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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

How Plants Uptake Nutrients

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 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

What is up everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast, Kevin Aspirator here.

0:18.0

So I've got Mike Chang on the show this week.

0:20.7

He is the in-house agronomist for Growers House, who are big hydroponic retailers.

0:25.9

I've worked with them in the past.

0:27.2

It's been fantastic.

0:28.2

But Mike's got history in the tomato industry, cucumber industry, in academics for plant

0:34.1

sciences as well as in the cannabis industry.

0:35.9

So Mike, it's really cool to have someone with your breadth of experience and knowledge

0:39.8

on the show.

0:40.8

Thanks for having me, Kevin, I'm glad to be here.

0:43.6

Hey, so we're kicking this week off with a plant nutrition overview, which I talk a lot

0:51.2

about it on the show.

0:52.2

You know, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, all these micronutrients that plants need.

0:56.6

But I think it's always good to have a refresher, especially at the end of the season, especially

1:00.8

maybe if someone's been gardening for the first one or two years, this last couple years

1:05.8

here and maybe hasn't had that refresher.

1:08.8

So why don't we just kind of kick it off with how plants actually use nutrients to grow?

1:14.6

Yeah, absolutely, that's a great start.

1:17.3

I would actually take it a little bit further back and even say how do these nutrients get

1:22.6

into the plants.

1:23.6

There you go.

1:24.6

A lot of the, yeah, because a lot of the times, you know, you hear someone say, oh, that

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