BuildASoil: FINAL TRANSPLANT 10x10: Episode #8

hey welcome to the build a soil family farms greenhouse this is episode eight we're going to be transplanting today after we check on the vegetables okay so take a look down in this area this is the same lettuce that we're growing in that 30 gallon container in quadrant four in the 10 by 10 tenth and we're about to do the same thing in there you see how it's all thinned out i actually used a greens harvester in here it's a way to use a drill and a small blade and it mechanically harvests this with one person but they also went back in and thinned it out i'm going to show you how ours is a little overgrown we're going to harvest it all and make sure that it continues to grow back [Music] okay welcome to episode eight this is the 10 by 10 and we're about to do some transplanting so today is really going to be the big kickoff where we have identified our females and so i'd like to update you on that and tell you a little bit about each section right now before we make some major changes so let's start here section one we've got the vegetable seeds that are about to get taken out to the greenhouse we're not quite quite ready for them yet and so i'm going to maximize the time here because we've got some space i'm going to build an earth box in this area because if you remember quadrant quadrant one is going to be two earth boxes one of them is a no-till earth box we've already grown in it before it was the max stomper we harvested that and now we've got that same box in here all we did is run some cover crop and i showed you that and we already took it down it's turned into soil the worms have worked it i've showed you in almost every video what that looks like so we're going to plant in that and today we're going to set up a new earth box so that we can plant into that and when we're done setting up the new earth box i've got to plant the plants in here we're going to put four and i got to put one plant in each one of our recipes over there i also need to take a soil sample from the taken bait kit send it to the lab so i can show you what the soil tests look like on your take and bake kit so you can understand how it compares to our other recipes and give you a quick rundown so there's basically there's a lot to cover today quadrant four is the last one you can see we've been harvesting this lettuce out of here i harvested some more for a customer this morning just to send them home with and we've not been keeping up with it and so in the greenhouse earlier i showed you how we normally harvest it all at one time we thin it out so you don't get any of this kind of decayed growth if you look in here if you don't do it then this can happen in the deepest parts because of the moisture and that just makes it harder to wash and eat on a daily basis which means that you're less likely to do it because we're all pretty busy so we're going to clean this out today and then it's going to completely grow back i'm going to show you how we do that also wanted to show you the kale we've been eating off of this and it just keeps throwing down stacking and so if you like kale if you make kale chips if you eat it in your smoothies i don't know why you wouldn't just have a plant going that's quadrant four a little more to talk about later in the video today we're going to be doing the transplanting as discussed to make sure that we give it our best shot i come up with like a transplant solution i like to use and this is just our build a soil wetting agent the sapinaria this one's new we've also always used the thermax 70. you can also use anything that is a wetting agent if you already own one the goal is to make sure that the moisture spreads from side to side i'm going to put this in first and then i'm going to add two root wise products that i really like to use at transplant and a couple of other times but right now we're transplanting this stuff's really potent it's a sapidin extract i'm gonna put less than less than a quarter teaspoon per gallon there's like three or so three and a half gallons in here so i'm gonna put just under one teaspoon and that's way more than enough that'll get it really foamy and so i'm gonna go ahead and mix that in right now and that foam will allow me to mix in the microbes and everything else slightly easier you can see how foamy it is that's the benefit of the wedging agent and that's all natural saponins if you google saponin as a plant growth promotant on google scholar you're going to find a lot of information about some benefits to natural plant saponins in the garden now that we've got that whipped up i'm going to go ahead and add some rootwise microbe complete this is my absolute favorite it's the best on the market worked with kevin for a long time and i'm pretty loyal to this product it just works really well for us we use it on the on the vegetable farm as well and so in here i could add about a tablespoon i've already used some in here so i'm just going to do like a maintenance dose right now and i'm going to do a half tablespoon let's find that one there we go that'll be more than enough sprinkle that in the foam here and then i'll mix it in in a second the carrier used in there is a diatomaceous earth and it's got a very diverse array of microbes and so what we're trying to do is get those to associate with the cover crop get everything firing on all cylinders because we're going to want to flip the flower very soon to make sure these 10 gallons don't get overgrown the enzymes we've not discussed this on camera yet at least in the youtube this is one of my absolute favorite products i don't use it all the time but i kind of use it like lighter fluid for the fire when i want it to kick start like if i've top dressed or if i'm about to transplant these are the same enzymes that would be created by the bacteria and microbes in root wise microbe complete they're fed on organic non-gmo substrate until they produce their enzymes which is a time consuming process and then they bottle it with a scoby in here and you keep it in the refrigerator although it's not a must i like to keep in the fridge so mine's cold i'm going to get it all active in here while we go build the earth box and do some other stuff it's going to come to temperature and get alive so in here i'll just pop it off i believe it says 5 to 10 ml three to five milliliters per gallon so i'm going to put in 15 milliliters in here there we go clear just dumps right in if you were to look in the bottle there's actually a little scoby kind of like kombucha and it grows in here don't let that scare you that's that's keeping it active kind of like anything that you've bought before that has a scoby like vinegar or kombucha that's all i want to do i'm going to mix this up and now that this is in warm water one of the secrets here to the fast growth is that we're using microbes and enzymes and so i don't use ice cold tap water we use filtered water and i make sure that on the filter that we offer it connects to the to the sink so i can actually turn the hot water on just a little bit balance it to a nice warm temperature of like 80 degrees or so so it feels good and then i'll put that in the bucket and when i water with that it keeps the microbes at their peak activation level where they can do their job enzymes are temperature dependent that's one of the reasons why corn will jump like two feet in july very enzyme based process so i hope that makes sense next up we've got to prepare to do all the transplanting i've got nine females clearly identified last week on friday when i did the most recent youtube video we discussed how when determining whether it's a male or female early on under regular lighting sometimes they can trick you a little bit and a couple plants might lag behind if you've got extra plants that may not be a big deal you can click uh select the clear winners the way this has worked out is i need ten plants to be in here two one for each earth box four here and four there well i've got nine clear-cut females that have already showed with a hair i've got three that are maybes i'm pretty sure there's a hair on one they're not showing male which typically all the males have really shown right now so that's likely to be female because those are a maybe we're gonna plant all nine and i'm gonna leave one maybe spot for here because i just need to get going i don't want to hold it back anymore and i'll keep you up to date we'll be transparent about what happens and hopefully my maybe is a female if it turns out to be male or any others we will definitely highlight that and show you what we have to do to get ready but that's how it's going to go today earth box transplanting choosing one maybe and then showing you the entire process as we go what i'm going to do now is show you the new earth box take some of the kit out so the wheels are an extra but i really like them and the earth box is already prepared to hook up it comes with an insert that the soil is going to sit on top of and the roots are actually going to go through to the water that's contained below and the water is going to be in this system inside here and you can tell that it holds that tray up here but in the in these two areas there's corners you're going to pack with soil and they're going to act as your wick they're going to actually come in contact that soil area those two spots with the moisture and wick the moisture up into the system as well as your plant roots are going to wick some of that moisture as well when you're filling it it actually has an overflow area here so if you put too much water in it's going to dump out the bottom which is really handy because you only want to have the right amount of water in here and then when it starts to drink from there it creates an air pocket in here and allows it to breathe underneath when you go to the earthbox website or if you follow this production style they say to keep the reservoir full they also mention not really to use compost so what we've done with living soil is the one rule we break with earthbox is we don't keep the reservoir full in fact when i build this today the number one thing i want you to take home is we're not gonna bottom water until after we've transplanted we've top watered and the plant starts to grow like any other container once it starts to visibly grow and the roots are spreading the first thing it does is send roots to all parts of the container at that point it's safe to start bottom watering because now it's going to start drinking and it goes really fast after that so be prepared for that let's get started i'm just going to jump into it first thing i'm going to do is hook in the wheels so i'm just going to flip it dump my wheels out now you can see they're ready to put in right here sometimes because of the angle they're a little hard to put in with your hand and you're just going to push it in until it sinks all the way in there that's it uh two of them do have a locking caster so if you're concerned if you're going to be using that you might want to line them both up on the same side i just put them wherever i never use the locker not a big deal okay there we go make sure it's in next we put the screen on and then this just lines up so that the cut out squares are where your soil wick is going to go and they match the corners on the inside and it just sets right in there it's very simple next you can see there's a hole here and so all i'm going to do is take this and it comes with it and this is the tube that they're going to have you use and this is the shower cap or the mulch cover that we use you don't have to use that in fact when i first started using earth boxes i thought it's plastic it's got plastic mulch i don't want anything to do with it it's food grade plastic and i've had mine for years outside the intense colorado sun at altitude with that uv and they looked just like they were brand new so they really really really hold up to a beating in the sun and it's food grade plastic which is important to me and these mulch layers you can reuse again and again but you don't have to use them the reason why we use them is it allows you to mound compost and nutrients really high on here and and hack this system supercharge it with nutrients at the same time you have clean water all the way down below which means that you're not going to be overloading the plant with nutrients it'll use feeder roots on top and it'll have water roots down below and it's kind of a nature trick so that's why we use this and watch i think you'll see the benefit later on right now the most important thing is we're going to put this tube in first it just goes in there and sits in the bottom and it's got a design in there so that it can breathe a little bit you don't have to cut it at an angle or anything it just goes straight in and it does its job now we're going to put the soil in the first thing that i do is i pack the corners and some people have asked me are you worried about soil falling down into the reservoir i'm not worried about it at all the plant roots will probably just eat it later on very minimal actually falls through so it doesn't really clog the reservoir i've heard of some people putting a little landscape fabric down here i don't like doing that i just do it as is and it's never caused a problem for me so here's the buildus oil 3.0 that's what we've decided to use this time we're going to compare this one that's new with our 3.0 recipe against a recycled earth box that we grew cover crop in added craft blend kashi blend too so it's like alive and ready to go and this is fresh and new so it'll be a fun comparison for us on our bags you grab the corner and pull and that releases throw this away and instead of just dumping this in i'm actually going to scoop into the corners right now i'll show you what it looks like you can see there's the woody part is from the oldie mountain fish compost there's malibu compost and there's worm castings in here for aeration we use pumice and rice holes which is really different than the industry standard if you're interested in interested in this we teach how to build soil and we teach about every single ingredient and we'd be happy to share that info with you all right i'm packing that in the corner you can see now i'm going to actually use my hand and compress it in there and make sure that it's tight the reason why is this is the wick area water is going to pour through the bottom like three gallons worth and if that pours through the bottom and it hits that wick zone and it just completely washes it out it's going to stop your wicking action and it's going to leave soil in your reservoir so i'm going to pack it tight and then what i'm going to do is water it just a little bit which you don't have to do but i'm going to make sure that at least has the beginnings of some moisture in there so later on when i go to wick it or go to water from the bottom it doesn't just completely fall apart that's it okay a little bit of moisture that's fine pack the other corner in here you can dump in here and just pack the corners with the soil that's in here but i like to make sure that i'm setting that corner up for success see how i'm pushing pretty firmly i really want to make sure that it sets up a wick okay that's it i'm gonna dump the rest of the soil in and we're almost done because i'm using the 3.0 i pretty much don't have to do anything after this all i'm going to do is dump the whole bag in these earth boxes they say they hold two cubic feet you can see this is a one cubic foot bag and it's basically full enough to get going if i'm going to add any more later on now i'm just moving the soil around this plastic tube so that it's supported in here evenly and then i'm going to pack it down just a little bit around there later on i can top dress in here i told you that's some of the benefits so i like actually leaving a little bit of room in here in the beginning so one cubic foot is really all you need to get this thing going and that's another benefit of the earthbox a lot of horsepower for the size container another thing you might notice that i'd like to address right now is it's a rectangular shape and a lot of times people will run and try and grab a different shape because it it's easier to work with something that's round or square rather than a rectangle i think part of the horsepower is that this is fairly shallow and the reservoir sits below the deeper it gets the more hydraulic pressure is required to wick it up and it breaks the system at some point when you get a deeper bigger system the other thing that i've noticed is that the round to hold the same amount of soil have to go taller and they're sold that way they have a square one for roots they have a city picker this is my favorite the food grade plastic the rectangular shape you can plant at one side plant two plants plant three plants or just one and something about this shape is part of the magic with the earth box so i know that early on when you see this it's kind of easy to pick apart like plastic mulch rectangle shape but there's something magic here and i urge you to try it so there we go i'm gonna i'm gonna just even this out now i've got to put a whole gallon transplant in here there's plenty of room for me to dig that soil out but for right now i'm going to pre-moisten it just a little bit and i already have the root wise in here and the wetting agent and the moisture out of the bag was pretty nice so i'm not going to go too crazy the rule of thumb here the most i would want to add in is about five percent and so five percent in a one cubic foot bag that's seven and a half gallons of soil about um three quarters of a gallon of water would be ten percent so i want to do about half that so that gives you a rule of thumb i'm not going to measure it exactly i'm just going to try and get this wet similar to when i built that taken bake it's going to look like i'm adding a lot of water but if you were to dig down an inch or two it's going to take probably 20 minutes for this to soak in and actually move to the bottom worst case i've got a reservoir underneath there it'll catch the water and i can just tip it and drain it out but i'm going to avoid that i'm going to put the right water right amount of water in here right now for those of you that have been asking about the earth boxes we do carry them at our website at buildasoil.com we have a few different colors and we have an affordable package where you don't have to get like the trellis kit and all of the extra fertilizer you can just get just the earth box and set it up exactly as we do one last thing to consider is the weight once you've added it might be a good idea to feel what the weight is without any water in the reservoir and that gives you kind of a memory factor on hey if the reservoir is dry but it's still super heavy you kind of know how much moisture is in the soil and i like to take that into consideration it'll help you in the future i grab some akashi blend and i'm i'm going to use this and this is the only thing i'm going to use right now this is our build a soil 3.0 it's pretty loaded but after i transplant i'm going to get this mulch layer started with a little bit of extra food and i'm also going to make sure that i get it started with all of the beneficial life that's in here there's a little root wise there's some lactic acid and it's all fermented locally so when i sprinkle this in the top that gets this mulch layer started i'm going to be feeding through that mulch layer as we really slam this into a large yield for this small container to do that i want to get it kicked off right away and so that'll be the last thing i do here now that this is done and i'm ready to transplant i'd like to show you the females and what i'm gonna do to do that is stage them so i need to have two in section one four in section two four and section three and i'd like to get those all staged pull these males out of here so we're not confused anymore and get this show started oh i've got a certain mix in here you can see the yellow or the halitosis and i've labeled them as like this is halitosis number one and it's a female and i wrote that on there as we were sexing them main thing i want you to get from this is last week i showed you how we had a couple of maybes well i've got enough females to get this going i've got three maybes and i'm like 99 sure about one of them i'm pretty sure it has a white hair it's just very hard to tell instead of waiting i'm gonna plant them all and gamble on just one of them and we'll update you with what happens i think i have three halitosis and so i might i'm not sure if i want to split them up and have i think in here i want to have two different genetics but over there just one so more than likely i'm going to pick my plants according to that so i have some sort of similarity here but you can see when i just set these here i'm like oh it's almost full already we're not going to be able to veg very long in here we're going to fire this off quick one of the things i like about growing in this style is it can grow really fast and if you have enough plants you just don't have to have a long veg time just flip it cool all right i'm gonna get started transplanting we did a little cleaning up which you see i removed the table and now it already looks better in here i'm just going to jump into this section 2 area and transplant these first next after that i'm going to transplant these it's basically the same thing the main difference is we're digging out a little more soil and adding in a gallon in these smaller containers so it's kind of like low till once you get going you still have to dig it out first thing is is when i do this first transplant i'm going to put some of this in a bag and i'm going to label it and send this off to the lab so i can show you compared to other recipes what the taken bake actually looks like at a soil lab so i'm going to write take and bake i'm going to start with the front corner here and this is the maybe that i just picked out that i'm 99 sure is female all the others we've identified as female and if you need help with that check out our last video where we go through what that actually looks like when you zoom in on the plant to get started you don't have to overthink this a lot of the soil and mulch will mix together i'm going to be as clean as possible but i'm just going to dig right in there set some soil to the side directly on the mulch transplant in and then just kind of crowd it back together to do that i'm going to pull this one off and i'm just going to get in here and i'm going to put some of the soil in here for a sample this is the only time i'm going to do that the rest i will just dig out and leave in here i'd like to put it you could put it really anywhere you want i'd like to have them even space for the roots so i'm going to go right here in this quadrant i'm going to clear out the mulch layer around the area i'd like to dig you can see the cover crop coming through i'm just kind of picking it out and that's about the size space you can eyeball it you can line it up whatever you want to do and now i'm going to dig in here now i don't want this mulch in my soil test so i'm going to clear just a little bit of this out set it to the side when i'm planting i use my bare hands so i'm going to dig in here for a soil sample you need a couple of cups the saturated paste test they use like a cup but for the regular soil test they take the tiniest scoop ever it's kind of silly and that's part of why we use the saturated paste test that's the soil i'm going to send off to the lab and we'll see what it looks like i'll set this to the side over here and leave it open to breathe i probably need a little bit more room in here to transplant my one gallon and right away you can see that the moisture all the way down is really nice in here and so i'm just packing that to the side it's nice and dark in color and i don't want to make this too tight i want to make it wide enough where it's really easy to drop that one gallon in there and then after this this will pretty much be a no-till bed so i shouldn't have to dig this deep again unless i'm doing another seed run sometimes when i do a seed run i'll actually only take the clones off those seeds so they don't have to dig so much in my no-till bed totally up to you how you do this all right that should be enough let's see what these roots look like you can see the white dutch clover that we have growing in here with the straw i've also got the plant tag and it's on the plant this is the brr the branson's royal revenge number nine and so i'm gonna go ahead and pop that one right now i rotated the bed so this isn't the maybe that's what i was thinking about on camera a second ago i just spun this bed and so i labeled this as a female the maybe is going to be that black the back corner and so i'm going to make sure i note that so we can track that later right now that's pretty good you can see the roots that are on here i waited just a little bit of extra time because i was waiting for these to sex and so normally i would go a little bit earlier but that's good i like to see healthy root system i'm going to drop this whole thing in i don't rip it apart i drop it right in i don't want it to go too deep because i don't want it to be buried up the stock where i can get some root rot so this one was right at the surface i feel like i did a pretty good job on the first go one thing i am going to do in here is i'm going to clean these lower leaves off they're just a little bit too low i want it to breathe down here oh wow this one this one's reeks already that's a really good sign so branson's royal number nine already pretty loud stem rub oh no be gentle i just ripped a lower branch off these one gallons when they're freshly watered sometimes you can be a little crazy especially when you're on video trying to talk at the same time that's okay a lot of times i'll pull the lowers off i don't have my scissors on me they're outside but one of the things i'm going to do is clean up the lowers just a little bit and so i'll probably show you in a second as i go through a lot of times i'll do it as i'm going but really it doesn't matter i'm just going to at least get these couple leaves off so they're not sitting right here in the soil and then if this happens what i do in a bed like this is i just rip these up these are going to feed the worms and it's going to break down in the mulch layer and so it's no problem man that smells really good already that's impressive pretty excited about those all kid genetics uh this soil that i have back here from digging out in the hole i'm just going to back fill all the way around and make sure that i get it in between the gap there so it's not just you know sitting there halfway transplanted so i'm going to clear this mulch layer off here and then pack the soil in and you don't need to overthink it i'm just going to press down a little bit make sure it seals that's it i'll move some of the straw back in so that it's mulched and that's the first one you'll notice i've not really cleaned these up other than that lower defoliation when i grow seeds i like to see their natural structure as we go through all mentioned i'll mention a little bit about plant training there's a lot of information we could cover there so i'm just going to keep it simple you can do any training that you want right now because i've got four in here it's a small bed i'm not gonna have to train much to fill this canopy up so we're just gonna stick with a low maintenance style and now that you've seen me do that the last step is for me to water it in i'm gonna do that at the very end so i can water the whole bed in i'm just going to get after that and plant all these right now but every leaf on here is healthy all the way down to the bottom okay this is the maybe halitosis number two does not say female and so we'll wait to write female on there until we're positive so right here again i'm just clearing out the straw and then i kind of clear out the cover crop but then when i dig in here what i like to do is pull it to one side instead of throwing it all over the soil there i pull it out and just stack it next to the side and pull it out the back stack it that way it's easy to push it right back in okay it's not under here you don't have to do this part but these branches are a little bit low anyway so i'm going to get scissors and cut off some of the lowest parts so i don't waste effort coming from so low it's never going to make it up top and i don't want them dragging in the moisture down there and so i'm pre-pruning a little bit but i'm going to take some scissors and come through these are so branchy i really like that i hope this is a female look at how branched out it is beautiful okay put my fingers in there again to support it a little tap that one's okay drop now i pull it in from the areas and i fill in around and push down that's it don't overthink it just get it in there all right they look great so i've i've got this scissors now and i'm going to go ahead and just prune these up a little bit the other thing that i'll sometimes do is i'll chop these i'll just roll them and chop them up so that it turns into plant food a little bit faster in here now even if you drop a lot of leaves they dry pretty quick and it turns into very little actual weight of plant material so don't don't worry about it let's get in there some of these lower ones i'm just too low they're just way low they're not gonna really do the job you can wait a little while to see but i'm gonna be focusing on getting these going to flowers as soon as possible so i might as well do a little bit of this right now as you get more experience this will be a lot easier for you to pick which ones pretty soon you realize they grow back so quick it almost doesn't matter so don't overthink it here's the one that i broke i'm just going to cut that off okay that's enough i just got it so it's cleared out underneath so it can breathe and then later we'll decide what we're actually going to prune see how these are touching the soil go ahead and just remove it one of the benefits of a living soil system is you have constant decay if you look up a lady by the name of ruth stout she has a book called no work gardening she teaches the benefits of deep mulch she no longer needs fertilizer manure i think she uses like a soy meal and her mulch and the mulch is constantly decaying and it's adding fertility to the soil so are the cannabis leaves that we use as mulch if you're brand new to this and putting the actual leaves in there scares you a little you don't have to do that part it's just that you get so comfortable with this whole ecosystem you start to know how it works and you start to leverage that so you don't have to do extra work for no reason so i've got this recipe that we made earlier it's the rootwise microbe complete rootwise elixir the enzymes and a little bit of our sapenaria to make sure that it moistens evenly in here and i'm just wetting it all now i'm going to water around each plant zone to make sure that those roots come into contact with the soil it all kind of glues together right around that transplant and it's also going to get these enzymes and microbes and everything right in the root zone which is what i want because that's where these probiotics actually work with the plant is when they're attached to the roots this will keep the straw nice and moist keep humidity extra high right around the plants it'll get the cover crop re-irrigated so it gets some vigor but this canopy is really going to block out that cover crop so quickly i bet you the cover crop's not even going to stand a chance and that's fine it's more of a living mulch now anyways now when i was digging around in there the moisture wasn't super wet so i'm not scared to add another five percent if i wanted to today i'm just going to water this in tomorrow i'm probably going to get its first really good watering quadrant three and if you can if you notice down here you can see this is the branson's royal revenge all of them so this is the number 12. we've got a number eight we've got the number five and we've got the number two now you could label them one two three four sometimes i wait to label them and sometimes i've counted the first seed to pop and that's number one the second one's number two and you can kind of track that the whole grill do whatever you want do you have fun with this each one of these recipes is different and i've gone over that in previous videos but that doesn't change what i'm doing i'm going to copy the exact same thing i did over there right in here the only difference is in the smaller containers i might be top dressing and feeding a little more if these plants get too big so that i don't rely just on the soil because the soil biology can only go so fast and if these rage in seven and a half gallons of soil it might not be enough so here we go i'm gonna do the first one and i'm just gonna set it to the side in a smaller container i just move everything to the side and then i will put it back so i'm just gonna dig this out a little bit to the edges so i don't bury the cover crop and then same way i'm just gonna slop it to the side here so that it's easy for me to put back in the hole once i've transplanted this is the build a soil light our most balanced recipe all right pretty good drop it in put the soil in push down i'm gonna bring some of this mulch back over the top of that soil i kicked out bring it in from the edges at this point if you wanted you could put more cover crop in but i'm just gonna let it ride out this canopy is going to block it pretty quick see how these leaves are touching the soil and just pick them off it's not going to get very much light deep underneath here this branch is so small this one's fine it comes up to the top but this one is so small i'm going to take my scissors and just cut that off so we don't have any wasted energy down there you can pinch it but sometimes what will happen is you get in a hurry and you rip the whole plant and i'd hate to see you do that so just grab some scissors i'll chop this up and put it in the mulch layer here i'm gonna do that to all four plants and that's it when i'm done i'll water it in with the transplant recipe with the root wise and the wetting agent um and then i'm not going to do much else they're going to get used to their home and um once they hook up in a few days in less than a week we're going to be ready to go to flower i think most 10 days because i really want to flip before this plant gets too big so we can ride out the rest of this horsepower through flour make our job really easy okay i'm going to get after it do the rest of these now this is the los malibu so you can grow amazing plants in any recipe this is kind of like health food in the sense that we have all good ingredients in every recipe these two recipes have the most compost and that's fine but all of our recipes will have very similar results and are very easy to work with and that's why making your own from scratch once you understand the principles it's pretty easy to get right however it's pretty easy to get wrong if you just have no clue what you're doing and that's why we have these videos los olly see it's a little bit darker in color that's from the fish and the hard wood makes it more humic rich right away takes two years to make this compost this is the 3.0 so you guys asked us to do uh the same genetics in all four containers so we're gonna go ahead and do that now mind you these are from seed so there's gonna be some genotypic differences and um although we use a lot of words really all we need to know is that we're discussing differences between the seed type that come from the parents and so a lot of people say that that's looking for the pheno a phenohunt that comes from the phenotype well phenotype is the genotype plus the environment and so the genotype is the actual genetic difference where the phenotype is more that plus the environment so if i were to grow this outdoor indoor cold hot it might express differences so we're going to do a geno run here pheno run whatever you want to call it and normally if we want to do a really good side by side we do a lot more plants and we do exact identical clones so this is more anecdotal but the main point is i want to prove to you all four of our recipes work really well and i also want to show show you how they might act a little different if they do so we're just going to document and share it they were at the right moisture where they could use a little five percent a seven half gallon is half of three quarters of a gallon so i'm going to put less than a half gallon in each container right now i'm just kind of making sure some moisture got into those roots and i'm spraying the mulch layer down again and then i'm going to move on when you get a little further along these plants are big and there's actually roots in there the roots hold the soil from washing away so at that point when the roots are holding it you can unscrew this nozzle and you can actually water with it a little bit faster like a hose and that works really well and then from there you can actually use a garden hose or a watering can all right well it's time to do the earth box i'm going to grab one plant for each earth box and remember the difference is one is brand new with 3.0 soil one has already had a round of cannabis grown and it harvested then we grew cover crop then we broke it down let me show you that one i'm going to plant into it first and so part of the strategy here is how do we get the plant into the plastic mulch i'm going to take this one off i'm going to cut a hole in it and i'll show you how i do that so i'll do it one second let me just show you underneath here there was a lot i mean the cover crop was at least 12 inches tall above here we broke it down and now it's mostly worm castings and decay and so that's a really good sign it's all going to be plant fertilizer here and so i had some craft blend and some kosher blend in here that's already been broken down so i'm not going to do anything other than transplant right into here on the other one i'm going to put some fresh kashi blend to start the mulch layer because it's brand new it doesn't have anything breaking down and decaying in the mulch layer that's part of what you want to happen so let me just string this out or tighten it up show you how you decide so it comes with a hole and there's one on each side it doesn't matter which one but it's only on one side of the left or right so depending on how you oriented it it would fit either way i put it over the tube lock it down no i have to decide where do i want to put my plant a lot of times i'll put one at the end sometimes i'll put it in the middle i kind of like doing it opposite the tube and i don't have a real reason for that other than i water down here the roots pull from here it should kind of create this spin cycle doesn't matter a lot of times i'll put two plants in here so that's totally up to you the only challenge i'm gonna have is i don't like to cut a hole in here and then transplant through it i like to pull the plastic up around the stalk and with a little use of tape it almost doesn't matter i can cut a big hole in here put it over the top and kind of bunch my plant up and pull it through and then i can push the plastic up next to it and maybe tape it around i'm probably just going to flap it in there and let it ride so i'll show you what i'm about to do i want to put it here on this side it'll make it easier to access the water hole for a little bit longer so i'm going to set that down and i'm going to cut an x right here where i'd like the plant to go like that and i'm going to cut the slit down a little bit and that x is going to allow me to open up these triangle flaps without ripping a huge hole now when you just rip in there it stretches the plastic so when i cut like this it allows me to pull the plant through and then i can flap these flaps closed so that it's mostly closed around the stalk instead of planting through it i'm now going to pull that to the side now that i know it's in the right spot if you just try and cut a hole and then you stretch it it might be in a different spot because of the bungee on here so i'll pull it to the side and now that i've got lots of space in here i'm just going to dig out and get ready to transplant my plant so oh look at there's worms in here too so i'm going to be putting new worms in the fresh 3.0 earth box in fact i might as well just put one in there now okay they need at least two right so i'll put two in there and i'm going to put a few more in but i wanted to show you this one's been going for a while so it already has worms and they're part of this ecosystem that we've got going oh look at this here's the stock from last time i didn't really want to dig that out but you can see it's like decaying in here it's breaking up easy and the worms really like it look at that they're all up in it that's pretty cool and so you can just leave this in here if you want underneath the earth box i'm not sure what i'm going to do i'll probably just put it to the side here and i'll keep digging this out a little bit in the earth box you can leave them out a little because we're going to mound later so it doesn't have to be all the way to the bottom i'm going to go ahead and flip this that looks great so one of the things is i don't like to get it this full in here i like to transplant a little sooner but we were trying to make sure that we identified whether male or female and the reason why we like large containers in a soil system is that the root tip is where it picks up the calcium and the nutrients the most easily and the root color don't be too worried if it's not bright white sometimes right after you water they're not as vivid and furry sometimes when you get it just right they look really good and so those snapshots you see on instagram sometimes it's just timing but you definitely want to make sure that you see healthy roots not dead roots and really like small amounts of them so some people break this up i just like to leave it intact drop that in now i'm okay with this being a little high right here because i mentioned we're going to be mounding eventually anyways i'm going to put this soil all in contact with the roots all the way around and that's it got worms all over that's really cool okay there it is now i have to put this cover on and that's going to be the hard part the other thing that i'm going to do is i'm going to use a little kashi i said i already put craft flynn and kashi in here which means it's got enough fertility but seeing all the worms and seeing how they've basically broken all that cover crop down and turned it into plant food i'm going to kind of feed them a little more and i'm just going to sprinkle this on like one handful all the way around in here nothing more i feel like it's a little better when it's sprinkled in there and it's not completely caked as long as you're gentle you can kind of do part of the plants at a time and this part's just a pain there's almost no way around it in fact i'm going to do this i'm going to pull it completely off and then work it through and once it's on you're done and if you break a branch or something it's not the end of the world these grow so fast it's really going to be hard to slow it down once it hooks up into that reservoir one of the problems with these things is they grow so fast people aren't used to it and they over veg and they really overshoot the size and they have just a huge plant and a little tiny earth box and so if this is your first time you might want to flip the flower just a little bit sooner than normal okay that looks good i've got it around with no branches in there pull it all away there we go we did it what little bit is uh uncovered by the earth box plastic will be covered by our straw mulch and you could tape it up a little bit in here but i'm not concerned with it as long as it's blocking the light it's doing its job just like regular cover crop or living mulch keeps the soil protected same thing here i'm not going to bottom water and there was plenty of moisture in here so i don't think i have to water at all today there was a lot of moisture in here tomorrow i'll take a peek i'll feel the weight it feels pretty heavy and i'll add a little bit moisture next let's do the last plant that's this earth box okay same thing i'm going to put this opposite the tube so that i can access the water hole for a little bit longer and then right now when i dig in this is going to give me a chance to assess the moisture level in here looks like the moisture that i added didn't go all the way down it's got moisture in there but it's not like i over watered at all so knowing that this one is drier than the other earth box i'm definitely going to add some moisture in here after i transplant before i put the lid on okay i don't want to go all the way to the tray there flip it looks pretty good bam like i mentioned you can have these slightly higher otherwise you can dig too far down to that grate and also we're going to be really mounding up in here with worm castings and craft blend and everything later on so it's not a big deal i'm going to go ahead and put the kashi blend on here and then i'm going to water quite a bit to make sure that we raise the moisture in here to the optimal level with seven and a half gallons like i mentioned the most i'd want to put in here is like just under a half gallon i've already put maybe a quarter gallon so i'm just gonna do the same thing i did the first time make sure there's enough water for these roots to start to spread in here just kind of go through make sure i don't break any branches pull them all through [Music] okay we're gonna go over to quadrant four now that we've done our transplanting i've got a few things to move out of here in the next few days and i'll update you as i go but right now i wanted to address the lettuce situation in quadrant four um these kale leaves are pretty obvious you can just take some of these big big leaves and cut them off and they don't really overcrowd in here it's kind of blocking out the claytonia but it's not a big deal because that's more like a living mulch right now anyways but over here i did mention that it's getting a little bit overgrown in here and if you notice in the greenhouse there's a lot cleaner than this and so i'm going to grab a bag so i can harvest this to eat i'm going to collect all the stuff that's edible and then i'm going to clean it up in here so that it's ready to produce another harvest all right now if you don't tend to your harvest then it can get overgrown and it's going to be harder to repeat the cycle it's already getting decayed in here and i want to clear it all out but i also want to eat this so i'm going to go through and i'm just going to harvest everything just a little bit higher than i probably would like so that i don't get much of the decay it's going to make it easier for me to wash drop that in there go all the way around kind of like i'm cutting hair watch your fingers it's easy to cut your fingers sometimes people will bunch and use a very sharp knife i don't want to cut into my grow bag and i've got plenty of time this isn't like a farm just for myself so i'm going to go through with scissors all right i've got plenty of salad for myself now you can see it looks really good but in here if i was to start to pick through it'd be more time consuming i've got enough for me to eat so i'm going to just start cleaning this out in a separate bucket so that it's not hard for me to wash and i'm going to pull some of this out of here and thin it out so it's ready to grow back so i'm going to grab another bucket now the main goal is not to cut so low that there's no new growth tip so on here if i were to just pull one out so you don't want to cut it below here or won't grow back maybe from there it would but i'm going to cut it like here okay and so about that level is what you're focused on or you can kind of overdo it if i cut it too close to the soil so let's just go ahead and do that i'm going to go in here cut it a little bit lower get some of this stuff out it's so dense in here it'll kind of fill in no matter what but i don't want to make it too hard where it takes too much extra time in the greenhouse every four harvests we go ahead and turn the bed over sometimes the flavor is affected sometimes the temperature and the number of cuts just a little bit of stress it wants to bolt bolting is when the lettuce decides to put out seed and it stays instead of nice lettuce leaf it grows a stem starts to produce flowers and that really adjusts the flavor and that means it's like hey i'm not going to make it i'm going to die i need to bolt and produce seeds and i was reading this book called sulviva and they talked about this on the east coast this year-round greenhouse and it was like permaculture tech and they had lettuce that would just harvest for years without bolting so i'd imagine that's possible but i don't have that much experience from doing lettuce for years back to back from the same container they had like animals in the greenhouse producing warmth and co2 i mean it's really cool and this isn't you know perfect i could be a little more precise but i just don't have all the time and it's going to grow back and getting some of this out here will make a difference i'm just going to leave this like this and we can learn from experience so if this wasn't enough next time i can do more but i think that's enough it's going to give it an even haircut and i think it's going to grow back really thick in here so we will keep track of that as we go and now i'm gonna grab my harvest bucket and we're gonna take some kale out of here and then uh in the coming videos we're gonna be trellising this up if you look up here i've already got a roller in place we're gonna do the same technique as we do in the greenhouse where we ride this up to the roof just full of tomatoes it's going to be pretty cool to show you so look for that in the future right now i've got the lettuce and i'm going to go ahead and grab some of these kale leaves so that it it continues to put out big leaves man these are great gorgeous now that we trimmed this back you watch how quickly it grows back it's going to be crazy well thanks a lot for following along this entire process watching this long video we put a ton of content into this one because that's how the garden works when it's time to get after it it's time to get after it we did a whole bunch of transplanting today the nice thing is with all this work being done it's like cruise control now the soil is going to take care of most of the work if anything i'm probably going to show you how to brew a tea or two over here but i just wanted to get to the point of thanks for watching if you like this content subscribe tell your friends comment on here it really helps the youtube algorithm when we get everybody interacting and that keeps it so that we want to do tons of these videos we love seeing the boost on the numbers and all the interaction it's really something to look forward to for us and then of course we're going to document every step along the way so if you have questions about something maybe i didn't cover as i was doing this it's a lot to remember what it was like in the beginning so just post your comments post the questions i'll do my best to actually answer them on camera if we get a lot of the same question and if not we'll at least jump in the comments and answer them for you to the best of our ability we get a lot of them thanks for watching we'll see you on the next one

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Length: 46min 25sec (2785 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 17 2021