The Living Soil Podcast

@Grower4life_ and I chat about his full conversion to living soil, using KIS Organics soil. Plus he is using our Microbe and Plant food program. I originally met Grower4life back in 2015 as far as I know he is one of the longer running raised beds soil cultivators I had the pressure of meeting. Grower4life would like to dedicating this episode to his amazing wife @_theganjaprincess_ Please give them both a follow and also check out their website www.grower4life.com

The Microbe Man!! David Olson speaks on several mind-blowing topics. Maximum biological diversity. Adding beneficial nematodes to microbe builder liquid soil Inoculate. New products- Bloom Essentials powder fertilizer including seven different micro nutriments, powdered FF seed coat fungal and mycorrhizae dominant seed coating. Yield studies and germination rates, 17% more seeds emerged in the first 24 hours. Adding light, sounds and electromagnetic spectrum to microbe population building. Corium sensing (VOCs) volatile organic compounds. A microbe language!!! Using DNA Meta genomics for quality control. looking at beneficial functions of microbe populations. The importance of available metabolites, nutrients that are broken down by biology- amino acids basic building blocks for soil. Chasing the waxy green Leaf’s Healthiest plants and leaves possible! Turning on gene sequence we have never seen before. Happy Growing! Thank you for listening friends.

Growing living soil cannabis in Australia, It's a slightly different game down under. To satisfy their patient needs the AU is currently importing medical cannabis from several counties. AU also plans to become a large exporter of cannabis to the world markets. What is the quickest path forward to award winning cannabis. We chat about Matt's success on converting a large producer to living soil in our custom beds. https://easyasorganics.com.au/product/living-soil/ IG page https://www.instagram.com/easyasorganics/?hl=en

Power of the Curls!! Featuring Michael Box and Izzy Becker. From Sustainable Village. Talking static moisture levels and dry back control. Cycling moisture levels within the moisture release curve graph. Not reaching the wilting level of dry backs. Tensiometers vs other probes. How hard does your plant work getting water? Oxygen level in soil. Vacuum levels in soil. Optimum target ranges for soil moisture levels. From top to bottom, consistent moisture levels. What to put your raised bed on. Izzy Becker @highaltitudeharvests & @busy_izzy @blumatwateringsystems

Saul and I chat about his current IPM strategies, bug problems, Living soil systems and implication of these strategies on all levels home growing to commercial cannabis. good bugs and bad buds how and when to monitor or scout for bugs. what tools should you use for major problems. best way to contact Saul Alba saul.alba@insectary.com https://insectary.com/

Alexandria queen of the sun grown is a trained UC Davis Master Gardener. Cannabis cultivator/ consultant In this episode we break down her history and why she is so passionate about the plant. I ask her what her plans when it comes to a small indoor living soil grow with 4x4 and 4x8 raised beds in tents. Soil volume helps soil biology. Microbial monitoring with microscopes corneal soil mix 1/3 - 1/3 - 1/3 program. Going from 2- 20ft x100ft long greenhouses on a commercial farm in California to a indoor grow in WA state. Enjoy!

In this episode we chat about the science around the transplant root dip and why this is the best and most efficient way of inoculating a root system. Starting with germinating seeds with beneficial microbes and water all the way to weekly root drenches. Supper mycorrhizae is a microbial inoculant including microbe foods David feels you should be applying microbes with a food source to make sure the microbes can colonized a root system and help the system charge forward.

Tyler- We chat with Brandon about his efforts to make only scientifically guided decisions on nutrient management, foliar spraying and soil chemistry in his Co-founded commercial Greenhouse Grow in Oklahoma. Brandon has been a cultivator of cannabis medicine for over 20 years. He has a wealth of information about the plant and how it should be grown in its most natural environment possible. Growing Cannabis is not easy in Oklahoma, with its crazy weather and random rain storms. Things can get crazy and Brandon has his ways of producing a very high quality crop.

Tyler chats it up with Matthew Gates, an integrated pest management specialist.

Tyler connects with... Jenny Garley from New Age Laboratories specializing in Sap testing for Hemp and Cannabis. Also with us today is David Olsen the creator our line of concentrated microbes and microbe food mixtures. We break down how and why we are doing the formulation we are doing based of of scientific data. Are you looking to eliminate Bro science from your garden or farm... aren't we all?? Nutrients can move very fast from the top of the plant down to the roots when foliar sprayed. Driving forward healthy plants that BAD bugs don't want. Its our goal to bring typical farming practices to the everyday or seasonal cannabis farmer.

On this episode we have Michael Box from Sustainable Village. Michael is the head sales rep and Project Manager for Sustainable village or Blu Matt irrigation system. They are based in Bolder Colorado and sell one of the most efficient irrigation systems for living soil or agricultural farms. Over the years paring a Grassroots raised bed and a blu mats irrigation system is the most popular and successful ways of achieving a static moisture level in your living soil beds. Reaching this point and maintain these levels allows for beneficial bacteria and fungi to colonize your soil mass and constantly produce nutrients for the plant. Many growers have proven this can result in a big boost of yields and quality. In this episode we talk about how to set up design and maintain this system. How to feed nutrients, monitoring moisture levels and making adjustments. When a pressurized system is required compared to a gravity feed system. When to use drip emitters compared to the blu soak soaker hoses. Michael and I get to see and visit some of the best and worst grows in the US and Canada, we take a tremendous pride in offering these customers the absolute best personalized solutions available for there style of growing.

In this episode we chat about the custom liner beds Grassroots made for Notill kings Long beach Facility. They are using Next-gen rolling benches. For this we made a simple liner to set in the cages with grommet to secure the fabric. Getting into the nitty gritty of Notill kings style of growing we chat about moving from brewed compost teas to simple quick extracts immediately applied to the soil. Organic's alive, Scott from Cresvcive soil services, soil testing and amending minerals. Plus many more amazing topics.

Tyler and Danny Janes from Collective Elevation.

Tyler and Nick from Humankind in Oregon. Nick Tomasini and I chat about His style of consolation as a Soil life consultant specializing in soil Biology testing and interpretation. I ask Nick about adding soil to my old beds and how I should go about this. Apart of that process is How to qualify different inputs. Lastly we chat about foliar spraying and how much to add in a gallon of water either way less is more. Nicks qualifications and website- Soil Life Consultant Soil Biology Testing & Interp. Composting | Nutrient Cycling | Agronomy https://www.humankindoregon.com/

Tyler and some great folks at Fleur: Evan, Nate and Sven. We chat about the major differences they have between 18 inch tall living soil raised beds and the newer 24 inch deeps beds. More roots more fruits! Yes that is the case but there is some challenges to over comes and get through.

Tyler and Jenna talk about some Concentrated Biology products and living soil.

Tyler chats it up with Matthew Gates, an integrated pest management specialist.

Tyler and the Soil Doctor.

Tyler- We chat with Brandon about his efforts to make only scientifically guided decisions on nutrient management, foliar spraying and soil chemistry in his Co-founded commercial Greenhouse Grow in Oklahoma. Brandon has been a cultivator of cannabis medicine for over 20 years. He has a wealth of information about the plant and how it should be grown in its most natural environment possible. Growing Cannabis is not easy in Oklahoma, with its crazy weather and random rain storms. Things can get crazy and Brandon has his ways of producing a very high quality crop.

Tyler and Steve dive deep into aquatic living soil and terrestrial living soil systems in sips and wicking media beds, drain and fill- we cover it all! We also go over what problems Potent Ponics had to overcome and what plants can and can't be grown in these systems.