I was thinking you should put an ad at the end so you can generate some income for yourself and people can listen to the ad while typing their comments :) You deserve a payout for all the effort of doing the videos.
Could you make a similar tour in a huge vegetable greenhouse? It would be interesting to see how they grow for example cucumbers and tomatoes in a large scale.
Not even gonna lie. I watched this video more than once. It was fascinating to see how seeds are started on that scale and the millions of tiny little seedlings becoming a sea of color. I swear I could work with a company like this with plants and be completely happy to go to work every day. Very cool video!
This is awesome. I manage IT for a plug grower in West Virginia. We grow just a few more ... 180 million per year. Our operation is very similar in that we grow both seedling plugs, cuttings, and finished product. We mainly wholesale to other greenhouses and independent garden centers, but we also operate our own garden centers in the Ohio River Valley.
I had no idea! I spent the afternoon in my itty-bitty (400 sq ft) veg garden and also filled a few containers/baskets with flowers. Frost risk SHOULD be over now. That place is huge and amazing! So cool, thanks for taking us in!
I really wish these big businesses focused on straight species of native plants with smaller batches with more variation. Big hort and big box stores are selling us mostly non-native plants that do little for the environment. A trend is happening and people will start wanting plants native to their specific region. As an industrial engineer I can admire the process and as an industrial engineer I also see the greater impacts to sustainability and selling the customers something that helps restore energy to our global system if you will.
I never knew there were so many automated machines created for commercial growing. It's cool to think that someone had to come up with all the engineering and the process. REALLY enjoyed this video tour!
All I gotta say is wow. I really suck at starting seeds and getting plants started, but I'm really trying to force that skill and figure it out. These places bring me to be speechless because they've got it down to a science that doesn't fail. Gosh it's amazing. I want to be given an all you can take shopping spree inside these places to get as many plants as I can.
Super cool behind the scenes tour and great editing showing everything in a step-by-step progression. Could watch these types of videos all day. I was fascinated by the process and wondered why I'd never thought about how the plants made it to markets to fill the demand. I was also, in my mind, comparing how my grandmother used to keep her garden and orchard flourishing with just her hands and native wisdom. As a new gardener, I love your channel. Thanks for this tour.
@@epicgardening I know your primary focus (based on the videos I've watched) is on edibles but do you do any ornamental planting? You don't look like you have a huge amount of property but do you do any videos on planting just some fun annuals? You're in San Diego so I'm jealous of your climate/zone and I absolutely LOVE bougainvillea. That would definitely thrive in your climate, no? I guess what I'm saying is while I appreciate the practical, functional gardening you do, it would be nice to see you grow something showy or fun (for outdoors). Do you ever do that?
It is so amazing to see how well these green houses and production are laid out to come together for a final product. Then getting them to the nursery is another amazing step. Of course they have been at this for many years and all the problem solving they had to do, to make it work. excellent...
This was an amazing tour! Very well edited and did not drag on. Thanks a lot. I love all gardening videos but these ones are really special coz you get to see something different. Please do more videos like these, even of different nurseries, just tours. It’s nice to look at different plants kinda like window shopping in another country👌
Thank you!! I love these kinds of tours! I would also like it if you made it to some plant shows and botanical gardens and filmed there. I love your concise way of explaining things and your very clear speech. I'm hard of hearing so when someone speaks really well and has a nice baritone voice like yours it's easy for me to follow. And it's SO, SO nice to be able to follow and not have to watch the CC when all the pretty plants are being shown lol! Please keep producing videos! I love them!
Awesome tour! Thanks so much for doing this. I love geraniums as well. Automation has certainly made the job easier for the greenhouses. Very cool video.
You can see by the movement of the sheets below the tables that they have proper airflow - possibly the reason why they get away with overhead irrigation instead of a flood and drain system.
Thanks for the tour! Now I know why i plant my seeds on my own and take care i buy the right local seeds.. all bio and sustainable.. industrialization has always been the beginning of the end.
No way!! I used to live down that area for some years of my childhood! Smack down on Campbell by all the malls and a middle school, I used to complain to myself about looking out the window and seeing only shopping plazas and not some like “nature” or something 😂 Guess I was just living in the wrong area lmao Now recently gardening has become a huge part of my life and I’ve been binge watching your videos so for you to find places in SJ I’ve never seen or heard of before is astounding! That’s absolutely amazing. Truly thank you for these videos you help others in ways you may never think! 💚💜❤️🥭 c:
I love this video! This is what I was looking for. I wanted to see how the heck stores like Home Depot get such perfect looking plants. They buy them from places like this that have mastered the growing process. The downside is that some plants may not continue flowering when I bring them home because I don't have the right conditions for the plant.
I love this! So cool and fascinating to think that over many many years technology and knowledge has been accumulated to allow us to come this far in horticulture.
Wow man, it is truly amazing (Epic proportion) but the most amazing is the small space you need for the machinery. If you "ONLY" put all that Hi-Tech equipment in one room my guess is (I could be wrong) but a room the size of a half acre or even less, honestly 90% of the place is for the table where you keep the plant chilling until they get bigger and the 10 % or 5 % left is all the foot print you need for the machinery, nice and very informative video, thanks bro.
Really interesting! I can just imagine the growers working with the engineers. It would take a lot of fine tuning. Producing on that scale is beyond my desire. I was thinking I would love to own that place, but then I thought I'd probably have ulcers. It is so very cool to see this in depth tour.
Epic Gardening ! 📣❗Woow ❗u lived up to ur name by showing gardening at an Epic / Commercial level ! One word - Thanks ! 💐 Two words - Much Appreciated ! 💕 Three words - Keep it Up ! 😉✌🏻👍🏻 Lastly - the sequential, concise ,articulate , to the point presentation made it worth watching ...no lengthy history n botany n blah blah blah beating around the Bush !
I know this is an old video but maybe you will see this. I would love to see how seeds are harvested, particularly the really small ones like moss rose. This video was great and I am glad I came across it.
This video is intriguing and informative. however, some reason it makes me feel a little empty kind of takes the magic and joy out of gardening seeing all the mechanics and very few people. Guess I’m more of a food forest guy who likes to start from scratch🤪
Years ago I worked at a place like this in Sanger Texas call Color Star. It wasn't quite as sophisticated as this though, but that was 20 years ago. Thanks. The owner once told me he started his plant business for his love of plants. He said that after a few years though ithad turned into as much of a trucking business as a plant business.
New to your channel and loving it so far. I’m from Australia so I love seeing all the different varieties of plants and how you have to chose wisely due to the weather. We don’t really get snow here (only eastern states on mountains) so it’s definitely an eye opener!! So much info in your vids so thanks☺️
Kevin can you make videos for us on the seed industry as a whole and give us more information on gmo vs hybrid vs heirloom? Direct vs. Distributors? Also the best sources for those of us not quite growing at this scale, yet lol
@@epicgardening thank you! I've been searching youtube for good videos, not much analysis of this seedy business lol. In light of the recent Monsanto news you would think there would be a ton. For some reason, when I ask professional growers where they get their seeds, they get all cagey and never give a straight answer, except for one who pulled out a Johnny Seed catalog. Anyway this is such a big topic I'm sure there are many interesting aspects to explore. Thank you for your channel your videos are wonderful.
I've been following you on Instagram for a very long time but just found your channel on here last week...needless to say, I've been very busy watching all of your videos! Thanks for the great content and inspiration...recently pruned my houseplant collection thanks to your guidance and ordered your book on amazon. 😍🌻🌼⚘🏵
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
0:48 - Seed Vault
1:20 - Seeding Machine and Germination Chamber
3:14 - Plug Greenhouse
4:55 - Growing Greenhouse
5:42 - Making Soil
6:49 - Transplanting Machine
7:37 - Outdoor Growing Section
8:47 - Elle Pot Machine
10:22 - Rooting Greenhouse
11:42 - Growing Greenhouse 2
12:35 - Cool Lavender Tip
13:15 - Plants, Supermarket, Outro
I was thinking you should put an ad at the end so you can generate some income for yourself and people can listen to the ad while typing their comments :) You deserve a payout for all the effort of doing the videos.
Appreciate that Barbara! I believe I do have some ads on these videos that UA-cam auto-adds
Could you make a similar tour in a huge vegetable greenhouse? It would be interesting to see how they grow for example cucumbers and tomatoes in a large scale.
Thanks for your educative videos.how much does your factory cost? How big is your land?
Where can I buy the casings that the cuttings were going into at around 10:00
Not even gonna lie. I watched this video more than once. It was fascinating to see how seeds are started on that scale and the millions of tiny little seedlings becoming a sea of color. I swear I could work with a company like this with plants and be completely happy to go to work every day. Very cool video!
That's high praise, thank you Felicia!
Always have the dream to be owner of this type of nursery, now i am just following my dream
This is awesome. I manage IT for a plug grower in West Virginia. We grow just a few more ... 180 million per year. Our operation is very similar in that we grow both seedling plugs, cuttings, and finished product. We mainly wholesale to other greenhouses and independent garden centers, but we also operate our own garden centers in the Ohio River Valley.
I have worked in the filed of seedling production in Iran for 15 years.I enjoyed your work
I have wanted to see the inside of a commercial nursery for a long time. So glad that I happened upon yours. Loved it!
This was absolutely fascinating, would love to see more things like this. Interesting to see the process on different scales
I had no idea! I spent the afternoon in my itty-bitty (400 sq ft) veg garden and also filled a few containers/baskets with flowers. Frost risk SHOULD be over now. That place is huge and amazing! So cool, thanks for taking us in!
I really wish these big businesses focused on straight species of native plants with smaller batches with more variation.
Big hort and big box stores are selling us mostly non-native plants that do little for the environment.
A trend is happening and people will start wanting plants native to their specific region.
As an industrial engineer I can admire the process and as an industrial engineer I also see the greater impacts to sustainability and selling the customers something that helps restore energy to our global system if you will.
I never knew there were so many automated machines created for commercial growing. It's cool to think that someone had to come up with all the engineering and the process. REALLY enjoyed this video tour!
Thank you - I'm glad to hear!
All I gotta say is wow. I really suck at starting seeds and getting plants started, but I'm really trying to force that skill and figure it out. These places bring me to be speechless because they've got it down to a science that doesn't fail. Gosh it's amazing. I want to be given an all you can take shopping spree inside these places to get as many plants as I can.
Probably one of my absolute favorite of all your videos, Kevin. Thank you, this is amazing!
Super cool behind the scenes tour and great editing showing everything in a step-by-step progression. Could watch these types of videos all day. I was fascinated by the process and wondered why I'd never thought about how the plants made it to markets to fill the demand. I was also, in my mind, comparing how my grandmother used to keep her garden and orchard flourishing with just her hands and native wisdom. As a new gardener, I love your channel. Thanks for this tour.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed!
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Excellent tour. Very informative and thorough. Thanks, man. Yes, more videos like this.
I'll do my best to get out there and get more tours filmed!
@@epicgardening I know your primary focus (based on the videos I've watched) is on edibles but do you do any ornamental planting? You don't look like you have a huge amount of property but do you do any videos on planting just some fun annuals? You're in San Diego so I'm jealous of your climate/zone and I absolutely LOVE bougainvillea. That would definitely thrive in your climate, no? I guess what I'm saying is while I appreciate the practical, functional gardening you do, it would be nice to see you grow something showy or fun (for outdoors). Do you ever do that?
I've been getting more into ornamentals, and yes bougainvillea is effectively a weed here, I have a massive one in my backyard actually!
@@epicgardening You poor thing. Boo hoo. ha ha ha ha. Just look at this: ua-cam.com/video/-KHy04HizAw/v-deo.html
Agreed. Would love to see more of these type... super interesting
That was amazing! Thank you taking us along with you on your tour.
Thanks for watching!
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Thank you! You are very sweet. ❤
It is so amazing to see how well these green houses and production are laid out to come together for a final product. Then getting them to the nursery is another amazing step. Of course they have been at this for many years and all the problem solving they had to do, to make it work. excellent...
Incredible operation. Love the tour!
Thanks John!
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@@vinaychoudhary2501 .
Ammmmazing!!!!, CAN’T stop watching. I want to quit my job and go work there NOW!! but I live out of state 😭. This place is my field of dream.🥰💕💕💕💕💕.
This was an amazing tour! Very well edited and did not drag on. Thanks a lot. I love all gardening videos but these ones are really special coz you get to see something different. Please do more videos like these, even of different nurseries, just tours. It’s nice to look at different plants kinda like window shopping in another country👌
Appreciate the feedback!
Thank you!! I love these kinds of tours! I would also like it if you made it to some plant shows and botanical gardens and filmed there. I love your concise way of explaining things and your very clear speech. I'm hard of hearing so when someone speaks really well and has a nice baritone voice like yours it's easy for me to follow. And it's SO, SO nice to be able to follow and not have to watch the CC when all the pretty plants are being shown lol! Please keep producing videos! I love them!
Thank you for the kind words Jennifer! Appreciate your kindness :)
That was really cool. Love the automation and the scale of that operation is amazing.
Blew my mind!
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Wow, I was blown away. I appreciate that very much. God bless you and thank you.
Awesome tour! Thanks so much for doing this. I love geraniums as well. Automation has certainly made the job easier for the greenhouses. Very cool video.
Thank you Barbara!
I live in Karachi Pakistan I like your comments
Those giant warehouse sized greenhouses are unreal,that's an amazing operation. Thanks man, that was really cool.
Glad you enjoyed!
Incredible operation for green house/poly-house. Love the plant tour!
That was fantastic! Such an enormous scale operation, thank you for bringing that to us.
Your'e welcome!
Thank you for these tours, I dream of this, let's make it happen, one plant at a Time, out the door, one single seed at a time!!
The propagating was insane. A great tour, and thank you so much!
Wow. Thanks for this video. I have never seen so many seedlings. Just wow.
Incredibly eye opening. Thanks for the great video 👍
Many thanks for showing such valuable operations for plants. Please show the close up of plants & machines.
WOW! What a fine plant factory.
You can see by the movement of the sheets below the tables that they have proper airflow - possibly the reason why they get away with overhead irrigation instead of a flood and drain system.
I've been wanting to see this kind of video. Great work man.
Glad to provide!
I live in Karachi Pakistan I like your comments
Wow that tour was amazing. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for the tour! Now I know why i plant my seeds on my own and take care i buy the right local seeds.. all bio and sustainable.. industrialization has always been the beginning of the end.
Great work! Interesting to know how the cogs turn inside larger nurseries.
Wow first time to see millions of plants
I love that lavender 😍
Thank for sharing 🙂
Thank you for tuning in :)
No way!! I used to live down that area for some years of my childhood! Smack down on Campbell by all the malls and a middle school, I used to complain to myself about looking out the window and seeing only shopping plazas and not some like “nature” or something 😂
Guess I was just living in the wrong area lmao
Now recently gardening has become a huge part of my life and I’ve been binge watching your videos so for you to find places in SJ I’ve never seen or heard of before is astounding! That’s absolutely amazing. Truly thank you for these videos you help others in ways you may never think! 💚💜❤️🥭 c:
This is the most awesoem thing I have ever seen
I love this video! This is what I was looking for. I wanted to see how the heck stores like Home Depot get such perfect looking plants. They buy them from places like this that have mastered the growing process. The downside is that some plants may not continue flowering when I bring them home because I don't have the right conditions for the plant.
Beautifull explained. Excellent tour. I enjoyed it. From seed to complete Plant. Good history tour. Thanks. Angelo Borges.
Definitely love this tour. Thanks so much. It's amazing. Janice
Thanks Janice!
Amazing place! Hope to see additional tours. Thank you for sharing...
WOW! Neat. I'd like to see a 2 hour version with a lot more detail. Thanks.
Oh my gosh. Thanks. Amazing to see how it all happens. I loved seeing this.Very enlightening. Wow. Wow.Wow.
thank goodness for all the people who cant keep plants alive, now this business has an unimaginable scale of operation
Very informative! I really enjoy your discussions with fellow growers. Sharing hard won knowledge is an act of generosity. Thank you.
I love this! So cool and fascinating to think that over many many years technology and knowledge has been accumulated to allow us to come this far in horticulture.
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Wow man, it is truly amazing (Epic proportion) but the most amazing is the small space you need for the machinery. If you "ONLY" put all that Hi-Tech equipment in one room my guess is (I could be wrong) but a room the size of a half acre or even less, honestly 90% of the place is for the table where you keep the plant chilling until they get bigger and the 10 % or 5 % left is all the foot print you need for the machinery, nice and very informative video, thanks bro.
Yeah the space that's required is really for letting the millions of plants actually grow, the automation is quite small in relation!
That was an amazing tour
I live in Karachi Pakistan I like your comments if you don't mind
Really interesting! I can just imagine the growers working with the engineers. It would take a lot of fine tuning. Producing on that scale is beyond my desire. I was thinking I would love to own that place, but then I thought I'd probably have ulcers. It is so very cool to see this in depth tour.
I'm really mind blown... Thank you for this amazing tour..
This place seems super peaceful.
It was, in an odd way!
Epic Gardening ! 📣❗Woow ❗u lived up to ur name by showing gardening at an Epic / Commercial level !
One word - Thanks ! 💐
Two words - Much Appreciated ! 💕
Three words - Keep it Up ! 😉✌🏻👍🏻
Lastly - the sequential, concise ,articulate , to the point presentation made it worth watching ...no lengthy history n botany n blah blah blah beating around the Bush !
I truly enjoyed the tour. I've learned alot and the process was interesting. Really have not thought much of the work behind the plants. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
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This is fascinating! I never thought about what a nursery would look like on that kind of scale :)
Cool to peek behind the curtain
This was great! I’m also very jealous of the automatic transplanter!
I know this is an old video but maybe you will see this. I would love to see how seeds are harvested, particularly the really small ones like moss rose. This video was great and I am glad I came across it.
Very cool, I love the seed vault! Thanks for sharing Kevin♥
NP!
i miss your tours, i hope to see more in future
Excellent plant tour. Very informative and thorough. Thanks, Sir
What an amazing video!! One of the best I saw!
I actually lost sleep wondering how commercial greenhouses operate, no joke. These are the big questions in my life lol. Thank you for the video!
Me too! That's why this was amazing
Such beautiful and most knowledgeable video. Thank you so much sir for sharing .great job sir .🙏
Very cool tour! I'd love to see a tour of the harvesting, cleaning, sorting, packing and shipping of fruits and veggies.
I need to make it to one of those places soon!
Thank you so much for the tour. Loved seeing how it worked.
That’s awesome to see! Thanks for sharing it with us
You're welcome, thanks for tuning in :)
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Thank you for showing us. So beautiful 😍
Really awesome nursery operations, amazing, thanks for sharing with us! May we know the name and address of this nursery please?
Awesome video!! Thank you!! So cool to see the steps start to finish!
My all time favorite video!! Thank you!
This is so cool! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
That was an awesome tour ❤️ loved it
Thanks for watching~!
Wow. Fascinating. 😳
Thanks for the tour.
Excellent video. Loved it and will be watching again. Several times most likely lol Thanks Kevin!!!
Hey I just wanted to say thank you! You guys are crushing it with these videos and I think the beard looks great! Keep up the great work!
Thanks my man! Appreciate you
You just earned a new subscriber.Thank you for the tour.
Thank you for this educational tour. Very helpful. Thank you 🙏🏼 ❤️
GREAT TOUR!!! SUCH A BLESSING AND SO HELPFUL WITH ALL THE INFO!!! THANK YOU! WOULD LOVE TO SEE MORE OF THESE!!!
Will do!
Hi Kevin! This was an amazing video. That is quite a process! Very interesting. Thank you for showing this!
Thanks for tuning in!
This video is intriguing and informative. however, some reason it makes me feel a little empty kind of takes the magic and joy out of gardening seeing all the mechanics and very few people. Guess I’m more of a food forest guy who likes to start from scratch🤪
Amazing plant tour 👏👏👏 learn a lot from this video 😊
Years ago I worked at a place like this in Sanger Texas call Color Star. It wasn't quite as sophisticated as this though, but that was 20 years ago. Thanks. The owner once told me he started his plant business for his love of plants. He said that after a few years though ithad turned into as much of a trucking business as a plant business.
This was so interesting, I manage at a Garden Center, and we do so many of the same things, just on a smaller scale!
This is hard to comprehend. Nice video!
I honestly don't know how I got here.. But that was pretty dang cool bro... Nice work..
Glad you arrived
Love the tour! Very informative and fascinating!
Thank you!!! Loved this type of video!,
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New to your channel and loving it so far. I’m from Australia so I love seeing all the different varieties of plants and how you have to chose wisely due to the weather. We don’t really get snow here (only eastern states on mountains) so it’s definitely an eye opener!!
So much info in your vids so thanks☺️
Thanks for the nice words! Great climate for most stuff over in Oz though :)
Awesome tour , these visit to different greenhouse is fantastic.
I recognize those "Hills". Never knew all those plants came from that one nursery.
This is actually insane & to me this is so cool dude :) !!
Wow!!! Next tour in vegetable farm! 🌱
Impressive Ops. Another nice Epicsode. And that's how the sausage's made.
Indeed my friend
@@epicgardening I gave a man a potato today. He very was happy with it. True story. Amazing how a locally grown spud can make someone's day.
yes of course we want more tours
Thank you for the tour, very instructive
Thanks for this great video, Kevin!
Kevin can you make videos for us on the seed industry as a whole and give us more information on gmo vs hybrid vs heirloom? Direct vs. Distributors? Also the best sources for those of us not quite growing at this scale, yet lol
Great idea. I will do my best to cover this
@@epicgardening thank you! I've been searching youtube for good videos, not much analysis of this seedy business lol. In light of the recent Monsanto news you would think there would be a ton. For some reason, when I ask professional growers where they get their seeds, they get all cagey and never give a straight answer, except for one who pulled out a Johnny Seed catalog. Anyway this is such a big topic I'm sure there are many interesting aspects to explore. Thank you for your channel your videos are wonderful.
Awesome tour! I bet it smelled amazing too!
Yes!
I've been following you on Instagram for a very long time but just found your channel on here last week...needless to say, I've been very busy watching all of your videos! Thanks for the great content and inspiration...recently pruned my houseplant collection thanks to your guidance and ordered your book on amazon. 😍🌻🌼⚘🏵
Andy! Thanks so much my friend, means a lot. Hope the book helps out.