Feeding Plants Over Their Life Stages

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Connect With Mike Chang: Mike Chang is the in-house agronomist for Grower’s House, with history in the tomato, cucumber, and cannabis industry. https://growershouse.com/ https://ventanaplant.science/ https://cannacribs.org/ Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast, Kevin Espiritu here.
0:17.5	We have Mike Chang back on the show, The Inhouse Agronomist, for Growers House.
0:22.0	So Mike's got a bunch of history in a few different industries and agriculture.
0:26.5	So tomatoes, cucumbers, cannabis as well as an academic background.
0:30.4	So we've been learning a lot this week.
0:32.9	Now Mike, I think, you know, I haven't really done cannabis growing.
0:36.9	So there's very much, I wouldn't say an obsession, but quite a focus on how the nutrient
0:43.8	profile changes over the course of that particular plant.
0:48.3	But I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, it feels like that's that way just because
0:52.5	of the immense value of that plant.
0:54.3	Of course, this applies to pretty much every plant over its life stage.
0:57.8	So what do we actually need to know about how the nutrient profile changes as a plant
1:02.1	matures?
1:03.1	Yeah, absolutely.
1:04.1	You know, cannabis is such a cash crop that, you know, an increase of yield by two or
1:09.3	three percent can, you know, increase your profits substantially.
1:12.2	Sure.
1:13.2	Sure.
1:14.2	So that's why I think cannabis focus is on it so much.
1:15.4	And I think as a general guideline for fertilizing, this has kind of always been known, but cannabis
1:21.6	is definitely put it on the map as far as trying to drive the plant with nutrition.
1:28.2	So seedlings and young plants, a lot of the times people think, you know, younger the
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