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Molybdenum in Hydroponics · Hydroponics Daily

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  Hi, welcome back to the Hydroponics Daily with me, Dr. Russell Sharp,
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  the inventor of Gold Leaf Fertilizer.
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  So today we're talking about molybdenum. I think this is the last of our essential
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  nutrients, or the micronutrients at least.
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  And it's an important nutrient molybdenum. It's involved in nitrogen metabolism.
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  So getting nitrogen into the plant, conversing it from one form to the other,
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  the enzymes involved in that contain molybdenum.
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  So it's important in enzyme function you actually require plants require very
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  tiny amounts of molybdenum and so.
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  Fertilizers you'll often see it's the one of the lowest elements as
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  a percentage on on the label and it
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  can be toxic if you apply too much to certain animals
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  and things like that but in the areas the
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  volumes we're talking about in fertilizers you don't need to worry about that
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  you will get issues with low soil
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  ph is making molybdenum unavailable but as
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  we've seen with the likes of copper zinc and manganese
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  where iron was going to be the one that you saw first when
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  the ph rose when ph drops too
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  much you're going to see issues with calcium before you see any
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  issues molybdenum you know if you've seen
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  issues with molybdenum deficiency you count
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  yourself lucky that you're one of the few people who've ever seen it so i wouldn't
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  really worry i've not even got any symptoms here because if i start listing
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  symptoms of deficiency for copper and molybdenum it's going to confuse you you're
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  going to be looking for them and think oh is this copper and really just ignore
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  it it's never going to be that it's going to be something else.
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  Molybdenum is interesting because it's got a b and a d facing each other there
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  i just like that there's not many words in the english language where the b's
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  and the d's face each other,
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  if you can think of one let me know but i can't that's been the hydroponics daily for today,
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  hopefully something a bit more a bit more a bit more content to it tomorrow.