Our BEST class of the year! OKCalyxx Natural Farming Immersive, Oct 11 & 12. Grab your tickets today!

(00:00) Scissors vs Scalpels
(05:03) Optimal Clone Defoliation
(07:41) Cloning Gel and Alternatives
(11:49) IBA and Optimal Moisture
(18:32) Dome Vents and Airflow
(29:15) Clone Tips, Tricks, and Pitfalls
(33:04) How to Care for LOTS of Clones

We pick up right at Part Two of our cloning exploration with Mike from GrowersHouse. Mike shares insights into his actual cloning technique where he emphasizes the need for proper clone placement and depth. He explains how plugs hold water at a certain "table level" in your clone dome, and where you should be placing your cuts to allow them to take up water and nutrients. This leads a conversation about optimal moisture levels, and Mike. drops some tips on using weight as a metric of moisture. Mike also talks about using household alternatives to clone gels like aloe and willow bark extract- and why IBA is still the best choice for home growers. Mike wraps up the show by talking about caring for many many clones at once, and how the difficulty of cloning goes as the amount of genetics increases.

Grab your tickets for the OKCalyxx Natural Farming Immersive TODAY! The number one class of the year. Choose one of two classes, October 11th or 12th.

Brand new guest and professional horticulturalist Mike from www.growershouse.com joins us for an episode all about taking PERFECT clones, every time. In this part one of two, Mike introduces us the concept of encouraging the development of adventitious roots through a combination of hormone and nutrient applications. Mike explains the five major types of plant hormones, and details exactly how applying hormones like auxins to the exterior plant tissues trigger a hormone reaction causing the plants to produce roots. This leads to a conversation about cultural practices, and how important it is to not only have the correct equipment for cloning- but also the importance of cleanliness. Stay tuned for part TWO of this awesome episode.

(00:00) Start
(01:53) Mike's Background
(04:57) 30,000 ft View of Cloning & Adventitious Roots
(10:55) What Nutrients/Resources do Clones Need?
(18:24) Light intensity for Clones
(21:10) Plant Hormones, Auxins and Cytokinins
(26:11) Other hormones, Gibberellins?
(33:32) Preparing for Cloning, Cleanliness, & Proper Equipment

Ricky from Riverview Living Soil has returned to the program for a stellar episode about optimizing your grow through improved nutrient uptake! Ricky gives us an update on his new product line and his foray into worm farming, which leads to a conversation on the benefits of quality castings. Castings aside, live worms themselves do incredible things in the soil to optimize nutrient uptake for plants. Not only do they increase the bio-availability of all types of nutrition, but they also help carry minerals from one area of the soil- where the mineral may be rich- to another part of the soil- where the mineral may be lacking. Ricky describes the three main ways that plants uptake nutrients, and extrapolates on how things like saponins- as well as worms- help increase the efficiency of all three types of nutrient uptake. You can now use code GROWCAST for 15% off for a limited time at www.rvlsmo.com

(00:00) Introduction
(03:40) Types of worms, and benefits of worms
(13:28) Quality castings, and rehydrating old soil
(18:00) Saponins and nutrient uptake
(30:02) Utilizing sugars to feed microbes
(45:22) Riverview soluble nutrients
(48:21) Outro