John: This is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com.
Today, I have another exciting episode for you and I’m coming at you from my front
yard garden.
I just got done planting out, I don’t know, man, probably like about a hundred pepper
plants in each bed.
I spaced them probably about 12 inches apart.
We got 60 in this one and probably another 40 in that one at least.
So over a hundred pepper plants.
Now I know what you might be thinking, you know, I know it’s getting a bit dark but
you can still see the color on these guys are not nice and dark green.
They’re like a little bit yellow and people are like “John, what’s going on, man?
What’s going on with your plants?”
Well, you know, this is what happened to my plants.
I got some of these pepper plants for free actually because I rescued them and I need
to nurse these guys back to health, and this is how they look like.
I mean, I got them like this, they’re kind of shrivelled and yellow, and this may happen
if you overwater or underwater or the plants are stressed out for some reason or maybe
they just don’t have enough nutritional soil for their stage of growth.
I don’t exactly know what happened but I took them and you know, there’s been plenty
of times where I took plants that look like in this condition and I nursed them back to
health.
You know, I always recommend you guys just get healthy plants in the first place.
It’s always easier and better but you know what?
I like a good challenge, especially when it comes to gardening.
So I got some of these guys for free and we’re going to see if we can bring them back to
health because a plant is a terrible thing to waste.
Alright, so – so once we got all this planted, you know, I water them in, I watered them
before I transplanted and watered them after I got them into the ground, and the next thing
we’re going to do is I’m going to actually add some supplemental fertilizer or nutrients.
Now for those of you guys that have seen my show before, you guys know that, you know,
I’m big on actually not doing supplemental feeding, only when and necessary.
Now this is a case where it is necessary.
But the majority of you, if you don’t use any supplemental fertilizer like you know,
some gardening methods, once your fertilize like every weed, every week, you know, I don’t
got the time to fertilize every week.
I travel, I do all kinds of stuff.
I don’t have to remember to like fertilize my garden because if you miss it, you know,
your plants might not do well, you know.
I want to use the smart and you know, the prudent approach and to me, what that is is
actually building good soil and if you build good soil and you have microbes including
bacteria, fungi, nematodes and protozoa.
So by building good soil, basically you can have your soil make enough nutrition including
nitrogen and all the other nutrients that your plants need.
But by themselves because what happens is one thing eats another thing, which is eating
another thing and then another thing and then the worms eat all that and then they poop
out and the worms make worm castings and along the chain, each thing eating the other thing
is pooping out nutrients and those are nutrients that are bioavailable to your plants.
So that’s my style of gardening.
I don’t actually advocate supplemental feeding unless when necessary such as this situation
when, you know, the transplant didn’t have enough nutrition.
Now that they’re in the ground, they will get enough nutrition but I want them to recover
quickly from the transplant shock plus also the nutrient deficiency that they probably
had when there were still in the container or the stress they were going under.
So what we’re going to use today and what I would normally use is, you know, depending
on 2 things.
Sometimes I use some kelp extract or kelp, you know, spray foliar feed and actually drench,
I’ll use that stuff and that’s one option I have.
But sometimes if it’s like a more extreme case then I’ll use the fish emulsion so
we have some standard fish type emulsion here.
This is called the ‘Fish Mix’ and this is OMRI-listed so it can be used in organic
agriculture.
Whenever buying any fertilizer, I encourage you guys to make sure it is OMRI-listed so
that it can be used in organic agriculture because you know, even things that say ‘fish’
and whatnot can have a lot of things that I wouldn’t want to put in my garden, let’s
just put it that way.
With that being said, fish emulsion, I want you guys to be aware of, it’s basically
the leftovers from different food processing industries and it’s basically the bottom
of the barrel, whatever’s left just gets turned into fish emulsion with basically careless
disregard for what’s in there.
The other thing is that, you know, because the fish was processed in whatever way, it
may not have as much nutrition if it’s processed in a very specific way.
So with that being said, what we’re going to do today is actually talk to you guys about
the best fish fertilizer to use on your plants and it’s a new product that just came out.
And we have 2 different kinds, actually they’re the same thing just different packages.
One’s actually called the “Organic nutrient, ocean grown soluble protein, codfish hydrolysate
for use in all phase of growth”.
This one’s basically the same thing from what I’ve told.
It’s “pure protein dry made from codfish hydrolysate.
So you know, why this is different than this guy here is because of the processing.
They specially use codfish on these guys and they basically – after they use the cod
to make fish sticks or whatever, they take the frames, which is the bone and all the,
you know, leftover meat and all the other stuff on the – on the fish, and they actually
put that through a special enzymatic process at low temperatures.
So what this does, the enzymes break down the proteins that are in the fish and then
it breaks it down into amino acids and I’m going to stop there for a second.
You know, when guys eat food like you eat cows or fish or chickens for the protein because
we think we need the protein because “oh yeah, you need the protein to be big and strong”,
right?
We don’t actually need the protein.
What we need is the amino acids that are actually the building blocks of the protein.
So if we eat chicken, fish, cow, whatever, we get the protein then our body has to now,
at low temperature, break these proteins down into the amino acid components and then once
we got the amino acids then our bodies get to perform our own protein that we need.
So we’re absorbing the protein second-hand when we’re eating, you know, animal products
like that, and that’s why I like to eat fruits and vegetable and especially the leafy
greens.
Leafy greens are high in amino acids so that our bodies can actually reduce the whole breakdown
process so we can have better energy, more nutrition and more importantly, the phytochemicals
and phytonutrients that come along with the protein because in my opinion, more important
than the protein are the phytochemicals and phytonutrients that are in all the plant foods
that you see growing behind me.
So vroom, let’s fast forward back into the plants.
So basically the fish hydrolysate has been broken down into the amino acid components
for you and now the amino acids can be directly absorbed by the plants, much like we absorb
the amino acids from the plant foods and then we build the proteins.
This is a way that the plants can get the best utilization out of this.
This is also rich in nitrogen and it’s a non-leeching nitrogen.
So the way this is processed, it basically gives you a nitrogen that’s not going to
have residual build-up.
I mean, excess build-up of nitrogen in your soil is actually a really bad thing because
it’s just going to basically run off, run into the ground water, run into the Gulf of
Mexico and trade dead zones, all this crazy stuff.
So this product will not do that.
Once again, this is also OMRI listed so this is considered organic but no, it’s not vegan.
So the thing is, you know, this to me, I like to add only when possible to, you know, get
my plants healthy because I like to use a natural system, biologic system for the soil
to make it’s own nutrients that I don’t have to continually spray and feed my plants.
That being said, if you want extra production and all this kind of stuff, you could use
this more regularly than I do, I just don’t personally believe in it because actually,
this stuff can be expensive and even worse than expensive, once you guys open this jar
up, this actually comes with a seal in a jar and then also in a plastic bag that’s actually
been opened.
As you can see, it’s dusting off there.
This is why I don’t like this stuff.
If you smell it, oh man, it smells like rotten fish.
It smells so terrible.
So I’m not a huge fan of this stuff but I’ll spray it when my plants are in need
because I don’t want to lose my plants but I do want them to bring them back to life.
So yes, doesn’t smell the best.
The other thing is that this is very attractive to some dogs.
Don’t leave this out or your dog can find it, they might break into the package and
eat it because basically, after all, it’s just the amino acids from fish and it smells
like fish so if it smells like fish, it tastes fish.
But I’m not eating it.
That being said, for people that are into plant-based eating and don’t want to spray
fish on their foods, there are actually a soy-based amino acids as well.
The main difference between the soy-based amino acid and this, the fish-based amino
acid is one amino acid actually called ‘tryptophan’ and from what I hear, it doesn’t work as
well as this stuff.
But nonetheless, it is available for those that, you know, want to, you know, do a plant-based
amino acid solution.
Now the thing is, to spray this stuff on, it is soluble so that’s another thing that’s
really cool.
It can be used in hydroponics unlike the standard fish emulsions.
What you’re going to do and I’m dripping it everywhere here.
What you’re going to do is you’re going to have to basically put it into a water solution
and basically spray it on or water it on.
Man, this stuff smells so terrible.
This is why I don’t like it.
So while you could put this in like a pump-sprayer and spray it on or you could just mix it up
and then, you know, put it in water or a can of water.
Man, this stuff smells so bad, I don’t – I really don’t like it.
I got to get this – it’s all over my skin, probably smell like fish for days and that’s
not because my hands were down there somewhere or my girlfriend that I don’t have.
So what we’re going to use today is we’re going to use a Chameleon Sprayer to spray
this out at the right proportion.
I really like this Chameleon Sprayer because it will basically take any liquid substance
and then it has this little dial here and you can set it to like, you know, how many
teaspoons to dilute per gallon and it’s fairly accurate actually, and we’re actually
going to set it to 2 tablespoons per gallon.
Alright, there it is.
2 tablespoons per gallon.
We’re going to go ahead and twist this guy off, and how this works is you’re just going
to hook in your hose right here.
It’s really cool because it also has a quick disconnect right there.
So nice and easy and convenient.
And then basically, you’re going to rotate this to the different sprayer nozzles.
It has a little circle, little like a rain fan and then a little spray.
So we’re going to go ahead and put it on the rain fan there and what we’re going
to do is we’re going to take some of the powder here and it’s kind of cool, we don’t
really have to measure this because it’s going to be measured as it comes out.
Just going to put a bunch in there and I’m going to take my standard hose and we’re
going to add some water to the mixture.
We’re going to put the top on and we’re going to shake it up.
Shake it up, wait, wasn’t that a car song?
Shake it up.
Alright, so we got this all soluble and it’s all filled in there.
What we’re going to do now is go ahead and take the end of my hose here.
I have an off and on ball valve right here.
So that just such an occasion like I can actually remove my hose sprayer and we’re going to
then take the Chameleon and just screw this in.
I like screwing things in.
Wait, I like screwing things in more than I like screwing things off.
Alright, so we’re screwing this in just like that and now we’re set on a 2 tablespoons
per gallon.
All we simply need to do is turn this on and all we need to do now is spray on my peppers.
So I’m going to go ahead and water all my peppers.
I’m going to foliar feed it and also do a root drench with this guy right here.
Man, that stinks and I’m doing it at the end of the day so I can go inside after this.
I don’t have to smell it anymore and hopefully, wash it off my hands as well.
Now this can be foliar applied, it can also be root drenched, it can also be put in hydroponics
because once again, it is water soluble.
It can be added to your compost tea and it’ll actually make the bacteria and fungi go nuts,
which will increase your food soil web.
So I mean, I think the Pure Protein all round is definitely a good product to use.
That being said, I’m only going to use it as needed.
I’m not going to apply it all the time by no means because I got better things to do
than smell stinky fish because I don’t normally have to smell fish.
And maybe next time, I’ll use the kelp instead but I wanted really to show this to you guys
to give you guys options and that’s what my show is about.
I want to give you guys options whether you want to use it like I do in extreme emergencies
like this or whether you want to use it more often and get better results, you know, that’s
up to you guys.
But I always want to show you guys the latest and greatest products that will allow you
to grow a better and healthier crops more naturally and organic so that you and your
family can eat healthier and, you know, save the planet one person at a time.
If you guys are interested in buying some of the Pure Protein powders, please check
the links below the video.
I have negotiated special discounted – Growing Your Greens discounted pricing for you guys.
That’s going to be below.
To get the special pricing, click on that link and follow the directions and you’ll
get some of this stuff and rescue your plants if they have some transplant shock or yellow
up like mine did and I’ll be sure to give you guys an update in a future episode to
show you guys how my peppers are doing.
So hope you guys enjoy this episode, learning more about the codfish, fish hydrolysates,
better than fish emulsion, better than any other fish fertilizer that are found.
Once again, my name is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com.
We’ll see you next time and remember, keep on growing.