🌱OKCalyxx's New Crosses, Feminizing Plants, and Natural Farming

Jordan River58min

Jordan River

00:00

Good readings. Cultivators worldwide. Jordan River here back with more grow cast all natural. Today we have ok call X on the line. He's here to talk about natural farming and his upcoming breeding projects. This is a great quasi breeder feature, and he's going to talk to us today about his pollinations, feminization, growing the okcalyx way. And stay tuned. We're going to be teasing a little class that might be coming up later this year. So very exciting stuff going on with okcalx. I know you're going to love today's episode before we tune into it, though. Shout out to AC infinity, my favorite grow gear manufacturers, AC infinity.com, always use code grow. Cast one five. Grab yourself a new tent, a new light. Grab yourself a grow kit. Expand that grow room, get that veg tent going. So you can do some staggered runs. Code grow cast one five works on all the products at AC infinity and the Grow kits, which come with everything you need to get started growing. Of course, AC infinity makes amazing, durable tents. They make the best oscillating and inline fans in the game. They make grow lights. They make grow pots. They got scissors, they got protective eyewear. Everything you need is at AC infinity.com, and code grow cast one five is the code you use to save everybody. You're helping us keep our lights on here, and you're supporting an awesome company, our partners, AC infinity. We've been with them for years and years now. I remember discovering them when they just had the cloud line. They're in line fans, and now they have all these goodies, from the cloud Ray oscillator to the cloud Forge, humidifier, find it all always use code, grow, cast one, five, and thank you. AC, infinity. AC infinity.com. All right, let's get into it with okca, Alex, thank you for listening and enjoy the show. Hello, podcast listeners. You 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 share this show with a grower. Turn someone on to grow cast. We're on Spotify. We're everywhere. Make sure you're subscribed. Turn someone on to growing it's the best thing you can do to help us on our mission of overgrow. See everything we're doing at growcast podcast.com There, you'll find the seeds, membership, events and so much more. Thank you to all of the members, especially for tuning in today. All right, everyone, we've got Okay, call x back on the show. You know what time it is. What's up? Okay, call X. How you doing?

OK Calyx

02:20

Man? What's going on? Everybody in the Grow cast world? Glad to be here and talk to you guys again.

Jordan River

02:25

Yes, sir, you're killing it out there. If you're a first time listener, for some reason you haven't heard of Okay, call X. Go. Give him a follow on Instagram at Okay. Call x, just like it's spelled in the title of this episode. He's a natural farming enthusiast. He's a breeder, an educator, among many other things. Alex, what have you been up to lately? My friend, give us a little update on what's going on at the farm. What natural farming, kind of experiments you've been working on, and all that good stuff,

OK Calyx

02:52

you bet. Okay, so it's winter time, right? And often new organic farmers don't, do not know what to do, because in the winter time, it seems like nothing's happening, but the winter time is when you replenish your storehouse. It's whenever you start making all of your inputs that you want to make. And let me preface that with I'm talking about my environment. I can do all of these things that I'm about to say in my environment, and I am fully aware that in your environment, it's quite possible that you just cannot do these things. There are lots of other things that you can do. You don't have to do the whole list of what I'm doing. There are definitely simple things, like labs and IMO, one that you can take from and you can do in warm places. But my environment, I have a nice little shed that I can keep warm, that I can always imitate and recreate summer conditions inside. So I can always be making stuff, because I got a warm shed in here. So I have a long list of stuff. Let me tell you everything that I've been doing since about let's see October. The end of October, right after I cut my plants down, and right after I winterized my garden real well, I started focusing on gathering materials and starting to make new inputs. One of the first things that I've made, and it's a brand new thing, it's a fermented Turkey Tail extract. And I've gathered lots of Turkey tails. You'll see that, okay, calcs, Instagram and my YouTube page, and just the basic extract method of using labs and molasses and water and adding the turkey tails, letting that sit approximately seven to 10 days, taking a pH, finding it close to around three is typically what I'll do, and then a strain. It out a little bit, and what I've been using it right now in my testing, in my organic experimentation, I'm testing fermented Turkey Tail extract as a foliar on about six plants inside gasoline. Now they've been doing it for about the last five days. Wow. And I've even squirted a teaspoon, not a tablespoon, but I squirted a teaspoon, about three milliliters of straight Turkey Tail extract, into the soil. Just injected it in the soil, and just been messing around. Man, I've got, I don't care. These plants make it or not. These are my testers. There's some extras, and just kind of let them do their thing. I'll probably chop them down before I switch the flower here in gasoline alley. But thus far, man, they look beautiful. Wow. Now the the reason I tried this Turkey Tail extract number one is because I had so many Turkey tails and like, I gotta do something else besides grind them up, take more prints and things like that. I use labs in my IPM, Reg, I use labs. OHN and em five, wanted to kind of change the lab side up. And instead of labs, I've now implemented the fermented Turkey Tail extract, which was made with labs. But it's just going to have, I feel a more of a beneficial effect on my plants. That is a theory and a hypothesis only have zero scientific proof of anything. I'm a methodology guy. I like to practice some methods to see how the end result comes out. I feel like you learn a lot more that way. I'm not a I'm not a mathematical guy whatsoever. So I like methods. I like to try things out, see how they work. And I'm going to start implementing the permanent Turkey Tail with my oh and em five as an as a regular IPM that I use for as a plant maintenance, really, and thus far in gasoline alley, my plants look fantastic. I've used no typical IPM, like a regalia or a venerate or something like that. I've only used natural products that I've made, and zero issues so far. But let me go through this list of things that I've made so that you can kind of compare, maybe the listener can compare where they are. You know, maybe you're a brand new organic guy, you've made a few ferments, and maybe, maybe you're about a third year organic guy, and you've got into those ferments, and you've got into the IMO, one through fives, and you got to try to make some things. I've been doing it for a while, and I, I seem to do a lot more than most people, just because my personality type is not a braggar thing. I have, I have more time than most people do.

Jordan River

06:47

Well, you don't sleep. You get a lot of extra hours in your day when you don't sleep. I know you personally enough to know that you do not sleep. That's why you seem to operate okay, you don't look like I would look if I slept like that. So you've been

OK Calyx

07:00

hard at work for years. It's been like this my whole life. And once you get old enough, you want to start doing something that really may has meaning and contributes value to those in your circle of influence. And it's like, I've hit that point where I'm like, Man, I just want to do stuff that's really good. I want to I want to hone in on things and do I can't do everything great, but I can do a lot of things great in my environment, whatever it's needed. That's what I want to become great at. And so these are the things that you know I really try to be awesome. At number one, that fermented Turkey Tail I've made four gallons of fermented Turkey Tail extract. I've made five gallons of OHN, three gallons of em, 515 gallons of sunflower plant extract. Those were sunflowers from the summer 15 pounds of cannabis, fermented plant extract, 10 gallons of hash water labs. Now hash water Labs is where I take the when we washed a bunch of my summer cannabis and other people's cannabis, we had one batch that was called Root beer from Seattle, chronic seeds, I believe, and we watched it, and that hash water was the purples water I have ever seen. And I was like, Okay, guys, I got to do something with this. And I decided to try making labs with hash water. And the labs, right? The hash water labs that I have, it is a purpley pink look. And I just put a video up on Instagram, and you'll see it. It's so it's purple. It's beautiful labs that is a different color, so that's half water labs. I've collected 10 gallons of mushrooms, just foraging mushrooms that I will eventually chop up compost over my garden, just whatever. I've made five gallons of, IMO, two, four totes of acorn IMO, three, two totes of native soil. IMO, four, one tote of compost. IMO, four, one tote of acorn mill, one tote of leaf mold, 80 gallons of Bucha, and one cubic yard compost. I've done all that since October y'all,

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