💦Irrometer vs Hygrometer, Solenoid Switches, and Irrigation Needs for Different States, with Michael Box
GrowCast
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4.7 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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The man with the mat is BACK! Great friend of the show Michael Box joins the program again for an update on all things Sustainable Village. Michael gives us an update on his bottomless pot tech, and how the team is still dialing in cap mats to work with this interesting plug and play soil bed style. This leads to a conversation about new BluMat technology, where they are allowing the carrots to trigger a circuit to activate a solenoid switch- allowing for a high outflow of water for irrigation... Michael discusses the new irrometers available on his website, and how they differ from a traditional hygrometer - being far more accurate at measuring actual soil water tension, but also far more delicate and frail. Finally Michael also gives us a little history lesson when it comes to the BluMat system, and highlights a story where the owners visited his headquarters all the way from Austria!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings cultivators worldwide. Jordan River here back with more Growcast, here to help make your |
| 0:05.1 | garden shine. Today we have Michael Box back on the program. That's right. He's from Sustainable Village. |
| 0:11.7 | They are the American distributors for Blue Mat. And you know what that means code Growcast is active |
| 0:16.8 | for our blue mats 10% off at sustainablevillage.com. That's sustainablevillage.com for the rest of the month. You've got about three weeks to get on this. Yeah, three and a half weeks. Sustainablevillage.com code growcast. Thank you to Michael for always reactivating this code. Really, really great guy to talk to about irrigation and large-scale growing and how these blue mats work. So we always love it when Michael comes on the show, and I know you're going to love today's episode. Quick reminder, we also have classes |
| 0:42.2 | this weekend. We're going to be in Tampa for all my Florida grommies. Come on down to the Queen |
| 0:47.3 | of the Sun Living Soil Masterclass put on by Growcast Grow Classes this Saturday, the 13. Find all |
| 0:53.5 | the information at growcastpodcast.com |
| 0:55.6 | slash classes. We are in Denver. We're in Buffalo and San Diego. We've got dates coming up in Toronto. |
| 1:02.6 | Los Angeles. We're all over the place. This class is going to blow your minds, folks. It's |
| 1:06.6 | everything you need to know about organic gardening, how microbes function. And of course, |
| 1:10.3 | we scope your soil live. So we teach you how to identify all the fun stuff that's going on within your soil sample. I know you'll love it. I'll see you there, especially for my Tampa Growmings. I'll see you there this weekend. Growcastpodcast.com slash classes for all that information. More classes to come, too, by the way. All right, for now, |
| 1:29.1 | let's get into it with Michael Box. Thank you for listening and enjoy the program. |
| 1:36.8 | Hello, podcast listeners. You are now listening to Growcast. I'm your host Jordan River, |
| 1:40.3 | and I want to thank you for tuning in again today. Before we get started, as always, |
| 1:44.9 | I urge you to tell a friend about the show. Turn a smoker into a grower. It's the best thing you can do, and make sure to check out everything we're doing at growcastpodcast.com slash action. We've got the classes up there. These things are amazing. They're popping off. And of course, membership and Growcast Seedco, all the fun stuff. |
| 1:42.7 | Found it forward slash action. |
| 1:44.6 | See all the fun stuff. |
| 2:01.3 | Found at forward slash action. |
| 2:03.1 | See all the action up there. |
| 2:05.2 | Today we have a good friend of the show back on the line. |
| 2:07.5 | It's been a minute. |
| 2:08.5 | From Sustainable Village, you know them from their awesome blue mat products. |
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