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Which bundle is right for you? pg 102

Maximum Growth!

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Plus: How to choose the right nutrients for your plants pg 38

Power up your blooming & fowering for bigger, more consistent yields— every time pg 92

HOW TO SET UP THE PERFEC PER FECTT GROW ROO ROOM M A GUIDE TO THE GEAR THE PROS USE!

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Get The Most Out of Your Yield Easier trimming, Easier drying… Your perfect harvest plan inside. pg148 More Consistent Cloning The 3 keys to success pg 18

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Welcome to

How To Grow Bigger Buds

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ur purpose at Advanced Nutrients is simple: to make the world passionate about growing plants hydroponically.

WHY WE WROTE THIS GUIDE

“When you're in love, you want to tell the world.” - Carl Sagan Our purpose at Advanced Nutrients is simple: to make the world passionate about growing plants hydroponically. This guide, “How To Grow Bigger Buds”  is  is a declaration to the hydroponic world about our products, which solve real problems for you, the grower, that we're proud of.

Sadly, we don't have the space to give you full tutorials on each step of the growing process. However, we do have enough space to clearly organize which resources you'll need at each step of the growing process. And, which are the best of those resources. These steps appear in the order you'd perform them in real life. We'd also like to point you to our website, advancednutrients.com , for more information, should you find yourself curious about any of the resources listed in this product guide.

HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE

It's simple, really. Whichever step of the growing process you find yourself curious about, you'll find a section for it in the index, at the front of this product guide. Then, just flip to the pages that explain what you're curious about and voila, you'll see a list of all the resources you'll need for that step. You'll also find special tips about which resources will optimize your growing, and the basic information you need to understand what's going on.

With the right information, and a love of the game, you can take a tiny transplant like this and yield marvelous flowers.

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Lastly, it's very important we're clear about what this guide is not. It's not a technical, comprehensive how-to the same way that some other popular guides g uides are. It is a catalog of the specific speci fic solutions our company, company, Advanced Nutrients, has developed to solve specific growing problems. Which means this guide is limited to our product line, which is not comprehensive for every challenge you'll face as a grower. As always, we recommend you work with your local hydro store experts to get complete advice about growing.

Welcome to

How To Grow Bigger Buds

O

ur purpose at Advanced Nutrients is simple: to make the world passionate about growing plants hydroponically.

WHY WE WROTE THIS GUIDE

“When you're in love, you want to tell the world.” - Carl Sagan Our purpose at Advanced Nutrients is simple: to make the world passionate about growing plants hydroponically. This guide, “How To Grow Bigger Buds”  is  is a declaration to the hydroponic world about our products, which solve real problems for you, the grower, that we're proud of.

Sadly, we don't have the space to give you full tutorials on each step of the growing process. However, we do have enough space to clearly organize which resources you'll need at each step of the growing process. And, which are the best of those resources. These steps appear in the order you'd perform them in real life. We'd also like to point you to our website, advancednutrients.com , for more information, should you find yourself curious about any of the resources listed in this product guide.

HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE

It's simple, really. Whichever step of the growing process you find yourself curious about, you'll find a section for it in the index, at the front of this product guide. Then, just flip to the pages that explain what you're curious about and voila, you'll see a list of all the resources you'll need for that step. You'll also find special tips about which resources will optimize your growing, and the basic information you need to understand what's going on.

With the right information, and a love of the game, you can take a tiny transplant like this and yield marvelous flowers.

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Advanced Nutrients: "How to Grow Bigger Buds"

Lastly, it's very important we're clear about what this guide is not. It's not a technical, comprehensive how-to the same way that some other popular guides g uides are. It is a catalog of the specific speci fic solutions our company, company, Advanced Nutrients, has developed to solve specific growing problems. Which means this guide is limited to our product line, which is not comprehensive for every challenge you'll face as a grower. As always, we recommend you work with your local hydro store experts to get complete advice about growing.

Table of Contents

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Welcome to "How to Grow Bigger Buds" What is Different About Us?

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Section 1 � Setting up a room Intro

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BaddAss Bulbs

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Section 2 � Cloning and Rooting Intro

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Juicy Roots

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Root Shooters

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B - 52 Voodoo Juice

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Section 3 � Growing Intro

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pH Manifesto

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pH Perfect S ensi Grow

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pH Perfect GMB

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Jungle Juice 2-Part & 3-Part

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Ancient Earth Organic

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Section 4 � Blooming and Flowering Intro

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pH Perfect Connoisseur

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pH Perfect S ensi Bloom

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Bigger Yields Bundle® Boxes: Hobbyist Level®, Expert Grower Level®, Professional Grower Level®, and Grand Master Grower Level®

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Bud Ignitor

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Piranha

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Tarantula

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Big Bud®

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Bud Candy

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Sensizym

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Nir vana

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Rhino Skin

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Bud Factor X

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Section 5 � Ripening and Harvesting Har vesting Intro

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Overdrive

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Final Phase

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QuickCure

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When you decide to buy an Advanced product out there they have been given Nutrients product what you’re really buying  very clear instructions to recommend that is peace of mind. Here’s why. You’re a client product even if it’s a competing product to us not a customer. What’s the difference? with one of our own products. A customer is somebody you do business Now when you think about that last with and then for all practical purposes statement it obviously puts a tremendous forget about. A client is under the care, amount of pressure on every team guidance and protection of an expert in the member in our entire organization field. Think about it, because that’s a very to continually give you the very best important distinction. products, information and drives constant Moreover, all Advanced Nutrients team innovation -- anything less and we would members take this responsibility seriously. have to suffer the embarrassment of having In fact, they realize the importance of to send you to one of our competitors. And this isn’t lip service. It’s absolute putting your success first. That’s one of the reasons all team members are so passionate doctrine at Advanced Nutrients. You are a client about getting you using the best products, first and foremost, your long term success is the essential part of our company culture. information and results for your crops. Because they realize anything less and You see, Advanced Nutrients is the they’ll be putting you at a disadvantage. hydroponics industry's thought leader and And that doesn’t mean just using Advanced innovator. When you use any Advanced Nutrients products. If there is a better Nutrients product you are getting the best

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Advanced Nutrients has created more industry firsts for our growing community than any other hydroponics company, period.

technologies available to you. I realize this may sound like a bunch of “Yea, sure, that’s what they all say” to you. Maybe it is to you... but maybe it’s not. And if it’s not, then what? So I want you to take the time to consider this for a moment. INDUSTRY FIRSTS

Advanced Nutrients has created more Industry Firsts for our growing community than any other hydroponics company, period. In fact, here’s your very long list of them. Take a quick look and judge for yourself... First to do testing on the types of plants you grow, and in the types of gardens you grow in. First and still the only hydroponics company to have an all out “real” PhD staffed research team. First to develop and deploy a selfadjusting pH line of base nutrients and supplements so you won’t have to balance or adjust your nutrients' pH ever again. First to invent and use beneficial microbes to balance and maintain pH. First to use 100% chelated micronutrients giving you full protection over an ultra wide pH range. First to use chelated macronutrients. First to use a new class of pH buffering •

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technologies. hybrid fertilizers. First to invent pH activated and balancing First to make hydro-organic formulas molecular technologies. that work perfectly no matter what First to do daily tissue samples in relevant garden you use them in. garden settings. First to do competitive product testing. First to invent sealed grow rooms for First to offer products in easy to use the hydroponics community with total packaging, foil pouches, and hydroenvironmental controls (these rooms are friendly configurations. known in the industry as “The Perfect First to offer a total system that takes care Room”). of your entire plant. First to create patented engineered First to offer beneficial microbes and fertilizer programs. other products that protect grow rooms First to give you beneficial bacteria and without toxic effects. fungi. Invented carbohydrate supplements for First to give you root zone enhancers. plants. First to offer you toll-free and online First to use amino acids in bloom technical support. boosters. Invented the feed chart. First to identify the specific ratios of Invented the nutrient calculator. macro and micro-nutrients your plants First and only company to offer a 100% need for bigger yields. performance guarantee. First to have perfectly balanced cations First and one of the few to use hot water and anion based nutrients that control manufacturing for superior dissolving of pH in your growing medium. all liquid products. Ok enough already, and I’m sure there First to use multiple element filtering of are lots more that I haven’t remembered all products. yet. It’s a fact the entire hydroponics First hydroponics company to use nutrient industry has been chasing and bloom cofactors, and other specialty imitating us for years. Which brings me to components that stimulate growth to get something else... you bigger yields. First to use ultra-purified reverse osmosis WHY COMPROMISE? water for manufacturing products. Most Imagine just for a few moments you could hydroponics nutrient companies still use  jump into a time machine and be transported tap water to manufacture their products. back to the year 1504. Boom! There you are First to use standardized reverse osmosis ... it’s Saturday morning and you’re standing water “tuning” in all manufacturing in the outdoor market in Florence, Italy. facilities and labs. This enables all water It’s a sunny day, the sky is clear blue, the used to manufacture and test with is temperature is in the mid 70s, and there’s a exactly the same anywhere in the world. gentle breeze blowing across your face. And is the same technology used by So you start to take a walk around and Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Anheuser-Busch to see merchants everywhere. As you come ensure you always get the same consistent around a corner there he is, the great product. master himself, Leonardo da Vinci sitting First to use hormone-producing in a chair surrounded by all these really microbes. wonderful inventions and beautiful works First to use beneficial enzymes. of art. So you stop and stare at all of his First to offer varietal nutrient mixture original works and inventions. ratio and formulation. To your amazement they’re all for sale First to offer email tech support, and when you reach into your pocket -entertainment media, and gardening sure enough -- you have plenty of money.  videos. So you start to negotiate for one of his First to create products that stimulate works of art. But just before you’re ready to plant immune systems. hand him your money you notice another First to offer symbiotic synthetic-organic merchant 30 feet away and he has what •

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looks like some of the same stuff Leonardo has. So you approach him and ask him his price. He offers you better prices and he says to you that he has a similar work of art like the one you were just looking at, in fact he even claims it’s exactly the same as Leonardo’s work. However under ver y close scrutiny you discover it’s not “just the same”. In fact, the workmanship is shoddy and it lacks inspiration. Well which one are you going to buy? The answer is really obvious. Isn’t it? So why would you want to compromise when it comes to buying your hydroponics nutrients? Truthfully, you wouldn’t knowingly do so, would you? And personally, I don’t want you to either, that’s why I listed all of Advanced Nutrients' hydroponics industry “firsts” and leading inventions for you. More importantly, I want you to be absolutely sure when you make your choices -- it’s going to be the right one for you and your plants. Thanks for taking the time to read this, you’ll find the rest of this product guide interesting and informative. Enjoy :-) Big Mike

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Section 1

Setting up a room

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lright, so you’ve got your vision. Te orce is strong with you. You have the intention to grow.

The first thing you need to decide is this: How many plants do you want?

How much you want to grow will determine every other decision you make. I you're growing one plant or yoursel and some riends, then you can get away with growing in a closet. I you plan to sell your yields or some serious cash, you're going to need more than one plant. And your plants are going to need some space to grow. Te rule o thumb is that you want to aim or your plants being 18-24” rom the surace o the light. Afer that, there are our major areas o concern. THE CHALLENGES YOU FACE WHEN SETTING UP YOUR SPACE

Tere are our basic challenges you’ll ace when setting up your space. With this guide, they’ll be easy to overcome. Here they are: 1. Lighting 2. Power 3. Air Flow  4. Environment

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1. LIGHTING

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he point o indoor growing gear is to mimic nature as closely as possible, or improve upon it when possible. And just like everyone learned in grade school, one o the basic oods any plant needs is light. Obviously in nature this comes rom the sun. Indoors, you have a couple o customizable options that will do just about as good a job i you get the right equipment. Te two most important considerations you have when planning your lighting are:

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1. How much light you need for the plants  you're growing. 2. Where you are in the process of growing.

It all depends on how many plants you're growing, and how much space you have to grow them. ScrOG growers, or example, brag about growing with insane efficiency using little 250 watt lamps. (ScrOG stands or “Screen o Green” and is a way to maximize your yields using a very small space. Excellent or closet growers. In very simple terms, ScrOGing is using a net to careully manage the distance between your plants and the lamp they eed rom. Tis distance is very important or optimal growth, which we'll talk about in more detail below). Growers with more space and more plants will need larger lamps, anywhere rom 600 to 1000 watts. Tis is a very important part o setting up your grow space and should be discussed in person with a hydro store proessional. Tey’re helpul, knowledgeable people and you’ll want to explain to them what you’re trying to do in order to get the best advice. Also, when you make riends at the hydro store, you’ll be making your way into the community, which looks out or its own. Tese are people you can count on when you have questions, and as time goes on, you’ll be very glad to have them on your team when the real challenges come up. WHAT STAGE ARE YOU AT?

Your plants will go through two distinct stages o growth – the vegetative phase, where they grow their stems; and the lowering phase, where the attention moves rom growing stems to blossoming lowers or ruits. o maximize your yields, you’ll need to plan your lighting strategy or these distinct stages ahead o time. Tere are a couple o decisions to make.  Advanced Nutrients makes three types of shades: (1) Uno, (2) MelonHead and (3) Custom Hood. Each is designed specifically  for the space that you have to grow with.

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Decision #1: Which lights will give you the most bang for your buck?

Here’s what we mean: your plants can only use certain parts o the spectrum o light. Remember the colors o the rainbow, ROYGBIV (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet)? Well, as ar as photosynthesis is concerned, your plants are ocused on the reds and the blues. o grow truly awe-inspiring flowers, your lights will need to deliver optimal photons in the red and blue color spectra. A term you should become amiliar with, i you’re not already, is PAR, or Photosynthetically Active Range. Tis range (between 400 and 700 nanometers) is used to measure the amount o the specific photons your plants use to grow big and healthy. When you go to buy a light, you want to make sure the light emits optimal PAR watts to your plants. Decision #2: When will you trigger the flowering stage in your plants?

Your plants know it’s time to start blooming when you make a speciic change in the lighting. his is known as a “photoperiod,” or the contrast between how many hours per day your plants are receiving light, versus the time they are in the dark. Eighteen hours o light per day will eed your plants all they can handle during the vegetative phase. Afer your plants are about eight weeks old, it’s time to switch your lighting to 12 hours on, 12 hours off. Tis will let your plants know it’s time to blossom, and you’ll see signs o budding on your stems in approximately one to three weeks rom the time you make the switch. Having lights, and power sources or your lights (called “ballasts”), that are well designed or effective photoperiods, is crucial to your success.