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[00:00:00]What's going on everybody? We are back.

[00:00:04]Slightly interrupted earlier. Had to take a phone call with the attorney.

[00:00:11]Everything is looking good. We are well on our way to capturing the $10 million in funds we need to build a factory and I'm excited about it. So, welcome everybody. Happy Thursday.

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[00:00:32]Had to take a little interlude real quick, but everything's looking good now. So, Ethernet connection.

[00:00:50]Canada in the house. What's the pursuit of happiness, Mikey?

[00:01:03]Everything is going well.

[00:01:06]Everything is going well over here.

[00:01:09]Business as usual. We're just doing our thing. I always try to take a little bit of time. I got interrupted earlier, but I figured we do live Q&A because there's always new folks learning about us and wanting to know what we do. Yeah. the uh the new cap really makes the bottle pop on the microbial plus.

[00:01:35]Um the sea green, the seaf foam green cap kind of matches everything.

[00:01:42]Uh the white cap was cool and everything, but this one just it really actually adds like better visual appeal to the product, which is like and it's not even like, you know, like a huge upgrade. It's just a different color cap. Um, but yeah, so I just uh placed an order for a whole case of these caps and we will start putting the green caps on the probiotic microbial plus which if you're not if you're not familiar with that product.

[00:02:20]Um, it is a multifunctional soil probiotic.

[00:02:26]Helps cycle nutrients like phosphorus.

[00:02:29]Improves the microbial diversity.

[00:02:31]Reduces stress. It's got so many good compounds. Is a ferment product.

[00:02:37]Do the dry amendments contain kelp? No, they do not contain kelp.

[00:02:44]No, I actually don't use any kelp um in any of my cultivation. I did do a podcast on it just recently, you know, just to give people information. But me personally, I feel like the cons of most kelp products outweigh the pros. And those cons are high risk of sodium and chloride and heavy metal contaminations.

[00:03:06]Yes, we are back. We are indeed back.

[00:03:11]But yeah, I mean, go watch that go watch that podcast on Kelp. Um, I did another one on an Oh, wait. You know what? I didn't The Kelp podcast is on the 21st.

[00:03:24]I apologize. Um, I did a podcast on uh what was the last one I did? I did one on amino acids. I can't remember one before that. There is a podcast that I did on kelp before, but we're revisiting the topic on the 21st, I believe. We're going to get back into aloe again.

[00:03:48]Yeah, we did aminos last time. And then the week before that was something else.

[00:03:53]I can't I can't remember.

[00:03:58]So like I usually do these lives where it's just general topic. It's just me chopping it up with you guys. But then on Tuesdays we do the uh dirt on growing podcast and that's like in-depth information on a specific uh topic.

[00:04:21]was uh here's a question from Runboy. It says, "I was curious how the dry amendments work versus green bicycle.

[00:04:28]I've never heard of that." Or Mr. Be's.

[00:04:30]I've heard of Mr. Be's. I've never used either of these products.

[00:04:34]um you know our product is the the only real differentiation right from being an organic amendment organic input is that they are elomerated. So with our products, they first they're they're meals that are really really fine and that can be harder for application especially on a larger scale because it creates dust and so it goes through what's called a lomeration where where we use a carbohydrate like molasses and heat to pelletize the organic meals.

[00:05:08]That's why when you see our products they're like pelletized. It's not like a meal. It's not already broken down. What that does is it offers a carbohydrate to feed the microbiology and that and promoting those microbes will actually help break that material down a lot faster. So we our product is elomerated.

[00:05:27]I think those other products are just uh a mixture of different meals and mineral inputs.

[00:05:37]Here's another question. It says, "Do you ever mess around with tissue culture? Seems super cool. Just curious.

[00:05:43]Yeah, I have a tissue culture lab right in the back. Um I'm not mobile. My camera's like stationary. Uh but the next time I'll uh you know, maybe I'll do a live on my phone or something like that and I'll give you a little tour of the facility. But we have a tissue culture lab in the back.

[00:06:04]Do I do uh small clone drops? I do. Um hopefully within the next couple days the payment processor will be up and we're going to do another seed drop and then I'll start prepping uh mamas for taking cuts.

[00:06:21]Will they go through a heat up cycle?

[00:06:24]This is a good question. So if you are heating up your soil with your organic amendments, it's because you're adding way too much. When I first started with organic uh cultivation, I started, you know, building my own soils and I used like subcools mix. I tried a bunch of other different mixes that were kind of like popularized in the space. And what I found out is that they're way too heavily based on organic meals and not enough mineral inputs. So when I build soils now compared to then, back then I was using all different types of meals. alpha alpha meal, blood meal, soybean meal, kanja meal, crab meal, oyster shell flour, xyz of all these meals, which was causing the soil to heat up super hot. I burned plants a bunch of times, and even after it was cooked, uh, done cooking, and it cooled back down, it was still too hot from a fertilization standpoint.

[00:07:19]Now, when I'm building soils, the majority of the inputs are actually mineral-based. So things like gypsum, calcil, calcium, uh phosphate, um what else? Basaltt, um lang bonite, you know, stuff like that. And then the only only thing that I'm actually adding as far as organic meals are my nitrogen sources.

[00:07:46]So if your soil's heating up, it's because uh there's too much of those organic amendments in there.

[00:07:55]Yeah. So, I I actually built I actually built the uh I actually built a small tissue culture lab. You can build like a you know pretty like professional c uh like tissue culture lab where you could actually start a business for around $10,000 maybe even a little bit less.

[00:08:18]Um, I think I spent around 10 or 11 grand on all my setup. The only thing is I set it up originally, uh, you know, got the hemp license and all that stuff and I couldn't find, um, somebody to actually run it and I just don't have enough time to, you know, do tissue culture. So, wish I had somebody in Oklahoma to run the lab. I would just set it up and and start start utilizing it. Um, it's always there if I want to do pheno hunts. I've got media prepped already. Like super great uh resource to have, especially me being a breeder if I want to put things on ice and stuff like that.

[00:09:00]Any favorite sativa land race cultivars?

[00:09:03]Um I just first want to chime in and just say indica and sativa are usually morphological characteristics based off of the geographical location that those things came from. So, if you're talking about it in that sense, um I would probably say, uh I don't I dude I've got like I've grown a lot of land race, dude, and it's always subpar. Land like look at land race varieties. I'm not saying they don't have their their place, but on their own, they're not spectacular in my experience. So, I've grown tons of different stuff from all over the world and the the product is subpar and they oftent times need a lot of work or they need to be bred into a modern cultivar to be kind of acceptable. Um, and I hear a lot about, oh well, the effect the effect it's got unlimited roof ceiling and blah blah blah. And really that hasn't been the case. Uh, most of these things have been incredibly weak. uh the effect has been incredibly dull or not what I'm looking for. So, when it comes to land race, uh I do have some stuff even right now. I have some crosses from last year that just popped up naturally cuz I threw seeds all over the yard. Um we'll see if they're any better with the improvements that I made crossing the land race into the Star Fighter Mac, but I don't really like have a favorite. I just I don't really like, you know, it's not my go-to. But when we're talking about effect, my favorite like sativa or like uplifting effect, dude, the blueberry train is the [ __ ] business.

[00:10:47]The business. Um, I did actually have a panic attack, which has never happened to me before. Well, it's happened to me before when I was younger, where I just got too high, too stone. Um, I I smoked some blueberry Starlininer and dude, my heart was racing, dude. I was like, "Holy shit." Like, I smoked two bulls. I usually smoke just one. I smoke a snapper and be good. And I [ __ ] roasted two fatties, dude. And I was like, "Oh my god, this is too much." Um, so blueberry Starlininer is pretty strong. Um, but the blueberry tray macac, a lot of the stuff that I breed has an uplifting more heady effect.

[00:11:38]If I was using your dry amendments, what would be some great liquid supplements, bio stimulants to use every time you water?

[00:11:47]I wouldn't water in I wouldn't wa like that. It's too much, man. like bio stimulants maybe like bi-weekly maybe once a month.

[00:11:58]Um but like micro plus recommended dose is like 30 milliliters per gallon every other week. So once every two weeks um but like you know things like micro plus amino acids these aren't things that you need to add every single time. You know the best thing that you could do is just make sure you have balanced fertility and use those as supplemental support tools. That's how I use it. They're supplemental support tools. I mean, they're amazing tools that work extremely efficient, but it's not like, you know, in organic cultivation, you're not feeding like you do in cocoa or on slabs where you're fertigating every single day and using nutrients every day, adding inputs every single time you're watering.

[00:12:52]comment from the chat says, "This is why I tune in and after 20 years of growing, I always learn something new from Professor Rust."

[00:13:01]Yeah, absolutely. I mean, dude, here's the thing. Like, I was professionally and get you not like in a closet, not not triing and erroring. I was professionally growing because I was taught by a bunch of OGs that were run in multiple locations.

[00:13:16]This is what they did full-time uh for 12 years before I finally realized that I really didn't know anything about plant soil science. You know, it wasn't until I switched over to organic cultivation that I was like, well, I know procedure, I know recipe, and I have a good solid foundation for, you know, you know, diagnosis, SOPs, fertigation, and etc. But I didn't really actually know anything about plants until I actually switched to organic on a whim and I had to go down all these different rabbit holes.

[00:13:54]What are my feelings on triploids? I don't have, you know, strong po like negative feelings. I don't have strong positive feelings. I don't really like I don't think about it too much. I think that there's pros and cons to it. Um, and it really comes down to like business ethics because a triplate on it on its own doesn't inherently bring up any type of feeling for me. Uh, but on the business end of it, I think about things like the terminator seeds that Monsanto produced where they produce sterile crop so that you have to be reliant on a company for the seeds.

[00:14:35]So, in that regard, I have negative feelings about it. Um, but then again, if you have something that can't be pollinated and is sterile, it could be a great asset to a farmer, especially in regions where they're growing outdoors and there's potential for cross uh crosscontamination and they're trying to have, you know, seedless crops. So, I guess there's there's really pros and cons to both, but inherently I don't have any feeling about triploids they're on. I only have feelings about business practices of people who would either promote or sell or try to, you know, like here's the thing. If [clears throat] a big company starts taking over seed production in this space and they only produce triploids, I would have a strong negative feelings about that.

[00:15:28]Matta Mata Adams. Matt Adams. Sorry. I write it all as one because I'm dyslexic as [ __ ] Sometimes you'll see that in my spelling and stuff. [ __ ] will be spelled wrong and I'll have like a B where a D is supposed to be going or whatever. I love breeding, but I keep but keeping clones is a lot of extra work. It is.

[00:15:46]And that's one of the benefits about tissue culture and one of the cool things like if I feel like I don't have enough space, which I've got enough space for my veg tent, stuff like that to keep to hold my genetics. Um, but if I didn't and I was like expanding my library, I would keep things on ice and tissue culture.

[00:16:05]Comment from CT. It says, "I need to spray my veggies today. I've been seeing a lot of pests. Which one of the spores do I spray and what color is it? I must have lost the label. What do you recommend?" So the triaderma is green, the basillus is brown, the bouvaria bossiana is white, and the BT is uh almost the same color as the basillus subtillus. Um but when we're talking about pathogens, that's going to be triricaderma basillus. If you're talking about pest pressure insects, you're going to want Bvaria Bosiana, which you can get on the website. You can order the tribillus, leave a note at checkout to swap it out for the Bavaria Bossiana.

[00:16:46]They are all pure spores and they are safe to spray in flour. Um, if you need to. I don't like to spray anything in flour, but I will spray biologicals, especially since there's no carrier. It won't have any leave any residues or have any negative impact on the plant system as a whole.

[00:17:10]Here's a question. This is a good question. It's from Benji. It says, "Hi, Brandon. Is there any downside to using alfalfa pellets for remending in light pete soil for nutrition? Is it more a bio stimulant like kelp? So alalfa is conventionally used as a nitrogen source, but alalfa really only contains maybe two or 3% nitrogen and it t it can it'll take up to four or five weeks to break down about 60 to 80% of it. And then if it's that's as like a meal. So if it's pelletized, it's going to take longer to break down. So alalfa pellets, if I was going to if I was using alpha alpha pellets, it would be because I want small little amounts of slow release nitrogen over longer periods of time. Um, it's totally acceptable. You can even use alphaalfpha pellets, you know, if it's just alphaalfpha from like a feed store. which can be really inexpensive uh less expensive than getting alpha alpha meal for agricultural purposes. But you have to remember the surface area of the material will dictate the liberation and release rate of those nutrients. So you know just keep that in mind.

[00:18:33]Here's a comment from YD. It says, "Had my best results ever. Preloading calcium and dumping the cow mag all in folure mag sulfate and calcill for the win. Dude, I'm telling you."

[00:18:52]Well, I'm going to do a full p podcast on base cations ions. So, the interactions between calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium, and the remmineral, the remmineralization of those. It's one of the most important things in organic agriculture is having the bank bank account reserve of things like calcium, magnesium, and potassium because those are the elements that are taken up in the largest quantities during all phases of growth.

[00:19:18]that preloading, dude. I got so many people on that pre-loading and I love hearing feedback where you're saying that it's the best harvest that you've had because that means you're taking these these strategies that I've developed and you're utilizing the science and you're finding practical applications for that science and you're seeing the results, which is what I want to see, man. I want to see I want to see everybody grow fire again cuz I I travel and when I travel or when I'm judging a competition like I got like you know I judge the competition cushion sour comp and I really didn't see anything over like really a 7.5. There was a couple of things that were like in the in the low eights but honestly like I want to see [ __ ] consistent nines across the board. even some like high nines or low n 9.2 two 9. I mean, that's what I want to see, you know? I want to see that because I want to enjoy that. I want to go visit people and and and meet with people that I meet online and stuff and smoke with them and, you know, I want them to have flower. That's fire.

[00:20:31]Here's a It says here's a comment. It says, "I got sick of the soil because of the [ __ ] bugs. Coco all the way."

[00:20:36]Well, coco you can get all the same exact bugs um that you can in soil.

[00:20:43]There's not a real difference between cocoa and and and petebased modified growing mixes. The only difference in there is the amount of amendments or the fertility.

[00:20:53]Um if you're having bugs, it's not because of the media you had. It's because of your integrated pest management SOPs were were lacking. Um, that being said, oftent times store-bought products that sit out in the open, I'll give you a good example.

[00:21:10]I went to Grow Jen to go grab a bag of Happy Frog, a bag of Ocean Forest, a bag of King's Mix, and a bag of tuper, right? So, modified growing mix, potting soils. And if you like right outside the none of the stuff is like stored inside like every single pallet of bagged soil is sitting open to the elements. And that is the biggest um perpetrator of contamination especially insects in my opinion uh rather than substrate itself. Uh but one of the things that you can do is you can pre-treat your media if you ever have issues. You can use things like BVA bossana you can use pyanic. You can use things like microlift BMC and that'll eliminate a lot of those issues from the media itself. if those medias were sitting outside or whatever it was.

[00:22:13]So any KCMO grow says, "I've been looking at TC. I feel like my brain bandwidth is already maxed out with all the info I'm already taking in. Maybe I'm just being lazy."

[00:22:26]It's really easy to learn tissue culture, man. I learned I learned how to do uh marristim tissue culture in a couple of hours with a with a good teacher. And most of this stuff is really just protocol like building your protocols, your SOPs to make sure you're taking the right steps for sterilization and not contaminating. So, how good is the OGX Black D? It's a good one, man. Um, a little bit longer on the flowering time because of the bick. It's got that GMO in it, but it's faster than the GMO. It's faster than the bicket.

[00:23:02]Um, it's good smoke, dude. It's all around kind of old school funky turpps on it. It's not It There's no candy. Um, a lot of garlic, a lot of earthy cush type notes. Uh, there's even some that have like the some of them had like some tarpenolene in them. Um, one of them at least that I grew out had some tarpinolene in it and then uh but most of them were like tem garlic uh slight limey earthy cush type profile and and within that like you know subset of of profiles.

[00:23:42]Yeah, I'm back. it. My attorney actually called. I've been putting together a business proposal for the factory for a long time, more than a couple years, but we finalized everything. Like I had to scrub through so much data and I had to revitalize the update because we got a commitment from huge huge energy company, mining and energy company out of North Dakota. I mean, they literally do like $200 million in profit annually or something like that for like the last like 75 years.

[00:24:13]And um I I was talking to their CEO over there and they he basically said, "Hey, you know, get this thing all fixed up and ready to go and I will present it to the board to be voted on to whether or not we're going to fund the project."

[00:24:28]And the project is like $9.6 million.

[00:24:31]uh about one about 10.5 million uh actual total for for like first year operational costs for production and stuff resource you know raw materials inputs and so um I had finalized the proposal and I was working on the appendix that gives breakdown of all like detailed information and so I had sent it over to my my mentor who's also my attorney um he's actually NASA agricultural's attorney Dr. George's attorney for like the last four years. I met him through Dr. George. We kicked like super super awesome dude. Old old older Jewish dude that's been in like international business, finance development for you know 40 years. He was like one of the top uh you know attorneys in New York and Chicago for for a really long time.

[00:25:23]And you know he called gave me some advice on what I should also add to the appendix. But his feedback was really positive. He's like, "Dude, this is super comprehensive. It's easy to understand."

[00:25:35]So, we've got some really cool things. We We're going to be potentially a business partnership with another energy company out here in Oklahoma, which is a startup, which they just raised they raised $9.1 million for their first initial pilot project, and it's a three-phase project. Uh they just I just found out today that they captured the rest of the um the uh capital because their first Yeah, they captured their they captured the rest of the 15 million. So they got 9.1 when I first met within a couple of days. They captured the the rest. Phase two project is integrating other energy and agricultural technologies into their infrastructure so that way they can get the hundred million dollar investment because they're working with a company who won't invest anything less than hundred million. And so with to get to that hundred million number to to for them to invest they need to bring in business partners to increase their their evaluation of their company with additional technology platforms. And so that's what we're basically going to be offering them. So we're in the very beginning. Like I think he's just sending over an NDA because I'm sending over my business proposal so they can see kind of like what we're doing up in North Dakota and stuff like that.

[00:26:53]Who won the Battle of the Breeders?

[00:26:55]Battle of the Breeders never even kicked off. Um we got our [ __ ] our our OBN license was denied after everything else was approved because of [ __ ] some [ __ ] So, we have to redo some of the paperwork and then re resubmit. And I'm ready to go. I've got the funds. I'm just waiting on my partner to come by and and uh pick up the check. It'll be another two, three months before we can open and then we will get Battle of the Breeders popping. It's Dude, I thought we were going to open up over a [ __ ] year ago.

[00:27:29][ __ ] But you know what? It doesn't matter. We're moved in here. We relocated the fertilizer business here temporarily while we're getting our SBA uh stuff which we got the SBA approval from one of the companies. They just needed some additional paperwork to look at. We should be approved for that and then that project will get [ __ ] launched. We'll build a produce farm, a regenerative a uh platform, basically educational platform. We'll be producing food. We'll have a permanent location and then we'll have this facility here where I'm where I'm talking to you guys from which is the dispensary and grow and then we'll have the north I'm a serial entrepreneur so I have all these different projects. You guys are probably wondering how I even have the time to be talking on a podcast. Um it's because I'm really efficient with my time and I've got good people that are working um on the back end of the business while I work on the business.

[00:28:22]They're working in the business. I'm working on the business.

[00:28:28]But man, I'm like so pumped because we're like we're so close to [ __ ] capturing everything.

[00:28:43]Here's another question from Nope. Nope.

[00:28:46]Have you ever used mosquito dunks? It's the BTI in there strong enough to combat fungusnats.

[00:28:53]Yes, I have used mosquito dunks before I learned about uh BMC, which is biological mosquito uh control. And that is a liquid concentrate. It's the active ingredient that's in the the bits. The thing that I don't like about the mosquito dunks is that like so what I was doing was I was putting them in my reservoir, letting them kind of dissolve.

[00:29:15]The first time I did it, it created a [ __ ] mess. Those mosquito bits, they dissolved and they were [ __ ] all in the reservoir. It was [ __ ] clogging up my pump. The second time I did it, I did I put them in a paint strainer so it would capture all that material. It worked really well.

[00:29:32]However, the most efficient way is to just get the active ingredient instead of the mosquito ducks, but they do work good. Basillus theangensis isensis.

[00:29:46]And then you also have another BT that targets caterpillars which is basillus theangensis kstaki pursuit of happiness says can you do trial ones with your products and maybe side by side test a simple seed to dry that is like really simple.

[00:30:14]Uh, I could, dude, but I [ __ ] just the editing and the time and the dedication cuz it's like, okay, I'm going to go in there every day. And I started doing that on the YouTube, the Brandon Rust YouTube, not the full crop one, where I did like updates. I did like I actually did like time lapse photography, all of that stuff. And it's just it's a lot of extra. But I do have some ideas because I, you know, there's somebody that I uh recently saw online that does good editing and stuff and they do types of that type of stuff. So, possibly just get the pro, you know, the products already in their hands. Maybe just work on, hey, this is a good strategy for blah blah blah blah blah for marketing and showing people what's what. But we do also have um we sent off the o uh ocean forest and happy frog soils to Logan Labs for soil analysis.

[00:31:08]And we will be doing um like a podcast that shows like you know what your targets look like, what their soils look like, what you should add to bring it up to sufficiency, and then building fertigation schedules based off of those soils profiles.

[00:31:26]Here's a question. says from King Dooo, "What is your vision plan for Full Crop look like at scale within the next five years to see how far you've come? It's been dope. Over the years, you've come up from the bottom." Well, I appreciate you saying so. the next five years. So, 68 months from getting the North Dakota project funded, we will be in our first production phase, uh, where we're actually producing the product. If we can hit a sell through of 4.7% of, um, factory capacity, which is 468 metric tons annually sold, we that's our break even point.

[00:32:13]If we hit 10%, we're in profitability.

[00:32:17]Over the course of the five years, what I'd like to see is max out capacity, which is um 10,000 metric tons annually, which would bring us in about $46 million worth of profit annually at a uh a value of $7,000 per metric ton. And so my goal is to get to CA capacity on this project as fast as possible and then start building out additional facilities globally and and in the country, right?

[00:32:50]So we could put, let's say, a factory in Texas where they have really good ligignite sources. We could put one in New Mexico where they have good ligignite sources. We could put one in, you know, Pennsylvania where they have good ligignite coal sources. uh to basically decrease the logistics and transport and production. So anywhere where there's energy infrastructure, we can tie in. Anywhere that there's mining infrastructure, we can tie in. And the idea is to really change, you know, over the not years, maybe the next five, not five years, maybe over the course of the next 40 years is to change how fertilizer is manufactured. uh get rid of the conventional fertilizer processes and use these sustainable technologies, these green technology platforms to reshape the way agriculture is done.

[00:33:40]That is the long-term goal. short-term goal um over the course of the next year is to build a produce farm, have a permanent location for fullcrop sciences, use that as an educational uh and marketing platform for specialty crop production, and then use that to promote the product so we can um onboard larger farm co-ops, larger uh businessto business sales, white label producers, distributors, and so they can see how we're producing cuz when we have our green houses, this content is going to change. It'll be somebody filming me talking about, you know, how we prune the tomatoes to get maximum yields.

[00:34:24]It'll be talk me talking about the nutritional density of all the different types of uh produce that we that we're going to be cultivating. It's going to look completely different. We're always constantly trying to evolve.

[00:34:49]Do I ever have any moral struggles trying to balance natural organic with science, chemical, tissue, culture, etc.? No, not so much. I think the whole thing is that um what or uh people like the way that I view organic is probably different from the way that most people will view organic because most people think of organic as just natural, right?

[00:35:13]And that's not necessarily the case.

[00:35:15]I'll give you an example. UA is organic, right? It's chemically synthesized, but it is a nitrogen molecule attached to carbon.

[00:35:25]Well, I guess technically it would have to be attached to oxygen as well. So maybe not. Maybe that's a bad example.

[00:35:31]But let's take um you know there are all types of organic chemicals that are toxic and poisonous, right? Um there are all types of organic things that are not natural. And then there are a bunch of inorganic stuff that are natural that are considered organic. I'm giving an example. So you can find Omry listed gypsum or Epsom salt and those have no carbon. You know to be some to be considered organic here. Go ahead.

[00:36:09]To be considered organic it has to be carbon based. That's that's the definition of organic. It's carbon based.

[00:36:18]Um, so something like gypsum, it's natural, but it contains no carbon. It's technically a salt. It doesn't need mean that it's bad, you know. So, I don't have any moral struggles because I understand the science. Um, and oftent times what science is doing is replicating processes that are found in nature and just creating better efficiencies within those processes.

[00:36:48]No sound.

[00:36:52]I don't have any sound. Testing, testing, testing, testing. I got sound.

[00:37:03]I got sound.

[00:37:09]Here's another question. It says, "Pm, would you ever be able to do a rookie grow off?

[00:37:17]If so, would they have to have their own license?" Just a thought. I actually did a growoff one time. So, I did a sour cheeseberry growoff and what we did is we released clones and it was I think $200 and you got the clone, but you also got testing analysis. So, everybody got the same exact cut and this was it was 15 different people that entered this and there was 15 different growers, 15 different systems, you know, all of them were they were very some people did cocoa and salt, some people did organic.

[00:37:54]It was all over the place. At the very end, their flower was sent to a lab in the winter was determined off of the highest canabonoid and tarpine content.

[00:38:03]And so I've done something like that before. And it was really cool because I actually got to get all those that data, those data sets. So I could see, you know, how the tarpine percentages shifted in cocoa versus soil or this or that. And so it was really cool to see.

[00:38:19]And I've done it before. I've considered doing it again. It's just it's a lot.

[00:38:24]It's a lot to manage.

[00:38:29]What happened the other day on my Q&A?

[00:38:33]Yeah, actually it wasn't a storm. I forgot to plug my computer in. So, the power just died on the computer and I couldn't get it to power up to like finish in time. So, I just ended the live.

[00:38:51]Here's a question. I got I got down to earth amendments that I use to reset my beds once harvested. Would the full crop amendments be a better way to take the guessing out of things? If you really want to take the guessing out, I recommend soil testing and then just adding in exactly what you need. Um I I uh the reason why we put together the top dust amendments were for people who don't test so they can have something that's really accurate um and it's not going to overdo things.

[00:39:21]And then also we are getting we're waiting for our new packaging on the veg and bloom and our we're going to be reducing the price as well on both of those um when we get that new packaging in because we're no longer paying for labels, the packaging and the labor to put those labels on the package. Now everything just comes in one thing and we just have to fill it.

[00:39:46]So we decrease our overhead. Those savings get gets passed on to you. Now, I could make more profit and keep it the same, but I don't need to do that. You know what I mean? I what I want to do is make it more accessible, drive the price down. I look, if I could wherever I can um save my customers, whether it's higher use efficiency or lower costs, I'm going to do it.

[00:40:15]Have you ever thought about adding BTI?

[00:40:18]I do not have uh basillus theangensis isensis. I only have the basillus subtillus.

[00:40:28]I mean theoretically it could definitely be added. It wouldn't have any negative side effect but I just don't have that specific um I just don't have that specific uh micro Yeah, Coco KCMO says, "A [ __ ] You need an easy video uh run on video. I can make that happen." Let's do it, man. Hit me up.

[00:41:03]I'll supply the I'll look it. I'll supply the product if you do the if you do the media.

[00:41:16]Kool-Aid says just got an email. My cow cell and humates were delivered. Hell yeah. When you get home, they'll be waiting for you then.

[00:41:29]West Virginia could use some new industry. Interestingly enough, I've uh spoken to a gentleman who's another CEO of a company called Enrichment Systems and they do uh uh nano oxygen technology for water but he actually comes from uh Virginia and his whole family is from the coal space and I know I know about it we could integrate into their current infrastructure out there to create one of these factories easy it's just about capital financing you know the whole thing is I like I've had to learn a lot about business. You guys have to remember I was trapping when I first started this stuff. You know, I didn't know anything about business at all. And so, it's been a long uh a long journey. And one of the things recently is when I was accepted into that business accelerator program generator here in uh Oklahoma City, I learned about venture capital, right? I learned about equity financing. I learned about business structures and business proposals and executive summaries and how to structure things and how to, you know, the proper verbiage to use and what not, what to do and what not to do. And these are all things that I needed to to learn to be able to get to the point where I could confidently put together a business proposal asking for $10 million.

[00:42:55]And trust me, if uh somebody like myself who grew up in foster care and in institutions uh who had the first 36 years of my life was just a [ __ ] [ __ ] show, um then anybody could do this, you know.

[00:43:13]It just takes a little bit of motivation and uh having good mentors helps.

[00:43:22]Here's a comment. Squishy Mirror says, "I grew autos for the first time in an auto pot with build a soil 3.0 and I just top dressed with bokashi and craft blend and it turned out great.

[00:43:48]Not a fan of auto pots personally. I like to control flip. I actually like autops I I like them. I thought they're really neat. I like the the the kind of low tech method, no power and all that stuff. But yeah, autos have definitely come a long way. Built I've used Build a Soil 3.0. There's good good mix. They have good products. Jeremy's, you know, doing his thing.

[00:44:16]I'm not sure why they don't carry our products. I should probably hit him up.

[00:44:20]Here's a question uh from YG4 blunted says during your toing stage while drying during the redistribution of moisture in the tote do you keep your same 45r and it would be beneficial to drop the So, I'm keeping those totes in that same uh drying space under those same drying conditions. However, the relative humidity inside the tote is not going to be the same as that 45% relative humidity on the outside of the tote because you're going to have a higher RH because there's moisture still in the flower. Um, but that differential is what's going to help um homogenize the the difference within the flower.

[00:45:33]Do I have a Discord? I do have a Discord. Let me see if I can pull up community service. Oh, here it is.

[00:45:42]Discord.

[00:45:44]Let me copy paste real quick uh the link and I'll put it in the bio.

[00:45:51]And let me go back to Streamyard. I'm on another Hold on.

[00:45:58]There's the Discord link right there in the chat. And we've got a really cool community. There's about a thousand people, I think, in the Discord, maybe a little bit more, but everybody is like always willing to help. And I like to get new people in there because I can't answer every single question, but there's so many people in there that have a lot of experience, especially with our products, and they're all willing to help new people.

[00:46:27]Here's a question. It says, "Do autos have a different taste than photos? I hear hemp like, but never tried." No.

[00:46:31]No. Uh, the autoflower that I've tried was fire. It was all fire. And I didn't really like my experience before 2022 was Low Rider, which was straight trash.

[00:46:43]Uh, but the breeding game has exponentially increased. And when Dummy Girls brought me some autoflower, he didn't even tell me it was autoflower. I just smoked it. I was like, damn, dude.

[00:46:52]This [ __ ] looks like Mac. And it was tasty. It It had a good effect. You couldn't have even been told that it was wasn't you know here's a comment says venture capital can also be the devil. It's like fire use fire is useful but potentially dangerous. Yeah. And it all comes down to uh your contracts, right? You have to be really clear and concise with your business partners on what their responsibilities are, contingencies if other things happen, you know, things like equity. And then not only that, but when you're structuring your company, I'll give you a good example. So Mark Zuckerberg only owns 13% of Facebook.

[00:47:40]However, he has majority control over all the decisions. And the reasons why that is is because when he did the formation of Facebook, he put in dual class voting shares to where his voting stock held more weight than conventional shares. So he might have like uh 100 to one voting right on regular shares. And so the amount that 13% equates to over 50% voting uh capacity.

[00:48:23]Here's a question. I am down to my last bit of labs made with molasses previously. I want to scale it to 55 gallon. Can I jump right to 55 gallon or should I incrementally multiply the labs? I just scale it up, dude. If you've got your if you've got your process down, right, if you've got your SOP for your creating your lactic acid bacteria down, then just multiply just multiply your inputs and you should be good.

[00:49:00]This I don't know if this is necessarily true. Comment from the chat says, "A true businessman does everything himself." I think that allocating tasks to other people is much more important.

[00:49:11]Um I think that personally like if you try to wear all hats, it can get overwhelming and a CEO doesn't necessarily need to know uh every single detail, but he needs to know enough about each department to make uh informed decisions.

[00:49:32]But having the right team big, you know, we're we're always looking to build our team. Obviously, you know, if we scale out and get venture capital, we'll be able to expand our team. I try to keep low overhead.

[00:49:46]Um because we are relatively small company still, you know, we're not even, you know, we haven't even penetrated major markets yet. We do mostly DTC.

[00:49:59]But anyway, I'm going to hop off, guys.

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[00:50:19]Anyway, I'm going to peace out, guys.

[00:50:21]I'll talk to you all soon. Have a great day.