hey everyone you're here with mark bauer at perfectguards.com so today we got a couple
comments from sam blank and ogk fabrication i just want to say both of you guys are correct
and i'm going to explain the difference on where you guys are coming from and how we kind of come
together on these separate viewpoints and see how both techniques can be successful when used
with specific growing techniques are you tired of getting crappy advice from your local hydroponics
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july with us as problems arise we are here for you so sam blake's comment says that with new feeding
techniques you no longer have to defoliate and the og talks about how defoliating is for airflow then
blake recommends saying he's talking about how it's not for airflow it's for light penetration
and he's talking about a technique called crop steering okay so just to be specific crop steering
is when you add in a very specific amount of water as the plants are transpiring when the
lights are turning on and turning off and you're kind of giving a smaller amount of water more
often throughout the day than kind of just giving one large amount of feed than walking out of your
grow room and not really worrying about your feed schedule for the rest of the day so let's
be really clear guys if you spend more time in your grow room and you dedicate your life to your
grow room yes you will get better yield and higher quality because you're right there you're watching
the plants every day that's your job that's your life and of course there are going to be things
that you could do to help reduce the problems that the plants go through throughout their
entire growing season one of those things is a poor growing environment caused by higher humidity
and in fluctuations throughout the humidity and temperatures throughout your growing season so
let's be really clear again every single time the plant goes through stress it's going to reduce its
yield because when it goes through some stress it has to recover from that stress to begin to start
growing again and a lot of times we wouldn't think that watering is stressful to the plant
but it's about how we're watering right if we're watering too much and there's excess humidity in
your grow environment well then that humidity is going to evaporate away and when it's evaporating
away it might begin to create an environment for powdery mildew or later in your season it might
cause some mold to grow in your stem or because of the higher humidity environment it might attract
gnats or white flies and when white flies or gnats die on your plant mold begins to grow so
once again it's not the watering per se that is the stress it's your technique around the watering
and so for example crop steering what he's saying is you don't have to defoliate and you can if you
want for light penetration but you don't have to because when you are giving a very specific amount
of water which is normally a small amount of water more often throughout the day specifically
around when the plants are transpiring so this technique is really measuring when the plants
transpire so when they're basically sweating and during at night the plants don't sweat or the soil
doesn't really go through evapotranspiration and i totally butchered that word i never get that word
well uh say it well but anyways basically when water is evaporating off of the soil
or the leaves are breathing and releasing more moisture so what this technique is doing
is it's feeding right when the plant is sweating right so when plant is releasing water and if the
water is evaporating weight if you really think about it that's slightly stressful because water
is the solvent right water is how the plant grows the water is what gives the plant is elasticity
you got to think about it right so how does it evaporate away so when it's growing or when it's
stretching or when it's moving or cracking all these things are releasing little water droplets
in there or the plants just breathing well just like us when we're walking around throughout the
day and we're not drinking water what's happening to us well we get dehydrated we might get
cranky we might get annoyed a little easier and so all those things are fatigue and stress doesn't
allow us to perform to the best of our ability that's why it's so important to drink water
that's mineralized my suggestions always drops of balance i've been on that product for about
10 years and i've seen the value of it whether i'm drinking it or whether i'm giving it to my plants
so just to be really clear yes for sam's comment it's 100 true when you're giving a very specific
amount of water more often throughout the day you're not going to have as much humidity
developing in your grow room and so you're probably going to get less bike problems and mold
problems which is going to reduce the need for you to defoliate that one-third of your plant because
the environmental conditions are there a lot less for mold and bugs to take hold in your grow room
because once again you're only giving a small amount of water and when you do that there's not
enough time for pathogens and pests to take hold but for 99 of all the growers out there they don't
have the time to watch their plants day in and day out and measure every single little thing in their
grow room and i'm not knocking this technique down i'm not knocking down that one percent of those
growers out there because at the end of the day you go to the club that's what you're seeing that
65 top shelf product or higher even right we're willing to pay for that because that grower
put in all that specific time and that grower has the confidence to ask for those top shelf
dollars that top shelf dollar amount because he has to get that amount back because of the amount
of time he dedicated to his grow room once again we go back to that other 99 though that other 99
we have three kids we have a wife we have a job maybe have two jobs we're in this because we
want to save a little money and we know that if we dedicated the amount of time you needed to really
perfect the crop steering technique the rest of our lives would crumble because we would no longer
be able to take care of our responsibilities and our kids will get neglected which goes back to
defoliating your plants that bottom one-third as being absolutely essential for 99 of us because
when you defoliate that bottom one third you're able to have kind of a regular lifestyle while
in your garden you're able to walk into your garden right when the sun comes up or right
when the lights turn on because you're kind of mimicking your grow room cycle with your lifestyle
cycle and you're trying to find a time which you're able to be consistent in your grow room
while being able to be reliable for your family friends your job and the life you have established
in which other people are reliant on you on and when you defoliate that bottom one third right
from the very beginning you're setting yourself up for success because you'll be able to be a little
bit more relaxed on your growing disciplines you need to have in your grow room for a successful
crop you'll be able to be a little bit off on your watering because i guarantee you you know the five
second count right or whatever it's always going to be a little bit off you're always going to be
adding a little bit more water to one plant versus the other plant you might be growing different
phenotypes and strains and because you have that diversity these very simple techniques of trimming
up your bottom one-third is going to give you a healthier growing experience because you'll
find that you're running into less pathogen and pest problems later in the growing season
if any of you guys haven't watched some of my water videos i talked about this is also where
having structured water and healthy water i always push and recommend drops of balance because i know
what it does i went down to the scientific level on this situation and i know that when you add
in more trace minerals just not the macro mineral but more trace minerals there is more surface area
in the water itself because when you have all these different types of trace minerals in water
and if you can imagine it magnesium calcium or on whatever it is each of these minerals has surface
area right so this is the water these are the minerals and each of these minerals has more
surface area and with more surface area there's going to be more oxygen carrying capabilities
the water is actually going to have something to hold on to and it's going to be harder for
it to evaporate away if this sounds crazy to all of you guys it's not it's basic science this is
called boiling point all right and if you have one substance so they always say right water the
boiling point is 212 degrees that is h2o specific but if you had salt in here if you threw an extra
salt it would actually increase the boiling point of the water and if you went up into altitude it
would decrease the boiling point of water and if you went below sea level it would actually
be harder for water to boil so remember when there is substance in the water it actually changes the
boiling point of water is same situation here when there is more structure in your water more things
in your water it will be harder for the water to evaporate away and by doing that it also will help
with a healthier growing environment throughout the growing season so what i'm always doing in
this channel is to teach and educate people how to grow these plants with ease in line with your core
values and not being a slave to your grow room i hope this video was helpful once again thank
you so much for posting you guys please like share and subscribe have a great grow everyone