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Game-Changer for Growers? Nordetect’s Handheld Nutrient Tester · Hydroponics Daily

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  Hello and welcome back to Hydroponics Daily, your go-to podcast for everything soilless cultivation.
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  I'm your host, Dr. Russell Sharp, and today we're talking about what could be
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  a potentially exciting development, and that is a company called Nordetect are releasing a,
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  handheld piece of kit that detects nutrient levels in your fertigation stream.
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  So it'll measure nitrogen phosphorus potassium calcium magnesium
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  and sulfur and there are
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  handheld devices that claim to measure nutrient
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  levels you can get nitrogen ones potassium ones phosphorus
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  ones however i don't think they're very accurate they
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  just use spectrophotometry easy
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  for me to say spectrophotometry however this
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  one doesn't this one uses does use
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  spectrophotometry but it also has a patented agrochip cartridge so i'm imagining
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  that that's some sort of maybe what's the word i'm looking for antigen type
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  antibody type thing or maybe something like that but certainly something additional
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  to spectrophotometry i haven't got the details if anyone from.
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  This company wants to speak to
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  me the company is nordetect then i'd like to know what's
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  in the agro chip it just says patent pending and you
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  can you can get a demo of it and things like this so really it's
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  an alternative to sending your fertigation solution away
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  to be analyzed in a lab which can take you know
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  five days at least for it to come so you go
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  from five days to three minutes with this system and
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  hopefully it produces a reliable result on
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  like just the spectrophotometry ones which are pretty rubbish
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  the alternative to that is using sort of titration
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  the number of titration from high school chemistry which
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  is not so accurate so precise and is long-winded and can be a number of factors
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  can affect the result and stuff like that so this one looks to be more in line
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  more more accurate and also it has integration to specialist software as well
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  so you can monitor it over time.
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  So you could potentially be monitoring your fertigation solution in real time,
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  looking at the nutrient levels, which for many growers will be game changers.
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  So yes, it's going to cost you maybe like at the moment, you might get your
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  nutrient levels analysed for like $15 a time, which is not a lot.
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  Potentially so it's priced at $15 at the moment apparently could go down to
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  $5 in the future according to what they've claimed when they've been applying
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  for awards and things like this.
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  The test which allows from uses the same
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  equipment as covid and pregnancy tests so yeah i think that's
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  antigen antibody stuff blood sugar type and that
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  technology combined with that spectrophotometry so
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  really interesting i'd love to get my hands on a piece of kit and
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  test it i think this is going to be if i was
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  to say of all the kit that's out there potentially out there
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  i would ignore the stuff on you know next level next generation
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  led lighting and and even new fertilizers
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  and biostimulants biostimulants this is going to be the one that's going
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  to give growers real information that they can
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  combine with ec values and ph values and
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  actually be useful it also should scare
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  any fertilizer manufacturers who are selling dilute products
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  that don't contain what they say they contain because you will
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  be found out with this because growers can simply dilute their
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  your product in distilled or
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  ro water and analyze the nutrients levels and if
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  your product doesn't contain the phosphorus potassium calcium magnesium levels
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  claims it does then you'll be in big trouble with the growers and we know of
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  loads of companies that are selling products that don't contain what they say
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  they contain the fertilizers because we've analyzed it using gas chromatography
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  mass mass spectroscopy and other types of mass spectroscopy and found that they
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  don't contain the nutrients they claim to contain.
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  And sometimes they can contain really nasty chemicals as well.
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  So this won't tell you what nasty chemicals they contain, just what fertilizers
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  they contain, but definitely check it out. It's Nordetect.
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  It looks like it's going to maybe hit the market soon.
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  I don't, it's not, you can't buy it at the moment. You can book a personalized demo on their website.
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  So they'll, they'll phone you back and I don't know,
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  maybe just like that, but they've been in forbes they've been in ag funder
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  they've been haughty daily so this is this is one to watch nor
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  detect if anyone from nor detect wants to send me one to play
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  around with i'd be very happy not received any freebies or
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  any invites to anywhere with with this podcast yet that's
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  supposed to be one of the big benefits of hosting your
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  own podcast isn't it you get loads of freebies i went i don't know yet but
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  maybe this is the one maybe this is the big one nor detect they're going
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  to send me who knows so yeah if you
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  think this would be interesting to anyone who's a grower then please
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  share it with them and i'll put the link to the website in this in the transcript
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  or the show notes for this episode okay that's been hydroponics daily for today
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  i'm off to go camping in the norfolk broads on a boat not camping on a boat
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  i'm going on a boat and camping i'll see you later see you tomorrow goodbye.