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Most nutrient companies tell you their products work. Advanced Nutrients proved it – 57 documented firsts that changed what serious cannabis growers can achieve.
When you choose Advanced Nutrients, you’re not buying a product - you’re buying peace of mind. A customer is someone you do business with and forget about. A client is someone under the care, guidance, and protection of an expert.
Our team operates under a clear directive: if a competitor’s product is the better choice for your success, we will recommend it over our own. That pressure is what has driven 57 industry firsts - because when you have to earn trust on every single run, you never stop pushing the science.
Here are five of the most significant innovations that fundamentally changed what cannabis cultivation looks like, and what growers can expect from their crops.
Advanced Nutrients became the first (and only) hydroponics company to staff a dedicated, full-time team of PhD researchers committed exclusively to cannabis — a permanent, in-house team whose sole job was advancing the science of cannabis nutrition. That level of institutional commitment to a single plant had never existed in this industry before we built it.
For decades, managing pH was one of the most time-consuming and error-prone parts of growing cannabis — one miscalibrated reading could compromise an entire run. Advanced Nutrients solved that permanently by becoming the first to develop and deploy a complete, self-adjusting line of base nutrients that eliminates the need to manually test, balance, or adjust pH. No test kits, no daily corrections — just consistent, stable nutrition that works automatically, every run.
Before Advanced Nutrients introduced the feed chart, growers had no reliable guide for feeding through each phase of a plant’s development — most improvised by guesswork and hoped results held from run to run. We built the tool that ended that, giving growers a clear, phase-by-phase feeding protocol for the first time. The feed chart became an industry standard, adopted and imitated across the entire hydroponics world.
Consistency is impossible when source water varies between facilities or changes with the season — a problem Coca-Cola and Pepsi solved decades ago with standardized reverse osmosis water tuning. Advanced Nutrients was the first hydroponics company to adopt that same standard across all manufacturing facilities and labs. The result: products that perform identically from batch to batch, bottle to bottle, in every one of the 128+ countries our clients grow.
Most nutrient companies test on tomatoes or cucumbers and assume the results translate to cannabis — they don’t. Advanced Nutrients was the first to conduct testing exclusively on the exact plant types our clients grow, in the exact types of controlled environments they operate, including sealed grow rooms with total environmental control — what we called “The Perfect Room.” That commitment to cannabis-specific science includes rigorous study of the nutrient inputs that produce the terpene-rich, flavorful flower that top-shelf cannabis commands.
The following is a selection of our documented record of 57 industry firsts — spanning formulation science, microbiology, research methodology, manufacturing standards, and grower support. This list includes some of the most significant advancements in cannabis-specific nutrition.
Advanced Nutrients has been earning the trust of serious cannabis growers for over 27 years. If you want to understand who’s behind the products, what drives the research, and why growers in more than 128 countries depend on us to help them produce cannabis with bold flavor, premium quality, and repeatable results – we’d like to introduce ourselves properly.
Over time, components within the nutrients settle on the bottom of the bottle. When you pour a bottle without shaking it, you can potentially be pouring out an unbalanced solution. Shaking up the nutrient bottle ensures you are pouring the right blend into your reservoir, giving your crops the nutrition they need.
Usually, it’s not a problem. But some products are incompatible with each other and can damage your plants when they’re used together. For example, bloom boosters with high PK numbers or low-grade silica products can destabilize your nutrient mix and cause nutrient lockout.
Nutrient manufacturers design their products to be used with each other. In doing so, they include specific portions of each nutrient in each product, so crops receive the right nutrition through each stage of the grow cycle. When you stick with one manufacturer, you don’t have to worry about inadvertently destabilizing your nutrient mixture. One example of why you need to stick with only one manufacturer’s products is Advanced Nutrients’ pH Perfect line. These products are designed to keep your crops’ root zone within a specific pH range. When you use them alongside products from another manufacturer, we can’t guarantee your root zone will maintain its optimal pH level.
Yes! If you’re growing with Advanced Nutrients products, you can use our easy nutrient calculator to generate the correct nutrient chart for your crops in seconds. Check out Advanced Nutrients’ nutrient calculator here. Another great resource is our library of free custom-growing recipes. Try our expert grower-tested nutrient schedules here.
You can also download our official BudLabs app to generate nutrient schedules and receive real-time notifications for specific tasks, including feeding your crops.
If you are a grower, visit this link to find the closest Advanced Nutrients Authorized Retailer. If you are a retailer, visit this link to identify our official distributors.
Our greatest passion is growing great cannabis—and helping other growers do the same. That’s why we offer complimentary cultivation support 24/7 from Monday to Friday and from 9 AM until 7 PM PST on Saturday… With the same level of advice licensed producers would pay consultants tens of thousands of dollars to unlock.
Just call 1-800-640-9605 or email support@advancednutrients.com. For Spanish-speaking growers, email spanishsupport@advancednutrients.com.
Advanced Nutrients has spent many thousands of man-hours developing a technology that automatically balances your pH for you — putting it in the “sweet spot” and holding it there for one week.
And the technology is so “smart” that it can account for many of the aforementioned variables in your grow room. Our proprietary pH buffering agents and stabilizing mechanisms became the foundation of a new system aptly called pH Perfect® Technology. Learn all about it here.
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