Hello cheap homegrown Nation. This is Shane McCormick from the cheap home grow podcast. And on today's show. I have doc Bud from Doc buds High bricks on Instagram. That's D. OC B UD es h i GH B RI X on Instagram. Doc Bud comes on the show today to talk about why having a high bricks reading is essential when growing at home throughout the podcast he goes on to explain why he believes your bricks reading will play an important role in growing your own in the years to come doc. Bud answers important questions during this podcast including why he believes Growers aren't paying attention to their bricks reading. What's the difference between a high and low bricks reading? What's a respectable bricks reading foliar feeding and many other questions as well before the podcast begins. You can find me on Instagram Twitter Facebook and YouTube all at cheap home grow. This podcast is information packed. So please rate review subscribe and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome to the cheap home grow podcast a show for individuals that want to learn more about growing cannabis indoors. This is a podcast dedicated to helping you with your indoor growing Adventure. You'll learn how to grow your own and not have to rely on others for your medicine the cheap home grow podcast will also feature a timely interviews with cannabis industry. Veterans shaping the culture and politics of cannabis. All right here is your host Shane McCormick and the cheap home grow podcast. Hello everybody. This is Shane McCormick from the chief homegirl podcast. And on today's show. We have doc Bud from Doc Bud hybrid x.com and he is going to be telling us about why he feels you should care about your brick reading in your kid. Nimbus but before he does Doc, if you could could you please tell my audience a little bit about yourself and then we can get right into the topic of conversation? Yeah. Sure. Thanks for having me on I I'm a I think I'm fairly typical of the new generation of cannabis users. I'm in my 50s late 50s and you know, of course during high school and so forth. I smoked some cannabis back in the day and then got Both some time in college and stopped and then I picked it up again in my late mid to late 40s. The reason I picked it up again is because my wife was having trouble sleeping and so somehow she found out the Cannabis worked like magic and of course, I was always an organic Gardener and when this started working I realized hey, maybe we can grow our own cannabis and the laws in California were allowing us to do so, and so we Did and that goes back about 12 years when I started growing, of course, I went to the marijuana forms online and learned a bunch of information some of which sounded really fishy and suspicious to me. But you know, I'd never grown it before and so over the course of about two years. I was able to sort of figure out that growing cannabis is not mysterious. It's not unique to any other plant as a matter of fact, it's similar to every other plan. And so I stopped paying attention to all the crazy not all bad advice, but generally bad advice on the pot forums and went back to my roots as an organic Gardener and that's where my journey began and it's taking you to where I am right now, which is I think pretty Advanced organic gardening. I do have a undergraduate degrees in biology with a lot of Botany and That I've audited courses at the University level in Horticulture and soil science soil Agronomy and all kinds of things like that. So I actually know a couple of things about this more than just experience and tradition. I have a bit of a science background as well. And so that brings us pretty much up to speed. Okay? Well, you know doc, you know, thank you for coming on the show. I really do appreciate it right on and Doc really? I mean my my first question and you know, I guess you can say I tease this in the intro but really I mean why should a home grower care about their bricks reading? Yeah. Well so bricks. Let me first describe what this reading actually is sure. You've all all of us have experienced leaving a glass of water out on the table in the Sun hits it and you see a rainbow, okay? If you've experienced that light is bent when it passes through a substance even through a window, you know, or a crystal or something and so liquid will bend light. It turns out that the more stuff is that is in the liquid the more dissolved chemicals the more sugar the more mineral content or whatever is in the liquid. The more of that there is the more the light bends and so what a bricks reading is is simply a measurement of how much Such a given liquid bends light when it passes through. So how does that translate into plants? Well plant sap or or you know, fruit juice or however you want to measure it but the material in between the cells in the plant and the material in the cells the liquidy sappy stuff the more nutrition in that plant the more dissolved matter in the liquid and the more the light will bend and so a higher Brix reading. So you could go go to the store and buy carrots that don't taste like anything and you might get a very low bricks reading on that and then you can try a carrot grown by a high bricks Gardener and it tastes like candy with a vague carrot flavor. You almost think you're eating a carrot flavor dessert and that's going to have a really high bricks reading. And so the bottom line is that the higher the bricks the better it tastes and that holds true with cannabis as well as food. Okay. Alright. So so the the higher the reading the better the taste and and I guess presumably the better the quality that you are actually growing is that is that a fair statement to a make dock without a doubt the quality is higher, but I would I want to quantify what I mean by quality. Okay, you could if your definition of quality is percent THC then The quality may or may not be higher with high bricks. The THC levels can be achieved in Hydroponics. You don't need to have hydric soil to get high THC. But it's all those other terpenes that go along with the THC and has the Entourage effect. Those terpenes are going to be significantly elevated when we get into higher Brix, and so the product may not be any more potent as far as getting you. Toned but the terpenes in the flavors and some of the other wonderful things. The Cannabis does is going to come out in a really unique and many times unusual way. You know people that have smoked hybrids read for the first time they can tell instantly it's different and there's a there's a few characteristics about it that are different than normal marijuana. And so I would say the quality is a lot higher but not if we just Define quality as potency there's more to it than just that I mean, what is the difference between a plant that has a high bricks and low bricks reading? Okay. Well the overall plant health is going to be very different. Okay. First of all, when we're talking about hybrid soil, we're talking about a very high calcium soil calcium is the number one mineral the number one thing we want in our soil. We don't we do care about NPK, you know, but that's really secondary to calcium and so the first characteristic of a hybrid plant Is that the stems are really strong like remarkably strong and that's because when the plants growing its using calcium to form the cell walls as opposed to potassium in a low brick situation, the plants will form cell walls with potassium. And so that plants going to be floppier softer not as vigorous. So that's number one support or as much trellising and this actually does allow the plant to grow. Roger buds when you have high bricks, but there's another aspect as well. And if you look at hybrids plants, you can see quite a few examples on our Instagram and on our website. By the way, the website is Doc buds. Rick's Bri x.com. If you look at pictures of hybrids plants, one of the things you'll notice is what people call the high bricks Shine. The leads are shiny almost reflective and they can be different shades of green but there's this Actually shiny aspect to the leaves and that's very important because indeed there is a wax on the leaf with high bricks and it is the plants natural pest repellent actions. So the plants immune system is way more stimulated when you have higher Brix than lower and so you can have insects on your plants and you won't even know it because they don't damage the plant. I always tell people in my indoor garden. And that you know, we have a Mite zoo in here. We've got yeah, we have spider mites you bet. You'll never see them. You'll never see any damage on the plant the mites aren't very healthy. They're barely alive, but they're struggling to survive in there and we just don't even worry about it. Whereas every now and then something will happen for one reason or the other and I'll have a sick plant in there and in no time at all. I can see insect damage on that plan instead of spraying it. I just throw it out and that doesn't happen very Often it's very unusual. But once your bricks readings get over 12 or 13 your pest issues pretty much go away. Really. Yeah, and it's I mean, we have Growers using our our products who have been growing for six years in the same spot and who have never had mites growing indoors for six years and never getting Mike's. Yeah, and they're not in the North Pole either. These are people in areas in your with might infections and they've had them in the past but For whatever reason they were able to keep those plants healthy that you know, there's just they don't have an issue with spider mites and we don't you know, we really don't worry about stuff like that in high bricks. We just allow them to do their thing and rarely do we have any issues with insect pressure If having high bricks means that you won't have any pest issues then how come a lot of Growers are not paying attention to their bricks reading? In my opinion. So this is an opinion. First of all, I wouldn't say that people who grow High bricks never have any pest issues because I think that's inaccurate. I would say that we have far fewer pests issues and I don't want to I mean, I don't say slightly fewer. I mean far fewer but we're not without issues anything can happen, especially in a greenhouse sure, you know, you can you can have a bad day where your environment goes south for a couple days to plants weekend and you can get Tissue so we have far fewer issues. But the reason people aren't paying attention to this in my opinion is because one the average marijuana farmer is uneducated relatively and is relying on tradition and that's not all bad. I'm a big fan of tradition but along with tradition there needs to be some sort of an under lying ability to understand what's actually going on when we grow plants. And a lot of Growers simply lack that they don't have the education. They were never taught that way. They've been worrying about avoiding police and things like that and they're really good at doing that but maybe not so good at understanding microbiology and soil science. So I think the tides changing though what I always refer to as the prohibition-style growing, you know, where everything we've been doing for the past 20 years with cannabis growing has been designed to avoid detection. To avoid smells and odors, you know to grow on the you know growing visibly. So no one knows you're doing it and so different methods become very popular with the prohibition mindset. Certainly Hydroponics is one of them you can you know, you can go crazy with that and no one knows what you're doing. It all goes right down the drain, but now that we're out of prohibition it's time to emphasize quality and not just, you know, clandestine activity. We need stealth is not as important as quality. Now whereas in the past stealth was very important, especially on the west coast where you guys are it's been legal to grow in California for what maybe reason 20 years or maybe 10 years 20 years. I'm not really sure it's 20 years. Yeah, I get my by decades mix-up. I think it was the late 90s, but even then in our County even though you could have a medical card it said you were allowed to grow, you know, however many plants that didn't stop the police from totally throwing you in jail and destroying all your And then afterwards saying, you know, oh, we're sorry right stealth was really a big issue until even three or four years ago. Unfortunately, we just legalized cannabis out here. So that makes it more illegal than it's been in a long time. Well, well, well, hold on. You said you guys just legalize them. Now that makes it you said little legal or illegal if I'm or less legal the way things went here. You know imagine this the politicians lied. Can you believe it? I mean I'm shocked. All right, you know the bill was set out and it was called, you know, legal legalize recreational marijuana and indeed it legalized recreational marijuana, but it created regulations that were placed under the medical marijuana model and these regulations have made people that were formerly perfectly legal growers in the criminals overnight. And so but that's another matter that Nothing to do with bricks readings. But right now I don't know what to think of hybrids gardening as something that we're heading into. It's not a fringe method of gardening. It's something when things are out in the open and quality is your only goal. You're not trying to hide it you're not trying to grow as much of it as you possibly can per square foot. You just want the best you can get hydraulics is the way to go. No, there's no question about it. It's that way in vegetables and it holds true in marijuana as well. Well, okay doc. Now. My next question for you is this I mean what you know, what is the difference between a hybrid soil and quote regular soil? Okay. So it all has to do with the composition of the soil. Okay, and when we do a soil test and all hybrids gardening begins with a soil test unless you're using one of the soils that we already have tested, you know, one of the commercial. In soils like pro-mix or something where we already have products formulated for that soil. If you're trying to use your own soil in your yard, we start with a soil test and the way we do it is with a very weak acid not a strong acid. So it's not like the one they do down at the County ag extension or at the University. This is a little different test. We try to mimic the strength of acid that would be found in the roots of the plant, you know, you've heard of humic and fulvic acids in these things. This is what the oil uses to digest stuff in the soil and feed it to the plant. So we do that soil test and we're looking for the balance of all the major and minor elements starting with nitrogen going right on down to zinc and selenium. All of them were looking at the pH of the soil and here's here's one where people get tripped up all the time. We're looking at the total organic matter in the soil and one of the big issues that separates our Brick soils from regular organic soil is that we keep our organic matter down to about 5% in our soil and think of a volcano in the and that dirt on the other Red Dirt on the side of the volcano that doesn't have a lot of organic matter in it, but it's very fertile soil. And so people that load up their soils with manure hours and feather meals and bone meal and blood meal and all this sort of thing. There are ganic matters Sky High And that doesn't mean it's good because it starts to choke out the microbial action in the soil. Once you go over about eight percent organic matter. So we keep ours down to 5% and that allows basically a hyperactive soil where the microbes are so frisky. You can throw a leaf on top of the soil and come back in two days in the leaf is covered by mycelium and five days later. It's gone. It's almost like the stuff gets out and goes around the house looking for something to eat it. Really living, you know, people talk all about living organic soil. Hi brick soil is like way more alive than any soil I've ever seen. I've never seen mycelium form like it does in our soils and you know, we just we see a digest roots and stems and days it's incredible and that's because the composition is just right we've got tons of calcium in the soil and we make sure that our ratios between major and minor elements. You're correct. T' a common mistake with regular organic gardening is the potassium levels are Sky High. You cannot achieve High bricks with a high potassium level. You need to keep your potassium level 18 times lower than your calcium and we see soils all the time that we test where the potassium levels 30 times higher than calcium and it's supposed to be 18 times lower than calcium. And so there are some big differences with the composition of the soil. That's really the key. What's in your soil. L can the microbial life thrive in your soil and that's really all what it's all about. We're trying to create the maximum microbial action. We can in the soil and well and with that microbial action in the soil the higher your bricks reading theoretically it is going to be without a doubt. Yeah you the way plants feed themselves is there's two ways they can do it passively. By absorbing salts, the classic example is Hydroponics, but they're not the only example, I mean corporate farming where they grow, you know Acres of tomatoes that tastes like water bags. They grow them to be the same size and shape. So they transport properly. That's true. Those those are grown in with salt fertilizers and sterile soil. And so those are low bricks so you can have low bricks and soil but you can't have high bricks and hydro, I'm sorry to say it's because We need the surface area of the roots. So when you get into the proper type of soil, you don't longer have those big thick feeder roots that you see circling around pots that appear rootbound. You can barely see the roots because they're so fine. They're fine root hairs and yet when you pop a root ball out it all holds together. So the soil is completely colonised by microscopically fine root hairs, which means there's a ton of surface area exposed to the soil. And all the microbial action is feeding that plant everything they could possibly hope for and then we take it even one step further. We foliar fief so will will spray the leaves of the plant with a dilute nutrient solution specially designed to go with our soils and that causes a bunch of sugars to be formed in the leaves which the plant then sends down to the soil in the form of root exudates. You can look this stuff up if anybody's listening and exudate is how the plant feeds the soil. And so then when it feeds the soil it also signals the soil to bring more of this or more of that and so we're actually turbocharging this process where the soil feeds the plant and the plant feeds the soil. We're turbocharging this process with a foliar spray. And so that's where we get the bricks to go over from 14 to 18. So you can you can grow a moderately hybrids plant without the foliar feeds. But once you start doing that then the magic just goes it takes on a whole new. Other life of its own amazing things happen and believe it or not. This is the way plants are designed naturally to grow foliar feeding. You think of it as a rainstorm washing all the dirt off the leaves. Okay. Yeah. Alright. So so basically foliar feeding works synergistically with a high bricks reading the Hartford soi-yah soi-yah soi-yah this the foliar feeding combined with the hybrid soil is going to increase the bridge. Reading it's going to be increase the nutrient density in the in the crop basically just make it better in every way and so foliar feeding is a very important part of hi Brooks gardening the thing. I just want to caution. The listeners is don't just go out and buy a foliar spray and spray it on your plants. If the soil is not right. It won't do any good at all and you could actually experience nutrient lockout right? Because it's it's all based on osmotic pressure in the plant and you know, Lance where where the overwatered, you know, if you water too much trouble plant Drew, it's not happy. If you don't water enough it dries out that's all osmotic pressure. And so you can create an issue with a foliar spray that isn't designed right? And so we always caution people just don't spray some crop on your plants that some cousin of yours has a friend in Mendo the told you about this thing you do have a foliar spray that's designed to go with the crop and the soil so Saul that we do all that stuff. Right, right. Okay. All right, and I've never done this before so I mean and I'm on your site. It's you know, and for you listeners out there. It is Doc buds bricks.com. That's tocb UDS Bri X and I am looking at your site here. How do you actually take? How do you physically take a bricks rating? What do you have to do? Yeah, that's a really good question. Okay, so I highly recommend if you're going to take a breaks reading and if you're interested in this stuff first, you buy a refractometer, you can get a decent one for 35 bucks. The one we recommend is the one that the wine grape Growers use is they're taking pics readings all the time in the fall to figure out when to harvest. Okay? Okay, and so you can get them one of these for 35 bucks and then get a mortar and pestle a stainless steel one, preferably or something like that. That and so what we recommend is that you only take a reading of healthy plant tissue and I like to take a reading of the same part of the plant every single time. So I'll usually take the first feeder Branch off the lowermost branch of the plant. So if you picture the lowers most branch of the cannabis plant and there's a little Feeder feeder Branch growing off of that Branch, you know, and it's just going to form popcorn as we say So but it's healthy it's down there. So I'll clip that off mash it up and it's very important to thoroughly mash it because you want to crush the cell walls on of that material and then you take that and you squeeze a few drops on the refractometer and stick it up to your eyeball and it'll give you a clear reading and you can't lll tell where you're at. You can tell if you're a 10 bricks 1218. You don't go over 18 to off and there's some people doing some outdoor work that are getting bricks up into the The 20s low likely 21 you need the Sun for that if you're indoors, you're not going to get that high. But the next time you take a reading take it exactly the same way never take a reading of dried out tissue, you know dried out material that you're going to throw away always healthy vibrant tissue. And so I basically take bricks readings when I'm pruning so and agile, you know, when I'm shaping the plant for the balloon room up clip off some of these little accessory branches and Like I said, I always take the lowest most branch. And the first one if you wanted to do it a different way, that would be fine. But I just recommend you always take your measurements the same way every single time because then you have a really accurate description of what's going on with your with your claim the vast majority of the of the cheap home grow listeners, right? They are growing indoors. So I mean what is a respectable bricks number that they should you know that they should try and Target in their next grow on my best days with strains. I'm familiar with I might get a reading 17. Maybe Amy pushing 18 so that to me that's pretty high on my worst days. I might get a reading of 13 or 14 now back when I was doing other kinds of soil and when I first started measuring this stuff, I Getting readings of 9 and 10. Okay, so we found over the years with you know, a lot of people testing our equipment and you know, we've got kind of a neat Community where we're back and forth on this there's actually people using my gear that are better at doing what I do than I am they use are here but they're gifted Growers. And so we've got this whole, you know input from all these people. What are your bricks numbers? What are your bricks numbers? And what we've discovered is that once you get over 12, you're going to see the hybrid shine. Fine, you're going to see the strong stems. You're going to see a big drop off in pest issues. And those terpenes are just start to come out. Once you take over 14 or 15 now all of a sudden your whole cannabis has changed taste way different really smooth really unique and unusual and there's this other weird little thing that we've noticed is that there's no ceiling to high bricks we'd know some stuff you can smoke. Five or six hits of it in yours high as you're going to get right and you start feeling bad after if you smoke more you can smoke this stuff all day long and it just keeps going and it keeps going and it's really really interesting and I think it has to do with all these accessory terpenes in these really interesting smells that come out of the high bricks weed and there's one other big thing. And again, I'm speculating here because no research has been done on this but when you have a low bricks oil, you cannot form proteins, you can form carbohydrates. So for instance the soil that is used to grow corn that tends to be a very high nitrogen low bricks type soil. It'll grow corn great. But if you wanted to grow some crop that has a lot of protein in it that crop would not do well at all. And so it's the same thing with the soil. We used to grow marijuana if we're using a regular potting soil. That's sky high in potassium we can grow Rates in that soil, but we can't grow protein very well. So the marijuana that we grow in the hydric soil is a higher protein version of marijuana. So it's different it actually is nutritionally different and it's chemically different and it's psycho actively different and I happen to love it. I and most people that try it can't quite believe it. So that's all I'm really interested. I want I want my bricks up 15 or higher and once you try it you'll never go back. Yeah, well, I mean in my well, I mean I ask because I'm going I'm going to be germinating seed soon, you know, probably hopefully when within the next couple of weeks, so I want to you know II wouldn't mind giving this a shot. So we'll ship you a kid out there and you can get the shot and talk about it on your show. And I don't know what else you do if you have any blogging or anything like that, but for sure we'll hook up. No question. Thank you, man. I really do. I really do appreciate. That I think I already know the answer to this question. I'm going to ask it anyway, in terms of your bricks reading doesn't matter. You know, what type of cannabis you are growing. Well it matters in in a certain sense. For instance. Okay, there are some strains and I call these Franken strains. That's my term that I coined for them where they defrost this has been crossed with that and crossed with that and then accidentally somebody did this and crossed it with that and you have this strain who the heck knows what it is. It's a Frankenstein and some of these strains have really poor root systems. And so consequently they don't do well at all in soil. But boy do they do well in Hydroponics? Okay. So if you're growing a Frankenstein and high bricks, you're not going to get as much of a bricks reading as you would if you're growing a landrace strain, so something that's been living in soil for thousands of years. You put that in hydric soil and you're going to get something magical you get a string that was bred to be grown in Hydroponics and does really well in Hydroponics. I'm thinking of like a San Fernando Valley OG Kush, right? That's just a wonderful up some strain everyone loves it. But people like the Hydra version of it because the root system so poor it just doesn't grow that well in soil it's still nice, but it's nothing like growing a Santa Marta Colombian red. Or a you know, some outdoor type strain, they like a Romulan or something that's been growing Outdoors for a long time. Pakistani landrace strains are just phenomenal in high bricks. You open a jar on one side of the house. You can smell it on the other side in like three seconds. It's so insane. But if the plant does well in a native type soil, then it's going to go great and high bricks if the plant does better in Hydro. You may or may not get good results in high bricks. It's hard to say but that's really only holds true for a few literal handful of strains most of the time they're going to excel in a good soil, you know, doc. I mean as as you know, my podcast is called cheap home grow, right? So, you know, it's my listeners they primarily grow indoors and like me they are cheap so, you know my people right? Yeah exactly. Ali this next question that I have for you is it's pretty simple, right? You know, how much does this whole process actually cost the whole process now, are you including lighting and environmental controls are just the hi brick stuff? No, no just the hybrid stuff. So the vast majority of our customers are growing six plants or fewer the vast majority. Okay. And so you're going to spend $50 on a bale of promix HP. And then you're going to spend $30 on a big bag of worm castings and then you're going to spend ninety two dollars. I'm sorry $98 for a high bricks kit and that high bricks kit will grow six plants seed to harvest. So if you're growing six plants at a time, it's going to be $92 per cycle. However, obviously if you buy in a little bit of bulk and don't buy it a kid every time you grow. You know you buy the stuff in larger quantities, then you can get the price way down. And as a matter of fact our gallons if you buy something, but from by the gallon you're going to get about 50% discount over if you sourced it all via kit. So we're looking at about you know, once people are into it and they've got things up and running about 40 to 45 dollars a cycle as far as the cost of your nutrients. And that's pretty good because we reuse the soil. We recycle it and we and it gets better over time. If it's done, right? Well, I mean if just from just some quick math in my head if you're spending 45 bucks per cycle and you get six plants that's around maybe 750 per plant, you know, so yeah. Yeah. I mean that's that's right, but we're talking again about the highest quality here. The process it's not outrageous. It's a really good price. It's a lot less than it would be if you went like with Dutch Master or House and Garden or their full line great products. I'm not knocking them but they are more expensive quite a bit more expensive. Yes, they and so it's a lot less expensive. Yeah. It's a lot less money than using a traditional nutrient line. But you know, if you really just for on a total budget you couldn't afford anything. I just say, you know throw some osmocote plus out there. And just grow them in your yard. Just dig a hole around in your lawn remove the grass throw some osmocote put a plan in there. Yeah, you know, you never know it might be okay, and that would be really cheap, but we're actually talking more about a connoisseur quality than cheapest smoke available and we can get the Consular quality for a very low price doc. I mean, I'm on your site here and for you listeners out there go to Doc buds bricks.com. That's docb UDS. Bri x.com - Bud - washing and I know that we talked about this prior to the recording and Michael when he came on the podcast a couple of months ago. He talked about this as well. But since you're the guy presumably in the video on this webpage, can you please explain to me what you know what bud washing is and why? It's important when when growing your own sure, it's probably but washing is probably the best idea I ever had. Okay, so, you know if you make every now and then you go through life you make some really dumb the decisions and hopefully make a few Smart Ones. Sure, maybe the smartest one I ever made was blood washing. Okay, and so again, I was going through this phase where I was in Bible. All this information from the Cannabis forms and realizing that this is really bad information. I'm going to ignore all this and so I was in this Frame of Mind where are you know cannabis was the same as a vegetable. We wash our vegetables we wash our lettuce. Why wouldn't we wash our cannabis? And I really I knew that plants could be outdoors and get rained on and it didn't wash all the trichomes off. So I took the Bold step of making a homemade produce wash from lemon juice and baking soda and that's just a simple surfactant people with the chemistry background can understand how that works. But it washes stuff off stuff. That's it works great. And so I dip the buds into this lemon juice baking soda solution as described on the website and then rinsed and just like I was cleaning glasses at a bar. You know, you have the Soapy bin and then the water In the water been and that's how you clean your you know, your mugs at a bar. I did the same thing with buds from bucket the bucket the bucket and the first bucket was dirty as can be and this is with an indoor crop and I realized really fast. Wow, none of this stuff is going into my lungs or into my cookies or whatever it is. And of course as soon as you smoke washed buds, you never you're never going to not wash your buds. You're going to wash them every time once you've tried them and so there's He's just no good reason to not watch them. Imagine. If you were going to let us down in your basement, right you'd wash that right. Yeah, absolutely. Definitely have to Pure light stuff for Pete's sake they get coated in all kinds of crud. Marijuana is the stickiest thing in the room folks it is if the your lights it's on your buds. Let's just get real. Let's stop joke around about this if you want to inhale all that and most of it's just dead skin cells. Let's get grow just about it a little differently. Andres little dead skin if you want to be smoking that stuff be my guest. I don't right. I don't I don't wash produce and people that again, it's just you try this one time and you will skip it is the greatest thing ever washing butts when you see what comes off of it. It's just amazing. So everyone out there. I don't care. If you do high bricks wash your buds people, please I'm glad you said that there because I mean is Bud washing and high bricks are they? They related in any way or are they not at all even remotely related to one another they're only related because I I'm the first to document how to wash buds on the internet. All right, cool not to wash them for like I know cervantes's he's an awesome guy. He has a process for remediation of powdery mildew where he uses a peroxide walk and that's fantastic, but I'm Not doing it for mediation. I'm doing it for improved quality. And so as far as I know, I'm the first one to do it but tons of people are doing it now. So, you know, it's nothing to take credit for it simply good advice for folks but is it related to high bricks? No, it won't raise your bricks numbers at all. But what it will do is improve the quality of whatever it is you've grown but with high but here's here is one caveat when we're growing hybrid crops were. Spraying stuff on them all the time and most of that is liquid fish that's been acidified. So it will penetrate the waxy barrier of the leaf and I don't want to smoke any liquid fish and I cook any liquid fish into my cookies, you know, or whatever and so we wash the crop off this it's a simple as that. Yeah. Alright, okay, and and really for you cheap home grow. Listeners out there go to Doc buds. Bricks.com Bud washing and they have a Instagram video. It's what it's about maybe like a minute long and it's I mean, it's it's it's pretty simple. So yeah, I'm definitely going to give this a shot on my next run for sure. You're going to be blown away. You won't believe it. My last question for you. Is this and this is a question that I'd like to ask everybody that comes on the A cheap home grow podcast and are there any questions that I should be asking and are there any final statements that you would like to make? Well, I think you did a great job asking the questions. Thank you. You're so people know, you know where where I'm coming from and where Mike who's my partner in all this and I make up doc buds High bricks. And so where we're coming from is we are fanatics. Mike, you know critic corporate job with high salary to be a marijuana farmer. He's a he's a bona fide fanatic. I'm a fanatic. I mean, I can't believe how much time and energy I put into this. It's been pure joy from day one. It's not like this has been drudgery. It's been fantastic, but we're all about quality. I would rather grow a plant that wait a half an ounce. It had legendary quality then grow up. Sound of stuff there was average and so everything we're doing our products everything. We're trying to accomplish is simply to improve the quality of the product of the final product the crop and most people that have used our products will readily say that it's the best they've ever had across the board people are getting 3200 of pound in California with hybrids. Can you believe that 32? It's a hundred a pound you said. Yep, they're absolutely Jesus. Yep. Yeah, that's it. And and I mean, I know these people I don't sell I don't sell anything. I'm not into that. We have friends we grow for and there's there's a few medical people here and there that that we provide for the we're not in this in the business of selling marijuana. We're in the business of helping people grow it so the quality is where it's at and if you want to try something unusually good that you've never Had before try High bricks and you know, I know I've plugged your site but for you listeners out there go to Doc buds. Bricks.com. Check him out. He's he is or they are on Instagram at Doc buds. Hi bricks. That's docb UDS Hig hbr I-X on Instagram. All right, doc. I mean I have to say that's it's pretty much all of the questions that I had for you today on the on the chief home grow podcast. So really that gum, I do appreciate you coming on the show and I would love to have you on the show again in the near future. I would love to come on and hello cheap homegrown Nation. This is sham a coma from the cheap homegirl podcast and thank you for listening to my podcast with dr. Bud. He can be found on Instagram at Doc buds. Hi bricks. That's D. OC B UD es H IG H BR IX on Instagram. You can also be found online at Doc buds bricks.com. 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