Hello everybody. This is Shane Mick from the cheap home grow podcast. And on today's show. I was fortunate enough to interview YouTube sensation Med fit in detail about soil amendments. And why as a home grower you should care about what amendments you put into your soil method is a self educated person and talks about how he started growing his own in Las Vegas in 2014, like many new or novice home Growers. He tested me. Multiple different growing mediums, but eventually found his way with growing organically meant fit talks passionately about how super soil does nearly all of the work for him and like many traditional home Growers that have to PHP p.m. EC. He lets his soil do the work for him. He goes into detail as to how this process works. I especially like this approach because as many of you guys know I'm a relatively new home grower. I Like most home Brewers can't devote an excessive amount of time every day to growing my own. So Med fits almost, you know quote hands-off approach is something I think you can appreciate especially if you're looking for a simple way of growing your own cannabis without sacrificing yield or quality. Please remember to press subscribe and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome to the cheap home grope. 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 homegirl podcast will also feature 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 Shea McCormick from the cheap home grow podcast. And on today's show. We have Med fit from the YouTube. Channel called medically fits and today he comes on the show and he is going to talk about cannabis amendments in your soil. So meant fit. If you could could you please tell my audience a little bit about yourself and then we can get right into the questions. Yeah. I've been growing probably seven eight years. Now that first started off living in Las Vegas Las Vegas. We had to Spencer. He's but they were kind of illegal so they started shutting them down, but we were able to grow our own so I kind of had to learn how to grow my own and by still marijuana on the black market, even though we had medical I guess dispensaries that were supposed to be up and running but everything changed 2014 for Vegas. So but that's kind of how I got into it. I kind of had to learn how to grow my own medication because I couldn't find any and to me Buying weed from a dispensary or black market was still kind of expensive sure. Right? Well, I mean, I think what I mean what I mean, I know this I know this goes back a few years, but I mean what what were the what were the what were the prices back then do you recall? Yeah, I can still probably get an eighth to about 35 bucks. But that was in Vegas and thousand them black market. So it was still to me it was. Isn't real expensive but it was still kind of expensive when you are trying to live on a budget, right? Okay. All right. Well, I mean I tell you what, I mean, here's here's my here's my first question for you. I mean have have you always grown organically or did you make that switch a little later on it was kind of later on it took me a little bit. So there's a couple things that happened in my life one. I had a roommate that he Somebody to start growing so I was trying to learn how to grow to my father passed away. So growing became more of a passion and it was a therapy for me. So that's how I got really started with growing and it started with synthetic nutrients. I kind of had a different couple different bottle notes. I tried different lines when I first started it Mike tried ewc. I've tried aquaponics and I tried a couple different things really seeing what worked for me and it took me a little bit to figure out going and starting off with a super soil was the easiest method for me. It was what I call the kiss method keep it simple stupid, right? Sure, you know, let's keep it as simple as possible and a lot of people have a hard time understanding that right? Yeah. I mean, I you know, I think I think you bring up, you know, I think Bring up a pretty good point there. I mean, you know, I'm though. I'm certainly no master, you know Master cannabis grow by by any stretch, but you know in my grows, you know, it's just all about keeping it really really simple and don't you know don't like I mean, I I know a lot of guys can come can sometimes, you know, complicate things and that's great. But I think most people especially most People that are getting into you know growing for the first time. It's just, you know, keep it really really really simple well and that's the thing a lot of people want to try different methods and I suggest trying it to see what works for people because everybody find something that works better for them. But to me it was I didn't I never had to pee pH R pH my water PPM are check my EC and continuity of my Mixtures, I didn't have to measure 5 10 15 20 milliliters and mix it and then recheck it that was wait. Is that what took up a lot of time doing all that stuff super super soil was real simple where I took dry organic amendments and mix them into a base and I just watered never really pH the water. Sometimes I would just kind of checking it if it was City Tap I would leave it set out, you know kind of help get rid of the chlorine and Chloramine, but it was just real simple. I just dumped white water on it. Yeah, exactly. I just don't and and so so really, I mean what you're saying here is that is I mean or I think what you're saying is that the the soil is doing most of the work right? It's doing most of the heavy lifting it is it is because soil is living dirts not. Dirt does it have any by Allah biology to it sucks just bacteria fungi more you can inoculate dirt and start to create a soil with it. And yeah make it a living habitat. So that's what really differentiates with soil. It's a living biology that in the plant actually kind of worked together. There's a thing called Arbus Guillory fungi that are fungi that actually send little deals in into the roots of the plant that kind of signal each other back and forth. So there's a symbiotic relationship with it. Okay. Alright. Okay. Well, I mean, you know, and I know this question wasn't really on my list that I had for you but you know you you brought up you brought a pretty good point there. I mean why I tell you what, why should a home grower care about the Amendments that are in his soil welcomes to a couple different things? Okay. By those nutrients have a shelf life whether you're trying to do synthetic Organics. There's a certain shelf life that that's going to work. The solubility is going to stay the same. It's you know, the usage of it. The second part is the salt you put in your soil and the synthetics you're putting in there is actually killing the biology most people are trying to force-feed their plant where the soil itself the living soil is actually the it's feeding the and so the plant takes up what it needs when it needs so I'm not force feeding the plant with bottle nutrients. So there's a difference in what's going on with the plant and that's where I kind of look at things. All right. Well, I mean, what do you I'll take what I mean. What do you what do you look at there? I'm not trying to do a lot of ecological damage where I'm because there's a lot of runoff and waste with hydroponic Growers and where they dumped in that down our sewers. On our drains, where's that's going it's got to be then treated and it's killing a lot of the biology in the rivers and the streams and all the right the waist run off the soil. That's like, you know, the it's leaching into the soil and causing where you're getting all these extra nutrients running off into the streams and causing like algae blooms and like it's it gets to where I'm looking at it from a bigger picture instead of oh, I'm just going to dump this down my drain, right? Yeah. Exactly. So so what you're saying is that you don't want to put that waste back into the environment pretty much. Yeah. I'm trying to leave a small carbon footprint as possible and my biggest carbon footprint besides people that use nutrients is the lighting the way. Okay. All right. Well, I mean, I know well, I know we didn't talk about that prior but I mean, I mean, how would you I guess leave a minimal impact in terms of your lighting. I mean what I mean what should You know, what should a a home grower do there? A lot of people are now switching to LEDs which are more efficient. Yep. There's a couple really good ones Horticultural Lighting Group. They're a great company. What is it Pacific concepts? Are there's another one. What is it rapid LED? So there's quite a few different good LED companies that are really focusing more on the Cannabis industry. Alright, okay. Alright men. It I mean let's let's get let's let's get a little bit back. Lets lets, you know get back into the Amendments type conversation. Now, you know when it comes to Organics and feeding the the soil and it creates a healthy root Zone and breaks down amendments for the plant to uptake now, you know, where as you know bottle newts, you know, they're they're just trying to you know, Go feed the the plant I mean like I mean, I mean, how would you I guess how would you best describe that if you if you kind of know what I'm saying? Well a lot of yeah, a lot of it comes to the electric continuity of the solubility to me of the bottle of nutrients because they're trying to use cations to me to help take up nutrients. It's a synthetic form. So it's causing the plant to start feeding on your schedule instead of where the biology in the soil. It's Self the plant will signal. Hey, we need this so it will signal through its exudates a little chemistry that will allow the biology the fungi are bacteria to know what it's looking for. So then these will break it down and release it to the plant so it can up take it when it's ready. So what it does is in anaerobic system. The biology is actually breaking down dry organic amendments. Turn it into like a humic acid in a sense where it's in a ready available soluble form almost so the other yeah, there's the biology it's a little complicated with Biology because a lot of people think just to biology as bacteria and fungi. That's not the case because they keep and store all the biology are the the nutrients in their bodies unless they died or eaten and pooped out. So That's the only way those are now being released into the biology and the soil or into the plant. So the biology is a little bit more than just bacteria and fungi. Okay. Alright. Well, I mean I tell you I mean that that leads me that leads me to my next question here. I mean, you know and and and again, I mean, you know, this is coming from a home Growers perspective, right? I mean, I'll tell you what, I mean what you know, what is is what is something that someone can add you know to their soil that will give them the biggest impact I mean and and and also I mean, how how does that actually work? Well, a lot of people would say worm castings, but that's not really the case where I'm casting as a great choice, but your own compost because in our compost you should have all of the biology especially if you're doing Outdoors you're going to The full soil food web getting into that compost and that's what you're really looking for. Your Verma Coast are your vermicompost is going to be basically worms breaking down and getting enzymes and enzymatic action with bacteria and fungi. But your compost is getting the arthropods the protozoa the nematodes the thing that helped eat the fungi the worms even will help break down. In the bacteria and fungi, but you're trying to get more of the full range of biology in that soil. So if you're composting outdoors and you can keep the temperatures, right, you know turning it every so often that's going to be the best choice to put in a soil mix compared to just worm castings. Okay. Alright and and you know, perhaps I should have asked you this prior. I mean what when you say when you say compost right? I mean what-what exactly DDO You mean by compost welcome, you know, I mean really good compost to me is a variety of you have your fruits vegetables that you're throwing your produce from your house such as some eggshells and coffee grounds, but you're also getting some Leaf like leaves from the trees around you're getting grass clippings. You're getting clippings from other plans Outdoors thrown in there that you're trying to create, you know, Oh this brown to Green ratio of these the greens are more filled with the sugars and carbohydrates to it compared to the brown where it's already kind of broken down and that so that's why you're kind of getting a mixture and you're doing like some people do the lasagna layering of different amendments. So the worms the bacteria the biology can work their way through and break everything down. So that's that's what I would suggest is like what a compost is when Composters. All right. Okay fair enough. Yeah, I mean, I guess that's the you know, the the the simplistic, you know, some people use some manure and to it to to get other biology which I do I use it in a way of insect frass or if I'm around a farm I if I can get some cow manure or horse manure. I'm trying to throw a little bit of that as well. So, all right. Okay, cool, man. Cool. I mean this is one of my My you know, this is one of my last question. It's not it's not it's not the last question. But you know, I mean, I'll tell you what, I mean, what what would you say to somebody thinking about growing their own organic cannabis? I mean what you know, I guess what, you know, what advice would you give that person that is just and you know, and I mean really meant fit. I mean you are not talking to the guy that's been growing for you know, seven eight. Nine, ten years you're talking to the person that is thinking about you know, growing their own. I mean, maybe they've done it in the past, you know, but in the past they've you know screwed up. So, I mean really what advice would you give that person? Well, actually it's a vice for the all-time grower that switching over from bottle nutrients to even new Growers that are wanting to grow are messed up trying bottled nutrients that are wanting to try something else. And finding something simpler. So I'm really talking to a lot of people and not just the new grower because I've had people ask me that are switching from bottle nutrients growing for seven eight years as style Hydro wanting to switch over to soil and ask me more about it. Okay. So Organics is like I was saying it's keeping the method simple. It's keeping it where the biology is. Doing the work for you year, you're not doing a whole lot. Like there's a range of you can use dry amendments and living Organics or you can go a no-till style. We're using cover crops and creating more and more biomass which is feeding the biology and they're breaking that down and creating the nitrogen the phosphorus the trace minerals that you're looking for instead of adding the dry organic amendments. So there's a couple different Ways that it doesn't cost a lot you're getting more of a return more people are liking the cleaner product the terpene profiles that are coming out of Organics compared to hydro are just blowing people away. And a lot of people don't comprehend. We're just letting Mother Nature do itself. She's already had this design hundreds of thousands of years. And why are we complicating it? Right? Yeah, exactly and and that goes back to your to your original. To your original statement that just just keeping it, you know keeping it simple stupid Ki SS. Yep and see with Organics, you know that like a lot of people are trying to not just grow for recreational but further on medication and so a lot of people are trying to keep it as clean as possible. And this is why we talk Organics is this is more of the cleanest way to grow your plant as you can and not force feeding all these bottles. Nutrients where a lot of people don't have the money to continuously invest every month. I got to go spend a hundred fifty bucks on these bottle nutrients in this A and B mixture and this I can spend a hundred bucks and get 5 pounds of down to earth amendments and get several boxes that I can what make super soil and T's to feed my plants that will last me six months to a year. If not longer depending on my feeding regiment. Sure. Sure. Yeah. Yeah, so I mean, I mean really I mean and you know, I mean as you know my podcast it's called it's called cheap home grow. Right? I mean, so right I mean so coming from your perspective in terms of I tell you what like in terms of what you grow and and how much money you spend. I mean, I mean really, I mean you don't have to get I mean, I don't mean to get super super personal here, but I mean or in a particular year. I mean how much money would you say that you spend? And growing your own well, and this is really funny conversation right here because I did a greenhouse grow and one of my good friends. He goes by buds on Buds and he did a 10K and or grow and we talked about what we used for soil amendments because he was a cocoa and he was on bottle nutrients and I talked to my down to earth. Amendments are anywhere from 10 to 15 dollars per five-pound box. And I get you know this variety and then we talk about lighting costs and how growing Outdoors didn't cost me nothing for lighting. But he spending twelve to fifteen hundred dollars almost two grand on lighting a month for energy bill. Yeah to enzyme month. We're few G's for 10K lighting for 10,000 watts of lighting as what they're almost running through because they have, you know, all the other equipment from Um feeding fans, it's just Jesus. But yeah, so it gets expensive for growing big and or when I can do outdoor in a greenhouse and not spend nothing on my energy. So there's one view of it. If I'm doing a small indoor grow, right? I don't do more than let's see. I had a 600 watt light that I changed out for a 315 ceramic metal halide because it has UVA rays to it. And then I got a Samsung LED 260 watt from Horticulture Lighting Group that I put in there. And so it was close to 600 total Watts, maybe 650 that I had in my flower room that I would pull almost a pound off of for plants Jesus. Wow, but it was Organics and I was letting them veg out. You know, I wasn't trying I'm about quality and not about quantity. Mmm. And so that's why a lot of people Well, if you know they're looking for my product I charge more for it because it's about the quality. It's that craft. It's that it's that taste that you're looking for and you're like, that's it, right? Yeah, exactly. It's that it's you know, it's that feel when you get in that in that taste it we're like, you know where you basically say to yourself man. This is it this is you know, this is The Real McCoy so to speak. Yeah, and it's a much smoother taste with Organics. It's It's much cleaner. Like everybody talks about. Oh, I flushed my plants. I flushed my plants and I can get it all out. Oh, well, first of all, you cannot get it all out of your plant for one reason, your plant itself has exudates that it releases sugars and biology hormones to the biology around the root zone. So even when you're flushing your plan to you're still going to read that your plants. There's still something coming out even a day later. All right. So everybody's like, oh, I'm flushing it. 2-0, ppm's. No, you're not check it a day later. Just run a little bit test it. You'll still see that there's residue left in their organic Growers. We don't talk about flushing because we're not trying to destroy the biology in the soil. We may talk. We may help rinse out any if there's any salts I got in there or starts to build up, you know salts in there that kind of help get them out of the plant zone, but that's it. We don't talk about really flushing or plants because we're not Killing that biology right? Yeah. I know. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I know exactly where you are coming from there. So yeah, man, and and you know, I mean really my my last question is right and this is a question that I ask everybody that comes on the show. Are there are there any other questions that I should be asking or you know any other final statements that you would like to make? Well, there's a couple job. So first of all, like a lot of people want to know you know, how am I educated? Well, I'm actually self-educated like I've done tons and tons of hours of research not only on YouTube but on Google Scholar looking up information wanting to know more because if I'm growing this plant for myself, I'm trying to grow it the best way possible and for me to do that is to actually research stuff for myself and not just take everybody's word for it. But to go And search for it to find that knowledge and go. Oh they are right. Okay. Well, let's look into this a little bit more and look into this because it leads you down a rabbit hole of information. That is only beneficial to yourself growing that plant Mmm Yeah, and well, I mean, you know, I can I can tell you know, I can tell men fit that you are a very passionate guy and I mean perhaps I should have asked you this within the first, you know couple of minutes of the show, but I mean What does organic cannabis mean to you? Well, it means I'm using dry organic amendments are cover crops. I'm trying to keep things as natural as possible of mimicking Mother Nature doing you know, like a lot of no-till Growers are understanding regenerative agriculture sure, and that's what they're doing with their beds is building up those biomass layers creating such a layer that you don't ever need to feed your plants. Except just water. You're no longer. You're using dry organic amendments are not topdressing. You don't really need tees to get that biology ratio back up in there because you're putting so much diversity and cover crop that you're getting the diversity of biology in the soil. So it really goes to it's changing over time on what Organics really has started off as in in this cannabis Community to what it's really becoming now. Yeah, right. I mean it seems to be you know, it seems to be the wave of the future, you know, especially if you're if you're growing at home in my opinion, I mean my show it's primarily about home grow. But let me ask you this though. I'm sorry go. There are a lot of Home Growers that are doing no-till Styles growing. They are because there are a lot of Home Growers that are taking a 4x4 tent and putting one huge pot in there. Putting several plants in this pot and putting grasses and legumes and buckwheat and clover and growing along with it as companion plants as cover crop. So a lot of Home Growers are really doing and changing to us style method. Right? Right. And and I mean, do you do you see that in the coming years? Do you see that? I guess getting more and more popular and if you do why since the time that I've started growing I seen it more and more people move to organic regenerative no-till agriculture more and more people are understanding how simple it is. How much of a better product overall they're getting people talk about. Oh, well Organics you don't yield as much know they're starting to see a quite a bit more yields than what they were because now we're starting to get it dialed in where before we were still just starting to And why Organics were important? Well now it's getting more dialed in and so people are getting a better product and still getting good yields and So that's kind of why I see a lot more people moving to it a lot or people that are wanting to become more conscious ecologically conscious and not want to destroy this planet would move towards it and get away from using bottle of nutrients exactly bottle bottle newts men. And and you know, I I mean, I think you talked a little bit about this but I mean in terms of you know in terms of a recipe for a home Well, we're in terms of newts. I mean what I mean, what would you recommend? You know that they put in their you know in their soil well, and that's a good question because starting off to get most people to get like to the no-till state. They start off doing super soils and super soils are a bunch of different organic amendments dry or amendments organic amendments in the soil that allow the biology to break everything down. Down so you're going to use stuff as worm castings. You're going to use manure you're going to use Alfalfa Clover. Kelp meal neem seed meal people will use oyster shell for calcium or Dolomite lime for calcium and magnesium Rock phosphate for like the B vitamin complex. Crab Mill crustacean Mill. That's another great one that people are I didn't really help bring on different profiles in the terpenes as of my volcanic rust or Trace its trace minerals. So just like we as humans need trace minerals in our bodies. So does the plant Arsenic and Lead our plants need that and a lot of people like, oh, it's real bad the plants not really up taking it, but they need that Trace mineral that its key with certain functions of the plant but getting back to some of the the It's bokashi because she's a good one because it's three different bacterias together that will help start breaking down some of the bad biology in the soil. You have biochar, which is a great Amendment you have green sand, which is a silica humic acids, depending on fast-acting or selecting you have different types of nitrogen blood meals a fast-acting feather meal is a Slow acting so it breaks down slower. So when you're going in a flower, you're still going to have a little bit of nitrogen there for your plants. So it doesn't start lurk looking nitrogen hungry. Okay, what else steam bone meal? So that's some of the stuff that I would use in my super soil. Yep. All right. All right. All right. All right. I meant benefit there. I mean, you know that that does it for the questions that I had. And you know, I mean, I know I just I know I just asked you to ask you this question a few minutes ago. But I mean, I mean in addition to your first final statement. Do you have any other final statements that you would like to make I have a YouTube channel, if you guys are looking for more information medically fit. I've got around 10,000 subscribers. I kind of follow and listen to what I'm educating about. I do drop a lot of gold nugget in. Nation and a lot of my videos. I'm just trying to help educate people get people interested in this plant and in and understand more about the biology of what's going on in the soil that works along with the plant because that symbiotic relationship they have and that's what we're coming back to is understanding how if we can we can heal the planet from climate change a lot of it's getting back to getting the biology back in the soil getting cover crops to help keep the soil cool and not get it hot and killing the biology. So there's a lot of stuff that really goes with regenerative agriculture growing cannabis hemp Fields, you know, there's just a lot of information around it. No. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, it's funny. The information is is almost never ending so much coming out. Yeah so much. I mean when I first started trying to understand the plant, you know, we knew about See and we knew about CBD but then we started learning about th CV and cbda and thca and now CBG and CB so it's gone from just a few cannabinoids to over a hundred different cannabinoids terpenes flavonoids alkaline different things in the roots that are down coming out about the plant that seven eight years ago. We didn't even begin to understand right? Yeah, but you know some that That's a good point. I mean just imagine what the next 5-10 years. Yeah, 10 years are going to be I mean, it's Jesus Christ. I mean, I mean it is truly the potential for cannabis I think is truly untapped in my opinion. Well, it's not just untap but it's scary and not knowing where this industry is really going because a lot of people recreational want it pumped out. We want pot we want pot and it's just pot to them but really they're getting the medicinal Benefits where a lot of the medical Growers that love growing for the medicinal purpose of the plant. Yes, there is a lot of people coming out with a lot of great medical information and what it's doing and how it's helping and more research needs to be done with that. Not just with that but the terpene profiles the plants for there's a gentleman now that created a all CBG are close to all CBG cultivar of Connecticut of Besides, which that's he changed some of the so it's considered genetically modified because he changed some of the markers on it, but the industry is now starting to genetically modify the plant. So that's where some of the scariness comes into but they're looking to change for different cannabinoid profiles now, which can be very beneficial. So it's we're in this era of so much information. Nation coming out that is it going to be a positive or negative for what's really going on. Right? Well, I mean it's like anything else. I mean, I think I think there's going to be some you know, I mean some some some positive. Well, I hope there's going to be more positive than negative. But you know, I say if you allow people to to study the the plant if you just allow them to attack the plant with their You know with their individual research. Yeah right there so much different research that people are talking about wanting to do with this. But because of the federal laws right now all across the world, it's hard to do some of this research that needs to be done and I believe when it's federally legalized and the world finally Embraces the legalization of it. There's going to be so much information that comes out within that first 5 to 10 years of it being Legalize that it's going to be amazing, right? Yes gonna be amazing. Oh, yeah. I think you are certainly right there, sir. Absolutely. Absolutely. But but really that fit it was it was a pleasure talking to you and you know, I hope to I hope to talk to you again soon. Yeah any time feel free to give me a holler and I'll definitely chat with you more. I've got a lot of information I can share It's just from the years of continuously doing research and wanting more and wanting more. Yeah, and it's kind of crazy. Right? I mean, you know, I mean here you are you are a guy, you know, you're not a doctor. You're not a scientists or at least I don't think you are. Oh, but I have that scientific mindset like my mind thinks that way I don't I don't want to go to college and have a huge bill just to learn Horticulture on botany when I can study most of it myself. Like my old roommate we lived together for three and a half years. She had her master's and botany and Horticulture her thesis that she had to write was on plant succession and so her and I had a lot of great talks and knowledge that we shared with each other because she thought cannabis was easy to grow until she started trying to learn beside me and realized. Oh my God, you really have to tend to this more than like once a week. I'm like, yeah, it's like every day you need to get be in there and see what's going on with your plants like yeah, exactly. So it's pretty interesting for even her to look at the plant as from a difference but perspective and go. Wow. It's it's pretty intricate itself. Yeah. I mean she well, I mean she what she wrote or she was writing a thesis and she didn't know how difficult it was for us as we felt for her to grow know her thesis was On plant succession and basically how it goes mmm, but she she's grown plants. She's worked at nurseries. So she's been around all these different types of plants except cannabis. Hmm. And now she's living in Colorado. She's got to play around with cannabis. You know, she ran, you know, we got to meet through a boyfriend and so I introduced her to more the cultivation and growing of cannabis where She you know knew from how to grow but she didn't know how to grow cannabis because it was different to her it it took more and so I can water my plant. It's just going to grow for me and I don't have to touch it or come back to it. Mmm. That's not quite it should be the case, but it's not quite the case with how we cultivate cannabis right here. We actually have to spend more time with it actually nurture it a little bit more and you know, it's we It just set it and forget it. Yeah, no. No, it's not a you know, it's not that it's not that simple. I mean, you know in nature it is but not when you're bringing the endorse, it's not right. Yeah, so I have a question for you. Right? I mean, let's say let's say a new home grow only has a certain budget in mind and they want to buy, you know amendments right? I mean and let's say they have you know, fifty a hundred. Arid, or maybe like a hundred and fifty bucks what? You know, what do you think they should buy with the with the money that they have? Well, that's a great question because a lot of people do ask that like hey, I only have X amount of spend and I can't buy a lot. But what are some of the better amendments that I can purchase that's not going to cost me a lot and that's a lot of down-to-earth amendments. Like I've talked about really run from 10 to 15 dollars for a Box which will last a while, but if I was to get some amendments that I needed the most or that I look forward to worm castings. Kelp Alfalfa. I would try to get something to help buffers like oyster shell or even some as a Max for the trace minerals. Those would be some of the key ones that I would look forward to another one. That's not a down there at the amendment would be insect frass. Insect frass is basically bug poop or guano, whatever you want to call it. But it also has a couple things in it has some bacteria fungi protozoa which are key parts of your biology of the soil and it has chitin which is like a plant growth hormone that helps the plant with growing and fending off. So there's a lot of different things that actually go along with like these amendments. Okay. Well, you know, I mean well, I mean, what's I mean, I know it's difficult to answer because I mean every every region is different right I mean, but I mean, you know, I mean generally speaking. I mean how much do those things cost and really also mean where you know, I mean where could you go and actually buy those types of amendments and add them to your soil? Well, if you're in a legal State most of your hydro grow stores nurseries even nurseries carry them some It's down to earth or dry or gimp organic ments. Another place is Amazon. If you need to order something and your local place doesn't carry it, you can find most of the down-to-earth amendments on Amazon or something that's similar to it like bokashi or insect frass. You can find almost all of them. They're really Walmart Walmart. Here's what's crazy about Walmart Walmart Stephen getting in the game and legal states that on their website. Can purchase some of these products but you have to be able to go to their store like a day or two later to pick it up really know? Yeah, it's pretty interesting. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, they're going to be you know, they're going to be the next stop shop for people that want to grow if you want to grow their own seems yeah, that's that's yeah. That's that's that's pretty cool. I mean, you know, yeah sure very interesting, isn't it? It is interesting. Holy shit. Yeah. It's a A big well, you know, it's it's a big and it's a growing Market the people that want to grow so and there are a lot of different down-to-earth amendments are down our I don't stay down there dry organic amendments. I like down to Earth because they're reasonable priced. I like where a lot of their product comes from. So that's why I stay with using most of their product. There are other ones out there that people may still like to use instead of down to earth. So, you know don't necessarily take my word on down Earth amendments are the best because I'm not saying that I'm saying find what works for you and my recommendation is if you need something cheap down to earth is a great place to start done Earth. Okay? Yep down to earth right and down-to-earth amendments. Now, is that well, I'll tell you what, is that does? Can you buy that online or is that? Yep? Okay, you can buy online you go right to Amazon down-to-earth amendments and it will Pull up a whole bunch of different amendments or you a whole bunch of stuff for you. Yep. Well, you know again man that you know, thank you for coming on and you know, I hope to have to talk to you again soon. Yeah. Have a great day. Thanks for taking the time to listen to my show with Medford. He can be found on Instagram at medically fit. That's Meed. I see all Wi-Fi tea and he also has a YouTube channel. No with over 10,000 subscribers. They are his YouTube channel is called medically fit as well. I hope you've enjoyed this episode and please remember the press the Subscribe button. You can visit cheat home grow.com / episode 49 to get show highlights, and please remember to sign up for my email list. Thanks guys. I'll see you next week. Thank you for listening to the cheap home grow. Cast we do our best to bring you quality content. Let's grow together. 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