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Shane from the ever popular MIGRO YouTube channel and creator of the MIGRO Array grow light series is back on the podcast! Today Shane is here to discuss a wide range of topics, including his recent lists that he released for best small grow lights. This leads to a conversation about light density versus efficiency, and Shane highlights the different impacts of different factors depending on the size of your actual grow. The conversation turns towards taking light readings, and Shane gives his thoughts on the use of PAR and LUX meters. He also shares a nifty hack to take a cheap and simple LUX reading and translate it into a more usable PAR value. Shane also discusses the need to accommodate other environmental factors like climate and nutrient intake to avoid suffering from light stress earlier and more severely! Be sure to subscribe to Shane's MIGRO YouTube channel to stay up to date on all his videos!
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Show favorite and Queen of the GrowCast Grower's Chat Marybeth Sanchez returns to the podcast for a heavy metal exploration! Jordan and Marybeth talk about where these metals come from and how they accumulate in the cannabis garden, which is crucial to understand for those looking after their own health- and especially those looking to past cannabis testing! Marybeth discusses the types of inputs that can contain heavy metals, giving a nod to synthetic nutrients for their uniformity, sterility, and rigorous testing (though they of course carry their own input issues). Marybeth of course recommends large amounts of humic acid in the cannabis garden, which is effective in tying up a wide variety of harmful compounds from chlorine and chloramines all the way up to mercury and other heavy metals. Jordan and Marybeth wrap the show by talking about some interesting recent environmental stories, including the recent news articles about a "forever chemical" contaminant, as well as a story about a neighborhood built atop a massive gypsum mine.
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Friend of the show and co-creator of Black Label Organics Brandon Rust joins the podcast for an incredible episode about his genetics, inputs, soil testing, and more. Brandon gives an update on the breeding work he's been doing and shares some of the crosses he's working on with his flagship strain Lime-o-Rilla, among others. The conversation turns towards soil inputs, and Brandon shares a variety of interesting takes including his opinions on animal based inputs like meals and manures- as well as his thoughts on sea based products. He shares a very interesting take on myco, explaining why he prefers to focus on things like trichoderma instead. Brandon shares his favorite inputs for the most necessary plant nutrients, and gives an eye opening exploration as to how plants uptake and consume a variety of nutrients including calcium, phosphorous, nitrogen and more.

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Today's episode features brand new guest Margo; the creator of Margojuana and Executive Director of IL NORML. Margo shares the story of her very interesting journey into the cannabis industry, and shares some very practical and sound advice for anyone looking to land a job in the now booming industry, and it's new corporate models. However, she also goes on to share her personal story where she came to revelation that her particular employers were actively working against the cannabis activism that she stood for- emphasizing that you must be extremely selective when entering the space professionally. The conversation turns towards the current state of Midwestern cannabis, Margo's work at NORML, and cannabis legislation as a whole. Margo wraps the show by talking about her educational mission with Margojuana, and what she has planned for 2021 and beyond.
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Fan favorite Thor from Viking Gardens returns to the podcast for another DWC exploration! Today Thor gives us an update on all things Viking Gardens and fills us in on which strains he is currently working with and fine tuning. The conversation turns to DWC- which Thor actually breeds in- and Thor gives a detailed rundown of his personal deep water culture nutrient recipe. He gives an unbiased review of all the nutrients he has tried and insists that Cyco nutrients is optimal for his DWC setup. Thor also runs down his list of additives including the increasingly popular Power-Si, among others. He also talks about the many products that DIDN'T work out in his DWC trials, specifically more organic and living input based additives.
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Today's show is an episode of the GrowCast Member Podcast, available weekly ad-free at www.patreon.com/growcast along with Wednesday night GrowCast TV live streams, giveaways, and more! Come and join the most positive community in cultivation!!! Marybeth Sanchez is on the line for an entire episode about soil aeration! Marybeth talks about the incredible need for oxygen within the soil, and talks about the many roles that oxygen plays in the soil web. She also discusses what happens when the soil is deprived of oxygen, from pathogens to permafrost. Marybeth shares her opinion of various aeration inputs like perlite and hydroton, among others. She also talks about various soil aeration techniques like the chop stick method, and gives her opinion on physical aeration. Marybeth and Jordan wrap the show by talking about the GrowCast Grower's Chat (now on discord) and some of the interesting posts they've encountered!
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