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Glee Find - A Novel Propagation Tray idea - 'Bustaseed' · Hydroponics Daily

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  Hello and welcome back to Hydroponics Daily, your go-to podcast for everything soilless cultivation.
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  I'm your host, Dr. Russell Sharp, the founder of Utrema Limited.
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  And as a owner of a company that makes fertilizers, I often have to go to trade shows.
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  And today I went to the trade show Glee, which sounds great, doesn't it? Glee!
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  Sounds like that American TV program with the musical dancers and things like this.
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  Nothing as exciting as that, no performances it was a garden center goods like
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  a you know for plant nurseries or for you know.
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  Supposedly garden centers but actually it's just a load of chinese
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  tats and plastic ornaments and things like this i went
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  to see what was going on see if there's any new products for the
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  sort of horticultural amateur home and garden
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  sector and and there wasn't really there was a
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  load of tats as i say a lot of plastic fountains things
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  like this disappointing but i did see a really good greenhouse which i'm probably
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  going to buy for my home which had really long big glass
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  panels rather than small glass panels and yeah it
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  came from latvia they're made in latvia and they're really good they're called
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  bloom cabin i think they sell them in america as well and they do orangery style
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  ones so i'm probably gonna go for one of those cost me a few grand but i think
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  it's a good investment for my garden and then the other thing i saw which is
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  relevant to hydroponics is a company called Buster Seed.
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  And there's a couple of reasons I like Buster Seed. One is the name,
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  obviously, because it reminds me of Buster Nut, the energy bar from Tropic Thunder.
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  Let's have a look. Do you remember Buster Nut? Yeah, Buster Nut was a candy bar in Tropic Thunder.
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  It was alongside Booty Sweat, the energy drink.
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  So yeah, Buster Seed is the company. It's
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  not american despite the name buster seed nothing to do with buster rhymes it
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  is a northern island company i'm not gonna oh i probably am gonna descend into
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  a northern island accent that was terrible russell northern island i can't do
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  it what's the word it gets you into the northern island accent i can't think oh man yeah.
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  Anyway it's a company buster seed that manufacture
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  seed seed trays and seed trays
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  yes like seed modules where you plant you
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  put your grow media in and then you plant your seeds in them and away
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  they go they germinate and then you pull your plants out and and
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  that's it so sounds simple sounds like it's not
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  reinventing the wheel but it's interesting because the trays all come
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  apart and they're all in like strips and
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  so you can easily remove your seedlings or
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  your cuttings if you're doing cuttings in them and you
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  don't need to poke them out or pull them out
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  and that's critical especially with seedlings and cuttings because
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  they're so delicate the young plants that they get damaged if you
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  are poking with a pen out the
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  bottom of the drainage hole or you're pulling them up by the stem or the leaves
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  really stresses the plants it's transplant shock is one of the biggest stresses
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  the plants get throughout its whole lifetime and if you're in growing plants
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  that they respond really badly to transplant shock like carrots,
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  leeks, cabbages,
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  legal cannabis, so like a lot of them will flower as soon as they've been stressed
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  really badly or in case of legal cannabis might change sex if you stress it,
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  then this is really critical transplant shock.
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  Or you could literally, a lot of plants, you literally just pull the roots away
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  from the stems if you're not careful, especially cuttings.
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  And also the ability to pull these little units out, these little magazines
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  of, like a magazine of rounds of ammo,
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  out of your seed tray and look at the roots as they develop means that you can
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  monitor rooting and say, actually, they've rooted now,
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  it's time to go, or no, they need a couple more weeks without having to pull
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  a cutting out and rip a load of roots delicate roots
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  off it so oh yeah that that had rooted i've just completely effed it in the
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  air by doing that but yeah so yeah it's a really good option now it's not the
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  only people who've come up with this sort of pull apart propagation tray system
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  in the world but it's a good one because it they're they're robust and they're
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  reusable so they're not made of cheap,
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  floppy plastic like most propagation trays they're made of hard durable plastics
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  that are recyclable they're made in northern ireland so they're not brought
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  in from you know china and stuff like that so they're they're made in northern
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  ireland by a plastic company plastics 2000.
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  Which sounds good doesn't it plastics 2000 and they're
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  based in county antrim what else we say about them so the other company that
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  their sort of main competitor type product is called root trainers root trainers
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  are really good they've been around first came across root trainers introduced
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  them to them by my colleague Adrian Stuckdale in Northampton about 20,
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  let's say 2010, something like that and they're really
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  long propagation modules that pull apart into two in a very similar way and
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  they're really good for tree seedlings because they really are anything where
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  you want a really long taproot so they're much taller than a normal propagation
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  tray and so they're really good for tree seedlings or anything where you want
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  a really strong taproot you,
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  and but the disadvantage of the
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  root trainer is they were quite flimsy and very very thin plastic and they didn't
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  sit well in the propagation tray whereas the buster seed option looks a lot
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  more snazzy it sits well in a normal seed tray and you would imagine that you could get,
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  50 grows easily out of a buster seed system whereas a root trainer is probably
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  going to fall apart and break at the bottom after a few goes so i really like
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  it it's almost ikea-esque remember the old ikea hydroponic systems very similar
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  to that so check out bustaseed.co.uk.
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  Bustaseed.co.uk all right shout out to companies that are doing good things
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  in horticulture and hopefully they'll get into hydroponics and maybe one of
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  the distributors will see Buster Seeds at Glee and decide that that's the show for them.
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  There's some interesting trade shows where I have to go to. I'm going to one
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  in a couple of weeks called Soltex and it's for all the people who,
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  well a major section of it is for people who like cut the grass,
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  cut the turf and the lawn for councils and local government and things like that.
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  And they've got a famous English rugby player who's doing electronic house music.
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  DJ set, which seems bonkers.
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  I don't know how that mashup has worked, but yeah, I'll have to be going to that.
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  So yeah, check out Soltex, which is the one I'm going to soon.
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  I prefer to go to hydroponic trade shows. So if you run a hydroponic trade show
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  and you'd like to invite me on an all expenses paid trip to MJ BizCon or Green
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  Tech or Fruit Logistica,
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  all these trade shows, the vertical farming conferences things
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  like this then you know hit me up with some first class tickets and some
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  five-star hotels if you're not if
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  you don't run a trade show then the best thing that you can do for me is leave
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  me a rated review on apple podcasts it
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  would mean the world to me because i would shoot up the charts and we'd get
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  hydroponics in the top 10 of gardening podcasts in the uk in america in australia
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  that would be fantastic canada as well yeah we've nearly i think we've nearly
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  closed in on every single state in the U.S. now with a listener. Let me just check.
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  West Virginia is my holdout state. What is it about the people of West Virginia
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  that hate me so much, hate hydroponics?
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  And Puerto Rico, haven't got any listeners in Puerto Rico, if you consider that
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  a state of the United States. They certainly come on the map anyway.
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  Even tiny little Delaware and Rhode Island, places like this.
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  And we finally got North Dakota. All the northern territories of Canada.
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  I'm struggling for especially uranium city my
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  favorite place in the whole world uranium city come on australia again just
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  the northern territories i'm waiting for and then in germany i have a really
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  weird split where i have loads of listeners in west germany and then hardly
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  any listeners in east germany so um the states of mecklenburg.
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  Våpermen and Sassen-Anhalt.
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  And yeah, that was the last two states in Germany that are holding out for me.
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  Jatt-Maland in Sweden. That's a holdout place. Våland in Sweden.
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  That's about is it. Oh, right. You're bored, silly. Sorry about that.
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  You might notice I've got a deeper, richer voice today. That's because I've got a sore throat.
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  So unfortunately, my deep, sexy voice will not be with you too.
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  Hopefully not tomorrow. I'll be much better then.
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  But maybe it will be all right enough waffle
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  thank you very much for listening to me about talking
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  about buster seed the new propagation unit
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  not being paid for this by the way they should send me some units for free
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  shouldn't they buster seed from northern ireland a innovative
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  new propagation tray that you will help you
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  grow plants without stressing them out with transplant stock
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  the good thing about this is if you're growing plants that have
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  mycorrhizal fungi reusing your propagation trays is
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  really good because it seeds the plants with mycorrhizae
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  from the previous plants so things like conifers you always want
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  to reuse your trays if you'll grow something like cyclamen or something that
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  suffers really badly with bacterial diseases then you want to sterilize your
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  trays and make sure you don't reseed them with microbial mass from the previous
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  plants but there's some some tree plants and things like hops and legal cannabis and what other plants.
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  Strongly mycorrhizal, rhododendrons, any shrubs, you probably do want to reseed
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  them with mycorrhizal, so buster seed is probably a good bet for you there as
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  well. Don't completely sterilize your growth rates.
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  Okay, thank you very much for listening. Until next time, goodbye.