in in my opinion calcium is is one of the most underrated minerals and and using enough calcium
can really dry great vegetative growth the reason i like living soils is that if you do an okay job
of mixing an initial starting soil the planet in the soil and the microbes are doing the rest of
the work and and i don't have to try to play god and say also is there a ratio of like a three to
one or a ratio between phosphorus and potassium that you have identified a certain less or more
or equal to really emphasize that last few weeks so if you have excessive phosphorus or excessive
potassium or deficiency in either of them you're not going to hit those ideal brix levels have you
ever wondered the difference between calcium carbonate versus potassium carbonate well in
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video make sure to hit the join button on the bottom of every video i i wanted to i want to you
know i'm jumping back to your point i i thought about ph up and down and i think that's brilliant
in terms of using calcium carbonate as as a uh a source to ph up in uh in veg and then maybe a
uh a potassium uh based more in flour and can can i explain my this again i'm not a scientist
you're going uh from veg to flour and the plant stops growing that's when i kind of encourage
growers to back off on the calcium is it it's like you say it's holding on to the minerals uh and
releasing that whole surface area cation exchange experience but then also i'm always finding
a lot of growers dealing with the phosphorus deficiency um as they go later into flowering and
and a lot of people talk about how phosphorus and potassium are affected by the amount of calcium
so then i was thinking okay if people need to use a ph board to balance your soil switch over
to a potassium carbonate because that again um the the and this is where i'm wondering is is reacting
with the the hydrogen i'm thinking is releasing the co2 and the potassium's being left behind
which then again increases the ph but uh less calcium less antagon it's antagonizing
it's less antagonization on the potassium in the phosphorus should which should minimize
and encourage the atp production because as they go into a harder condition like
hotter temperatures or colder environments as is finishing off we need more atp production to to
help it versus hinder it listening to you makes me feel sorry for people who have to listen to me
um because because i think we think very very similarly and and we talk similarly uh so it a a
big map would definitely help um i was i was going on a slight calcium carbonate is is very oxidizing
right it's it's it's one of it's very oxidized you're releasing so much more oxygen with calcium
carbonate the way where i thought you were going is is calcium to me is a great vegetative food and
and we often have far too little calcium we don't we don't put enough emphasis on calcium in my
opinion calcium is is one of the most underrated um minerals and and using enough calcium can
really dry great vegetative growth and at the same time calcium is so valuable for root growth
that it that it's it really maintains a good healthy root system and so i was thinking
you were promoting calcium carbonate in in veg because calcium's so important in veg
and then i was thinking you were recommending potassium bicarbonate because potassium is so
important in flower and and that's that's that's how and i am well i was keeping it that's how i
was recommending too like for that reason exactly but keep going keep going how you interpret
it because i want to just dive into whatever you're interpreting it the way you are well it's
it's um um you know the most the most important thing when we talk about minerals in general is
is the balance right and and it's so hard to um and that's to be to be honest and i'm
always transparent about this the reason i like living soils is is that and especially just at
water super soils is that if you do an okay job of of mixing an initial starting soil the plant
in the soil and the microbes are doing the rest of the work and and i don't have to try to play god
and say oh [ __ ] i think i need a little bit of more magnesium or i need a little bit more
phosphorus or i need this the plant will dictate say listen i need more phosphorus i'm going to
really push uh my mycorrhizae to to deliver me some more more phosphorus um you know because that
that's where that atp is right that's that's that if i need energy i need atp um and and so so that
that's what the plant needs for energy and the plant recognize that that the glucose that it's
making that is going to be good energy for those that don't know how to produce energy from the sun
right so fungi fungi can't you know they can't they can't photosynthesize they need that sugar
they need that carbohydrate as their energy source they they can they care less about phosphorus they
can ship off the phosphorus for the plant that needs that phosphorus for its energy in atp
um and so um you know in in my opinion that's that's that whole exchange of sugar versus um it's
it's one form of energy being shifted for another form of energy for for that whole plant okay so
we're so we did we kind of encourage synthetic growers right there yes that sucks if we didn't
uh you so so uh or do we help out the organic growers by creating a more healthy environment
for microbes to exist and and flourish in different as the seasons are changing because
there it does get hotter week four on before it drops off in temperature normally so there is
more stressful conditions what we're discussing and and so it would make sense right because the
plant is stopped growing so we don't need as much calcium and we do really need to buff up the atp
production and that's why i'm always thinking also is there a ratio of like a three to one or a ratio
between phosphorus and potassium that you have identified a certain less or more or equal to to
make that really emphasize that last few weeks and there's always um there are these ratios
uh you know uh and definitely a p to k ratio is is pretty critical especially when it comes to
to um sugar production if if you're imbalanced in terms of your p decay ratio you will not hit
those brix levels that you want so if you have excessive phosphorus or excessive potassium or
deficiency in either of them you're not going to hit those ideal uh brix levels and it's so
critical to to remember that in in the cannabis um based on some type of misinterpretation
of of some research data we use way more phosphorus than than uh than we need to so it's
the only reason you have a phosphorus deficiency laid in flower is perhaps because you have
used too much calcium or you've got too much magnesium because those are impacting um
the uptake of phosphorus or your ph has risen too high or something like that those are the
reasons you may run into a phosphorus deficiency in late flower because to be honest phosphorus is
really important at a bit of root development and and then whenever that plant needs that extra bit
of energy and typically needs extra energy red around transition it's going from veg to flower
that's a really stressful time it's got different growth it's going to have that elongation as you
flip into flower it needs extra energy then and it continues to need energy during that flowering
period but we add way too much phosphorus and that's why you know many hydroponic growers are
forced to do that that flush because their root zone is so caked with extra phosphorus that if
they don't that the plant will continue to take up that phosphorus and and you'll get that you know
yeah lower lower oil production so yeah so so in you know in in my thought process
um you really do want the i don't think we're in in any way encouraging hydroponic growing in many
ways we're encouraging having balanced nutrient um uh soils and then letting the plant do a lot more
of that work of deciding what we want to eat when we want to eat it and what form we want to eat
it's so important to recognize that
the soil is is so incredibly dynamic that within seconds you can have species that are turning off
and species that are turning on and once again thanks to all the work that elaine ingham did to
highlight this we now know that there's there's thousands and thousands of different species