this one is um also what's called a fit for 25b and what really what that means is as i
was saying before so soybean oil and corn oil are basically your oils generally oils are used for
suffocates which means they coat the bug and it basically keeps it from breathing and it kills it
in that fashion and then there's soap everybody kind of knows what soap soap is also sort of a
fatty acid that lowers surface tension and then vandalin is an extract made from the
vanilla bean the downside of citric acid is it can build up in the soil
and as it says here a plane of citric acid can make the environment unsuitable for plants so
but anything with oils always concerns me too because of phytotoxicity they claim
that it has no phytotoxicity but they do make a claim in their literature that um after two
hours of application it'll soak into the plant and give longer protection for like 12 days
have you ever wondered what's in pure crop 1 the insecticide and fungicide well you're here with
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the join button on the bottom of every video so i'd like to go ahead and turn this over to hold
first i'll hold can you please introduce yourself tell us what company you're with and then also
just because like i've already said hold has won the highest level of integrities i've ever met
around the pesticide fungicide arena which is there's so much information there but it's a
very untapped untapped unspoken area so because of holt and his high level of integrity i've actually
started to ask him to come onto the channel and we're gonna begin to break down
one pesticide and or fungicide at a time so that you guys have a full understanding of what you're
putting on your plants and the proper application for these pesticides fungicides so hold please
introduce yourself to the channel sure thank you mark my name is holt crowder i work for a company
called organic shield and organic shield happens to be a pest control or an ipm and it's a epa
registered ipm which means it's a little different than some of the other ones and that we actually
had to prove our results and the epa gave us a registration versus some of the other products
that they may be on an exemption list with their ingredients very cool i absolutely love that holt
can you please go ahead and share screen and walk us through the first pesticide that you'd like to
tell us more information about sure sure the first one we're going to go over is let me pop it up on
the screen here it's called pure crop one and this one uh feel free mark to cut in and ask me
any questions as i'm going through this this one is um also what's called a fit for 25b and what
really what that means is as i was saying before those products there's a list of 5425b that has
it's really what your ingredients are so it's ingredients that are considered organic
ingredients that are all natural something along those lines that have shown some bug or
pest control of efficacy which means efficacy just means that they tend to kill some of the bugs some
of the time and so they don't have to go through some of the more rigorous ones with some of your
chemicals or even organic ones like like ours like organic shield that was organic but we still had
to prove the value of it to the epa so these are just ones off this list it gives them a little bit
more flexibility but generally most of them like the one we're about to talk about with pure crop
a lot of them have oils in them a couple of them have some other things too but first let's talk
about pure crop i find this one very interesting um if we look at the active ingredients here you
can see soybean oil is 10 corn oil is 5 then the other ingredients are water guar gum glycerin
citric acid soap and vanillin so we'll need to kind of break down a little bit about these um so
soybean oil and corn oil are basically your oils generally oils are used for suffocates which means
they coat the bug and it basically keeps it from breathing and it kills it in that fashion then
the other ingredients in this particular one water everybody knows what water is guar gum is actually
used in a lot of cooking things as a binder so i'm going to make some assumptions here because
i'm not their chemist on this but i'm assuming some of the guar gum was used as a binding
to hold everything together glycerin glycerin is actually a surfactant um a lot of people know of
glycerin in their cosmetics and there's glycerin soap there's some glycerin used in cooking
but glycerin usually lowers the surface tension of water so that actually it coats a little bit
better citric acid citric acid is people know of of um it's kind of like vitamin c but it doesn't
it's not quite like storing acids vitamin c citric acid is a little bit different it
does also normally you find it in lemons limes things like that but most of citric acid used
is a fermentation process so they ferment that to make it and then there's soap everybody kind
of knows what soap soap is also sort of a fatty acid that lower surface tension and then vandalin
is an extract made from the vanilla bean i'm not sure what they're using that for um it
might be for a little bit of smell or something because we don't really know the percentages
of these ones across the bottom uh we do knows 10 corn oil or sorry 5 percent corn oil 10
soybean oil um so of all the oil ones i've looked at so far i haven't personally used this one
um i find this one a little more interesting because of the process they went through
and they nano particle the the oils in there they claim that it's day of harvest safe and maybe for
most of your crops that you're going to eat and everything it probably is i i basically call
into question anything that's oil that you put in that late in the harvest on something that you're
going to set on fire that you're going to smoke or inhale um so you know as we talk about more things
you'll hear me refer to oils and iconic usually oils are i just i'm not really the biggest fan
of oils because you can't use them very late in your marijuana harvest as a general rule and so
the thought with this one is this one may be really good if you're doing on your vegetables or
something like that but let me go back to a couple of degrees so citric acid though one of the things
citric acid does it has some properties to kill fungicides to kill funguses and things
of that nature it has a ph of about four okay so here's citric acid and it has a ph below four so
you know my concern with citric acid and they may have a very little amount in there so it might not
be a big deal but um i just pulled this up citric acid on plants this is google so you can search
it for yourself if you want to you know back up what i'm saying but anyway most plants optimal
growth as we know in the marijuana world is 5.5 to 75 is where you want to be a lot of people
say five five to six five but you understand the range so citric acid the the downside of citric
acid is it can build up in the soil and as it says here um you know applying enough citric acid sorry
applying enough citric acid can make the environment unsuitable for plants so something to
be always concerned with citric acid is that thing that you want to make sure the ph is right but i
always worry about it staying in the substrate uh you know if you're reusing your cocoa or using
your rock wool or using your soil or whatever that it can actually build up it takes a little bit
of time to break down i think there's somewhere around uh 6 to 18 months depending on how it binds
into your soil and also if it's stuck in your soil then when you add water back in it's going to it's
going to change the ph of your root environment so let me go back to the pure crop again
it's always in the fine print isn't it yeah a lot of times you'll find things in the fiber we just
don't know what percentage of the citric acid but i'm seeing that and the other two products
we're going to talk about also have a little bit of in it it's also sort of used as a stabilizer
or to prevent fungus or mold buildup because it definitely will uh you know kill mold so i
would say on its own it might be really good as a fungicide you just really want to be careful with
it but anyway so pure crop is something i i find very fascinating because they nano particled it
it takes about two ounces per gallon of clean water but anything with oils always concerns me
too because of phytotoxicity they claim that it has no phytotoxicity but they do make a claim um
in their literature that um after two hours of application it'll soak into the plant and give
longer protection for like 12 days well the way i kind of look at oils are the oils you're trying
to coat the bug to suffocate the bug um you want to you know stop its breathing where it cannot no
longer breathe and die but you know you spray the oils on there and they can build up at some point
they start to build up and they either soak in the plant or you just have a lot of oil in your plant
so i used to call this the spray and pray method because you're going to spray it and you're going
to pray that it gets all the bugs but um and then say more bugs come back and you're spraying again
and so you're starting to just you know add oil after oil to oil to me just can be a sort of a
dangerous thing when you're really wanting to on the cannabis plant especially if you're doing
extractions you're going to be extracting the cannabinoids and you want to be able to do that
without having other oils you don't want soybean water corn or whatever the oil happens to be
also there is a concern they make the claim because they nano particles it doesn't do
this but usually oils you have to worry about the stomata and if you're familiar with the stomata
that's sort of how a gas exchange happens on the underside of the leaves and that's where the gas
goes in back so if you have oil you can imagine that it can possibly coat that in there and then
if and then also if the your lights are on that's why a lot of the oils you'll see and some of the
other ones we're going to go through we're going to say you know under this certain temperature
have it under a certain temperature or with the lights off or spray in the evening or something
like that well the reason being is it's an oil so if you can imagine putting suntan oil on you
will the sun the oil makes the sun refract and be more intense and will burn you so that's called
phytotoxicity on a plant that the oil can burn it that's why people always turn their lights off
if they spread the traditional oils is there any questions on that one mark though that's kind of
mostly really just looking at exactly what is on there right it's like berries spinach
grapes to uh tomatoes vegetables orientals something you don't eat citrus so it has a shell
tree nuts has a shell fruit trees has a shell kiwi i probably wouldn't even use it for a kiwi
because it has a soft a soft body and i can see it probably absorb through it and even the spinach i
i could see it washing off but it it probably would penetrate the and and then they have at
the end hops and hops in him and i find that to be really interesting too because it's like oh let's
just throw that on the label and and add it into a new market you know and i kind of see that that's
why it's at the end that's what i'm just imagining i would i wonder what the old label would have
looked like yeah yeah probably i don't know um but as far as you know field props and things i could
see this being beneficial it just depends on when you spray it most oils the studies i've seen stay
in the plant for at least 30 to 45 to 60 days when they soak in they even make the claim that this
one soaks in and stays at least 12 days and gives protection i'm not sure how it gets protection but
they also make a claim around beneficials versus sap sucking or buggy uh you know plants or bugs
that you plant feed on plants those are the sap subjects bugs and they say that it will kill those
because it messes up the way they digest versus your beneficial insects i'm not really sure how
they've nailed that particular thing of you know if it's a ladybug or something like that that eats
aphids or something like that that it doesn't uh seem to hurt those i'm not really sure how they
make that claim but there again they don't have to necessarily prove their claim because they're
not an epa register they're a fifa 25b exemption i don't know if it's got it on here or not let's see
yeah here it is right here on the bottom it's fit for 25 fifth fret expectation for section b
25 that's what i mean by that 25b if you guys look that up you'll you'll you'll see what i'm talking
about so essentially they're not epa registered and so sometimes you can usually tell there's a
they have a nice standard form on there but a lot of times i can tell the ones that are targeted
in the marijuana world have cartoonish type labeling because when you're an epa registered
you know everybody knows how the government likes to control things so they control your font your
size everything that you have on your label is has to be you know signed off by epa these guys
did not have to have anything signed off because they're claiming because of these ingredients are
considered organic and they're on this particular list the fifa 25b list they don't have to
basically prove or back up that it does what they say it does now i'm not saying that it
doesn't work i'm just saying that how well does that could be the question and then you know the
thing oils always go back to but that's pretty much my thoughts on pure crop one i don't let me
pull up there let's see here's their sds so i kind of went through some of these we're on here with
every yeah i think we've already covered all this central guys yep we've already covered that part
so that's just their sds oh that was absolutely amazing and ladies and gentlemen you have to
make a decision what type of pesticide fungicide you're going to be putting on your crop and just
take into consideration what you're growing okay i think this is we're not saying that pure crop
is bad we're not saying it's great what we're saying is you have to be thoughtful around its
application and the types of crops you're growing and if you're growing an herb or you're growing a
soft body it might not be something that's ideal because at the end of the day those those are more
difficult to wash off harder body shells might be a little bit easier at the end of the day so just
be thoughtful around what you're doing yeah i'm not i mean these are somewhat my competitors that
we're going to go over but we're all selling in the same space i don't really want to poo
poo on them because everything has its place everything has ups and downs and benefits to
it and so there are some benefits here but at the same time you know some of these things i you know
here's the ingredients we don't know exactly how much of the inert ingredients they have
in here in some respects you could almost make your own of some of these these products we're
going to go over because if you know what's in it and once you figure out the ratios you can
make your own and make it even cheaper possibly if you went down that path well this is why i've
asked you to come onto the channel because you have one of the highest level integrities i've
actually ever met in this industry so guys new welcome brother so ladies and gentlemen please
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real quick just to ask real fast so you switch from uh aerobic to an anaerobic to an aerobic
you're the third person in 12 years i've heard do this and it's really interesting and