That was really enlightening and educational. I especially appreciated when he made mention of the fact that what he offers is more of a framework than actual nutrients. I hadn't thought about that but it's a great point. I really appreciate his taking the time to do this and of course your continued lessons from all your videos. Thanks!
I don't know how I got here but I love seeing behind the scenes videos like this where they show all the different stuff that goes into making something that everyone thinks is just a simple product. This is like a How It's Made for potting soil.
This was a great video. Very informative and well edited with the text box summary's. We need more things like this on UA-cam as it felt like watching an interview you would see on PBS or something on TV. A breathe of fresh air, thank you.
Wow! This video is giving me a lot to think about from growing my orchids inside to planted hydrangeas. I’m just a hobby gardener but have started to pay attention to the nutrients in the soil and what your adding to it. This was so informative. You should do a class all about soil structures and substrates. 🙋🏼♀️ im in, lol!
Thank you Jason! And of course Bert 😄 This was so so interesting! Your chosen content of this yt channel is just pure gold for us keen gardeners...of any sort 😀🌱 Again thank you
People of America😇 now realise how lucky you are to be able to use these products. Here in India we don't have a potting mix sell like this in grocery ...or other shop. I often use soil from garden or cow dunga or near chicken houses or pig houses..but they are not sterilised and we have to face another issue again.
Try 70% real soil and 30% Dunga/Manure. See how it drains. If it drains poorly add sand, gravel and or rocks. That’s an excellent mix. The downside of it will only be the weight. Your potting mix will not break down and rot away slowly like the American mostly organic mixes. Just add Manure once in a while as mulch. If you want something almost like peat moss or coir you can make leaf mold.
You can also make charcoal for plants. Just soak the charcoal in dunga tea for several days, drain out the water and apply 5-10% charcoal. This will make your mix be able to hold more nutrients so you need less fertilizer.
I learned so much. Thank you. As a small purchaser I struggle to understand which is the best potting mix to purchase and whether to buy enhancements and a cheaper matrix (eg. manures and then a coir, peat or wood based medium for bulk) or purchase potting mix with added nutrients. I wish the bagged mixes offered the same detailed information that Burt's company provides professional growers. Such a good idea you had for this video Jason!
Thank you so much for this video. As I keep trying to improve my growing soil, both in pots and in the ground, this helps me understand how to do that. I’m hoping you have a video on how to make your own potting mix at home that coincides with this information. Thanks.
Thank you for your time and trouble in gathering all the relevant info that has helped to educate us in growing our roses. Much appreciate your generosity God bless you
The chap in the yellow vest gave a great tour and explained great in detail the different mixes. It was very knowledgeable and a must hear especially for new to gardening people giving great insight to compost and different levels in each product I would love to see best uses in small home gardens you showed a really great and very interesting video well done to you and the factory rep in the yellow vest I hope you can do a small garden job with the compost uses and ask the tour guide in factory to give his insight with you also. Home gardening is becoming more popular especially among the older generation like myself in my 60s learning to grow vegetables thank you so much
Wow, very generous knowledge sharing indeed! It’s very rare to find a “dirt guy” like him though (or a place that sell these products here in Northern CA). So I will be still counting on your sharing Jason. You are the best! 👍👍🙏🙏🌹🌹❤️
I would be so incredibly grateful if you put together a "grow kit" for those of us that have watched these videos and still aren't sure what to do in order to give our roses the best start. Particularly for roses being grown in containers. Just a "starter kit" with potting soil and any amendments would be so amazing! Please consider it.
Thank you for such an educational video. I need to watch again when I’ve programmed my mind to catch info rather than just look at pretty pictures. I already know that I’ll be a bigger pain for retailers as I ask more detailed questions before purchasing!
A thoroughly interesting and informative video that most horticultural enthusiasts would find fascinating. The main point to be gained from it was the fact that all the ingredients were inert and offered nothing in terms of nutrition. It would have been very interesting to see how they turned this product into a growing medium and what chemicals were added to provide nutrition.
I guess I never considered the scale of some of these large Potting mix operations. To see the large piles of coir, pumice, bark, and other ingredients, and especially that "year's worth of peat" emphasizes the money tied up in individual materials and how they have to be prepared before they go into the potting mixes. A very enlightening video!
I would assume that most Hobby Gardeners think that the Potting Mix they buy is a product that also encourages plant and flower growth but here we have an expert putting things straight. I need to check the bags I buy to see if this is mentioned because to tell the truth I never read the info on the bags...and I think I am not the only one.
Excellent video! I have found that plants seem to prefer the (cleaned and buffered) coir, or as I often call it, coco-peat, to peat. Another reason I find coir or coir-based media preferable to peat-based ones is that the coir-based are much easier to rehydrate if they get dried out.
Thank you for making this video! Very good to know. I can say, that I really miss the real soil. I live in hot Greece and the common potting mixtures with all those fabrics become useless when hit by strong sun. I buy local mix or substrate for succulents (which is expensive).
In my area, chipped Pallets, clay and whatever is laying around becomes the famed Triple Mix. Colour to suit. Mushroom farms change out their soil but it is very salty I am told. Pore Space!!!! Voids, no nutrient. Take some pails and get some dirt from the bottom of a creek bed/pond banks.
Fascinating! People need to understand soil and potting medium more, myself included. I love pumice and how lucky you are to have a bulk supplier nearby! Currently, in much of N America and particularly the NE, the issue is invasive jumping worms (Amynthas sp) coming inside of much of commercial soil media - soil, manure, compost, mulch, castings products - whether bagged or bulk.
Absolutely the best, most informative not only about the unique features of each form of media but also of The Big Picture behind the scenes stories of their originations and qualities prior to making them an effective, safe growing media. Saved to my gardening AND favorites playlists. And will be sharing. Thank you you Gentlemen, very, Very much 😁
Jason, very informative! I didn't think of the fact that the potting mixture had little nutrients and mostly was the support system for holding the growing plant, and that plant feeding was still needed. I hope I didn't misunderstand this?
Yes, you got it exactly right - for the potting mixes he's blending for growers, the expectation is for the grower to add their own nutrients and even biological inoculants. In some bagged mixes you'll see a little bit of fertilizer value in the mix, but the peat/perlite mixes (like ProMix) are largely neutral and inert, depending on the formulation.
So I will be reading carefully what in each brand of potting soil I will be buying. Like maybe brand X might say Their mixture already nutrients added Good for say 6 months. Right?
Here in the S.E., Soil3 has compost available in the cubic yard bags. Just got my second one delivered. Mixed with pine fines (lots of that available here) makes a good potting mix. Cheap mixes yield poor results, good compost is black gold. I use it in the garden, in pots & mixed to grow on potted plants. Nice tour!
As a longtime bonsai grower and small scale hobby vegetable farmer, I enjoyed that…. I still love growing in peat based mixes even though I know it’s not the most sustainable unfortunately. If you water with liquid seaweed, the biology is boosted fast in it.
Hmm i wondered why my plants had weird defficiencies... My cukes were going wild, but tomatoes and peppers never fruited flowers just dropped. I'll order a 5lb bag of Calcium Chloride rich fertilizer before my seedlings go into the dirt this spring... and to mix some into the 2 blocks of cheap coco coir I have in the greenhouse. You might have just saved my seedlings from struggling, or at least from my expensive Worm Castings from going to waste... gotta get that worm bin going.
thanks for posting this - burt- really seems to know hisstuff, his talk about the coco fibers heps me i an an American in the Philippines will be making soil for raised beds and will use coco peat, i so far have tried to wash and buffer on my own ding a lot of guessing how to do that and i may so so far as to produce my own coco peat ( buy my own machine to save ) so his knowledge helps me thanks
Totally fascinating!! BTW, there was a quick mention of why plants need to be continually potted on rather than immediately placed in their final container. I would love to hear a bit more about that in a separate video.
In a commercial operation, big pots with small plants take up enormous amount of space for the plant sizes involved. I personally sell principally smaller plant sizes as my business model-in part due to the space requirements. Depending on the plant, time of season and market target, perennials will typically go from my 50/72 cell flats to 1qt square or trade gallon (2.5qt.). Generally annuals to packs 1/2 to full qts. Perennials stayin trade gallons for initial grow out and sale from seed or division. As season progresses, I will divide into more trade gallons, mostly, but grow some into larger pots up to 3 gallon for speciman plants, container use etc. BTW-I grow ornamental grasses and smaller natives perennials.
Thanks Laurel. I'll note down the topic for more discussion. There are a different approaches to this problem. Some nursery growers will pot a small plant into the final pot size right away (as Bert talked about in the video) because it reduces subsequent handling. I heard one grower say "Every time I touch that plant, not only does it cost me more, but I'm also *slowing* it down by transplanting." It's true that there can be a period of transplant stress after up-potting, and it's definitely true that more labor for the same pot is an increased expense. On the other hand: 1) You do have to make sure that your soil will hold up its structure for the entire growing cycle. Going into a bark mix on a two or three year grow, it'll be much compressed and poorly draining by the end. 2) This strategy only works if you have a surplus of growing space. If you're tight for space, it would be wasteful to tie up a growing bed with pots that are far oversized for the plant. 3) When I'm watering, I usually assume a pot size to be more-or-less matching the plant size - so I know I'll be looking at irrigation at a pretty consistent frequency (say, every 2 or 3 days in spring). If the plant is "swimming" in the pot, it can be a long time before it goes through the water in the soil. That makes managing irrigation in mixed stages of plantings really tricky, and almost inevitably ends up with some pots being watered more frequently than they need.
Thanks Will - you make a good point about growing space. I also find it difficult to manage irrigation on plants in an oversized pot. You can pick a well-drained mix of course, but they definitely are sitting in a wetter soil for longer than I'd really like.
Brilliant video 👏👏👏. Some great information and has really taught me alot regarding the manufacture of compost and soils. Will be recommended this video to the grows down my allotment. Thank you. Watching from across the pond 🏴. Robbo 👍💯
That was an amazingly good and useful video. So much information! Over the years I’ve bought all sorts of different soil mixes for container growing and for my garden and have never known all the ingredients and their properties. Thank you for putting the video together. Your behind the scenes videos (2?) are information rich.
Great video Jason.👌 I was glad Bert mentioned the salt content in both the coconut husk and floated log bark. Most people have no idea what the salt content is and just how much it affects the growth and development of plants. I remember our conversation about the potassium bicarbonate mixture you were using for fungal control and the experiment I will be using with sodium bicarbonate, surface area only (no ground saturation). Did you and Bert talk more about the calcium treatment to wash out the salt? I would love to know a good proven solution for rebalancing the soil after tropical storms here in Hawaii as well as coastal storms East and West like monsoon season now. Sometimes it takes a while to get the salt neutralized after a heavy storm. I usually use calcium, magnesium and pot ash, but the results are not consistent because there is so much variation in each storm.
Thanks - no, that part we only talked about briefly. I was impressed to see how much testing they do on the ingredients - and even on the final mixes. They take an retain a sample from every batch they mix, just in case the grower comes back later with growing problems, and they can then recheck the mix. Very professional!
Phenomenal ! So many choices and the reasons why to chose the right one. I never would of thought about the sites of where the trees were harvested. What is the one you like and use the most ?
This year I'm trying a different blend. I very much liked the "spongy" texture of the HydrFiber, so I went with 33% Hydrafiber, 33% C-fiber (the heat-stabilized cedar product), and 33% fir bark.
Thanks. Yeah, there was lots to see, hear and smell! He had specialty grades of peat moss and wood chip products that I couldn't fit into the final video - great day.
That was really enlightening and educational. I especially appreciated when he made mention of the fact that what he offers is more of a framework than actual nutrients. I hadn't thought about that but it's a great point. I really appreciate his taking the time to do this and of course your continued lessons from all your videos. Thanks!
I'm glad you liked it! I always find Bert's insights helpful.
It is 'FILLER'
Very knowledgeable person, but explained things in a simple way so everyone can understand!
I love seeing places like this to see why they are using particular ingredients and knowledge. Thanks for making this video
I don't know how I got here but I love seeing behind the scenes videos like this where they show all the different stuff that goes into making something that everyone thinks is just a simple product. This is like a How It's Made for potting soil.
Loved the tour. Also love the honesty & transparency about the economic impact- carbon footprin, etc .
Very informative. Never thought about the salt content in mixes before.
Totally. It's the kind of thing the soil professionals have to pay a lot of attention to so that the growers don't have to worry about it.
This was a great video. Very informative and well edited with the text box summary's. We need more things like this on UA-cam as it felt like watching an interview you would see on PBS or something on TV. A breathe of fresh air, thank you.
Thanks for the feedback Brandan!
Wow....answered so many of my questions! This guy is a gem. Thank you Jason!
My pleasure Anne. I'm glad you found it useful!
Wow! This video is giving me a lot to think about from growing my orchids inside to planted hydrangeas. I’m just a hobby gardener but have started to pay attention to the nutrients in the soil and what your adding to it. This was so informative. You should do a class all about soil structures and substrates. 🙋🏼♀️ im in, lol!
That was fascinating, I learned a lot and Bert is great to listen to.
You bet - he kind of takes the conversation up a level!
Thank you Jason! And of course Bert 😄 This was so so interesting! Your chosen content of this yt channel is just pure gold for us keen gardeners...of any sort 😀🌱 Again thank you
Thanks so much for the encouragement Linda!
👍
People of America😇 now realise how lucky you are to be able to use these products. Here in India we don't have a potting mix sell like this in grocery ...or other shop. I often use soil from garden or cow dunga or near chicken houses or pig houses..but they are not sterilised and we have to face another issue again.
Try 70% real soil and 30% Dunga/Manure. See how it drains. If it drains poorly add sand, gravel and or rocks.
That’s an excellent mix. The downside of it will only be the weight. Your potting mix will not break down and rot away slowly like the American mostly organic mixes. Just add Manure once in a while as mulch.
If you want something almost like peat moss or coir you can make leaf mold.
You can also make charcoal for plants. Just soak the charcoal in dunga tea for several days, drain out the water and apply 5-10% charcoal. This will make your mix be able to hold more nutrients so you need less fertilizer.
I learned so much. Thank you. As a small purchaser I struggle to understand which is the best potting mix to purchase and whether to buy enhancements and a cheaper matrix (eg. manures and then a coir, peat or wood based medium for bulk) or purchase potting mix with added nutrients. I wish the bagged mixes offered the same detailed information that Burt's company provides professional growers. Such a good idea you had for this video Jason!
Thanks Wendy!
Thank you so much for this video. As I keep trying to improve my growing soil, both in pots and in the ground, this helps me understand how to do that. I’m hoping you have a video on how to make your own potting mix at home that coincides with this information. Thanks.
Thank you for your time and trouble in gathering all the relevant info that has helped to educate us in growing our roses. Much appreciate your generosity
God bless you
You really have a skill in summarizing technical information into plain language. I really appreciate it. Thanks
Fascinating as always, it was thought provoking to learn about allopathic oils in the cedar and all of the salt in the fir bark
Wow Burt is the Ultimate Soil Guy! Thanks for making this video Jason...so informative!!!
I'm so happy you found it useful - I always appreciate his help!
And his sense of humor 😀
The chap in the yellow vest gave a great tour and explained great in detail the different mixes. It was very knowledgeable and a must hear especially for new to gardening people giving great insight to compost and different levels in each product I would love to see best uses in small home gardens you showed a really great and very interesting video well done to you and the factory rep in the yellow vest I hope you can do a small garden job with the compost uses and ask the tour guide in factory to give his insight with you also. Home gardening is becoming more popular especially among the older generation like myself in my 60s learning to grow vegetables thank you so much
Wow, very generous knowledge sharing indeed! It’s very rare to find a “dirt guy” like him though (or a place that sell these products here in Northern CA). So I will be still counting on your sharing Jason. You are the best! 👍👍🙏🙏🌹🌹❤️
Great content! Canadians really are the nicest people - thanks for sharing.
I would be so incredibly grateful if you put together a "grow kit" for those of us that have watched these videos and still aren't sure what to do in order to give our roses the best start. Particularly for roses being grown in containers. Just a "starter kit" with potting soil and any amendments would be so amazing! Please consider it.
Thank you for such an educational video. I need to watch again when I’ve programmed my mind to catch info rather than just look at pretty pictures. I already know that I’ll be a bigger pain for retailers as I ask more detailed questions before purchasing!
A thoroughly interesting and informative video that most horticultural enthusiasts would find fascinating. The main point to be gained from it was the fact that all the ingredients were inert and offered nothing in terms of nutrition. It would have been very interesting to see how they turned this product into a growing medium and what chemicals were added to provide nutrition.
You nailed it. No nutrients most places.
I guess I never considered the scale of some of these large Potting mix operations. To see the large piles of coir, pumice, bark, and other ingredients, and especially that "year's worth of peat" emphasizes the money tied up in individual materials and how they have to be prepared before they go into the potting mixes. A very enlightening video!
So much knowledge and still interesting for an amateur to better understand the product you get when buying plants.
Great information. Thanks for sharing
I would assume that most Hobby Gardeners think that the Potting Mix they buy is a product that also encourages plant and flower growth but here we have an expert putting things straight.
I need to check the bags I buy to see if this is mentioned because to tell the truth I never read the info on the bags...and I think I am not the only one.
Excellent video! I have found that plants seem to prefer the (cleaned and buffered) coir, or as I often call it, coco-peat, to peat. Another reason I find coir or coir-based media preferable to peat-based ones is that the coir-based are much easier to rehydrate if they get dried out.
Thank you for making this video! Very good to know. I can say, that I really miss the real soil. I live in hot Greece and the common potting mixtures with all those fabrics become useless when hit by strong sun. I buy local mix or substrate for succulents (which is expensive).
Super interesting 🤔 Thanks Jason! 🍀🌺🌸🦢🌸🌺🍀
What a knowledgeable guy. Enjoyed the tour.
Yes. Tell him I said thanks. And thank you for the video. Job well done.
You bet. Thanks for watching.
So much interesting information. Didn't know there is so much that can go into a potting mix. Thanks for this video!
I once shuttled the various products to the different plants for Scott's lawn it's more complicated than most would imagine.
In my area, chipped Pallets, clay and whatever is laying around becomes the famed Triple Mix. Colour to suit.
Mushroom farms change out their soil but it is very salty I am told. Pore Space!!!! Voids, no nutrient. Take some pails and get some dirt from the bottom of a creek bed/pond banks.
Fascinating! People need to understand soil and potting medium more, myself included. I love pumice and how lucky you are to have a bulk supplier nearby! Currently, in much of N America and particularly the NE, the issue is invasive jumping worms (Amynthas sp) coming inside of much of commercial soil media - soil, manure, compost, mulch, castings products - whether bagged or bulk.
What a brilliant idea for educating us! Thank you❤️
one of the most informative videos I've seen in a while
Extremely informative!
Absolutely the best, most informative not only about the unique features of each form of media but also of The Big Picture behind the scenes stories of their originations and qualities prior to making them an effective, safe growing media. Saved to my gardening AND favorites playlists. And will be sharing. Thank you you Gentlemen, very, Very much 😁
THANK YOU ,most educational facts about the soil and the production technology . Very interesting ! Thank You again 🌲🌲🌲
Hi Jason, very interesting video. I always learn something new from you. Thanks for sharing. Can't wait for spring !
What an operation! Thank you for sharing. 👍
Jason, very informative! I didn't think of the fact that the potting mixture had little nutrients and mostly was the support system for holding the growing plant, and that plant feeding was still needed. I hope I didn't misunderstand this?
Yes, you got it exactly right - for the potting mixes he's blending for growers, the expectation is for the grower to add their own nutrients and even biological inoculants. In some bagged mixes you'll see a little bit of fertilizer value in the mix, but the peat/perlite mixes (like ProMix) are largely neutral and inert, depending on the formulation.
So I will be reading carefully what in each brand of potting soil I will be buying. Like maybe brand X might say
Their mixture already nutrients added
Good for say 6 months. Right?
Very informative and straightforward, thank you
so much information and tips thank you for enlightening this gray area of gardening
I'm glad you found it useful Angelo.
Wow, this was such a helpful and enlightening video. Never even thought about coco coir being high in salt content but it makes perfect sense
Thank you for making this video.
My pleasure Jenne.
So helpful--learned so much. Thanks for making this.
This was great. Thanks for taking us along on the tour.
My pleasure!
Thank you for this video it is a wealth of information
Gracias amigo. Saludos desde Perú
Here in the S.E., Soil3 has compost available in the cubic yard bags. Just got my second one delivered. Mixed with pine fines (lots of that available here) makes a good potting mix. Cheap mixes yield poor results, good compost is black gold. I use it in the garden, in pots & mixed to grow on potted plants.
Nice tour!
Great Great Video Jason. Thanks.
Wow! I learnt so much! Thank you, that was really interesting to watch, and so educational! What a knowledgeable man!! Incredible
Thanks Suzanne!
I learned so much in fifteen minutes.
Love your tour of the soil production company!!
As a longtime bonsai grower and small scale hobby vegetable farmer, I enjoyed that…. I still love growing in peat based mixes even though I know it’s not the most sustainable unfortunately. If you water with liquid seaweed, the biology is boosted fast in it.
Thanks for your insights!
Fantastic! Thank you so much!
WOW SO MUCH TO LEARN. SO MUCH TO KNOW. MAKE WANT TO START BUYING SOIL MIX. JUST TO BE SAFE.
THANK YOU
That was incredibly interesting! Great tour! Thanks!
Seems like fir bark is to the western grower what pine bark is to the southern grower - a fantastic base for potting soil!! Great video, thanks.
You bet. Out local forestry is mainly fir and cedar. Cedar is what Bert was using in that C-fibre product.
Wow there's way more to dirt than just dirt! Super informative guy.😎👍
That was very interesting I had always wondered how they did it
Hmm i wondered why my plants had weird defficiencies... My cukes were going wild, but tomatoes and peppers never fruited flowers just dropped.
I'll order a 5lb bag of Calcium Chloride rich fertilizer before my seedlings go into the dirt this spring... and to mix some into the 2 blocks of cheap coco coir I have in the greenhouse. You might have just saved my seedlings from struggling, or at least from my expensive Worm Castings from going to waste... gotta get that worm bin going.
Thank you for making this video. It was very interesting and educational.
Great video! Found this very informative. Thanks Jason and Bert!
thanks for posting this - burt- really seems to know hisstuff, his talk about the coco fibers heps me i an an American in the Philippines will be making soil for raised beds and will use coco peat, i so far have tried to wash and buffer on my own ding a lot of guessing how to do that and i may so so far as to produce my own coco peat ( buy my own machine to save ) so his knowledge helps me thanks
This was very informative....Thank You and God bless
Thanks again Jason for your informative video 👍 Knowledge is power 🌹
thank you, very enlightening. regards from a garden center's seller who sells pretty much what was shown in this video.
Totally fascinating!! BTW, there was a quick mention of why plants need to be continually potted on rather than immediately placed in their final container. I would love to hear a bit more about that in a separate video.
In a commercial operation, big pots with small plants take up enormous amount of space for the plant sizes involved. I personally sell principally smaller plant sizes as my business model-in part due to the space requirements. Depending on the plant, time of season and market target, perennials will typically go from my 50/72 cell flats to 1qt square or trade gallon (2.5qt.). Generally annuals to packs 1/2 to full qts. Perennials stayin trade gallons for initial grow out and sale from seed or division. As season progresses, I will divide into more trade gallons, mostly, but grow some into larger pots up to 3 gallon for speciman plants, container use etc. BTW-I grow ornamental grasses and smaller natives perennials.
Thanks Laurel. I'll note down the topic for more discussion. There are a different approaches to this problem. Some nursery growers will pot a small plant into the final pot size right away (as Bert talked about in the video) because it reduces subsequent handling. I heard one grower say "Every time I touch that plant, not only does it cost me more, but I'm also *slowing* it down by transplanting." It's true that there can be a period of transplant stress after up-potting, and it's definitely true that more labor for the same pot is an increased expense. On the other hand: 1) You do have to make sure that your soil will hold up its structure for the entire growing cycle. Going into a bark mix on a two or three year grow, it'll be much compressed and poorly draining by the end. 2) This strategy only works if you have a surplus of growing space. If you're tight for space, it would be wasteful to tie up a growing bed with pots that are far oversized for the plant. 3) When I'm watering, I usually assume a pot size to be more-or-less matching the plant size - so I know I'll be looking at irrigation at a pretty consistent frequency (say, every 2 or 3 days in spring). If the plant is "swimming" in the pot, it can be a long time before it goes through the water in the soil. That makes managing irrigation in mixed stages of plantings really tricky, and almost inevitably ends up with some pots being watered more frequently than they need.
Thanks Will - you make a good point about growing space. I also find it difficult to manage irrigation on plants in an oversized pot. You can pick a well-drained mix of course, but they definitely are sitting in a wetter soil for longer than I'd really like.
I add blood meal to my mushroom medium; Glad to know I wasn’t over amending.
Thanks for a behind the scenes look at soil
Good video. Basically buy the potting mix, then add nutritional products (fertilizer)
So cool! Really interesting!
Thanks Ryan.
Brilliant video 👏👏👏. Some great information and has really taught me alot regarding the manufacture of compost and soils. Will be recommended this video to the grows down my allotment. Thank you. Watching from across the pond 🏴. Robbo 👍💯
Great visit, and knowledge. Will be a little more careful while using Coco Peat.
I'll echo the praise. Fantastic video!
Great video! Thank you for sharing...
Interesting & informative, even to a hobby gardener here in the UK.
That was an amazingly good and useful video. So much information! Over the years I’ve bought all sorts of different soil mixes for container growing and for my garden and have never known all the ingredients and their properties. Thank you for putting the video together. Your behind the scenes videos (2?) are information rich.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely look for more opportunities for these kinds of tours
Great video Jason.👌
I was glad Bert mentioned the salt content in both the coconut husk and floated log bark. Most people have no idea what the salt content is and just how much it affects the growth and development of plants.
I remember our conversation about the potassium bicarbonate mixture you were using for fungal control and the experiment I will be using with sodium bicarbonate, surface area only (no ground saturation).
Did you and Bert talk more about the calcium treatment to wash out the salt? I would love to know a good proven solution for rebalancing the soil after tropical storms here in Hawaii as well as coastal storms East and West like monsoon season now. Sometimes it takes a while to get the salt neutralized after a heavy storm. I usually use calcium, magnesium and pot ash, but the results are not consistent because there is so much variation in each storm.
Similar to muriate of potash compared to sulphate of potash, the muriate is very full of salt.
@@wayneessar7489 Exactly.
Thanks - no, that part we only talked about briefly. I was impressed to see how much testing they do on the ingredients - and even on the final mixes. They take an retain a sample from every batch they mix, just in case the grower comes back later with growing problems, and they can then recheck the mix. Very professional!
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Good for you to have such a trustworthy source for your soil.👌
Top notch tour and video! Very educational.
Love your field trips! Very educational and interesting.
Jason, you are knocking it out of the park on titles and thumbnails 👏👏👏
Thanks Peter!
Very creative video. Thank you for sharing.
This was super interesting! Wonderful video with so much useful information, Thanks!
Our pleasure!
Excellent video! Thanks so much for sharing😊
My pleasure Jan. Thanks for watching
We learned a very smart information from you Jason, very awesome video.👍
Pretty interesting video, thanks for sharing!
Lots of great info! Thanks for this!
Very educational! Another great video. Thanks to you both!
Holy ravioli Jason have you only done one of the best videos on UA-cam! What an insight.
Thanks so much John.
I like fields trips! Thanks.
I buy coir based potting in compressed blocks around 12x6 inches square add water makes 10kg of potting ....works fine.
Phenomenal ! So many choices and the reasons why to chose the right one. I never would of thought about the sites of where the trees were harvested.
What is the one you like and use the most ?
This year I'm trying a different blend. I very much liked the "spongy" texture of the HydrFiber, so I went with 33% Hydrafiber, 33% C-fiber (the heat-stabilized cedar product), and 33% fir bark.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Thank you Jas !
This was a great video, I learned so much! Thank you for bringing us along!
Very interesting! Thank you!
super content. I would love to be able to sample all of the wonderful smells, I can only imagine.
Thanks. Yeah, there was lots to see, hear and smell! He had specialty grades of peat moss and wood chip products that I couldn't fit into the final video - great day.