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.

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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

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Head breeder for GrowCast Seed Co Rhizo Rich is back on the program for an episode all about his new Key Lime Madness pollination work- and the anxiety easing cultivars that are coming out of his seed stock. Rich extrapolates on some of the profiles he has been hunting through with his KLM work, and shows of some amazing GrowCast Members work. Many in the community have turned out pink flowers from these packs, which makes for visually stunning grows. Rich discusses how he selects for strains that ease his personal mental health issues, and he opens up to the audience with some stories about his severe OCD and anxiety. We wrap the show by celebrating some of the most recent Cult Cup winners, with all three categories putting out nothing but heat.

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We always talk about microbes, and how magical they are. But compared to plants microbes are like ancient cave people, rubbing sticks together and painting cave paintings for the almighty plant gods. Join Nik as we explore the complexity of Oxygen in our gardens, and the incredible electrical power that plants have to split the oxygen apart from H2O molecules. Oxygen is like the stoner friend who always shows up to the smoke circle, smokes everyone else's bud, and ruins the circle. Oxygen is constantly degrading things, "downhill," while plants have the incredible power to reverse this oxidative process that affects virtually all of the world around us. If you love advanced plant science, this episode is for you. Don't forget to aerate that feed water, growmies!

Jesse and Matt from Kindway Farms are on the podcast for the very first time! Tune in to hear about their journey from stoner neighbors, to a prolific husband and wife breeder duo. Kindway shares the story of their breeding roots, and how serendipitous events (like the discovery of Matt's Ghost Train Haze male) led to the creation of this lovely cannabis brand. Matt and Jesse open up about their passion for educating home growers, and how they've been advocates for cultivation and patient rights since Missouri first came online. The duo also discuss their breeding projects including the Super Skunk Cooter work, Love Whip crosses, and a possible GMO and OG hunt coming in the future... You can also use code GROWCAST at kindwayfarms.com for 25% off :)

(00:00) Show start
(01:39) Journey into cultivation
(10:44) Breeding values and goals
(20:03) Missouri canna culture and regulations
(30:10) Cooter Smooch Super Skunk
(44:15) Working as husband and wife
(59:33) Shout outs and outro

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