🍃Growing BIG A$ Plants, Utililzing Horsetail, and Plant Medicine Deep Dive, with OKCalyxx | Otter.ai

🍃Growing BIG A$$ Plants, Utililzing Horsetail, and Plant Medicine Deep Dive, with OKCalyxx

Jordan River1h 10min

Jordan River

00:00

Greetings listeners from around the world. Jordan River here back with more grow cast just in time for the hunt. I am back, everybody. Thank you so much for your patience and for your well wishes. I really appreciate that I am losing my voice a little bit just in this intro here. Forgive me, but I just want to say thank you. I am back to a full time content, schedule. There are some changes that are coming up, all good things. Got a lot of things in the works. You guys know how I roll, but we're gonna get back into the swing of things with grow cast podcast, and then I'll be making some announcements about the show and about membership. So stay tuned for that again. Thank you for all your well wishes. I appreciate everybody who reached out. Means a lot to me, and I'm happy to be back serving you with more grow cast podcast. We're returning with fan favorite, okay, calyx, really great episode we have recorded, you know, okay, call x is a passionate guy. He has a lot to share today on education, on our upcoming class, and on all the stuff that he's doing at his property. So it's a really great one. I hope you love it. I know you'll enjoy it before we jump into it with okcalx, though. Shout out to AC infinity. That's right. Acinity.com, code grow, cast one five to get your savings and go ahead and order the Grow kits. They've got the ventilation fans. They've got lights, pots, scissors. They used to just make intake and outtake fans, and they were the best fans in the game. Still are, but now they've expanded to so much more. Their grow tents were a huge step up for the industry. Everybody started copying that style as soon as it came out. Really, really awesome design and oscillating fans. No one does it better than the cloud Ray. They've got heaters, they've got humidifiers, they've got shades, really cool stuff. It's all at AC, infinity.com, it's all waiting for you. Code grow cast one, five, and that code even works on the Grow kits. It might not be the full discount, but it'll get you a little money off even the all in one grow kits that comes with the tent, the lights and the fans and everything you need to get started growing. So why don't you just throw up another 10? I know you guys are gonna jump in on the grand fino hunt, so just go ahead and grab another tent. Grab another propagation. Tent, AC infinity.com, use code grow cast, one five helps us out. Helps them out. Thank you so much. AC infinity, thank you to everybody listening. Let's get into it with ok. Call X and enjoy the show. Hello, podcast listeners who are now listening to grow cast, I'm your host, Jordan River, and I want to thank you for tuning in again today. Before we get started, as always, I urge you to share this show. It really does help us copy this link and send it to a grower or turn a smoker on to growing for the first time. That is how you can help us on our mission of overgrow. Make sure you're subscribed following wherever you listen to us. Growcast podcast.com is where you can find all of the stuff, the episodes, the classes, the membership, the seeds, it's all there. Thank you so much to the members for making this show possible. Today, we've got a good friend of the show back on the line, natural farming expert, co host of a class that we will be doing later this year. You guys know him. You love him. Okay, Calex is back on the show. What's up? Okay, Calex, how you doing?

Speaker 1

03:02

Man, what's going on? Brother? Jordan, hi, everybody listening. Well, it's summertime and the garden is pumping. It looks great. I've got big old sunflowers. I've got my own sunflowers. They're called shorty fat heads. It's a breed that I've been trying to breed basically through selection, you know, just constantly picking that one sunflower, and I'm like, That's the height, that's the look, and then letting the rest just kind of go. But it's a shorty, fat head. I've sent them out to a few people. They've got them growing. Also, I've had them kind of test them and see what they look like. But the leaves Jordan, they're monster leaves. They're, they're a foot and a half across on some of these plants. And they're, they're, they don't get big and tall. Here's the thing, if you grow sunflowers, one good thing you should grow in your garden are sunflowers. They they pull up yucky stuff from the soil. They make great biochar. They do great compost. They make great fermented plant extract. They make great organic material to put in your garden. Because remember, these plants are pulling energy and nutrient from the sun. So they're not just pulling everything from your soil, soil. You are definitely adding more nutrient. And the sunflower just loves that sun. They put tons of big leaf, lots of foliage. And so they're really good for many reasons, but I've got beautiful sunflowers all throughout my garden. This year I did, uh, I did bean poles, where I went and cut some bamboo that are probably eight feet tall, put them in a teepee style, and grew my their blue lakes, Blue Lake beans grew up the poles. But then inside, inside the poles, I put some of these shorty, fat head sunflowers. And so right now I've got, I've got sunflower heads poking out of these tall, eight foot poles that are covered with bean vines. And it just looks freaking fantastic. Because, again, this is the, this is my first summer to have four brand new no tills. They're all basically about 30 feet long, four feet wide, and they're just new. They're in my backyard. There's, there's just me creating good soil yet again, in one in one spot. You know? The idea. But these, these bean poles, I love them. They're so picturesque. They're pretty. They're tall, bushy with sunflowers sticking out. We've already harvested beans off of them. We've already eaten them. Sounds amazing,

Jordan River

05:13

man. So you're doing that sunflower breeding yourself. You know, ryzo Rich did a little sunflower breeding. He did. He had a mammoth sunflower that was coming out split down the middle, yellow on the one half and and orange on another half. Not all of them were coming out like that, but some of them were, I'd love to get you some of those seeds. Maybe we can trade sunflower lines. I didn't know you were working that. Dude, that's really, really cool. Where? Where are people going to be able to get that? Are they going to be able to purchase that? Are those going to be freebies and orders? How does that

Speaker 1

05:41

work? Yeah. So right now they're in orders. They're freebies that I throw in there because, you know, you make one big sunflower, and you've already got four or 500 seeds off of that one head. So great

Jordan River

05:49

for birds, too. For that recent couch inviting birds into your garden, which will help with IPM and all sorts of stuff. Good call on sunflower companion planting. I didn't think enough about that. And

Speaker 1

05:59

those seeds. You can crush those seeds up and hammer them or whatever, and throw them in, IMO, three mix as an input. There's all kinds of stuff you can do with that sunflower, besides them being attractors of pollinators and butterflies and just beautiful things. One thing that I have an issue with are my squirrels. They'll crawl up the stem and try to get to the seed, and they'll break them over. And so here's the thing. Here's the whole reason I'm breeding my my selection of shorty, fat head. I don't want a big, tall, 10 foot sunflower plant that puts on a blot of foliage and a sunflower head that's about three inches across. Yeah, I do not like that. It just like that's an absorbing sponge that didn't put out anything beautiful. You know, if you were wanting foliage and green manure, then they're great. But I'm going for esthetic. I want prettiness. I want beauty part in my garden also,

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