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Alright this is John Kohler with growyourgreens.com
Today we have another exciting episode, for
it’s a beautiful spring day here. I think
we have like 70º today, maybe a little bit
higher than 70º. Spring time and you know
what happens when there’s warm weather.
Number one, I need to increase my watering
cycles, because that’s going to work with
you schedule and it’s getting pretty warm.
It’s also air in my climate here so water
evaporates really fast. So got to make sure
my plants aren’t stressed out and I water
them enough.
In addition, plants, because it is starting
to heat up, they’re like “uh-oh, it’s
starting to heat up, it’s past our cold
season, because I have all cold season crops”.
Some of them are now bolting, because they
are going to flower, including my cauliflower,
and the  tat soi, and my Napa cabbage.
I need to harvest this things as quickly as
possible, process them and store them off
for the summer or for later years.
But, at the same time, aside from the bolting
and increasing the watering, another thing
happens in the spring time that I never look
forward to. It’s the bugs. Yes! The bugs!
The creepy crawling things. The aphids, you
know, the white flies, I think mostly right
now I’m having aphid issues, and some pretty
severe ones at that. And in this episode I’m
going to basically experiment with a brand
new product, that I like better than what
I use. I will explain what that was, and what
that is, and just a little bit. But first,
I want to show you guys the problems that
I’m having in my garden right now: The nasty
aphids.
My garden is looking beautiful, as you guys
can see got the purple cauliflower starting
to bolt. And blue kale starting to bolt. I
think this bed’s all pretty good, I really
don’t see any bugs in here. But if we go
to the latest bed that’s where things are
different. Lots of (inaudible). Looks like
to me this bed has been actually under watered
a little bit, but I need to hand water it
tonight. But if you look closely on this leaves
and the HD camera, you guys see that? All
those little white dots standing there? Those
are little aphids.
The aphids basically suck the juice out of
your plants, they’re like little vampires,
they’re like leeches. They’re sucking
the nutrients out of my plants, and the plants
are getting stunted and they can’t grow
as well. And like, let’s see, on this one,
this lettuce next door, it seems to have some
but not as bad as the red lettuce, which seems
to attract them.
And if you look over on my Red Russian Kale,
you know I’m not really seeing it, although,
the aphids usually like the little center
stock, so when a plant grows a flower that’s
generally where they would be. So here, up
on the arugula, they’re going to be up here
on the tips generally. But I’m actually
not seeing any. Actually, I think there’s
some over here, no, not seeing any.
Alright, so anyways, I’m having some issues
with some of my lettuces with aphids. And
furthermore, my beautiful tree collards that
I love the most, I think they’re now pushing
like 10 feet tall, they’re still insane.
Check this out, tree collards generally are
supposed to flower, some of them might flower.
Sometimes (inaudible) tend to flower more
than the green ones, but I notice some really
bad aphids. Oh my God! Look at this, this
is so nasty, they’re just like- they’re
even moving, you guys see that? The aphids
are just crawling around sucking the plants’
(inaudible), moving around. They’re just
so gross, look at all that in there, those
are little aphids
Now, minor grade, they could be white, they
could be green, depends on, you know, the
type of aphid and what they’re eating. You
know, what they’re eating will influence
the color. So I could release like ladybugs,
now the challenge of ladybugs, it’s that
you might release ladybugs, they might find
the aphids but then again, they might fly
away so… I think if you have a greenhouse
and (inaudible) in the greenhouse, keep them
inside, that’s probably a good idea but
to release ladybugs because you have aphids,
probably not the best idea. There other aphids’
predators and, actually, you know, that might
be a good choice for me.
The other thing I do when I have a lot of
aphids like this, before I even spray anything,
I might just spray high pressure water, you
know, by spraying high pressure water on these
aphids it will basically blast them off, this
can (inaudible) them, dislocate them, they
maybe never come back. Normally I would do
that, but I want to test this new organic
certified control, that I think it is better
than I was using before.
Guys, you can see my spinach are bolting,
I don’t think I have any aphid issues on
my spinach, or large issues. The rest of my
garden all looking pretty nice back there.
All little baby (inaudible) over here, carrots
over here, all edibles (inaudible) flowers
which I need to hit with some water since
we got a hot day today.
But anyways, what I want to do is (inaudible)
and show you guys what I’ll be using to
spray out my aphids.
So if you guys have been watching me for a
while, you’re like “John! I know you’re
going to spray on you aphids, man!” Well,
number one, I will spray high pressure water,
and I’ll just go around and do that for
a couple days before I even spray anything,
because here’s the thing, whenever you spray
anything it’ll affect the environment, right?
Your environment, the environment that you’re
gardening, your organic garden, think about
that, you know? If you’re using heavy duty
chemical pesticide that are manmade, right?
These have (inaudible), which will sit around
and linger, you know, if you read the warning
labels on them they may be poisonous to you,
your pets, your family, all this kind of stuff,
and in my opinion those are not good. So then
they have organic approved ones, which are
basically derived from (inaudible), so the
actually can be quite strong and maybe not
the healthiest thing to use either. But the
other thing is that, you know, these pesticides
will contaminate or they’ll always be in
over spray or they’ll be on your plants,
they may negatively affect other insects besides
the targeted insect.
In this instincts, I want to target the aphids,
but you know, I’m also seeing bees, but
honey bees now, (inaudible) bees, another
different flying creatures, right? And spraying
some, even organic, pest controls can negatively
affect this beneficial insect. As well as,
you may be negatively affecting the beneficial
microbes on the plant leaves by basically
spraying even organic approved pest control.
So all you guys that’ve been watching you’re
like “John, I know you what you’re going
to use man! One of your most watch videos
on pest control is (inaudible) in pest problem
forever and basically using these two things.
This is Super Clean Neem, and Dr. Bronner,
so yes, there was a time y my gardening career
where I just basically, if I see bugs I’m
spraying these stuff, instantly. But, you
know, I’ve gotten more mature and wiser,
and so this is not my first step. This is
my last fleeting step that I do before I reap
my plants off I spray these stuff, right?
And in some case, I might just reap the plants
out of there so bad that I think that even
if I spray these stuff they may never come
back. The reason for that is, you know, I
think that the salt, this is a soap, it’s
(inaudible), these are pretty harmless, and
make (inaudible) and things.
But this, the neem, this can be quite toxic
to insects but beneficial and non-beneficial,
in addition this may negatively affect the
beneficial microbes, which I work hard to
get my beneficial microbes, I want to make
an (inaudible) tees, bring the __ one, you
know, whatever. So, what you guys think about
that? Before you spray those things.
But now I am glad to announce there’s actually
a new pest control item and it’s a product,
it’s right here, this is actually called
“The Amazing Dr. Zymes” so unlike the
Salt’s (inaudible) and the super clean neem,
that would literally sit on the plant leave,
coat the plant leave, be there for, you know,
I don’t know how long, you know, and can
have negative effects all during the time
it’s still active. The Dr. Zymes here is
actually only active while it is wet, once
it dries out it is no longer active, it’s
not going to kill anything, so that’s good
and bad!
It’s good because there’s going to be
no systemic effects from spraying this, it’s
like one time application, when it’s wet
it works, and when it’s dry it’s basically
gone. So that’s good and bad. Now the other
thing, about this is that you can’t apply
this in high heat or direct sunlight because
that will make this basically not avoid, will
make this stuff now work, so that’s another
good thing, right? This stuff is so volatile,
that it is based in not persisting, it’s
going to use spray, it’s going to be hanging
around for a couple hours and then it’s
gone. So that’s why I like this product
a lot, it’s actually called The Amazing
Dr. Zymes.
I did cover this in an episode at the Heirloom
Festival, and I said in that episode, The
Amazing Dr. Zymes will send you free samples!
A 2 ounce samples, (inaudible) information
about their product. I’ll put a link down
below so you guys can sign up for that free
sample, I would encourage you guy to try and
see what you think. Right based on some feedback
I’ve gotten, that people got their samples,
they tried it, and they were like amazed on
how well it worked.
I have used little outbreaks here and there,
mixing it up in small amounts in just 3-2
ounces spray bottles with 2 ounces of their
product with 30 ounces of water, and it’s
a pretty hardcore dilution ratios, you know,
dilution ratios are on the package here. But
basically I want to read you more about this,
it says, insecticide and fungicide kills and
eliminates insects including larva and eggs
of aphids, fungus gnats, mites.
So mites, eggs, it says it breaks down which
is actually something very hard. That even
the neem oil can’t do effectively.
Root aphids, thrips, white flies and fungus
mold and mildews. I mean this thing sounds
like it’s a miracle product. Even works
in all these things, it says non-bacterial,
(inaudible), does not require special clothing
or handling, no growth stage limitation, no
harvest restriction, food-grade ingredients,
gluten free, oil free, won’t clog stomata.
That’s other thing, oil, that’s going
to claw your plant’s stomata. GMO free,
no harmful residues. So that’s why I like
this stuff. And down here it says “active
ingredient, citric acid .05. Other ingredients,
99.9%”. And it says at 100% Water, Yeast
and Potassium Sorbate, and those are the other
ingredients.
Now, it doesn’t exactly says what’s in
here so like, what is in here?! I’ve tried
to talk to the owner of the company, and it’s
basically is (inaudible) theory, because she
doesn’t want anybody reap them off or anything.
But as far as I’m understanding it’s some
kind off enzymes, and these enzymes basically
eat away the shell of the insects, and the
insects die, basically.
So think about, this is like acid, hydrochloric
acid. The one of a kind acid you pour on your
skin, your skin starts bubbling, your blood
starts coming out, and you’re crooked. So
that’s how this stuff does it on the insect,
right?
Oh, don’t want to break that.
So, and I’ve also heard testimonies on how
this can potentially help even things like,
you know, mold and fungus, and dampening off
on micro greens. And this is safety on micro
green, because, once again, it dissipates
(inaudible) quickly. And there’s no harvest
restriction on that either, and of course,
here it says “OMRI approved” for organic
farming, and that’s what I’d like to do.
So what we’re going to do, we’re going
to head and mix this up, and I’m going to
go ahead and apply it with my favorite backpack
spray, right here. And no, I did not get paid
to say this, I like this backpack best because
it’s the best price performance in performing
a backpack, for I’ve found in greenwood,
it’s basically a (inaudible) free.
Backpack sprayer, it’s like 29 bucks, and
they put it on sale for 25, and you get like
20% off, you get it for like 20 bucks, something
kind of insane. I love it a lot. And this
is a four gallon, so the dilution ratio you’re
going to do is 2 ounces per 30 ounces. So
2 ounces of this for 30 ounces, because I’m
doing four gallons basically works out. I’m
going to need 2 ounces of this stuff, and
basically the rest is going to be some filtered
water. So we’re just going to go ahead and
take this measuring cup here, and we’re
going to go ahead and pour up 32 ounces of
this stuff. And this stuff just looks like,
you know, kind of like a deep color beer,
it’s non-carbonated… got it up to 30.
And that’s about 32 ounces right there.
And this is just going to go in to the backpack
sprayer, which is clean. Now very important,
you don’t want to mix this with any kind
of surfactant, you want to make sure your
backpack sprayer or if you’re using a spray
bottle or whatever is super clean, you want
to make sure there’s no contaminants.
The other thing is that you want to only apply
the Dr. Zymes at night, right? You know, in
the evening, so the sun right now is just
about setting, I can’t see it directly but
it’s kind of below the horizon, so pretty
soon is going to be dark and this is the perfect
time to apply this, when it’s cool at night
and when there’s no direct sunlight on it.
What I’m going to do is we’re going to
go ahead and load this up with water and then
you’re just going to see me start to apply
the Dr. Zymes.
So I mixed up the water here, and what I’d
recommend for you guys, that you put on the
water first and then add the Dr. Zymes because
it tends to create a lot of bubbles, for whatever
reason, so I think I got almost four gallons
but I got to take out some of this bubbles
so I could put it more water in there.
Alright! I got my backpack sprayer on, give
me some spray! So we’re just going to go
ahead and spray out the latest, the tree collards
and some other plants, and the other side
of my garden that got aphids, maybe we will
show you guys a little bit of this stuff.
So it’s really important for me when I’m
spraying is I want to make sure I get the
leaves evenly coated, you know, all different
surfaces where they may be. And in this case
they’re usually right at the crown, you
know, right where the plant is going to flower.
We’re going to spray down basically every
plant in my garden, since I have literally
four gallons of the Dr. Zymes product.
Can’t hurt, it dissipates (inaudible) quickly.
Alright, so as you guys can see, I’m out
of Dr. Zymes. No more. I basically sprayed
the entire almost four gallons just amongst
my garden. This bed, this bed, the tree collards.
It’s actually my longevity spinach because
it got some aphids on it too, more tree collardson
the other side, ornamental kale, cabbages,
(inaudible) as well. And then that’s mostly
where I sprayed, anyways, what we’re going
to do for you guys is basically going to come
back for you guys tomorrow, maybe the next
day, to see if the Dr. Zymes actually worked.
Alright so as you guys can see it’s actually
the next day, and I want to show you guys
actually what happened in the garden after
I sprayed the Dr. Zymes late last night. So
I’m going to take the camera around to show
you guys actually some of the same exact plants
that I sprayed, and we’re going to see how
it looks now and find out if this stuff really
worked.
This is my lettuce bed, and if I look really
closely the leaves, you know, I still see
some aphids down there, they may be less than
they were before. Let’s go to that specific
thin plant that I looked at yesterday, (inaudible),
actually. And I’m still seeing some aphids,
maybe I didn’t sprayed that lower, maybe
those are just corpses. I think I see some
alive aphids down there maybe. So looks like
they’re maybe reduced, from what they were
but they’re definitely still hanging out.
Let’s go ahead and continue down to more,
and could it be that I didn’t sprayed this
particular plant well or not because I tried
to spray each and every plant, but some plants
I sprayed more than others. This plant right
here doesn’t seem to be having too much
aphid issues. Maybe it’s this plant that
I recently saw and sprayed down really well,
in this guy I’m seeing very little aphid
issues, I’m not going to say they’re totally
gone, you know, so maybe another application
would be a good thing to do, you know, especially
with organic pest control. They may not be
effective just the first time, you may have
to reapply a few times.
What I’m really curious about is seeing
how it worked over here, and you guys remember
this guy right here, right? I showed this
to you guys yesterday, how it looked, and
look at that now, that’s pretty amazing.
Yesterday this thing was just crawling full
of aphids, that’s very bad starting to bloom
on my tree collards, that was covered on
aphids, look at it now, right? You see some
aphids on it, I’m not going to say they’re
totally gone, but, you know, for the most
part that’s a lot significantly cleaner.
I’m going to say, man, at least 80-90% cleaner
than it was before.
The next thing I’m going to do now is, you
see some corpses there. Now I was by earlier
today and I did see a little more activity
than there is now, so I’m not exactly sure
what happened, but, yes, this definitely looks
like we have some success.
Alright, so now I’m going to show you guys
my summary of the Dr. Zymes, you know I met
the Dr. Zymes owner, I don’t know, a couple
years ago, a year, or two years ago, forget
exactly. When time flies, and you’re having
fun. And I was basically given a whole bunch
of this sample bottle to play with over the
time, and it’s been at least, I’m going
to say at least maybe a year, since I’ve
had the Dr. Zymes, maybe not quite a year,
but anyways, I’ve been using little sample
bottles as much as I can and, you know, while
it did work on aphids, in my opinion, to a
percentage, you know, probably reapplication
would be good.
And the other thing, I’m not really too
consumed with aphids, normally with aphids
I don’t even bother getting like this, I
just spray high pressure water on them, go
back to the plant a couple days and, you know,
they may just disappear, right? Anyways, you
know, but definitely spraying this and it
was even high pressure in the backpack sprayer,
you know, it looks like it definitely did
take them down.
You know, I’m more interested on how this
works with the spider mites, you know, which
I haven’t, gotten into spider mites season
yet this year, because spider mites, they
don’t play (inaudible) in my garden and
well this can deal with the spider mites according
to the label, it also says it deals with the
spider mite’s eggs and for me that’s really
huge, that’s really hard for any kind of
organic pest control to deal with spider mite’s
eggs so, you know, I hope to test this and
more later in the season to find out how it
works, I have used this, you know, last season
on whiteflies which then- white flies are
spread (inaudible), it takes care of them,
they’re significantly reduced population,
and I might spray the next day and, you know,
I like this stuff, because it’s non persistent,
and it appears to work, although you haven’t
any scientific studies I showed you guys what
happened.
And also I have used this to combat fungus
and also in my opinion based on what I’ve
seen, this also has helped me personally with
some fungus issues that I had to experience.
Okay, so you know, here’s the thing, I recommend
you guys try this, it’s free, you guys can
get this sample, 2 ounces for free, that’s
amazing, for free. That's amazing now leaving
you to pay the shipping for you. So check
the link down below to get your free sample
two ounce trial bottle. You have nothing to
lose. Everything you gain. Of course the only
ship to you to the United States through the
post office.
Now the question is should you buy like a
bigger size like a gallon or a half gallon.
And that depends on you, you know. I know
this is this product is being used in the
cannabis industry to grow cannabis because
it's a safe alternative to other more harmful
things. You know. I personally would rather
use this instead of neem and Dr. Bronner,
which I take out as the last and final step.
You know this. I want to spray this haphazardly
but I'll spray this more often know if I need
to and I won't feel bad about killing the
beneficial as you know hurting, you know.
Other creatures that that may be visiting
or insects that may be visiting my garden
whether they're pollinators or beneficial
insects.
That being said I want to sum up my pest control
that really didn't talk about it earlier in
this episode. You know, number one, I think
manual control is best, what is manual control?
Manual control is use your fingers. Pick off
bugs. Smush bugs, right? I could push all
the aphids that were clearly visible on the
tree (inaudible) it's because they're external.
Now the aphids on my lettuce. That's a little
bit harder because they're hiding on each
and every leaf and we have nice tight heads.
So that's where a product that you could spray
that actually gets in there to kill them,
I think is really good.
After manual control, number two, I'd recommend
high pressure water spring, water is a chemical,
it's H2O. But it's non-toxic. For the most
part. Unless you swallow too much of it and
then you can't breathe. But basically that
just dislodge is the small body, soft bodied
insects you know, off your plants. Number
three might be like spraying some kind of
high pressure air and I'm going to experiment
with this more to see if that actually could
really work. But that be kind of similar to
water just something high pressure as long
as it doesn't damage the leaves. You're good
to go. You know I could easily do that on
my tree cards, on the lettuce spraying high
pressure water might actually pop some holes
in the leaves or damage them. You know I've
even brew some leaves before like on my pepper
plants by spraying high pressure water after
I got some aphids infested.
Actually, when I got the plants from the nursery,
actually that reminds me I want to check something
really fast. These plants when I got them
from the nursery had really bad aphids and
I remember I sprayed these down hard core
with the Dr. Zymes product on the bottom of
leaves. Now these guys I shouldn't have picked
this six pack. They were really bad. I didn't
look at him before I got him, I figured they'd
be all right. And if we look at him today,
you know, there's definitely less aphids that
are on here but I definitely need to reapply,
I think I reapply twice, but it is it has
significantly reduced their numbers on the
plant and I'm going to go ahead and hit this
and treat this again actually real quick.
So all in all I think this stuff is really
- so I was actually, I got distracted so number
one, manual control. Number two, spraying
with high pressure water. Number three, you
know, I would do some kind of a beneficial
insect release and even before all of this
stuff I would try to have really good soil
and healthy soil. Give your plants all the
nutrition, you know, and trace minerals and
microbes, they need including high kite and
weren't castings so the plants could produce
their own defenses against the bugs. Or kind
of backtrack in there, and then next then
I might spray something like this. No, I do
beneficial insects as a release. So last year
I did a praying mantis is like three times
in my garden. I believe they helped significantly.
Plus they're really fun to look at. I'll be
doing that again this year. Other kind of
beneficial insects, I'll put a link devil
to a video on that where I talk more about
the beneficial insects. And then, finally,
I might spray something like this that won't
hurt beneficial insects and it's not going
to be persistent and hang out. I would do
this for a number of times and once again
on all these different procedures.
Don't just do it once. “I'll admit I smoked
too it didn't work. John, I'm going to go
on to the next one” No! Smush them for like
a week. And if you can't smush them and take
care of the problem then maybe escalate to
the next level, right? And spray high pressure
water, do that for a week. And if they still
come back, those buggers then go to the next
level, and the next level, and the next level,
right? I always want encourage you guys to
do the most natural thing, first, to do the
least amount of harm to the environment, and
possibly harm beneficial insects.
You know, after I would spray the Dr. Zymes,
then I would move on to maybe something like
the neem and Dr. Bronners. I mean, the other
thing that I might even consider is if there
is an issue that is so bad that I can't control
with some of the easier methods, I have to
like ask myself “John, is saving this plant
really worth it, right? Do you really need
this plant? Or could you just cut it out,
and plant the new plant in its place. It's
not going to have any pest issues, right?”
At a certain point you just like, you know,
that plants got to go, it's like when you've
had it right over that up to the line with
your wife, your husband, your ex-girlfriend,
and you're just like “you know what they've
got to go. I'm done”.
That's how it is with some plants and, you
know, likely when it's with plants it's a
little bit easier than with a girlfriend.
That's a lot more challenging decision. But
nonetheless, sometimes it just cut the plant
out and put a whole new plant in you know
instead of having to spray things if I don't
want you. I don't want to let you guys know
there's always options out there and if Dr.
Bronner is and Neem doesn't work then I have
a different kind of you know oils and, you
know, organic side and (inaudible), and all
these all these different things that I use,
but honestly, I really use those.
So, in the end, I won't encourage you guys
to have healthy plants, healthy plants are
more resistant to disease and bugs and insects.
You know, the higher you could get your protein
content in your plants by growing high quality
plants, you know, the more the bugs do not
want to eat your plants and they're going
to go to your next door neighbors garden.
That's not having good soil fertility practices.
So if you guys want to get some of these Dr.
Zymes check that link down below. I have a
link to the Web site. Also the coupon code,
that I'll see you guys actually 25%, to get
25% discount if you guys want to purchase.
But everybody that watches this, if you're
in the U.S. should request your free 2 ounce
sample, only one sample per person.
Sorry, you can't just keep requesting samples
every week. They're not going to keep sending
it to you, you know. Because, here's the thing
Dr. Zymes, they want to show you guys that
their product works. They're not scared like,
you know, spend a couple bucks in postage,
just what up, you know, to get you their product
because they know that once you use it you
can be like “wow! This stuff works”. And
if you're grow micro greens, have had problems
with, you know, mold and fungus and dampening
off and stuff, right? I heard that this stuff
works! So, to me, that's completely amazing.
It's also completely safe, you know, for the
environment, for beneficial insects, and more
importantly for us. I think that's pretty
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then remember, keep on growing.
