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Hello everybody. This is Shea McCormick from the cheap home grow podcast and on today's show I have growing with my A fellow Growers panel member Brandon rust. He can be found on Instagram at rust dot Brandon. That's argue St. Dot or period Brandon be r a n d ONN Brandon comes on the show today to talk about Organic Crop inputs, and they are going to include biofertilizers biostimulants dynamic. Accumulators plant growth regulators and biopesticides, but before we get into those topic of conversation Brandon, if you could could you please tell my audience a little bit about yourself and then we can get right into the meat of the conversation. Sure, most of your listeners probably know me from the growing with my fellow Growers live show that we do every Sunday. If you don't my name is Brandon Ross. I've been cultivating cannabis since 2002. I was professionally trained by some gentlemen who had been doing it since the very early 90s and or I started out doing hydroponic systems, and I'm In the soil and now I do true living organic no-till cultivation style and I'm here today to talk about Organic Crop inputs. All right, Brandon Wilson, man. Thank you for coming on the show. This is more of a well. This is more of a one-on-one, you know, usually, you know, as you said as we both said on growing with my fellow Growers, it's usually 10 people but on today's show it's going to be a little bit more personal and a little bit more one-on-one. Yeah, this is going to be great. This is gonna give your listeners a good understanding of a lot of the agriculture inputs that are going to be labeled as biofertilizers in the future. All right, man. We'll listen. Thank you for coming on the show. So really let's get right into it. My first question for you is what is a bio fertilizer and you know, really why would a home grow or care about what a bio fertilizer is Bio fertilizer is going to be a naturally occurring organic input that either has a physical logical side effect on the plant or a systemic response. There are many different types and they all knew a lot of different things as we move towards more sustainable agriculture practices in the future and as It's more home Growers gain knowledge and understanding of organic practices. I think that they're going to see a lot of you know, nutrients and stuff labeled as biofertilizers biostimulant biopesticides and being able to understand what these are will drastically be able to help them in their in their quest for knowledge and for you know, cultivating quality candidates to themselves. Now, I mean what type of role do they play in terms of growing your own? So a bio fertilizer? Well, we can start with the the biofertilizers by of a fart fertilizers are going to be organic inputs. So I know it's not so by bio fertilizer but stabilizing photosynthetic photosynthetic bacteria as well as things like Yeast and fungi that Aid in nutrient cycling and the bioavailability bioavailability and uptake of nutrients and minerals. So you have things like let's say EM1 which is a effective microorganisms. It's a mix of different things like photosynthetic bacteria yeast lactobacillus and they are what are called Fuck elective anaerobes. So they're not true anaerobic bacteria, but they actually work very well in the presence of oxygen as well as in the absence of oxygen and what the soil microbes do is they actually help sustain Diversified microbe population in soil and they help cycle nutrients. They out-compete pathogens, and they And help work synergistically probiotic lie, you could say with the other soil microbes to help them function better to do what it is. They do some bacteria will cycle nitrogen. Some will cycle phosphorus some will you know, they will cycle minerals and making those things more bioavailable to the plant because without the relationships with the microorganisms the plant can't actually Lee, you know benefit they have a the plant has the ability through keishon exchange to take a plant available nutrients, but if a nutrient or a mineral is in an unavailable form it requires, you know microbes to cycle that into an available form so that the plant can use it and so like EM1 another another Another one would be Mammoth microbes that are a lot of people are familiar with one. Those are oh, yeah. Sure. Yeah, right. So Mammoth microbes is a microbe. I believe there is four different types of phosphate stabilizing microbes in their product. And what they do is they release phosphorus that is bound in soil and they make it bioavailable on Plants. So you're going to see lots more. Or there are also things like as oh bacteria, I think azouz is a company that makes I'm not sure if that if it's plant success that makes it but I know the product is called a Zoe's it's a nitrogen fixer so it can help they help cycle nitrogen and then they release that nitrogen in a plant available form so that the roots can uptake that nitrogen. So there's all these new. I guess they're not super new but agriculturally speaking. Are there new and have these these incredible benefits for cycling nutrients and making things bioavailable quicker when you say quicker though in layman's terms, you mean that the plant can up take the nutrients faster. Is that basically what you mean what I mean is that without the microbes or the the high population of microbes or let's say the inoculation and having them there present if those populations drop what can happen is that those nutrients also become less available. So if there's always a healthy population of a certain type of microbe that is doing something functionally within the soil, then you will always be able to have the availability. So as long as you have the certain bacterias or the phone guys that are you know cycling these nutrients they'll always be available to the plant right? So they're more Or essentially they're more readily available pretty much. Yeah, because they're they're in there doing the thing all the time. So they're always cycling those nutrients. They're always breaking them down there, you know, so that's that's one of the things about you know, organic soils is that a lot of times you were relying on the nutrient cycling process to be able to release the minerals and nutrients we need. All right, Brandon. All right, man. That's a I got to say that. That's a pretty in-depth answer there regarding bio fertilizers. Thank you very much. Well II like I'm here to try to help educate everybody and hopefully this information will help some people out and you know, maybe it'll help them level of up on their on their gross skills. Let's go on to the next one. So what is a bio stimulant and why should a home grower care about what a biostimulant is? So this is a really really good one. In fact biostimulants are something that I use very very often. Okay injunction with my biofertilizers. So first of all to understand bio biostimulants, you have to understand that that oxygen hydrogen and carbon are your Mo main components when you're talking about keishon exchange or the exchange between Nutrients and minerals and how they are about how the plan is able to take them. So it works off of a basically an electrical charge and what biostimulants do they improve the uptake of minerals and nutrients and they are able to stimulate plants natural immune functions and they can condition plants to handle stress and they can also improve quality and yield and So some of the I'm going to example of some some biostimulants. Okay. I have a few here now. Why don't you tell me if they are actually biostimulants how about seaweed seaweed is considered a biostimulant in the reason why seaweed is considered a biostimulant. It's because it contains it contains hormones cytokinin cytokine. It contains oxygen. And Aubry acetic acid it also you know, so site opinion. It stimulates cell division. It also contains eaten and have a hard time pronouncing. This word added a 9. I believe it's pronounced which are which are chemicals with Aid in their hormones that it made in different plant functions different plant metabolism metabolism. It functions and things like cell division. Shoot and root growth auctions are responsible for moving the minerals and nutrients where they're needed. So yes, kelp and seaweed acts extracts would be considered biostimulants because of the the hormones that they contain. Okay, so it's basically all about the hormones pretty much. Yeah, so kelp itself doesn't contain a whole lot of your macronutrients like your end your nitrogen potassium phosphorus. It does contain a lot of micronutrients zinc, you know copper manganese all the all the good stuff that you need but the extracts the reason why people use those a lot of times they're using uh in you know there when they route they're clones. They use a lot of hormones to try to help root growth if you look at a lot of Of different products on the market Amino treatment from House and Garden I think has kelp extract in it. I think be one super Thrive has killed back extract in it. I think that there is kelp extract in some of the amino treatment products that are out there. Kelp is a very very widely used agriculture input as well as the extract from it. You've talked about seaweed you I believe you talked about acids, right is that the I'm pretty sure you saw several types of acids when we're talking about biostimulants. So let's talk about humic and kelp so humic acid is a tri later and what they do and so is fulvic my understanding is that humic acid kind of grabs on. She later a cheat, I believe it's a Greek word. That means claw. What they do is they are able to attach themselves to the particles the the nutrients and the minerals what it might it be Iron copper or zinc or and they're able to grab onto these particles and they're able to mobilize them so they can make a mobile or minerals that are Not plant available and they can grab hold of them and they can help assist them when it comes to the uptake in the plant root system. So humic acid and and fulvic acid can can are are great biostimulants that can help the accumulation of micronutrients, especially to put it in layman's terms. They aid and assist pretty much. Yes. So again, their immediate cheerleaders after it's a large particles fulvic acids are small particles. I believe that they also have some pH buffering qualities to the soil and they can improve things like iron uptake through the ion exchange. It does increase caishen exchange. So that is one of the benefits so when you increase case in exchange you increase the Amount of of charge that's in the soil that can attach themselves to the the part of the nutrient particles so that their bioavailable let's let's talk about that. Let's talk a little bit more about the benefits of Bio stimulant now from what I cuz I read this prior to talking with you and I am no expert in this field certainly, but now I I read and this is what I found interesting. I read that they can render water use more efficient. Is that correct? Or incorrect in your opinion? Yes, it makes them more efficient because when you're increasing keishon exchange a lot of times the way I plant feeds is you have you know, you're hot you have your your hydrogen and your carbon and your oxygen and those are being used in a way that the That can essentially they use these those molecules. They used to be the case in exchange capacity and will water is running through your media. You're getting these different charged particles that are attaching to minerals and nutrients and they help them assess if you have a biostimulant and it is increasing your case in exchange and it's cheerleading your minerals and your particles. You're not going to have to use as much water to get the to get the capacity that you're trying to achieve as far as like your electrical conductivity, right? Because you're a luxury severe electrical conductivity the bio availability of nutrients increases when you use Chi laters, like, you know humic and fulvic acids as well as me no acids and amino acids is something that we haven't even touched on and that's probably one of the biggest most understood by a stimulant or are amino acids. All right, man will tell you what let's let's delve deep that. Let's talk about amino acids. All right, amino acids are really interesting topic. First of all amino acids are the building blocks of all life. There are about 20 amino acids that are that are responsible for both human and plant development and the the it's a really interesting topic because there are so many different things that that they do and I'm going through my notes here because there's there's so there's so much information and I was actually I was able to go onto a lot of the science websites and just get a lot of information on the amino acids Okay, so So amino acids specifically I'm going to talk about hydrolyzed proteins and they contain things like organizing. They contain. Our spirit aspartic acids is some of these names are really hard to pronounce glutamic acid glycine dying. And what happens is humic acids are the building blocks of life. So when you get humic acids into your soil you have you you're basically you're feeding microbes because microbes have the ability to use these different amino acids. And then once they utilize the amino acids a lot of it they're they're taking the amino acid and it's Breaking off the carbon chain, they're using that and then you have let's say like a nitrogen leftover. I think glutamic acid has the highest ratio of carbon to nitrogen. And so when the amino acid acid is sequestered by microbe, it releases that free nitrogen chain and a plant available form into the soil and also it creates secondary metabolites. A lot of these amino acids will be constructed in two other compounds and some of these secondary metabolites are going to be things like B vitamins which will increase metabolites functions and plants. It can speed up those processes. They release plant hormones like oxygens and gibberellin and those are plant hormones that Are responsible for different aspects of growth. So when you and then also plants can also utilize amino acids. They will actually produce a lot of their own amino acids. And a lot of these things are responsible for sell things like cell division, you know using peptides to build which are amino acid change where they chain amino acid together. They have these complex machines were called ribosomes. In the cell and what they do is they can they construct these amino acids together and they are the precursors for like RNA and DNA synthesis a lot. Also these amino acids are also a lot of them are precursors to things like IAA and O3 SEC acid, which is another hormone that can oftentimes show up as explosive root growth. Also, it is found in most root stimulators a synthetic version of it is anyway, so you have all these amino acids and a lot of them another one precursor to terpenes. So there's different. There's a lot of different research and I have to a lot of times, you know, take research from know. Different varietals near things like corns or beans or tobacco. A lot of times they'll do research on like three different varieties of plants because those three varieties of plants will represent, you know, hey, we can you know in theory replicate this with other crops and so they are finding that in the research that I'm reading that when given amino acids plants have higher stressed. Tolerances to you know, biotic and abiotic stress factors. It can increase resilience through the induction of the stem acquired response. They also activate certain signaling Pathways in plants that can unlock certain Gene responses and again microbes use You know these these acids these amino acids to construct other types of things and the plant does that as well the plant will use the different acids for different processes within its plant tissues and it creates a huge variety of different chemicals and different hormones at the beginning of this when you said they are the foundation of life. It certainly sounds like it. Yeah. It's so I've been reading a lot of And on amino acids and and what they do and there is a lot of stuff going on that. I don't think we understand yet as well. I use and I am actually my next product is a amino acid product and I've been using amino acids for a long time. I've had been using the humic and fulvic sex and they they drastically increase micro nutrient uptake and they drastically increased plant. Health in my opinion I have been doing this long enough to know if I do something my plant and I can look at it and say there's definitely something to this now I test bricks and there's a lot of I think Miss misleading and kind of confusing information on understanding bricks, but a lot of these It's are responsible for the high bricks levels because I'm able to acquire higher numbers of micronutrients and sugars and amino acids and enzymes in the plant tissue itself. And when you have all of those things already available, let's say amino acids if they're already available in the plant. The plant doesn't have to use any energy to As those white so, you know, I think it's because if a plant is plants are autotrophic and what that means is that they actually create their own food. So plants don't actually eat nitrogen potassium phosphorus, they biosynthesize those and they turn them into complex sugars carbohydrates proteins and starches and then a huge majority of the food that they Is actually exude through the roots to feed microbes so that the process can continue the biosynthetic process of obtaining more nutrients while synthesizing those into complex carbohydrates sugars proteins enzymes amino acids B vitamins, whatever it is the plant needs for whatever regulatory function or metallic process. And I think that when you already have those in the tissue because you willingly gave it to a plant let's say via foiler feeding amino acids are pretty readily available through a foiler through the stomata openings. And if you already have these available to the plant the plant does not have to spend any energy trying to create these things in themselves. At least this is this is what I'm on I'm thinking is happening. So, you know, I don't, you know, I don't have a science background. I don't have a college education. I Have a ton of experience with cannabis and I have a lot of experience with doing research and trying to understand it and replicate the the, you know, basically replicate the information and try to trans, you know translocate it I guess into cannabis go from like, okay. Well, here's a project that worked on a rice cultivar. Let's see if this will also work on. On cannabis because a lot of the times when I'm reading into these these research papers a lot of times they're using kind of really General plants so that they can say so that it can be used in the way that I'm applying it, you know, like, you know, I mean listen, I don't have a background and podcasting but I've been podcasting now for a little over a year man. So it's all good. As long as you're getting the information out there. That's all that matters. And it and and you know, I like to share too and there's a lot of information and I'm you know, I constantly work on putting it together because there's so much of it and I go through so much sometimes it's hard to retain and also that a lot of the papers are written in the way that they're worded can be very complex can be hard to comprehend and they use a lot of big scientific words that you know, I'll often times aren't in my vocabulary. So A lot of times I'll have to look up those words and it can be difficult to convey everything that I have. You know all that. I'm attempting to constantly absorb. All right, Brent outside what man let's go on to the next topic of conversation and that is dynamic accumulators. And what are those man? It's all right. So Dynamic accumulators. This is a good one too. So you can you remember a conversation? I think we had maybe on one of the growing my fellow Growers. We were talking about crop cover and why people were using crop cover and purpose was yes, I do. Okay. So bio accumulators are are going to be anything that can help absorb. Ramps into its own system and then be cycled out. So for instance crop cover could be a bio accumulator. Look take Clover. For example Clover is very good at sequestering. Atmospheric nitrogen and then releasing it into a plant available form. There are also many other cover crops that will do the same thing. They will absorb, you know, my macro and micronutrients as well as minerals and other things and so when you do let's say a crop cover in a bed or a or a pot or even you know outside You are basically biodynamically acquiring nutrients and minerals. And then when those crop covers are cut back those things are cycled into the new into the into the soil as available minerals and nutrients before you go on our Dynamic accumulators. Do you see those mostly in no-till beds? As far as crop cover goes. Yeah, because you're not growing crop cover on, you know, soilless media right on Foods or in cocoa. And also there are some trying to think of some other ones right off the top of my head some other biodynamic accumulators, you know, I guess I guess you could also include some of the the Biologicals they have biological inoculants could could I guess also be classified. Fight as bio accumulators because some of them they are you know, again, they're pulled their, you know, sequestering these different minerals and nutrients and then releasing them so they are basically acquiring them in you know, a way that they're able to and then making them available, but I do know that there are several different like crop covers that are being used and tested to see I read a very very interesting report. Tan, it was variation of species and soil microorganisms. So they found they did a nine-year study on it was on a prairie and what they did is they they were able to find that by having a wide variety of different plants actually increased the size. my old the diversity of the soil microorganisms and population and it actually increased the carbon in the soil and carbon is one of the main components that is going to that microbes are going to use the carbon is usually used and then the byproduct is going to typically be the nutrient or mineral that is in Available platform. Okay, and so they found out that having different plants. They will all exude different types of exudates through their root systems and they the different exudates from different plants will actually promote different types of bacteria and fungi fungi. And so when you have these these accumulators which are able to increase biodiverse The soil you have you have more availability to minerals and nutrients because there's a wider population because different soil organisms do different things. You know, some are you know, you have like fungi like our base Keeler and Endo mycorrhizal fungi, which helped eight in the transport of nutrients minerals and water you have you know bacteria that are responsible for breaking down phosphate. Fates you have some that are breaking that breakout roles and some that are able to absorb sulfur into their bodies and make it into bioavailable form when that bacteria is cycled, like maybe a Maya protozoa or it just naturally expires. Sure. So that's one of the things that is I think that's being used more and More is more diverse species of plants as essentially as a companion plant for cannabis. A lot of me Alpha clove first types of beans and peas. I think flax that there's quite a few different crop cover mixes that are out there on the market. I kind of do my own little mix know I found works well, Or me and it consists mostly like grass Clover certain type of grass flax and us no key. Alright the mr. Brandon Russell tight what man let's go on to the next one plant growth regulators. And you know, what, are they and wash it at home Growers care about what they are. Yeah so pgr. So he just have a bad name and there's a reason because people often don't realize that there are two types of Fiji are so there are natural occurring plant growth regulators. And then there are some Vedic plant growth Regulators synthetic plant growth Regulators are you know, they're carcinogenic and if they, you know, stay inside the plant material they could potentially have Health risks attributed to them. So what is a plant growth regulator plant growth Regulators are essentially going to be things like PG ours are going to be things like secondary metabolites produced by bacteria and fungi such as auxins gibberellic acid cytokine in and other hormones. That are going to benefit plant Health nutrient uptake and stimulate plant response systems. So things like auxins gibberellins Absa Absa kascid ethylene, these are plant growth regulators and they need their hormones that have that that do are responsible for most of the major functions in plant root growth. Shoot growth flower development, you know Paul in development. All of these things are are responsible. And one of the things that is really interesting to me is the secondary metabolites produced by three types of bacteria. So one of the things that you never going to be able to get in soilless Media or hydroponic systems is going to be this this interaction between Minerals and nutrients in soil and how the bacteria and fungi sequester these because what happens is once they sequester something whether it be, you know, a mineral or whether it be a carbon or whether it be an amino acid. They release a by-product like all things, you know, something comes in something comes out so they're changing. Different chemicals and to other chemicals and some of these chemicals which again they're called secondary metabolites are hormones and they're having Direct effects on the plant. They can increase plant Health. They can increase plant metabolism. They can increase cell division. They can actually increase cell size a lot of these hormones, you know, if you have have them in there readily Hannibal and they're abundant you're going to see a lot of really strong healthy plants. They're also some of these things are also I believe I might be wrong on this but I think they might also be responsible for some of the signaling Pathways that activate systemic acquired response, which is essentially you have these genes That get activated within a plant and it causes a response and the response it could be something like plant defense where it creates maybe a certain chemical or to directly fight off. Maybe a pathogen like it might be a H2O type of particle that would kill off a pathogen or it could be a signaling molecule. That triggers, you know it signals another plant nearby that hey this I'm being attacked and you need to raise your defenses. Okay, Brendan, let's go into biopesticides. All right, so, you know biopesticides include specific targeting biological control such as mites parasitic wasp beetles nematodes and also include mycotoxins and fungal and bacterial toxins. Wow, okay, man, fair enough. Oh like so let's start off. This is this you know, this is again. This is IPM stuff, which is huge for me. I'm an organic Gardener and if I do not do my IPM management I will have problems on so we can talk a little bit about the main biological pesticides that I use so I have four main things that I use and then I also have what I have a couple of things that I use for knockdown treatments if it ever comes to that which doesn't typically happen. I and I also have a few products that I just rotate in and out of the IPM just to decrease pest resistance to the products. So first thing I'm going to Talk about is Bavaria boss Iana. Now Bavaria boss. Jana is a systemic endophyte. So it's a it's a it's a fungus and it actually is able to enter into the plant tissue and it is able to systemically fight off plant eating insects. So if you have an insect, let's say an aphid and it you know it Is feeding on your canvas plants, it will ingest through very of Asiana, which is toxic to nope certain certain pests. A lot of canopus. A lot of cannabis pests are they they don't have a very good defense systems built in again smooth area bossy on them. So what happens is they eat this they end up ingesting the fungus and then the fungus goes to work doing what it does. To disrupt the plants ability to feed or reproduce. Another biopesticide that I use and I do this once a week. It's called bacillus thuringiensis. It is really insist or bti. And it was also goes by the name of microbe lift BCM. It is a mosquito control product. Actually I use this actually for controlling fungus gnats, which are you They're ubiquitous to pretty much everywhere in the world and they let they feed on well their larvae feed on organic matter and if there's on organic matter, they can feed on roots and they can you know, if they're feeding on root hairs that's causing problems with the plants ability to take up nutrients. So fortunately fungus gnats are in the same family or very closely related to the mosquitoes. And so the bacillus thuringiensis, it's a liquid and at a rate of 1 milliliter per gallon. I have found it to be extremely effective against fungus nap. I do not have fungus gnats anymore and it took me a little while to get the dosage down. But once I did no more fungus gnats, okay, there there that effective against Nats man Jesus Oh wait. Yeah. It's so it's I see a flyer in my garden. We'll go ahead and I don't know, you know hit it. So I do I do maintenance of 1 milliliter per gallon every single week beginning of the week. I do it on Monday and both my bedroom flower room and it's extremely effective. It's been like I took me a little while to get the right dosage and I figured it out if you are infested in you have it had a heavy infestation. You could do two milliliters per gallon. If you have something mild, you have some flyers wouldn't Superbad you can do one point five milliliters per gallon and then my preventative is the one milliliter per gallon and So speaking of fungus gnat control. One of the things that I also introduced was Rove Beetle. So this is another this is a this is a predator Beetle that can feed on Things like fungus NE eggs, and I think they feed on longer, but I think the best person to do that really knows everything they feed on would be obviously Matthew Gates. That's right. Since I introduced the Rove Beetle, the populations are maintained really. Well. There's no fungus gnats. So it's kind of a that right there is back under there. It's teamwork right there. Right? So you have this bacterial toxin the bacillus thuringiensis, then you have, you know, a predatory insect. So you're getting you know, you're coming at it from two different angles and then we're going to go ahead and add the third one, right? So I also have hypo aspis miles and I blast this miles again. This is a mic that's ubiquitous to most places in the world. I think they don't live in the Arctic if you build a really nice soil, you'll pretty much you'll see them in your soil. They'll come in now. Actually, they have a way of getting in there and their bait, you know, there's different types the type that naturally comes in my soil I don't think they're very effective for fungus gnat control. They do eat there. I see them kind of more as opportunistic. They eat a lot of an exploit litter but they also will feed on fungus their eggs. If they're they're you know, I think it's more just a opportunity for them. From what I've seen from my scouting from sitting there watching them hours. I don't see a whole lot of Like Target specific behaviors from them. Well, so those will bring those are I'm curious. What do you mean by opportunistic? Why me more opportunistic is that for the most part from my observation? They pretty much just feed on soil litter organic matter. They will eat, you know fungus gnat eggs, but I think it's more of like just what's readily available to them. Like if there's a whole cluster of eggs and they don't have to work for it. They're gonna mack down, you know, but if there's a bunch of organic, you know, Leaf litter organic you no matter that they can munch on, you know, it's like it's pretty much like they have a huge Buffet to choose from and so there it's not like, oh we're eating just pizza today, you know, so all the incubator that's kind of what I mean. So they have kind of more of an option. They're not they're not like Target specific because they are some bio controls which are Target specific. Like if you want to if you have an aphid problem, you're going to get ladybugs, right? You're not going to get ladybugs. If you have a spider mite problem because ladybugs are typically well the it depends on which specie but you know, typically the specie that that you sing in greenhouses and that your sink sold through Garden. Cops they eat aphids, you know, there are some others that eats kale and mealy bug there are other varieties that do eat might but again, there are things that our Target specific and then there are things that are generalists and then there are things that I think are just kind of like opportunistic eaters. Okay. So again if the V bio control, so I think I said I had four but there's actually five is Amber Lee a swersky. I, this is something that I was actually turned on by Matthew Gates. I think it's a gram handle is at thinking angel' think Angel. That's right sis. So he turned me on to this research project where they use an explode. Let's have Ember pepper to basically rear might and what that means is they use them to basically breed Ambria swierski. I would just type 3 General generalist Predator might it wide variety of cannabis pests including Wi-Fi strips and different types of mites. I actually had gotten an infected clone. It had russet my and you know, I didn't panic because I knew what I needed to do. That's a good thing, you know don't panic having the knowledge is you know, I think when you don't know what to do, you start panicking and you start looking for the input information and might come across wrong information and it can be a hindrance more than than something that help you out. Oh, yeah. Yeah don't panic. They're all your manic write a rule of thumb is do not panic do not panic at all. Just kind of do your thing. Do your homework do your research and Trust? You know trust your research. So am Leah sworsky. I General Perez generalist Predator type 3, it's able to feed off of Palm and if in low insect pressure, so if I don't have broad my or if I don't have threats or if I don't have white fly these mites are going to still stay alive in my garden without me having to spend exuberant amounts of money to keep re inoculating them or two. Keep reintroducing them into my garden. So it is a cost-effective way to keep a certain types of biological controls around for longer periods of time. And then the goal is to be able to breed this might this biological control on my plants on my pepper plants and then move them around from vegetative to flower so that way I have that biological control as an Added extra measure as kind of a contingency plan, you know because I do really strict IPM and I do scouting program every week and I haven't seen any rust at my and most people are like, oh if you get russet mites you need to cut everything down you might as well just burn your garden down right that's panic mode. You don't got to do that. You just have to know what you need to do and biological controls are very very effective. Active especially when you can out-compete. If you are looking at a leaf and you see that there are three mites. Let's say you have spider mites or something like that. There's three months you have six plants and every plant has 40 leaves. You can fig kind of figure out the number of mites that are in your garden sure, you know here and then you can accordingly plan. Okay. Well, I have this many mites. I'm gonna get this many beneficial insects that will be able to eat those much But and then the the other products that I have so those are the five products. I'm going to go over them one more time. Boov. Are you the boss Iana bacillus thuringiensis Israeli incest Rove Beetle hypo aspis Mile and am blessed sworsky. I so those are my my main my main IPM now. I also do a little rotation with grand Evo which is a might ask my decide. And that is just a preventative. I'll do that every once in a while just to switch it up. So that way I don't gain any type of resistance because with biological controls like bacterial toxins and Mico insecticides. My understanding is that insects pests they can gain resilience. Them over time, but my understanding is that takes much much longer than a chemical pesticide. And so I just kind of switching out your integrated Pest Management sprays. You can kind of mitigate any of those issues, you know resilience those so I do Grand Evo and then I also do a dragonfly Earth medicine boiler. which has Several different species of lactic acid bacteria as well as yeah. I think it's all it has some trichoderma and it has a couple of species of bacillus bacteria bacillus subtilis has bacillus Camillus megator career. Yum, some of these names are a little awkward for me to pronounce it acts again. It's a their bacteria is in the idea behind them is that if you have bacteria on the leaf surface has already that they out-compete any type of pathogen. I don't know if there's any scientific research or if there's any proof, but I know For sure for 100% certain if I take something like EM1 or take something like my bow Kashi after I've used it as a foiler and I spray it on something like powdery. Mildew the powdery mildew die. Yeah, man. I have your bokashi Earthworks. That's awesome. Yeah, it's a good product. You know, um, you know, I don't know the whole reason why I started selling it was because I was just making so much of it because I'll use it constantly, so it was really good. I'll be able to get The people using it to ya man. Listen as a Shameless plug that is Beau Kashi Earthworks, and you can find that on Instagram as well at BO Kashi Earthworks the okay a shi Earthworks all one word a nice little a nice little Shameless plug for you man. So good for you. I'll clean it. So yeah, so biopesticides there are Han of different biopesticides. There are new biopesticides emerging All of the as more science comes to light as more research has done. So those are the main biopesticides I use. I also wanted to mention one other thing I do about once a month sure is codes. So there are Target specific nematodes that will go after certain things like a true Tafe has fungus gnats and then there are some that Are more General so you have a good so you have to do your research when buying nematodes my understanding of nematodes or also that if you there are harmful nematodes that the root-knot nematode which can be completely bench detrimental to agriculture crops. And also people who are doing large garden beds, especially at large studies. They get rude not they have to basically throw away all of that. Loyal to have to dispose of it properly and they have to make sure they did do not cross contaminate. There was something I can't remember where it was. It was they were talking about how the introduction of beneficial nematodes can actually hinder the ability for the bad nematodes to come in and take over. All right. All right. Mr. Brandon Rossum, you've touched on biofertilizers biostimulants Dynamic accumulators plant growth regulators and biopesticides man. I think I think we've pretty much covered at all. I have to say yeah, that was those were the five categories that I wanted to kind of touch on a little bit and I think we cover it all think we got it chained. Absolutely. And listen man. I got to say I mean this this was a pretty in-depth podcast and I appreciate you coming on my Tuesday podcast my cheap homegirl podcast man. I appreciate you a did it once this is your second time and for you listeners out there. You can visit. Mr. Brandon rust a trust dot Brandon. An Instagram and you can also listen to him or see him talk every week on Sunday night's 7:00 p.m. Eastern on growing with my fellow Growers. Yeah, it's you know, it's always a pleasure. I appreciate the platform that you've built. It allows me to help educate and I get a lot of feedback from your listeners. I enjoy being able to help them out, and I also wanted to say to if there's something that I've said that isn't correct or if I've made a mistake. Feel free to correct. You can always go back when you listen to episode. People say hey, I think you might have missed something. I appreciate criticism because it allows me a chance to grow both as a speaker and an educator and as a you know as a cultivator, all right. Mr. Brennan Russ, man. Listen, I do appreciate you coming on the show and I look forward to talking to you again this upcoming Sunday. Hello cheap homegrown Nation. This is shaima. Karma from the cheap home grow podcast and thanks for listening to my podcast with Brandon. You can find Brandon on Instagram at rust dot Brandon. That's argue St. Period Brandon BR a ND o n and also at BO Kashi Earthworks on Instagram, that's be okay a shi e AR th wor k s Bo. 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