Flushing doesn’t make a difference to bud size. It’s for less harsh smoke and crop steering during early to mid flowering. It can really make a noticeable difference in hydroponics. It’s not really something for organic growing. I guess you could flush your soil at the end of the season if you are in small containers. But if you’re using small containers, you might as well just go with completely inert medium rather than soil. The crop steering flush involves flushing about half way through flowering to stress the plants. It will cause bud formation to increase quickly. It really speeds bud growth. But after a couple/few days’ dry back ,more nutrient is given in light dosages. Or alternate between nutrient mix and ph adjusted water. Then flush the last week or so. This is only for hydro medium ,tho. And the dilution rates differ for run off and no run off feeding. Much lighter doses for no run off.

You put the schematic up. We know how to do it,now. One question,is the wire completely insulated from ground? Like a weak Tesla coil or something? You said “the wire connects to the ground” but the schematic shows the wire insulated on poles.

This was great! Instant sub!

I don’t understand the logic of watering I the afternoon for simple reasons. I grew up in the subtropics and yet was green everywhere. I’ve been in rainforest, tropical and temperate, all green. Lastly I’ve been in the desert…not much in the way of green usually.

Hello Ashley of the past, don’t worry you will soon be catching rainwater 😁

SOIL VIDEO IDEA :) I'm struggling in my greenhouse again as each planting season all the soil in my pots has become hydrophobic. How to I fix it and how should one prep their containers of soil, that stay in the greenhouse all year, for winter so it's still ok come spring/summer? I covered them with straw but with mega deep snow I can't get into the greenhouse to do anything to help things all winter. Thanks so much.

I refuse to give aid and comfort to the enemy.

Tough little plants. No reason not to have them in your garden.

Very informative, presented in a clear, understandable manner

hello! what is your opinion on foliar fertilizer?

I advertised on kijiji for a fluffer to achieve a happy ending in the garden. I did not get what I was expecting.

Second year of having a broadfork. Used thru the beds last year worked great! Using on the edges of beds in ground. Also have rear tine rototiller working good. Great video. Serenade the soil! Whoa that's a different way of looking at your soil. Super examples plug in colonoscopy!!

I live in Manitoba and would like to try this for next year. When should I put the jugs out? We usually get snow end of October/early November.

Thank you for the great information. So I have a mixed grass/clover lawn. I understand you don't want to fertilize the clover with N but how do I fertilize the grass then? I read that the nitrogen that is fixed by the clover is used by the plant itself and does not increase the N in the soil? What fertilizer do you recommend?

Hello and thank you for sharing your knowledge! I’m zone steaming hot 9a southern Texas. I’ve always watered at night because thought watering in heat of day would rot roots with black container being so hot adding water boils roots 🤷🏻‍♀️ specifically talking Crown of Thorns succulents don’t like too much water.

My soil chugs like anaerobic clay when wet yet blows like the finest sand when dry, with a concrete stage in between! Difficult to deal with. Rock flour from glaciation. UK

Interesting info that I wasn’t quite aware of; thanks Ashley!

Fabric bags for max oxygen.

“Soil colonoscopy…” has to be one of the best intros I’ve ever heard. 😂

Chicago is not windy with wind, they got the name from the fact that politicians from Chicago where known for being long winded i.e. they talked a lot and gave very long speeches and presentations. Hence, the windy city.

What about using elemental sulphur to lower the pH in the soil, especially for those growing in containers or raised beds?

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This is one reason why I’ve learned to appreciate moles. The other is that they eat grubs. We have a patch of lawn that gets really abused and it became a mud slick during rain and an ice trap in winter. Every year I manually use a step-on core aerator and it’s made a huge difference. The quality of soil that now comes up in the core is worlds away from the hard, dry clay it once was. I wish aeration was promoted instead of chemical fertilizers…it makes lawn more resilient, naturally.

Curious, would not lactic acid bacteria contribute to soil aeration with the gases it gives off, if you had organic material in the soil? Five years ago I bought some raised bed "soil" that contained no soil, tomatoes would not take off until their roots made it to the soil below the bed. This spring I incorporated the bed with a yard of "topsoil", which turned out to be pulverized clay. I have been adding LAB every week, due to heavy rains, hope to unlock the nutrients for my newly planted tomatoes. I really enjoyed your LAB video. Stay Well!!!

I think this can really help my greenhouse grass space. Thanks for sharing.

yes. and too much dead organic matter deep in soil or filling a pot, creates wet anoxic conditions. on the other hand letting loads of dead organic matter dry out fully, makes a tight ball of hydrophobic mix that is very difficult to re-wet. in dry climates, raised beds pack down and water runs off the sides. you find out at end of season that a foot down is bone dry, and the top watering clogs up the top layer.

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You say Marigolds are from South America, but Tagetes erecta is from Mexico which is in North America.

I simply add fresh fish heads, whole fish with fillets removed. Basically fish waste from the co-op. In 20L bucket with a sealing lid. 10kg of fish to 10kg brown sugar mixed together. Add 2kg brown sugar on top of the 20kg mixture. Pat it down this turns into a crust. Basically this is the equivalent of fish jam. No nasty smells and no further processing. Lasts like jam on the shelf. Use after 1 month or keep it indefinitely.

At our new house. I kind of did a core aeration on the poolside beds ( compacted and high clay/silt) with a mini auger bit and cordless drill. Then topped off with a couple of inches of good compost. I then broadcast some saved brassica seeds over it and added a little woodchip mulch. Things are growing pretty well so far. I'm hoping the soil will be decent enough to grow in next Spring. (It's winter here atm.) Thanks for yet another very informative video. Cheers!

Hi in central Nova Scotia we have had less then 2 inches of rain this year. Oh no we are back to tilling the gardens again lol I am in my sixth year of improving this stuff that is called soil up here in the hills and have been digging in wood ash compost used potting soil last years mulch of straw or hard wood leaves. Still get a decent crop but it is all the shade from trees I refuse to cut down just to increase my yield. Interesting info here I believe I heard one company who added sand to the core holes in heavy clay country. Congrats on 100, 000 subs. Please send rain. thanks

Sandy soil, west central Mexican coast. One thing that no one seems to mention is that it compacts, after watering, pushing the soil down away from your plants. Hilling up is one way to fight the battle, but composting into the beds (beneath the soil) seems to help. You have great ideas on here. Thank you!

So the science on the climate was off?

I just spike aerated an in ground bed (around the few plant starts in it) bc they’re lagging behind the bed less than 4 feet away I used a garden fork in the style of a broad fork and it worked out really well! I’m so glad you did a video on this so I can show people the method to my madness 🤣🤣

Fascinating! I use subirrigation (which provides air at root level above the wayer). And I also love using a soil sampling tool for my transplants-it’s basically a corer. So it appears i have actually accidentally started aerating automatically. Thank you!

A cheap way to do core aeration is using an auger bit on a drill. It's basically a giant drill bit for digging holes in soil. I've been aerating heavy clay sections of my lawn with it whenever I get a few minutes. Not as fast as an aeration machine, but very cheap and easy. It's honestly one of my favorite garden tools. I use it to dig holes for planting or to loosen up the soil in spots where it looks like compaction is starting to happen. It's also a super easy way to mix up compost. I just go and blast a couple spots in my bin each night to keep air flowing and to bring stuff up from the bottom.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

my wife: "Honey, what are you doing?" Me: "Stabbing dirt"

Yep the Japanese beetles came to my garden like crazy because of the blooms

Whoa! I didn’t know plants make ATP! Us mammals do to! Fun fact health tidbit: our bodies produce adenosine (sans triphosphate) to make us sleepy at night, and it takes around 2 hours for it to clear the system upon waking. Caffeine blocks the clearing of adenosine (by blocking the receptors) making us more tired for the rest of the day. So, if you delay your coffee by 1.5-2hrs, your system clears the adenosine, you won’t get a caffeine crash, and you’ll have more energy! Love your channel so much Ashley! ❤️🙌❤️

If a rabbit digs a tunnel under your garden bed, can that count as macro aeration? Just kidding. Ha! This happened to me this year. I was planting my squash starts and the bed started caving in. 🐰🤔😁

I'm doing a lot of container gardening in fabric pots and I totally believe you! Oxygen is amazing! It turbo-charges those plants! Now if only I could get the weather to be nice instead of cold and rainy!

Getting more and more unhinged I see....keep up the good work 👍

This chevdo is spicy as heck

I like to bottom dress.

My wife told me to keep my spikes to myself.

A different channel here on youtube already did that ---- he grew 4 plants 2 lettuces and 2 tomatoes 1+1 got urine then the other 1+1 got miracle grow both lettuces grew well the tomato that got miracle grow did very well the tomato that got urine DIED ----- seems urine does not do well with fruit producers only the leafy plants.

The dirt in my garden beds is basically cement (we just moved). I added a ton of old potting soil from last year's container garden plus what felt like a ton of compost. It barely helped even after digging it up. I am just telling myself this year if anything grows and survives it's a miracle.

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