Are Plant Tonics REALLY Worth Buying?

The shelves of your local grow store may be stocked with dozens of high-priced (mainly liquid) plant supplements, each with their own claims. Should you trust them? Of course not. Pssst... they're after your money! Their whole job is to put something into a bottle, market the heck out of it, and sell it for many times what it cost them to produce. How many times? Who knows... the product contents, claims and results are as non-specific as possible.

Sorry to say it, but the responsibility and blame falls on the buyer. It's your job to ask the questions that matter, and demand satisfactory evidence before opening your wallet. Vague claims and a lack of independent evidence should mean you won't purchase, full stop. That's the only power the consumer has to convince these supplement makers to offer specific, reality-based claims and back them up with research.

I mentioned that even within the humic acid industry, there's concern about the false claims. Here's a link to one of those suppliers: https://youtu.be/qxlotcSrSWQ?si=vu6_KyASO2JNxyLL&t=27 Note that even though he acknowledges the problems, it's still his business to promote the benefits of humic acid. I'm not judging, I just always consider the source.

The products profiled in this video, the the sections discussing/showing their packaging, website, claims and even commercials are offered here under what I'll be happy to defend as fair use. One of the better outcomes user-generated video platforms like YouTube is open criticism of business practices. If they don't like it, it's completely within their power to fully specify and prove their marketing claims.

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