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🕷️Microscopic Mites, PESTAPALOOZA, and Predator Insects, with Matthew Gates

Jordan River1h 9min

Jordan River

00:00

Greetings cultivators from around the world. Jordan River here. Back at you with more. Growcast, they finally let me out of the quarantine tent. Today we have Matthew gates on the line cannabis IPM specialist and new instructor for the Pesta Palooza grow cast grow class. You'll hear more about that. I'm super excited for today's episode, Matthew is here to talk about russet mites, microscopic, insidious pests that will destroy your garden if you're not prepared. So I know you're gonna love today's deep, deep dive into the great and powerful yet harmful russet mite. Before we get into it with Matthew, though, shout out to AC infinity, the best grow gear in the game. Code grow, cast one five saves you 15% and AC infinity.com. They've got the thick, sturdy tents with the thick canvas and the thick tent poles, the best tents in the game. They've got the fans that you need, the inline fans, the cloud Ray oscillating fans, now again. Code, grow, cast one five for 15% off the best quality grow gear you can find. They've also got lights and scissors and pots and hangers and so much more. But when it comes to the fans and the tents, there's no one else out there that does it better. The inline fans, the cloud Line series are fantastic. The S series is the simple series still comes with a 10 speed fan controller, and the T series comes with a controller that lets you automatically dial in your temperature and humidity. AC infinity.com, code grow, cast one five for 15% off. They even have grow kits that come with everything you need to expand. Get that second veg tent. Get that second flower tent you've been thinking about save with the kit and use code, grow, cast one five, which now works on those kits, saving you extra money with the best gear in the game. Acinity.com, they've been our partners for years. We brought these guys along. A long time ago. They've really, really expanded and done a great job. AC infinity.com, code grow. Cast one five. All right, let's get into it with Matthew. Thank you for listening and enjoy the show. You Jordan, 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 yet again today for another episode. Before we get started, as always, I urge you to share this show. Tell a grower, if you got friends who aren't growing, get them into growing. What are you doing? And then turn them on to grow cast. Thank you for spreading the show. It really does help us out. I appreciate you all. And if you want to keep up to date on everything that I'm doing, everything that team grow cast is doing, go to grow cast podcast.com, forward slash action. There you'll see all the action, the classes, like the pest class, the seeds, the membership, everything today, speaking of pests and pests class, we have good friend of the show, Matthew gates, back on the line. What's up? Matthew, how you doing? Man, I'm doing well, I'm glad to be here. Hell yeah, man, it's been a minute. I'm very excited today to talk about russet mites. A bit of a deep dive. You know, I like my deep dive. So we're going into russet mites today. We're gonna learn all about Russ mites from the great Matthew gates. But first, what have you been up to? Matthew, For the past year or so? You've been teaching, doing shows, doing your thing? Yeah,

Matthew Gates

03:07

I took the majority of last year and also the year before, to really expand and try to get as much information out to people in ways that are digestible and easy to sort of look over. So I made a lot of video content, or prepared to make a lot of video content, and now I'm executing a lot of that. Not only doing things with different podcasts and presentations and and such, I'm also writing a lot. I recently was, uh, asked to write about cannabis IPM for a professor that I know in Uttar Pradesh in India. Wow. And also another individual asked me, Dr Angel Fernandez, to help him with a chapter on cannabis IPM as well. And I also worked with the other previous Professor before to write, help write a book about cannabis virology. So I've been really steeped into the esoteric pest information for cannabis. I'm excited to talk more. Sounds

Jordan River

04:11

like even kicking butt. Man, it's such a niche subject that people are so interested in. I think people are often, are often a little undereducated. I know I am like there's so much that go into so many different facets of cannabis and pests and insects specifically can be relegated to kind of a niche subject, but every time I do an episode with you, I get great feedback, and people want to know more. Speaking of which, I am happy to announce the one and only Matthew gates and grow cast collaboration. Pesta palooza. You guys asked for it, and now we got it IPM class on the back of a learn and burn and a fully catered after party. Matthew, Pesta Palooza, man, you ready for this? Thank you so much for collabing and agreeing to do this.

Matthew Gates

04:56

I'm extremely ready, and I'll tell you one of the. Biggest reasons for this is because you, I really respect man, I really don't. I don't pick the partners that I make lightly and the people that I want to collaborate with lightly. I take a very serious approach to it, because ultimately, it's important that the information is conveyed in a responsible way and a way that is helpful for people, and I think that you have that, and I've watched you do it, and I really mean it. And so thank you very excited. That's highly motivated.

Jordan River

05:29

I really appreciate that, man. And this is, I mean, listen, we've been doing classes for a few years now, and they've been slowly getting bigger and bigger, and we've been expanding out now, now doing all sorts of different curriculums and people want an IPM class with Matthew gates, this is something that's been asked of me, so I'm very, very excited to be doing this with you. And the other reason that I like working with you just real quick before we get into Russ, it's is you want to over deliver right? What I've learned from doing these classes is people want more they want more time after the class to hang out and talk to us and get specific advice, and also just chill and smoke and ask us all the questions, right? And they also want more goodies. The more goodies and prizes that we bring to these things, the better. So Pesta Palooza is going beyond just an educational class now and turning into kind of like a pest fest. You have the core class, but then you've got this long Q and A learn and burn to get all your questions answered. You got a fully catered after party to hang with me and Matthew gates and make sure that you get all your topics addressed. And then finally, we're going to hook up a goodie bag. And the idea of this goodie bag is we want it to be worth more than the admission. So you're going to get a bunch of good shit in there, IPM stuff and scouting stuff and microbes and seeds, and it's going to be a lot of fun. So, so yeah, I don't, I don't want to linger on this, but I do want to say, Matthew, I'm super, super excited. And Pesta Palooza is live grow cast podcast.com/classes, I'll see you in Long Island. Matthew, yes, you will. I look forward to it as nuts, man, yeah, shout out li hydro and shout out mighty hydro and San Diego, our first two spots. So check it out. Everybody very excited, very excited. We have to, we have to educate the people like you said, I am going through a pest battle right now, and it is one of the worst things to have to deal with. Man, depending on the pest you get, especially the ones that we're talking about today, you talk about avoiding total crop loss, right? This is the worst case scenario, essentially, as a home grower in a legal state. And you know what I mean that sort of thing is, is you work really hard on these plants, and then you get some sort of pest infestation where it completely ruins your grow. And not all pests are going to do that, but God dang today we're talking about microscopic mites and russet mites, and they might fall into that category. Man, some of the worst stuff that you can get. Do you want to talk about that? Matthew, where they rank on the scale of the bad guys? What these microscopic mites are and what makes them so dang dangerous?

Matthew Gates

07:51

Absolutely. And I want to just echo the point that you made, that I come from a background where, essentially you should murder board, your solutions to problems, you should really be looking with a fine tooth comb. What could I be doing better? Why does what I do work? And we'll go over all of that in our lectures at the Pesta Palooza, but here, with the rest of mites, this is exactly a perfect opportunity to look at that. What level of threat is it? I would say pretty high for a lot of people. Does it have some good solutions that you can implement early? Yeah, definitely. Does that mean that everyone's going to have the same response or situation? No, everyone's situation is different, and we'll get into some of those details, but I would consider it a pretty high threat for most people, probably because a lot of people aren't aware of it, or haven't dealt with it, but those who have know how damaging it can get. It can be really bad for a yield and kill the plant. And

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