susceptibility of pest and disease damage, resulting in lower quality.  It's not that the quality is bad, but lower than it could have been.

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We have only come to some of these realizations from multiple years of research using only products that have had their salts removed, which has put us down different rabbit holes than the rest of the fertilizer community.  By focusing on where the research leads us instead of making money as the primary objective, we have come to some unique revelations about high production cannabis plants. But it's still always a work in progress...

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Even though our nutrients and amendments create very high-quality flower, nutrients are only part of the equation.  Before that can happen, we need to be properly cycling photosynthesis, as well as protein and lipid synthesis production at heightened levels. Each phase builds off the preceding phase. This cycling is an involved process as we are not just talking about photosynthesis working at optimal levels on a constant basis throughout the life cycle.  This allows for nitrogen to be completely converted in the protein synthesis phase, so none is stored in plant sap. Unconverted nitrogen in plant sap can create the potential for a host of additional issues and reduces the plant potentiality once again.

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The Science Behind It

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We’re committed to continuous research, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible for plant health. Our proprietary processes remove harmful salts and heavy metals, making nutrients more available and less stressful for the plant. This improves photosynthesis, protein synthesis, and ultimately boosts the production of secondary metabolites.

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Science-Driven Solutions for Superior Quality

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At GLB Nutrients, our primary focus is to layer our products to boost secondary metabolite levels. We continually refine our formulas, driven by our commitment to excellence. Today’s product is just the beginning; we strive to improve every formula until we reach its pinnacle.

 

Our raw ingredients are meticulously sourced for their initial quality and undergo a proprietary process to minimize salts to as low as 0.01%. This reduction in salts, nitrates, and heavy metals enhances nutrient availability, reducing stress on plants and allowing them to thrive. Healthier plants can cycle photo, protein, and lipid synthesis more effectively, ultimately leading to an increase in secondary metabolites.

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Unlocking Plant Potential

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What does it mean to save energy in plants? Our perspective on plant biology is not only rooted in the symbiotic relationship between plants and their surrounding microorganisms, but the energy that plants cells in hydroponic settings are affected. These "workers", tirelessly contribute to plant health, and our proprietary products help maximize their efficiency. This also works

 

By minimizing salt stress, our nutrients allow plants to focus on growth and development rather than battling excess salts. With our products, you'll experience faster nutrient uptake, resulting in healthier plants and improved quality.

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Nutrients only get your plants closer to genetic potential.

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The reality is the best nutrients and genetics have little meaning if the growing conditions are not good.  The nutrients only real role is to get the plant closer to the genetic potential. The better the genetics, the better the potential quality. We talk about removing salts, and some say that salts are not bad for a plant, but actually good. The reality is salts are a stress that the plant has to deal with, and can, very effectively, but it is still a stress that takes away energy, reducing the potential of the plant. This is not always seen until a grower has used our nutrients verses the rest of the market.  If salts are not a stress, outside of overfertilization, why worry about salts or ppms at all?  There is a visible difference in plant response with our amendments, down to taste and overall smoking experience. Salt based nutrients can be less than 50% available to the plant, but you never hear about that.​

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We have helped many new growers amend their crops that end up higher quality than much more experienced growers with those same genetics, but with just salt-based nutrients.  It's not us versus them, we help everyone and all lines, and it's not hard to upgrade your secondary metabolites with what you are currently doing.

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Many growers, whether home or commercial, are asking the same questions: How do I maximize quality on a budget? We provide concentrated, premium amendments that enhance quality that can be seen, felt and tasted. So many products say they make a difference we can guarantee it with BrixSap.

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​Thanks for your time and we wish you the best,

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GLB​

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