💧Moisture Retention Curve, Reservoir Care, and BluMat Tips with Michael Box
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🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Michael Box is back on the show for quite possibly the best episode he has appeared on yet- today's episode is all about dialing in the PERFECT watering technique and moisture ratio, tips for Blumats, and the best way to care for your reservoirs. Michael explains the concept of moisture retention curve, as he has been diving deep into exactly how drybacks occur and what the perfect pressure is in your specific media. This leads to a conversation about different moisture retention curves in coco vs soil for instance, and how the constituents of your media will heavily affect the optimal mbar reading. Michael gives some amazing tips for using the Blumat automated watering system (my favorite system, code GROWCAST now active again for April) including how to reset your moisture meters, how to dial in your blumats before you even put them into your soil, and the best way to run nutrition through a Blumat system. Michael wraps up the show by sharing the do's and dont's of maintaining a reservoir- covering enzymes, nutrients, microbes and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings cultivators from around the world. Jordan River here. Back at you with more Growcast. Always the right moisture. Today we have Michael Box back on the line. This is a really great episode. I think this is the greatest episode with Michael that we've done. We go in depth to watering practices and watering techniques. moisture retention curves. The difference between different mediums and of, the new developments over at blue mat. Code growcast is active at Sustainable Village.com. Michael likes to put that on for you guys when he comes on the show. Now through the end of April, use Code Growcast for your blue mats if you need them, everybody. I know you're going to love this episode with Michael, and before we jump into it, you know I got a shout out, AC Infinity. ACInfinity.com. Code Growcast 1-5 to get your savings and keep the lights on here at Growcast. We appreciate your support, and we love AC Infinity. They make the best grotents around extra thick poles. They've got nice, durable, thick siding. Now they have the new side ports. |
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| 1:43.2 | to it with Michael. Thank you for listening and enjoy the show. Hello, podcast listeners. You are now listening to Growcast. I'm your host, Jordan River, and I want to thank you for tuning in again today. Before we get started, as always, share a Growcast. Turn someone on to growing, tell a grower about the show. It's how we grow. We're on Spotify. We're on iTunes, Apple Music, wherever you want us. We're there. Check us out and share the show. See everything we're doing and all the places we're going at growcastpodcast.com slash action. There you'll see the classes and the seeds and the membership and all the fun stuff, |
| 2:18.1 | all the codes and all that. Today we have, speaking of codes, we have the man himself from |
| 2:25.1 | Sustainable Village, the U.S. distributor of the incredible blue mat watering system. Michael Box |
| 2:30.8 | is back on the line. What's up, Michael? Hey, Jordan. Good to be here. Thanks, ma'am. |
| 2:35.0 | Yeah, good to have you back on the show. Of course, Sustainable Village.com. You know, |
| 2:39.6 | Michael, that is where he is from. He is the mayor of Sustainable Village, and they are |
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