Episode 108: Understanding Living Soil Fertility with Bryant Mason

My guest this week is Bryant Mason with Soil Doctor Consulting. Bryant is a Certified Crop Advisor who specializes in organic cannabis nutrition. He has spent the last 4 years working to combine precision laboratory techniques with data science in an effort to unravel the complexities of cannabis soil and crop nutrition. Along with his work on soilless media, he also helps outdoor cultivators around the U.S. with nutrient management and cover cropping. If you would like to do soil testing, help interpreting a soil test, or are interested in an online course on these subjects, his website is www.soildoctorconsulting.com. You can also find him on instagram @soil_doctor

[@nate6748]

The two of you could have a regular show! Love this episode

[@dertythegrower]

The seed and consulting game the last year has tripled ha.

[@dertythegrower]

Love it, knowledge and seeds for all. Scope out Brandon Rust if you have not had him on yet.. he can chat for hours

[@xx7101]

Hahaha haha

[@rustynail7079]

Brandon is just another money grab, we need more folks that do what they do for the love, not just for the coin. Proofs in the pudding with Brandon

[@Maya-Elijah-Simmie-Kam_Dad_]

Brandon? ....🤣

[@rustynail7079]

Great show mates

[@xx7101]

Curious about the observation aminos into nitrate. To me it looks like foliar applied aminos are directly metabolized. Anecdotal

[@Frei_Sinn]

Why wouldn't you just share the info about what and how much you think a plant needs? So I can do a test and do the math myself? I just do not appreciate the baseline nutrition Info (or at least your opinion* about it.) being held behind a paywall for 30 dollar per soil recommendation. Just shows it is not about Free Information, its about monetarization. *Without the Info, so I can verify the inherent logic myself, I just can't think of it as science or anything else than your mere opinion @Soildoctor

[@kisorganics]

We share a lot of information freely and so does Bryant. It costs money to produce the show, takes time to do and read research, run trials, etc….i believe it has value. For the cost of a soil analysis you can see the metrics and analysis. Or you can do it yourself. There’s a lot of free actionable information in the podcast beyond the target metrics.

[@Frei_Sinn]

​@@kisorganics I appreciate the immediate response. But I also notice that every conversation about nutrition is rendered half-useless if we do not talk and think about and from the same baseline. So the nutritional value of shows like this is reduced when the baseline is being hold behind a paywall. It just does not serve others as well, as it serves you for advertisement for your opinion (your opinion about plant nutrition is fixed in your products) I myself do not feel god (anymore) about buying an opinion. But hey the other half of it is useful enough for me to add to the register and with time helps me paint the big picture for myself. It is just sad knowing we, the community, did share freely amongst ourselves before the whole thing became a way for some to get rich fast. And now there are all these over advertised nothing burgers. I appreciate you anyway as a fellow human being and wish all the best to you guys, just don't think capitalism is the way to go - may the best win

[@kisorganics]

@@Frei_Sinn I appreciate your opinion on this. The way I look at it is I’ve put hundreds if not thousands of hours into this podcast. It’s not making me money and it’s time I’m spending away from my family, my 4 year old. I’m working on valuing my time and 90% of the people who listen to the podcast don’t buy my soil or shop on our site or hit me up for consulting, so it’s not generating revenue that allows me to feed my family or pay my employees. We live in a capitalistic society and while I didn’t start the podcast with the intention of getting rich, I also don’t feel like I have to give all my time and knowledge away for free because it cost me time and money to acquire it too. I will always keep the podcast as a free resource and do my best to make sure it is focused on education and not advertisement, but I don’t want to hide the fact I’m a small business and just trying to get by, like everyone in the cannabis industry these days.

[@Frei_Sinn]

@@kisorganics I just typed for about 20 minutes and then accidentally lost all the text. Had some great stuff in there. However, I'm too tired from work and tend not to hold onto things I can't change for too long, so I just leave it like that. I hope you both find a better way to sustain yourself, and even more so, I hope you don't stop looking for one. Kant

[@kisorganics]

@@Frei_Sinn no worries. Thank you for the polite discourse. And appreciate the feedback.