What is up everyone?

What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We're joined again by

Paul who's the owner of Ali Ki Gardens, which is a local San Diego soil company.

They make three soil mixes, two of which I've used. They make a Freya's mix,

which is a really supercharged soil that I talked about in my first episode with Paul about how that

really created some pretty insane cabbages. The cabbages grew like crazy and they were quite healthy.

So really, really cool. It's a no-till

regenerative agriculture style approach to soil making. So yesterday we talked about the

logic that went into actually making that soil mix in the first

place and now we're going to talk about some finer details of of soil

mixtures and so today Paul I thought it would be be interesting to really talk about soil moisture specifically,

but there's also some other variables at play.

You were telling me that there's a specific percentage of soil moisture that you found to have really good results in your years as a cannabis cultivator.

Sure, yeah, thanks Kevin. In the years of cannabis cultivation in raised beds and living soils.

I found that a range of 60 to 65% of the water holding capacity,

so that's your soil moisture.

The water occupies about 60 to 65% of the poor space.

We talked yesterday about poor space and proper infiltration of water, but it's so important to keep soils properly hydrated

in that 60 to 65% range because it maximizes the microbial activity.

Now, all of the soil microorganisms

they require a few things oxygen and water so the the nutrients that that are

taken up by the plant are in a solution and the biology that swim through the soil so to speak really thrive and function at their their optimum levels within that range of 60 to 65% of a water filled poor space.

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