Could Your Medium Be Holding You Back?

And we had an episode we talked about recently, and we were getting on the nitty-gritty of watering and feeding in roots and all these different variables, and one thing we didn't really talk about is kind of your medium and how it's working for or against you, and the ways that it can be optimized for success and simplicity, and streamline everything, or it could be a constant fight that you're having to deal with.

Yeah, it can become a c- problem real quickly if [laughs] you don't have the knowledge to know what you're doing as far as the medium, like picking out the right one, what's in it as far as nutrition, what is its water-holding capacity.

There are so many different things that could, uh, cause you to kinda fail if you've got the wrong medium.

If you're choosing the wrong me- if you're not prepping it properly, uh, it could severely hold you back.

So it's gonna be a good conversation, getting into all those different things.

Whether you're organic, whether you're synthetic, it all starts at the source of your material.

You wanna have-

Forgiving it

... good-quality products from a good-quality source, because you could have the best inputs, or, or sorry, [laughs] you could have the best intentions, your process could be figured out, you're documenting everything, you know how to grow, but little do you know that that, that ba- bag of soil that you purchased or that bag of potting mix or whatever is contaminated with some sort of bacterial fungus, some kinda disease, pests.

You wanna make sure you are sourcing your product from a great, or from a quality source.

Man-

It can be quite difficult

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I was gonna say, man, that is the truth.

So mu- that, that was the conversation of root aphids, where I sourced my soil from it.

I got it affordable locally, which local, shop local, of course.

However, when they don't store soil that is nutrient-rich properly, you could run into things.

When the temperatures are swinging, the humidity's swinging, and you run into the, the pests that, that come into something that you purchased from the damn store, that's the craziest thing, dude.

You bring it home assuming it's brand new, unopened, not touched.

You should be fine, but depending on where you're sourcing this material, it could be really poor quality.

It's really common.

It's so common.

I mean, it's easy for bag- to get inf- infestations bag to bag, just talking about pests in particular.

If you're sourcing your soil, [laughs] I've gone into a hydro shop, and I'm gonna name the hydro shop.

I think it actually closed down.