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
(48:210 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!