if something doesnt change billions of people could starve

Ajouté : 2026-05-11

[00:00:02]What's going on everybody? Welcome to another live Q&A. I am Brandon Rust, owner and CEO of Full Crop Sciences.

[00:00:12]And today we're going to talk a little bit about peak phosphorus so you guys can understand what the global implications are and how it could potentially affect billions of people if something isn't figured out. So just waiting for some people to come on in the chat and then we will get started.

[00:00:39]A little bit late. I haven't done a Q&A in a couple days. I have been insanely busy with all these different projects, this new business accelerator, just everything, you know, trying to get this loan for the property.

[00:00:56]So, hope everybody's having a great Monday.

[00:01:01]We'll get started here in a second.

[00:01:15]Damn, that blueberry Starlininer is so good.

[00:01:20]So, peak phosphorus.

[00:01:23]So, uh I first wanted to define what peak phosphorus means. So, peak phosphorus doesn't mean that the world suddenly runs out of phosphorus.

[00:01:30]Essentially what it means is that global phosphorus rock production reaches its maximum point to where it becomes harder to acquire, more expensive, it's a lower grade, and there's more geopolitical um problems around it.

[00:01:50]And then the mining also becomes more environmentally damaging. And the reason is because when we get to that point where we have to find alternatives, lower grades, we have to do more refining which costs more energy, more logistics, and then um oftentimes you have to find either new reserves or you have to dig deeper. Again, it costs more energy and everything else. The logistics behind it are very inefficient. Now phosphorus is different from nitrogen because there's no atmospheric replacement pathway right so 78% of our atmosphere is nitrogen and through the harbor botch process they capture atmosphere um and they use a catalyst along with a ton of energy and pressure to precipitate ammonium.

[00:02:45]Uh so nitrogen fixation nitrogen goes through a cycle where nitrogen will volatile volatilize back into atmospheric gases and it can be converted back into ammonium. Problem with phosphorus is this doesn't happen.

[00:02:59]The phosphorus cycle does not exist as inert gas in our atmosphere. It is a extremely finite resource and so as a mind mineral input there's no substitute for phosphorus in agriculture when it comes to fertilizers. Now plants microbes DNA RNA ATP cell membranes root seeds and crop crops and crop yield all depend on phosphorus.

[00:03:32]So, you know, peak phosphorus basically emphasizes that modern agriculture depends heavily on nonrenewable phosphate rock.

[00:03:44]And you know, the early modeling around peak phosphorus uh peak production is around 2030.

[00:03:56]Although that timeline has been debated, it's most likely between um 2040 and 2050, but that estimate does line up with the whole 3030 agenda. And as you can see, it's only it's less than four years away. Peak phosphorus and energy and resource are it's the backbone of the entire global economy right because without phosphorous fertilizers conventional crop production doesn't exist. [sighs] So you know the real problem is not if we run out but the more realistic problem is that the phosphorus the world has phosphorus but the accessible high-grade affordable politically stable phosphorus supply is limited and it is also unevenly distributed. So if we look at global phosphorus reserves, there's three locations that are conventionally looked at. These are the three major locations that phosphorus is pulled out globally. The number one reserve is Morocco. Morocco has the largest phosphorus reserves and they have been pulling the largest quantities of phosphorus for global export for decades. The second largest reserve is China. Now, China has been um providing phosphorus and phosphorus fertilizers exports for decades as well.

[00:05:41]The the issue is that China has now started to kind of stop that. they kind of want to put a hold on exports, which causes an issue because in when you're dealing with a resource that only has three general areas, if 33% of that supply is disrupted globally, it has massive global geopolitical problems.

[00:06:18]The third location is in Florida.

[00:06:22]And the thing about phosphorus fertilizer production is it's not just mining the phosphorus, right? So that does take energy in the form of fuel, which is exponentially lower than let's say the harbor botch process to create nitrogen fertilizers. So it's logistically more efficient when it comes to energy.

[00:06:45]However, to actually be able to utilize that raw material, what has to happen is that material first has to be micronized. And the crushing that really doesn't take too much energy either. So, you can micronize that material and basically increase its surface area. And the reason why you have to do that is because to create phosphorous fertilizers, you need sulfuric acid, right? Sulfuric acid is added to the rock phosphorus to solubilize and liberate phosphate the plant available form of phosphorus from that material. Now this is where the logistical inefficiencies come into place. Right? I know this as a fact because Dr. George who is my mentor. He is a NASA engineer. He actually build built designed and built the largest sulfuric acid manufacturing plant which is still operational today in Florida.

[00:07:51]And you have to be able to take you have to be able to make that sulfuric acid which again take this process takes a massive amount of energy and you also need sulfur right so it takes up resource as well that sulfur has to be converted into sulfuric acid and then those two products have to be blended together. Okay.

[00:08:20]When those products are blended, you get a process which separates all of the stuff out and you get bam phosphate phosphate fertilizer. Now that phosphate fertilizer is typically blended with ammonium from the proc the harbor botch process to create DAP and map diammonium and monoammonium um phosphate.

[00:08:50]So when you take the fertilizer right you only have two things that plants need nitrogen and phosphorus and they're very it takes us so much energy to for all those processes to get that one product. Now the problem is that one product has about a use efficiency of about 15%. which means that only 15% of that fertilizer will remain stable biologically long enough for the plant to use it. And then there's an additional equation which accounts for the amount of fertilizer that's in the soil versus the amount that actually reaches the root surface area. And when you start doing these calculations, the nutrient use efficiency of these products are extremely inefficient.

[00:09:44]So in 2026, the USGS phosphate rock summary, it estimates that global rock reserves are about 73 billion metric tonses with Morocco, like I mentioned, holding about 50 billion metric tonses.

[00:10:00]So again the majority of that over 50% is in Africa.

[00:10:10]Now the same organization also notes that world reserves are above 300 billion tons and says there is no imminent shortage. But this usually gets confused with people saying oh no we have plenty of phosphorus. The problem is not that we don't have enough. The problem is that the high quality high-grade material that is logistically efficient or not really that logistically efficient but um gives it enough efficiency to be able to make conventional fertilizers.

[00:10:57]But the same report also confirms that phosphorus has no substitute in agriculture.

[00:11:04]Right? If the soil doesn't contain enough phosphorus, you're [ __ ] Now, if the soil does contain enough phosphorus, even if it's in limited quantities, small quantities, if that soil doesn't have enough organic carbon to cycle that through microbial metabolism, then that phosphorus will not be metabolically available to the plant.

[00:11:32]So, the risk is really complex. A few countries dominate reserves and production and then recent literature highlights that phosphorus, rock reserves and fertilizer production are geographically concentrated. Now, we can see this with oil right now. 30 uh what is it? 20% of global supply has to go through what nobody even knew about in myself included uh four months ago to everybody in the whole US knowing what it is.

[00:12:04]And again, we're talking about 50% of global supply coming out of Morocco with the additional 23% from China and the US.

[00:12:22]This makes global food systems vulnerable to price spikes, export restrictions, war, shipping distribution, and political leverage.

[00:12:34]Okay.

[00:12:37]85% of phosphate rock reserves are concentrated in five countries with Morocco alone holding the largest share like I mentioned before.

[00:12:48]>> [snorts] >> So it's a huge issue and it's one of the pro the biggest problem.

[00:12:59]It's one of the biggest global problems, right? Like if I was to try to solve a solution, probably going after the largest uh problem or one of the largest problems that we face. Now, there's a long list of huge issues. But without food, I guess that list gets exponentially shorter because there's no more people or far less people.

[00:13:28]So, it's a really complicated subject.

[00:13:30]Now, we can see how geopolitical tensions and geopolitical problems and resource management problems and shipping logistic problems can vastly affect things very very quickly. So if there was some type of issue whether it's uh geopolitical, global, logistics, whatever that issue may be that affects these resources, we could we're going to see we're going to see the effect. We're already seeing the effect because of the high energy input cost to produce these fertilizers, right?

[00:14:10]60% of nitrogen fertilizers or ura especially is either produced or distributed through the straight of hormuz. Now, when we're looking at something like the production of URA, it takes 19 gigles per metric ton. to put that into um into perspective, if I'm not mistaken, it's around 19 million BTUs.

[00:14:55]No, 36 36 million BTUs.

[00:15:08]I'll find out here in a second.

[00:15:19]Okay, so 19 gigles is roughly 18 million BTUs. I was thinking 19 but I was off by a million.

[00:15:32][laughter] So um the whole reason why uh Dr. George developed the technology that he developed because given you know given his background as uh a NASA engineer he was the director of structural dynamics at NASA. He also developed life support systems and a plethora of other things.

[00:15:54]anything that had to be material tested for structural integrity, which was pretty much everything that was on that ship. Um, Dr. George uh oversaw.

[00:16:06]Brilliant man, by the way. He has a a a PhD in aeronautical engineering in chemical engineering and civil and mechanical engineering. So he designed the whole process, the chemistry and everything needed to be able to solve one [snorts] of the largest uh global issues that we face.

[00:16:32]Now Dr. George is retired. Um you know he does he's not as mobile as he once was. And so that's where I've come in.

[00:16:43]Now for most of you guys that have been following me, you guys have probably seen Dr. George pop up on my timeline in my stories when I'm out in Chicago.

[00:16:53]So, it's basically up to me to continue doing the work that he has started.

[00:17:01]And the way to solve these issues is through this little mineral right here.

[00:17:06]So, this is basically it's basically coal. It's ligignite.

[00:17:13]It's a type of coal, which is oxidized surface coal. thing is this material isn't typically used for anything. And the reason why is because from an energy standpoint, it has too much sulfur and it doesn't have a high enough BTU count to make it logistically efficient for energy production.

[00:17:37]However, this piece of material millions of years old, this is the remains, the mineral remains of plants and animals. And trapped inside this mineral matrix is a plethora of minerals, humic and fulvic acids, and other beneficial carbon compounds.

[00:18:06]Typically this is regarded as a waste product from any other industries that are are using coal for energy. This right here is discarded or it has to be remediated.

[00:18:23]This problem which is oftent times garbage to other industries offers the single best solution for solving this global phosphorus issue.

[00:18:41]Now this in soil isn't going to do much. In fact, it's been in the ground for millions of years not doing much at all.

[00:18:51]However, if I take this material, let's say as a waste byproduct from the coal mining industry in North Dakota, let's say, let's say we take this waste product and we also crush it down just like they do rock phosphorus and we micronize this and we do a similar process that is much less energy intensive without using sulfuric acid and we convert this into a usable product.

[00:19:31]A product that has exponentially higher use efficiency than chemical fertilizers uses less resources or closes a resource loop.

[00:19:42]Right? If you can tie into existing energy infrastructure for green technologies, that's a bipartisan win when we're talking about geopolitics, right?

[00:19:57]Taking that waste stream and turning into a high value, high use efficiency fertilizer product that doesn't doesn't have any of the negative environmental impacts that conventional fertilizers have. That is a [ __ ] win-win for everybody.

[00:20:17]It creates ge It creates political unity. All right.

[00:20:23]Bipartisan narratives.

[00:20:28]It closes loops, encourages green manufacturing, builds soil health and fertility instead of decreasing carbon levels like conventional fertilizers do. It doesn't end up in our waterways and our waste system as a waste pri product causing algil blooms.

[00:20:51]We can pull all of the phosphorus but not just the phosphorus from this. We can pull the potassium, the calcium, the magnesium, the sulfur, the iron, the zinc, the manganesees, the copper, the cobalt, the malibdinum, the humic and fulvic acids and nitrogen from one single material.

[00:21:14]Why is that logistically more efficient?

[00:21:16]Because when we look at the harbor botch process, it makes one thing nitrogen.

[00:21:20]When we look at phosphorus production, it makes one thing phosphorus. It doesn't address the complete nutrient requirements that plants need to be able to be healthy and thrive.

[00:21:38]Those conventional fertilizers also don't address biologicals, carbon, carbon mechanics that fuel phosphorus cycling, nitrogen cycling, nutrient psy nutrient cycling, carbon cycling.

[00:21:58]This right here and what I've been tasked with is what I'm after to sh to reshape the global landscape of how conventional fertilizers are produced and how we treat our soils, especially when it comes to largecale industrial agriculture.

[00:22:26]You might have to rewatch it.

[00:22:29]It's a crazy subject, dude. Most people don't understand how geopolitics, logistics, and energy tie in to our basic needs, which is food production.

[00:22:43]Most people are so disconnected and they do not understand how these systems work.

[00:22:52]Let's say you make diammonium phosphate with the harbor botch process and also by creating phosphate fertilizer.

[00:23:00]You go and fertilize your crops with that. But then you're also going to need to fertilize with murade of pod ash or some type of potassium amendment. Maybe you add in some magnesium as dolommitic lime.

[00:23:17]Maybe you don't if you're in a calccarious soil.

[00:23:21]Maybe you're also having to add EDTA chilated micronutrients to bring up the micronutrient levels in that soil to be sufficient for producing your corn or your soy or your wheat or whatever specialty crop or herb you might be growing.

[00:23:41]You still have to address all of these other inputs after the fact that we spent massive time, energy, and logistics, not to mention money for just the basic things that almost all crops.

[00:24:00]Again, I need your guys' help to do it though, right?

[00:24:07]You have to be able to to listen to what I'm talking about and be able to talk about this to other people.

[00:24:16]Use the products. Show other people how efficient they are. Show them the mushrooms that are growing in your soil next to your plant because you're using these products.

[00:24:31]Anyway, I'm going to open this up, I think, to Q&A. There might be a couple of more things that I maybe did not go over.

[00:24:42]So, this is one of the things we actually wanted to I wanted to do a breakdown in an evaluation. I have my notes here. I keep switching back to my notes.

[00:24:55]Fertilizer price. Okay. Energy uh increase in energy price. fertilizer uh prices spike, food inflation. We're seeing that right now. I saw an invoice recently. I think it was on social media. It was for a case of tomatoes.

[00:25:14]Okay, these are usually about I don't know 20 pound cases or so, but it's one case of tomatoes.

[00:25:22]Last year, his invoice at this same exact time, $23.50 per case. This year it is at $9260 per case. [snorts] That is an exponential increase in food costs. So, highly encourage you guys to grow your own food where you can, even if it's only on a small balcony. Anything to supplement that is a win.

[00:25:51]Now phosphate fertilizers prices they can move violently and we are seeing this right now.

[00:25:59]In 2008 the uh phosphate price spike became a major warning sign.

[00:26:06]Okay. When you see these things happen oftent times global economics are impacted. Okay. Because these are the forefront of all economics. energy resource and logistics. Okay.

[00:26:27][clears throat] Now, poor countries get hit first. So, phosphorus insecurity is a huge problem, right? Because if you are chemically dependent on your inputs and those inputs are not distributed evenly, the wealthy countries can usually afford higher prices, but poor farmers or regions where in developing countries cannot. And so they are the people that are hit hardest, right?

[00:27:08]This is a big problem even for wealthy countries because if you look at countries like the United States, a massive majority of our produce is produced in places like Mexico and South America and then imported. Okay?

[00:27:28]They are picking up the costs of production. They're buying the fertilizers. They're producing the stuff, but they are exporting it to us because they can get a higher price.

[00:27:38]However, if the countries that are poor are producing the food that wealthy countries use, those wealthy countries are not going to look like wealthy countries anymore because people will be hungry as [ __ ] Three, soil depletion and erosion makes the shortage worse. Okay, so even when fertilizer is applied, phosphorus can be lost through erosion, runoff, crop removal, and poor crop management.

[00:28:15]Okay, not addressing carbon in your systems, right?

[00:28:20]aronomists that are convent and taught the conventional methods.

[00:28:27]They're not looking at biocrop steering protocols. They're not looking at carbon farming. They're not looking at all of the other systems that tie into nutrition that upgrade these systems to create better logistical efficiencies.

[00:28:43]That is what this is all about. When somebody says, "Why do I grow organically, the earth is going to be here long after the human race is gone?"

[00:28:59]It's about logistical efficiencies. It's about using our energy and our resources to the best possible potential so that way we can all flourish.

[00:29:12]Even when fertilizer is applied, a a large portion of it is wasted.

[00:29:22]Agriculture studies are already being depleted of phosphorus in many places despite high fertilizer use due to things like water erosion.

[00:29:34]M is one of the major drivers of phosphorus uh loss. the the degradation of top soils through the continual use and application of conventional fertilizers, acidifying our soils and and creating logistical inefficiencies in the natural processes that mother nature built. Nitrogen cycling, phosphorus cycling, carbon cycling, nutrient cycling, biological cycling, where cells, bacterial and fungal cells acquire nutrients and resources from the minerals around them. And when they die, their cells lice and all of their internal components including bio stimulants, nutrients, etc. are accessible in that soil.

[00:30:35]So all of these things are extremely important to understand when we're talking about global food supplies.

[00:30:47]So I guess I'm going to open it up to Q&A. I've been ranting for a minute on this topic. It's something that I I I have to reiterate from time and time and time again. And the reason why is because we are seeing all the things that are tying in to peak phosphorus to where we get that point and it's happening faster than I would have expected. I was thinking before I was thinking oh you know 20 uh60 and those timelines and those timets keep shrinking until we [ __ ] we're going to hit this [ __ ] point. And if we have continual war, continual high energy prices, it's going to it's going to exacerbate the issue and it's going to push that timeline closer to now to where all of us are like, "What the [ __ ] dude?

[00:31:49]We're already seeing it."

[00:31:52]Anyway, I'm going to open it up to Q&A.

[00:31:53]I'm going to try to catch up with some of these comments. Uh, and uh, if you guys have questions, I could rant on about some other stuff or we could say on topic.

[00:32:07]Here's a comment from Oki Growroom, Oki's Growroom. It says, "My dad works at a nitrogen plant in Katusa, Oklahoma, and make exactly what you are talking about. Plant runs 247. It never shuts down except for about two weeks every few years for maintenance.

[00:32:27]You know that's typically how fertilizer plants are made. There is if you look at the amount of fertilizers that are used globally and you look at like the amount of profit that companies not the amount that people are generating but billions in profit.

[00:32:45]Okay. Fertilizers is one of the largest.

[00:32:48]It's one of the top five industries in in the world. It might even be the in the top two.

[00:32:57]I have to look. It kind of switches up between energy, a pharmaceuticals.

[00:33:16]So, here's a solution that Greg often mentions in chat. Shout out to the OG.

[00:33:23]He says, "We have pig bones, wild ones.

[00:33:26]They're a problem here. Look up KN&F."

[00:33:29]So, what he's talking about is natural farming practices, right? if you can close systems. And this is one of the things that I'm doing even though I'm promoting a different way for conventional fertilizers. Like I'm in the process of applying for loans and and trying to get this piece of property because I already have the green houses to start a specialty produce farm because Oklahoma is a food desert. Pick your own produce, get healthy foods into the school districts, you know, work with the farm-totable restaurants.

[00:34:04]That's something that I want to incorporate into everything that I'm already currently doing. Now, when we look up natural farming practices, if you're raising livestock and you're butchering that livestock for meat, don't let anything go to waste. Those bones contain calcium and phosphorus.

[00:34:22]That's the main in high levels in very high levels. So if you crush all that stuff down and you ferment it or you make biochars or you do different types of practices to reinccorporate that into your soil, you don't have to even rely on conventional fertilizers.

[00:34:46]Greg says lock Trump up. I think everybody I think that our that just the whole group of you know so corrupt man. The insider trading is running rampant. You know you see these these public servants that are you know walking away with tens of millions of dollars if not more. Um, man, but you know, I guess it just takes people to continue pushing the envelope um to reshape what these things look like. You know, Greg Holy Toledo says, "I got I got I got all my bukashi and compost from my local farms and slaughterhouse. Pay nothing for it. I volunteer and in return I get the stuff I need. That is I dude I mean I couldn't encourage that enough because you're doing more than just getting the inputs you need. By you volunteering your time, you're getting involved in the community, right? And and by doing the practices that you're doing, you have the potential to show other people how to be self-sufficient and independent.

[00:36:08]And that's the basis of our freedom. If we cannot be self-sufficient, self- sustainable, how free are we really?

[00:36:21]But don't get me into taxes because I'm ready for a tax revolution. I don't know if you guys are with me or not, but I'm [ __ ] ready, dude. Like, I'm ready.

[00:36:29]I'm ready for that cause. I'm ready to to pick up the cause of no taxation without representation. 3% on breakfast tea.

[00:36:41]Revolutionary war. We created an entire newly new country.

[00:36:55]Here's a question about do you sell or know any alternative to products that cost less to SLF 100? I'm not. Now, I'm kind of familiar with their product, but I can't remember offhand what the ingredients are. Um, I know it's used as biocontrol product and when it comes to or it's used as like integrated pest management product, but when it comes to IPM stuff, I'm I always go towards biologicals and then like a general, you know, uh, general like spray like I use suffil X or Monterey Horicultural.

[00:37:38]It's basically the same thing. It's a horiculture oil. I only use it in veg, right? It's it's a you know treats for pests, pathogens, mites, etc. So I can use that in veg. I can use my biologicals continually throughout um the whole process. No problem.

[00:37:57]Obviously I'm not using horiculture oil and flowering. But uh I think that our products are pro are more they're more efficient. I can say 100% more efficient than any of the other top selling products that are in the similar category. Uh it's why some of these companies like actively go after me. um both through uh like cyber attacks whether it's on social media and stuff like that or you know through sending legal notices and this and that which I won't get into it because I don't really need to but I can tell you this there are companies out there that are terrified right now because of the high use efficiency and cost efficiency of what I'm offering.

[00:38:57]Ah, okay. So, somebody clarified in the comments, SLF is a microbial enzyme. So, if you're looking for microbial enzymes, the far least expensive way to go about this, you're going to need four ingredients.

[00:39:16]Okay? You're going to need water. You're going to need citric acid. You're going to need molasses. And you're going to need yeast. Now, the way that you do this, right, to make you don't you could substitute the molasses for a sarcose powder, a fructose powder. Uh you could probably even use like a raw sugar.

[00:39:41]And basically what you do is you mix in the citric acid into the water and then you add in your carbohydrate and then you put in yeast. So it's four ingredients. Sacroyces uh carbohydrate you know like a a sugar sugar source water and citric acid. What you do is you ferment that together for about 14 days or so. And what you're going to end up with is actually uh like what they what like a flying skull or Dr. Zy. It's going to be a bacterial enzyme.

[00:40:20]Um so you could do that super super inexpensive. And if you want that recipe, you can literally just GPT it.

[00:40:28]Say I want to make a mic uh ferment uh enzyme ferment with those four ingredients. It'll give you a recipe.

[00:40:38]I need to get on the Joe Rogan podcast.

[00:40:41]I mean, I have I'll go on the podcast. I mean, any exposure on large platforms is good to talk about these things, but I love what Greg says says because in the area that he's at on the island, like there's so many resources for him to be able to create self-sufficiency and not rely on on stuff. And I think I send him like I I think I send him have sent him microbes and stuff that he may or may not use. But you know, my retirement plan is also Hawaii, you know. So I'm going to build out all the infrastructure for everything that that I need to do. I'll always be working if I need to travel and check on [snorts] facil factories and all that other stuff, whatever. But long-term plan, tropical paradise, baby.

[00:41:35]I'm glad that you guys like the information. Um, I'm glad you guys like the information, man. I'm going to keep it coming. You guys can tap in, man. We've got all these products are available. They they all work synergistically together. So whether you're using humic and fulvic acid fertilizer, our humateate fertilizer which complete fertilizers, um our microbial inoculants, our spores, the amendments.

[00:42:06]Here's another question. I'm finally mixing my soil uh today. Per the results, would it be okay to mix the amendments together then spread? I asked because some micros I only need two I think that's teaspoons. Buddy, you better check. I don't think it's tablespoons. I think it's teaspoons. So, I'm glad that you asked the question. Uh teaspoons per half yard. Yeah. So, this is what I recommend, Buck.

[00:42:36]So, mix all of your amendments together, your major ones. Keep your micronutrient sulfate separate. So mix your whatever your calcil, your gypsen, your epsom salt, your potassium, whatever it is together and your iron sulfate, right?

[00:42:51]Mix that together and then use that. You can just top dress that all together.

[00:42:56]When you're doing your micronutrients, what you should do is water them in. I always recommend using uh like micro plus because that'll drop the pH. It'll keep those micronutrients from oxidizing.

[00:43:09]Um, or if you have some fulvic acid, or you could even use a little bit of the humate.

[00:43:15]Um, I would do like the veg formula or the complex formula.

[00:43:21]Uh, and then water your micronutrients in. So, dissolve dissolve the micronutrients in the amount of water that you're going to use to water that bed. And then only use that much water.

[00:43:32]So, if you know you you're going to use, you know, five gallons of water, only mix up just under five gallons. So, you use it all and then you can actually just water it evenly over the soil surface and it's going to and it's going to distribute evenly throughout that whole whole bed.

[00:44:02]Here's another uh comment. And it says, "Doesn't it make sense to produce the fertilizer in America so we don't have to ship it over here? Why do we need to get it over there anyway? It doesn't make sense to me." Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me. But the thing is is because when you look at energy prices, right?

[00:44:18]So, if you're in the Middle East, right, and you're uh you're part of uh the the uh Saudi Arab Emirates, right, and you are going into fertilizer production, you're going to get energy to produce that fertilizer exponentially cheaper than if they were exporting that fertilizer outside of their country or exporting that energy outside of their country, right? It's because of the cost of energy, right? the like the amount of energy that is used is astronomical for these processes. Like it takes a massive amount of energy to cleave that triple bond in D nitrogen, atmospheric nitrogen. Not only does it take a massive amount of energy, but they can't even do it with energy alone.

[00:45:08]They have to introduce a catalyst, right? Because when you're when you introduce this catalyst, it helps with the reaction, right? because it's so inefficient.

[00:45:19]And so it's like multiple passes they have to do and like it's just so energy inefficient. And that's why because if we had to use that much energy here, it would cost so it would cost exponentially more to produce that fertilizer. That is why so much of it is imported. That's why so many people are dependent.

[00:45:40]They're chemically dependent. They're chemically dependent and they're energy dependent. They're dependent on their energy to produce those fertilizers because they couldn't be manufactured otherwise. But that's not the case for this. This [ __ ] is everywhere. Nobody even looks at this as a resource. I'm probably the only person in the last decade that's like like that's the whole reason why BNI, the large one of the largest coal mining companies, got back to me and they were like, "What are you doing?" like they were generally curious about like why I was inquiring about like this product and I was their president reached out to me the president of the company and I was like yo dude this is my thing like I'm looking at trying to secure because once we have our factories built the next stage is actually going to be securing those resources right going and buying the land that has all of these this this resource that you you know, so it doesn't get bought up by some massive corporation, you know, I do not have any enzyme products, but I've had enough um I've had enough interest that I may do I may do a small batch, dude. I have a small fermentation tank that's about 15 gallons. I have citric acid. I have yeast. I have molasses. Like, I have everything to do it. So, I think what I'm gonna probably do is I'm going to I'll do a test batch. I'll see if um you know, I'll I'll I'll I'll make up a batch and I'll and I'll list it on the website and if you guys end up buying it and you guys like the product, I'll list it for you know, probably really inexpensive so that way we can just do test runs. like maybe I make like I don't know 25 bottles and 25 of you guys can you know pay like whatever the cost of my labor and packaging and everything to produce it. So, and then test it.

[00:47:52]Say, "Oh, hey, yeah, this is a good product." You know, get some feedback from you guys and see how you guys feel about it. And if it's something that viable, that's viable. It makes sense and that that could be profitable for the company because again, I have to have sales. We have to be driving revenue to be able to build do all the things that we that we want to do. Um, then we could definitely do that.

[00:48:19]Here's a uh Trends got a garden says he's on day 41 of flowering my first run with the dry amendments and he said good lord brother what a difference in turpps and quality by this point in the grow micro plus and calil rocket.

[00:48:42]Yeah, man. That micro plus calcium silica combination, bro, is a banger.

[00:48:48]Like, if if you guys aren't tapped in or you guys aren't already like have already like tried these things, the com like regardless if you're in cocoa or however you dude, micro plus and calil, calil doesn't work in DWC, that's the only caveat. It's not going to work in rock wall. microbes. Well, yeah, this is a really good uh this is a really good comment. It says, "Good nutrient-rich soil is being tokenized by Solana, which is crazy that they're tokenizing it, which is the true valuation of your land." Yeah, I think that the true value of your land is the carbon content because that carbon content is going to be essentially, you know, you want carbon. You want carbon in your soil because that is what is the real value. That's what gives life, right? All the processes, all of the energy that carbon provides. I mean, if you look at like coal mining, right, or natural gas, it's the carbon. That's what they're after. This is black because it's made out of like it's by volume like 80% this is carbon, right?

[00:50:12]In different forms, humic and fulvic acids, carbon complex uh mineral nutrients, all that stuff.

[00:50:27]Uh Tricom Forest has a question. He says, "What's the best way to building a living soil from scratch? Start uh with low spend." It's going to be composting.

[00:50:36]So compost on your property. Um you know what's really great? If you have chickens, you can compost their chicken manure. You can blend that with uh leaf mul mulch compost, food scrap compost. I think that's the best thing that probably the most efficient and cost effective. Um because a lot of that stuff is just waste and even if you don't have a lot of it on your property, you probably source it relatively easy.

[00:51:00]And again, going back to the value, it's that organic carbon. It's that soluble organic matter that's giving rise to all of the biologicals, to the energy mechanics, to the solubilization of minerals from that soil in a biological form. It's carbon. But however and whichever you can efficiently deliver more carbon into your soil is going to give you the net the net the best net positive benefit.

[00:51:34]Uh Jay Quinn says what are the easiest way to get free nutrients? Uh so the best way is composts probably compost extracts um top dressing like uh chop and drop is really good just getting that however you can get um that biomass back into the soil.

[00:51:52]But the problem is this right? So without enough carbon, those those cycles slow down.

[00:52:00]And if you're pulling if you're cropping a lot and you're pulling a lot out of the soil as far as like food, you might not be able to keep up with the demand by just doing chop and drop or just adding a little bit of compost. you know, you might have to like be, you know, you know, there's might be other things that are going to be need to be involved in, but but yeah, like uh Mr. Turpp says, good oldfashioned composting, man.

[00:52:32]Composting is great.

[00:52:37]Biochar is great.

[00:52:41]How do people manage solo cup grows if they become rootbound quick? What is the trick to not running into many issues?

[00:52:49]It's actually nutrient delivery, right?

[00:52:51]So, the rootbound issue could be uh a soil compaction issue. And if that's the problem, then it affects mass flow uh and uh diffusion, root inception dynamics, the ways in which the plant observe nutrients. Chubby, stop making all the damn noise.

[00:53:12]Bro, come here.

[00:53:14]He's on this cot back there. I set up for him and he's just I don't know what he's doing. He's trying to scratch his butt.

[00:53:22]Um, but proper nutrition, fertigation strategies, and balanced nutrition is the way to go when it comes to solo cup growing. But, you know, I don't I don't I'm I don't think I've ever flowered finished flowering anything in a solo cup.

[00:53:38]I don't know if I'd really be given it a try.

[00:53:59]Here's a question from Holy Toledo. If using calcil, what should your MPK ratio and micro be in flower stage? So, I can not block out using 6.0 to 6.5 pH water in living soil, the NPK ratio, and micro. So your nitrogen level should probably be sitting around like 75 ppm when on the start of flower. That way you have enough to get you for the first two three weeks and then the the the slowdown where it starts using less nitrogen. Um phosphorus level should be about 125 and your potass or I mean your potassium should be about 125 ppm. And then phosphorus, look at as long as you have soluble phosphorus, you're usually okay.

[00:54:58]Uh target range to to be like banging it out like no other is 4 ppm. Only four ppm.

[00:55:07]That's only four times three times more than the ppm of you need that that you need of iron. You need more calcium, more magnesium, more sulfur, more everything than you do phosphorus. But people just don't understand how phosphorus works because it's so highly reactive as phosphate.

[00:55:27]So, uh, if it's being solubilized through microbial metabolism and you're even at 1 ppm, dude, you're going to be golden.

[00:55:49]The calcium silicut is still on the website. It's under amendments. So, if you just go to the uh the menu tab and go to amendments, all of the amendments are one place. The spores are in one place. Bundle packs are in one place.

[00:56:04]Cummates are in one place. And then you can select, you know, which amendments you want from the menu and stuff.

[00:56:18]I'm so far behind on comments. I apologize, guys.

[00:56:31]Uh, Warchild asked, "Do I do take phone conference calls for advice?"

[00:56:38]I used, dude, I was doing so much consulting at one point and um it just became overwhelming really because I'd have so many people asking me, "Oh, this and this and this and this and this." And if you have a question, you can always email. I'm I'm I'm usually quick to respond. Uh, I don't mind helping somebody out, but um, I don't like having to hold people's hands. And that was kind of what was happening on a lot of the situations.

[00:57:08]And it was like if something was wrong, I had to hold their hand through the whole process instead of just like, "Hey, you should know that if this happens, this this, you know, instead of giving them the, you know, I gave them the tools, but they it didn't seem like um they just wanted a lot most people just want their their handheld until they're comfortable enough." And it's like you got to move outside of your comfort comfort zone. If you're not comfortable, then you should probably keep doing research and start educating yourself until you do feel confident.

[00:58:02]Someone said, "Yeah, someone making bad choices toppable as far as the headlines headline on this live." Oh, on my live in government.

[00:58:16]Yeah, I put that as a kind of a get your attention because we're talking about how, you know, the the potential is real. The potential for bu billions of people is there to starve if we continue to go into the same and can continue doing the same thing.

[00:58:34]It's one of the reasons why I put myself in the position that I am because if you can solve one of the greatest problems in the world, um, you know, it'll make me feel good.

[00:58:53]All right. So, someone has a question from the comment. Thrip pressure knockdown. Highly recommend. Uh, when you take clones, completely submerge your clones in horiculture oil. Sufflex X works great. Then once they root, do it again. It's called the double tap.

[00:59:10]Also, you can spray and veg. You can spray multiple times a week if you've got high pressure. Um, the only thing that you want to be aware of is with any type of oil, it's always recommended to dim the light a little bit so that way the heat at your canopy isn't too hot isn't too hot.

[00:59:32]Space cactus has just took down some black D and some crinkle cut yesterday.

[00:59:37]That [ __ ] crinkle cut is [ __ ] insane, right?

[00:59:42]Let me know in the comment. Have you ever had anything even clo remotely similar to that crinkle cut?

[00:59:50]Yeah, this is uh ligignite. It's surf oxidized surface coal. That's what I was messing around with.

[01:00:00]Here's another question. Brandon, what do you think about consuming organic raw milk? I get some. I got some and tried it. It wasn't bad. Just kind of nervous about getting sick from it because all of the No. Well, here's the thing. Um, now if the cow is being fed a terrible [ __ ] diet, right, full of this and that and the other, they probably don't have a healthy microbiome. But when they are being fed organics, prebiotics, I'm I would assume that their um milk is also going to contain all of those uh beneficial microorganisms as well. The whole reason that they pasteurize milk is to sterilize it essentially. But the problem with that is that a lot of the microorganisms that are in milk actually assist with the breakdown of the milk proteins.

[01:01:05]Um and so what you've seen is there's a lot of people that are lactose intolerant. They can't drink regular milk. I'm willing to bet if they drank um unpasteurized milk that they would be able to because they have the microorganisms in that milk that help break down those proteins that their bodies lack. Um I see no problem with raw milk.

[01:01:31]But again, it's up to the consumer to do their own research, right? Because I I you know, I believe everybody should, you know, have a choice. It should just be like unpasteurized milk is illegal.

[01:01:43]Like it should be [ __ ] if somebody wants to drink unpasteurized milk, there shouldn't be a [ __ ] law against it.

[01:01:50]You know what I mean? Consumer [ __ ] choice, dude.

[01:01:54]Um that that being said, do your research. Make sure that you know that the farm that's producing the know the dairy is is organic. And you know, if you really want to like make sure you know, talk to them, call them, say, "Hey, what do you guys feed your cows?

[01:02:09]Are you guys using any beneficial microbes?

[01:02:16]Can you do carbon as a top dressing?

[01:02:18]Well, that's the thing. Anything that's organic is carbon, right? That's what carbon based means. It means that it contains uh carbon. Organic and uh or u yeah, organic and carbon are synonymous, right? So anything that is carbon based uh anything that is organic is carbon based. Not everything that is uh carbon based is organic though.

[01:02:53]Anyway, I am It's been about an hour.

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