Easy Organic Gardening Techniques! (Garden Talk #35)

[@GardenTalkwithMrGrowIt]

Thanks to Jeff from Mad Hatter Organics for coming onto the podcast today! Mad Hatter Organics KZbin channel- bit.ly/2X12N3G

[@madhatterorganics9944]

Thank you Chris for having me once again! It was an amazing chat and can’t wait to do it again with you one day.

[@CoryParish85]

Awesome show guys! Fellow hatter is always great to see in a video!

[@madhatterorganics9944]

@@CoryParish85 thanks dude! It was a very fun show to do forsure!

[@jimroark5560]

I have a problem I have four plants one plant has yellowing on the outside of the leaves just a couple leaves I'm in dirt Happy Frog they're 4 weeks old maybe 5 I just fed them some cal-mag and black molasses what do you suggest

[@littlenugs9942]

@@jimroark5560 is the yellowing on the bottom or top of the plant? Saw this here with no comment back. Your using cal mag so you feed with bottles. Do you check ph? How close is the light? What mix are you in. What's the ppm of your nute solution? How often are you watering? We need a little more info to help you out

[@jmb3856]

Love the way Mr grow it doesn't constantly interupt his guests its very common on KZbin haha.

[@zgoat4127]

I think its more to stay on script because they try to keep the whole video to a certain length, but I do hear you tho Ive seen some terrible ones on different channels but this guy does alright

[@krisbrown5471]

Chris is making a library for new growers.

[@xxTyphoid]

Maybe he's just high af

[@telnek]

You sir, are the best interviewer in the cannabis industry! Most interrupt, talk about themselves, no follow up questions... With you, it's all about your guest. Very professional and great content as always! Cheers

[@GardenTalkwithMrGrowIt]

Thanks for your positive words!

[@fredc8618]

Yes its completely true best interviewer most people want to show how smart they are he knows everything they're talking about but hes all about the info for the audience

[@KimKim-jl3fz]

Facts

[@canadiancannabismike9271]

@@KimKim-jl3fz I won't mention names, that would be rude, but we all know who they are.

[@Sidebranches]

Yes he is very good at pulling information from his guests and he lets them take the lead in the conversation with a great knack asking the questions I am thinking about.

[@a.e.4032]

This is the 1st time i seen chris looking high asf. Lol.

[@K_Nasty]

Them CLTV guys are having a bad influence. 😆✌

[@GardenTalkwithMrGrowIt]

😄

[@glennshaw2849]

Cool open organics, way to go

[@WatchCLtv]

Ayyyyeeee the growmie Mad Hatter 💪👏

[@comfortablynumb9342]

High Rob

[@madhatterorganics9944]

Dude I am super excited I got the opportunity to be on Chris’s show! Big ups to everyone and I absolutely love this community!

[@jmb3856]

Yes love it more organic content!

[@comfortablynumb9342]

You're doing a great job finding good guests and letting answer good questions. Thanks.

[@ChadWestport]

Big ups for Mad Hatter Organics. Quality content right here. Bravo Mr Grow It!

[@madhatterorganics9944]

Cheers man thank you for the support like always!

[@brandonemon5577]

27:23 Mulch Layer-I started using coco fiber coverings and it is AWESOME!!! I can remove the cover when I need to topdress and when I water, the mat disperses the water as it flows through so the surface doesn't get stirred up. Made them by laying out the mat, stenciling around the pot, cutting out the circle, cut hole in center, and then cut a slit from the outside to the center hole so the coco doughnut can be placed and removed. Topdressing amendments break down much faster being they really never dry out now!!!

[@growshack9067]

Good show 👍🏼👍🏼 Great , informative content 👍🏼👍🏼 for ALL growers , hydroponics and soil w/ synthetic nutes, fully organic... It's covered in this channel 👍🏼👍🏼🙏🏼 I've been subbed up for a long time, lurking in shadow... Soaking up game 🎯

[@busyb4283]

Thanks for the continued content, and keep them coming. 👍

[@kellyhill4410]

Another fine podcast Chris thank you.🤜💥🤛🌾🌾🌾

[@bigdillan9612]

My RO system (3 stage) with a water softener added before the system produces me water at roughly 8PPM. The whole system only cost me $82 and you can set one up easily in an hour... Everyone needs to stop this fantasy that they're incredibly expensive as they really aren't.

[@frederickventer4968]

The RO membrane is the most important filter on any stage system

[@timdarmetko4039]

suggestion for organics ...don't use home depot 5 gals ... find food grade 5 gals from restaurants , hotels , etc

[@I_Count_Twice]

Yep, website says "not food grade". They do sell the white food grade ones though for a little more money. I've bought the pickle buckets from Firehouse subs. Every location sells the buckets for $3. Sometimes they give you them free...3 bucks is still cheap for a cool red bucket lol

[@anthonyromano8565]

These ready made mixes sound nice but all it took for me was 6 months of accumulating knowledge from scientific sources and one first run and now I am mixing my own soil , well half of it. Then blend with ocean forest becasue of lack of confidence.

[@frederickventer4968]

Yes I also like mixing my own with ready made mixes. But found that the mixes should be different between large plant transplants and seedlings. Sometimes having too many stuff mixed in can be overwhelming in seedlings.

[@anthonyromano8565]

@@frederickventer4968 I have pure peat. If I add 50 % perlite, 40 grams of dolomite lime and 10 grams of gypsum per cubic foot, I have a near perfect ph medium that only contains silica, calcium, magnesium and sulfur. I then used that to cut my hot mix accordingly.

[@this1ray]

Mulching is key, there should be an episode just on types and purposes of Mulching, it's a living soil bio horizon in its self.

[@frederickventer4968]

Yes I am having great success wit it too. One big problem is the drying of the top layer. That top few inches must stay moist and alive

[@averygaddis5489]

I dig the content and energy. I’m just starting out and have watched more than 100 hours of video from various growers. I just dropped some seeds into shot glasses early this morning (July 14, 2022). I bought the FoxFarm Trio. Once I exhaust them, I am switching to organic soil, etc. Right now, I’m just trying to to learn, avoid mistakes and pay attention to details. Thanks for the education. Much respect.

[@daleparks6781]

Keep it simple is great advice for beginners 👍💛 Keep handy a container of worm castings a bottle of kelp a jar of molasses for the last stage of flower that should be all you need for nutrients and if practical set up a rain barrel for good plant water that is the most you should need to stock for your girls 👍💛

[@Sourman5000]

I definitely noticed a bit of burned tips after feeding a tea that I had brewed with power bloom. But I had also top dressed the day before. I am pretty confident that the microbes get to work immediately and make the amendments immediately bioavailable when brewed together.

[@CountryBoy_Terpz]

Amazing podcast again. Just started out n I'm doing organic. Started a compost and looking to start a worm bin soon. Thank you so much for all yalls input. Saving me some Grey hairs forsure haha

[@logansiegert8535]

Look into an ro buddy. They have a few different styles. I have the 50gpd I use the rodi because I have salt water tanks. I think they are between 50-100$

[@freeloader6317]

When he was talking about the rainwater I use it in a 3X3 bed indoors and haven't had any issues. I just use some cheese cloth to filter.

[@madhatterorganics9944]

That’s awesome thank you!

[@KevinSmith-dq9tz]

Rainwater is best. And it's free. Lol

[@theredneckhippie1515]

Great one again! I'd suggest using a trash bag or something like it to cap the top of the planters. It will help keep that top layer moist. My earthboxs came with a cap and it worked great so I started using heavy duty trash bags on my other pots and it works pretty good as well.

[@madhatterorganics9944]

Hey that could always work! Good tip/trick man thanks!

[@GardenTalkwithMrGrowIt]

Great tip 👍

[@quentinaskin6752]

I put panda on top to keep top from drying out.

[@CRAZYBUILD349]

thanks for all the infomation, great talk , smash that like people!!!!! so MR grow it will have new content for all of us,

[@earthling2007]

I get waaaayyyy too many pests when I grow organic. It’s not worth it? Between the added expense for pest mitigation and frustration, it’s worth it to me to go back to synthetics…as much as I don’t want to

[@staticteg4953]

Mad hatters channel is now over 330 subs haha good shit🙌

[@CNMedia.Service]

Perfect timing! Started my first organic grow last month!

[@480chavo]

It's like a crock pot set it an forget it, organic the idea is feed your soil not your plant... I like organic you top dress Evey 3 weeks no worrying about over doing it for the most part

[@CNMedia.Service]

@@480chavo agreed! For some reason one of my plants is showing some deficiencies, but the rest look incredible! I’m super exited to see the outcome!

[@480chavo]

@@CNMedia.Service keep running it, I had one plant that looked retarded as fuck an that ended up being the one everyone wanted to steal, I just harvested it and it's dank I don't smoke but my family is goin to love it

[@younge252]

@@CNMedia.Service some plants eat less or want more with organic u have be on point with ur top dressings and teas ph the soil it gives u an idea where u at

[@B01]

@@CNMedia.Service I am having the same issue, a deficiency is showing (potassium/K) that should be totally fine given the type of soil and amendments I'm using. Blend of Pre-cooked organic living super soil and strawberry fields on bottom third and ocean forest the rest of the pot. They're half or less into veg and shouldn't be showing any K deficiencies... Reason I bring up my similar issue is I hadn't been watering often at all. My plants leaves were as straight as a darn arrow, with zero dropping or any signs of underwatering. Problem seemed to be the soil itself had been dying off due to lack of water. Sometimes up to 5 days or longer I'd go without watering at all with VERY good HVAC/lighting. Were you watering very infrequently as well? With organic? In my case it was the same strain

[@joshp1342]

I always here people saying they use water from a dehumidifier an put it in a humidifier! Can you use the water from a dehumidifier an water your plants with it? Other then the pH is their any other issues that are not good to use it?

[@deliasaboya4520]

great talk and I love organics! Soil is the key to everything

[@zgoat4127]

Always a pleasure to watch, never disappoints

[@rodneysnextchapter615]

Can you bottom feed with liquid organic nutrients like the ones from Aurora ?

[@jonathanbennett1957]

I appreciate all the videos and the information that you provide bro you help me come a long way in my research because even if you don't talk a lot about a topic you still bring it up and now I know what to research I was wondering if you would be able to get George Murray on here I seen him on another channel that you were on and it was amazing talking about advanced nutrients

[@brockramsey3227]

Have a chat what strain show. He doesn’t home grow but grows at work. Might be cool

[@Easy-ow4hk]

Señor grow it

[@dertythegrower]

I was just about to watch his video, from this morning.. its on my next tab to watch. Cheers and happy croptober

[@dertythegrower]

Not sure why my comments are hidden... sigh, censorship is so crap now. Here's what I found after years of trials... BuildAsoil Craftblend, or BioLive, or Dr. Earth Tomato Homegrown blend which sells at all bigbox stores now. Apply to soil, and make biweekly teas to feed. pH water to 6.2. You're set and it automates itself. Keep the humidity 10 digits below your temperate in F, not C. 80F, 70RH. Then move it down to 70F, 60RH in flower. Simple and proven. Cure at 60F and 60RH. This is really the simplest recipe ive found in 15 years growing commercially mutlilighters. BuildAsoil craft blend, really the only thing a grower needs now, using recharge for your microbes with the biweekly teas I mentioned. Super easy and the most work will be chopping and remaking your soil every grow you restart. Simple as it gets.

[@madhatterorganics9944]

Cheers dude thanks for watching!

[@budstermcgreen6360]

@@dertythegrower getting ready to use my first batch of build a soil products. Craft blend and build a bloom. Also picked up some rootwise. Easy company to support! Expecting good results! Really enjoy their KZbin videos..super informative for organic growing! ✌️

[@joeborovina4769]

Nice interview as always .I joined the pack ,thank you

[@Fexone718]

Didn't know chlorine that's left in the water kills microbes. !! Little tips like that are everything. Chris, thanks again !

[@B01]

There's some conflicting info out there about it, but general consensus is it's bad. Chloramine is rough but chlorine easy af to get rid of it. Just let it sit out or use air stone if you need it done faster. The downside though is that you'd want to use the water fairly quick as the bad things that are killed off by the chlorine can multiply obviously since there's no more chlorine present. So basically anything introduced to the water afterwards can be bad if it's left out after being dechlorinated

[@frederickventer4968]

@@B01 Hopefully continuously providing aeration via air stones would keep the water viable for longer, if within a central storage tank. The movement of the water and bubbles will keep bad microbes out for longer, right?

[@B01]

@@frederickventer4968 continual yeah I'd imagine that absolutely does help, just as a fan helps with fungus gnats/fruit flys etc where it won't allow them to multiply/breed. Won't eliminate them as I think a lot of microbes both good and bad need oxygen so you're actually helping that lol I'm no pathologist/botanist but if we consider what happens in nature, where there isn't any chlorine naturally, plants grow quite well with that water since it all balances each other out in the long run (good/bad bacteria). Think of when you go camping and ppl are like well if you need to drink unfiltered water, make sure it's running water from a stream and not standing water. Same concept lol since we are in full control of indoor grow makes sense we would use the freshest cleanest available

[@hateonskillz318]

Think I was 20 when I started my first grow I'm 32 bout to be 33. It's crazy how times fly and people change hope when I'm gone my work is taken seriously cause as I'm alive notn1 person gives a fuck about me watched both my families turn and give up on me. Helps me gain clarity they never cared or liked me it wad all a sham. I believed in family and family didn't believe in me but I keep on doing the work and providing for myself. But I cant change anyone minds

[@logosfocus]

we come in alone naked, and go out thr sand way 🕊.. in the end I can barely rely on myself and to understand that I could not rely on anyone else was a truly testing time 🧱.. found God @your age after a long summer tripping bbbballs and searching for answers🍄, that was 4years ago📖.. dont give up brother, you got this 🎱

[@morganprimrose9205]

Southern Alberta hell yeah!! Yup growing here is definitely challenging! I started using Gaia this year and what an amazing difference!!

[@madhatterorganics9944]

Awesome! Are you from southern Alberta as well?

[@robertoisidori7763]

Subscribed, thank you.

[@DivineTime3311]

Bro. Love your content. Gotta say I’d like to see more of your garden again. What about a podcast in the garden ???

[@GardenTalkwithMrGrowIt]

Check out my other channel for garden vids. I released a video last week on there. Lots more content to come on that channel.

[@thirtyeight3440]

shout out Grande Prairie Alberta Canada 🇨🇦

[@twotimes6569]

I use bush doctors coco loco And I use one shot from Nector of the Gods for top dress But if you keep transplanting you can go a whole run w just the Coco loco and MOAB at flowering the medium is packed w nutrients

[@fadedmass1662]

I run the same coco loco and it's perfect as is. I ran it with just cal/mag water and a 1/4 dose to 1/2 dose of bottle nutes starting late veg. Throw some great white in for biology and your great.. I tried to ammend with small amounts of organics the last 2 runs to reduce so called synthetics and don't feel like it was a good thing. I had much better growth with tiny amounts of canna coco A+B bottled nutes.

[@Crazypug-eh7xi]

Awesome

[@miker5700]

Sweet new video can't wait to get home from work to watch. I heard in your last video about your father sorry hopefully he doing well and gets in remission! He's in our prayers 🙏

[@GardenTalkwithMrGrowIt]

Thank you. The cancer has reduced and he seems to be doing better for the most part.

[@miker5700]

@@GardenTalkwithMrGrowIt thats good hopefully stays gone my mom has to have hysterectomy (remove female stuff) she don't have cancer but has cancerous cells so they say if remove now hopefully won't get. The damn labs need to get together and get a cure like they did for covid they need to put that effort into a cure for that now and all the other sicknesses and things

[@davidkent1339]

I’ve been running my hand down the pot to break up soil and stimulate the roots working great for me

[@adamknole722]

I use Nectar for the gods full line really easy

[@jameswilliamson288]

I'm useing Pete moss To top my plant vessel

[@growski8082]

Good content as usual! You guys could pass as brothers with the same beards

[@f4tbukg5]

Hahaha I agree

[@thugliferasta597-_-4]

Hey guys very helpful greetings from South America Suriname 🇸🇷 respect

[@klak1212]

one thing that helped me with spider mites mid flower this year, was bringing my plants outside and using the water hose cold water on em from the underside. this got most of them off and everything dried out after a day back in the grow room under a light and lots of air circulation. no mold/budrot. this is getting the plant to finish flower and ill do some bud washing 3 bucket tek

[@johnbolyard8918]

What stage of flower? Wouldn’t cold water increase risk of knocking off tricomes?

[@klak1212]

@@johnbolyard8918 Week 6 of flower. I don't see any problems looking under the loupe. No missing heads. I think the water would have to be a lot colder because even rain doesn't affect trichomes. Rain would be a bit warmer than the tap I guess.

[@andyberreondo5007]

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[@romanreckless8263]

what is this big thing with everyone wanting to add co2?? not needed

[@madhatterorganics9944]

I never add co2 I just let the plants get into the proper range so that they can absorb the natural co2 in the air.

[@romanreckless8263]

@@madhatterorganics9944 I agree.... 100%

[@mexiweedoficial]

Saludos desde Mexico 🇲🇽 amigos

[@lancoschino731]

Canada weather sucks for outdoor

[@madhatterorganics9944]

Yes it does! Haha

[@kashdog6533]

Great content learned something!

[@anthonyromano8565]

I cracked one seed, 5 months later, I feel like I should get a certificate of completion maybe a few college credits.

[@realthor89]

Cool stuff to learn about and start with

[@mikewhite4599]

Beyond the growing information you share, giving other good growers a platform to share their knowledge and stories is huge for expanding and helping the cannibis community, recreation, commercial and political. If you ever want a show on how to spend a year making every mistake possible and how to trash your grow, I got you 😂😂.

[@TheHotshot2369]

Great discussion boys✌💚✌💚

[@gotnolife7169]

Can you add this to your garden talk playlist thank you

[@GardenTalkwithMrGrowIt]

Yup, just added. Sorry, sometimes I forget to add it to the playlist after release.

[@jamesbrewer5111]

For what it’s worth that R/V filter idea is incredibly efficient if you have a garden hose hook up, or if your faucet does, because most come with an adapter and for the price the amount of gallons you get to scrub before needing to replace them is hard to beat. I started my grow journey buying jugs of water from the grocery store every other week…then weekly as they grew, then you get the R/O and realize for organic gardening it’s awful lol. Back to Tsp that I have to air stone for 24 days prior to and finally I got the filter and can just fill up my buckets and get to gardening!

[@420norwayakanorthbud7]

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[@technecks3293]

Can anyone answer why if growing in soil, you check yr pH water before watering and it says 6.7 but your pH soil is 7.1? I'm using the probe pH soil reader which is a needle dial and also measures the wetness of the soil so you never overwater yr babies. the soil pH is always higher but I'm only feeding organic stuff.. why is that?? I'm stumped

[@rayhs1]

Idk what's going on.. but after I gave my plant@5wks flower bone meal for a phosphorus dose.. all the buds which were packing on nice and densely have all the sudden shot up with long stems like 1in long above the buds with maybe 2 giant sugar leaves on each.. I'm tempted to trim these off to keep the buds thickening.. any ideas?

[@BringBiggieBack]

Would be cool if you could increase the volume of your audio like 3 levels for the people that work with loud machinery. I'm using my beats pro and if I could up the volume on my phone like 2 or 3 notches it would be perfect. Idk if that would affect quality but everybody can always turn it down but you can only up it so much. Fucking awesome podcast! not trying to be a Karen 🤣

[@twobeards6714]

My well is terribly hard, 8.5ph /400 ppm. I bought an under counter unit. I replaced the pressure tank with a 10 gallon blue well tank. That's enough reserve to irrigate a10 plant grow in 7 g non woven fabric pots indoors. I do cycle the purge water to a drain then to a tank for the outside flowers. I'm gonna look for you Mad Hatter.

[@clamwok]

AC Infinity makes good stuff. I'm running their 4x4 with a Kind XL1000 in it. The lights pretty freaking heavy but I know the tent can hold it easy.

[@frederickventer4968]

When you talk recirculating DWC, as well as 'replace contents in DWC every week'. Does it mean throw out the old nutes entirely? Or pumping them back to the main res for recirculating?

[@johnathanhensley5596]

You the man

[@michakucwizjonerquc7693]

ppl talking shit about ro systems. simple aquarium 4 step RO costed me in Europe, Poland 25 USD. It leaves the water not completely pure, but still much better than tap - which in my case is 0.3 ec. For homegrown purposes is more then enough

[@jameswilliamson288]

I'm currently using chaga as a tea and the powder I added to my soil The tea I mix 1/3 I boil chaga 2hrs The plants are very well just like u see in pictures

[@Joesph1973]

Took a couple of weeks off from garden talk, I'm a bringe watcher. ✌ love my days off

[@fluffymat1]

In the Uk they have water tanks called spotless water, 3.5p a litre apparently 0ppm and they are all over country for window cleaners and aquariums

[@catskillcruiser5402]

Awesome. Chris you do a great job finding us new content. Thank you. Mad Hatter channel is about to blow up.. ✌💚🆓️4️⃣2️⃣0️⃣🪄🐐

[@MrJasond7]

Mr. G! ) i like how your questions broke stuff down and clarified things, step by step. This guest has me reconsidering my future hypothetical grow. I like the idea of using soil and not chemicals. Now, i have another line of thought to obsess over. Thank you!

[@tark3469]

That was a good episode. You should get Cannabeard on your show. I’d like to see that. Anyways keep up the good shit

[@littlenugs9942]

Thank Jeff and Chris for the conversation. I now know your true name mad hatter lol. I also have the auto pot system. I have a hard time with growing organic meds in it. Glad to see your success. Good luck guys.

[@psnewsauditor-az5244]

Set up Costs?

[@philclarke8222]

I've watched u since day 1 with your and a few other tubers vidoes I have learnt everything I can. I also love the cltv show you do.

[@joshseigel]

Double your subs. Nice. Good work fellas. As always thank you so much for your time.

[@psnewsauditor-az5244]

What about a NO ADDITIVE grow, just good soil and Water the whole grow, I think I am going to do that,,,,,,

[@captainpeckerhead4551]

Recharge total package. Suprised you didn't mention it Chris...

[@hateonskillz318]

Hearing him say it gets cold mendo dope boys they have had plants that are in the snow. Idk how they do it just seen their content and was like how can you still have plants up we all do different things its all about the end result regardless synthetic or organic how does it smoke only thing that matters

[@captainpeckerhead4551]

Great job Chris as always. Keep praying for my wife..

[@GardenTalkwithMrGrowIt]

🙏

[@aaronfaucett6442]

I really appreciate that you're introducing all these KZbin growers. I'm subscribing to everyone I see and am learning so much

[@ernestdenney2223]

my dogs won't drink water that i ran through a hose and it makes a rainbow on top of the water in their bowl and i know you can buy safe to drink from water hoses but mine is a regular garden hose

[@laurieedeburn2449]

i have a small fish pond i made in the back yard.... great natural feed water

[@danielmartens156]

Starting my 1st organic grow in 2022. Fingers crossed. 😁👍🌿

[@thefoundimage]

Great Stuff!!!

[@DopeDadGrows]

Another great video super helpful for me at this point!! well done and ty

[@richardskull5279]

Fish tank RO systems work great and are under $70.

[@deantejohnson9358]

Always fun and informative☀️ Happy growing in all areas peeps.

[@warrendixon7775]

Salute

[@kylefoss2591]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥☮️🙏✊😎🤯

[@601stank]

So grateful I found your channel. I’ve learned so much. 💎

[@leggbert4209]

Absolutely great info, thanks guys for great content and for your time

[@LoDaddy717]

Always great content! But why would mad hatter not correct the PH? we all know the ph is the most important thing in ‘gardening’

[@karl532]

If you are growing organically the microbes, if you have a healthy system, and the plant, using its exudates, are able to buffer the pH all on its own. Your plant using its exudates can actual fluctuate the pH depending on what it is trying to eat and the microbes make the nutrients more available at a wider range of pH, there are other factors too.. This among with those other factors make it so the ecosystem does the pH buffering, we are just stewards in this process known as organics.

[@normagee]

Jeff's a fabulous guy.. cool stuff another great guest 😎

[@Sidebranches]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us all.