🦠Biological Pest Controls, Insect Killing Fungi, and More IPM Discussions with Matthew Gates | Otter.ai

🦠Biological Pest Controls, Insect Killing Fungi, and More IPM Discussions with Matthew Gates

Jordan River50min

Jordan River

00:00

Greetings, growers of the world. Jordan River back with more grow cast, and I am fond of the fungi. Today we have Matthew gates back on the line. We just got back from some Pesta paloozas. We are fresh and ready, having talked a lot about IPM. So I wanted to do an episode on bio controls, specifically bio control sprays, utilizing microbes in your garden for pest applications and more. So this episode is all about bio control sprays. I know you're gonna love it, but before we get into it with Matthew, shout out to Li hydro. That's right. We love li hydro out in Long Island, two convenient locations, Bethpage and Islandia. That's right. Li hydro, our friends. They support education. They support home growers. Wonderful staff out there. Super knowledgeable. Great selection. If you're in the New York City area, you want to hit up li hydro on Long Island, like I said, two locations, and they always got something awesome going on, from community events to classes like pasta Palooza we were just at in June. Incredible staff. Thank you so much to Li hydro and the whole team they're serving the New York area. You know, New York is blowing up in a big way, so you need a good store that you can rely on for information and products that are gonna work. Li hydro has you covered. Huge. Thank you to Li hydro for hosting us at Pesta Palooza, and we look forward to coming out there and seeing our New York growies again. Support the real hydro stores who support the community shop with Li hydro on Long Island. Thank you to Li hydro. All right, everyone, let's get into it with Matthew gates, 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 to share this show. Hit that share link, hit the thumbs up. Give us a follow. We're on Spotify. We're on all your favorite apps. If you're just tuning in for the first time, be sure to follow us, YouTube, Spotify, wherever you like, and see all the action at growcast podcast.com/action there you'll find the seeds, the membership, the classes and so much more. Speaking of classes, we just got back from a couple of awesome classes on the west coast and the East Coast with today's guest. Pesta Palooza was so much fun, and today we are talking about bio controls with none other than the host of Pesta Palooza, Matthew gates, what's up? Matthew, thanks for coming back on the show. Of course, I'm always happy to be on. Man, those past classes were just fantastic. These last few on the West Coast, la showed out for us. That was a ton of fun. And then New York as well, out in Li hydro, I want to thank everybody who hosted us. Mighty hydro, Li hydro and pulse grow. Really. Great job on those classes. Matthew, I got rave reviews from those students. I

Matthew Gates

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was pretty happy with how those turned out. I really appreciated the passion and all the people who came. And I could tell that a lot of people, whether home growers or commercial growers, were just really interested in learning more about the scientific topics, and they're trying to learn more and in that way, just be better at growing in that way. And you know, of course, I'm going to support that.

Jordan River

03:09

Yeah, really great stuff, man. And I love to see your passion. You're like me. You like to shake these growers hands, hear their stories. I know you really liked the Q and A learn and burn sessions, because I saw you out there, like meeting with these growers, learning from them. You learned a bunch on these trips. That's what I always say, is I always pick up stuff going on these grow, cast, grow, class tours. So really great job. And I applaud you for being one of the content creators, like myself, who actually goes and interacts with fans and, you know, hits the streets and really meets these people. It's my favorite thing in the world.

Matthew Gates

03:41

No, I appreciate it. And you're totally right. I learned a lot on these trips, and then I'll learn a little bit about what people are dealing with, pest wise. And sometimes people come in with techniques that will be helpful for other people. So it starts sort of a community appreciation. And that's honestly what we need a lot of I

Jordan River

03:59

would say that's a big part of the community side of those classes, you know, everybody talking sharing, talking about different products, you know, and their effectiveness, which is what we're going to get into today, specifically focusing on bio controls and bio control sprays. This is a in depth topic. Man, we could probably do a three hour class just on this, but I want to go over the 30,000 foot view and a couple of the specifics when it comes to these bio control sprays, you know, applying these fungi and parasitic, you know, bacterium and different things like that that aren't your traditional toxic chemical pest sprays. That's what I'd like to cover today, Matthew, how they work, how to apply them, what these different species are, and just pick that brain of yours. Does that sound good? Sounds great? Let's dive right into it. Man. Let's get the terms out of the way, because I'm saying bio control spray. But I want to hear from you, what is a bio control specifically, what classifies that?

Matthew Gates

04:55

Yeah, so many people are probably aware that there are you. Various organisms out there that will attack or parasitize or another way, like affect other organisms. Sometimes this will be in a beneficial way. Sometimes this will be in a negative way for the target. And so like predators and things like this can can be bio controls. But what makes something a bio control explicitly has a lot to do with its ability to actually affect a certain target. So that's usually in some way confirmed or verified lot of times through research. So although you might have natural enemies in general, like in and around your property, you don't necessarily have like, a bio control, because it might not actually keep up with the pests that you're worried about, right, or various pests that you might be worried about. So in that way, bio control is usually such a natural enemy or parasite that it is really effective, because otherwise it might not be worth it to apply it, or it might even be ecologically damaging and possibly economically damaging if it affects a bunch of non, yeah, and a bunch of non target organisms that are native to your area. You don't really want that. And there's certainly examples where that's happened in the past.

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