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Hydroponic Top Trumps · Hydroponics Daily

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  Hello there and welcome back to
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  Hydroponics Daily, your go-to podcast for everything soilless cultivation.
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  I'm your host, Dr. Russell Sharp, the founder of Eutrema Limited,
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  and we make interesting fertilisers, novel biostimulants and organic biopesticides.
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  And in my office here at Eutrema HQ, I've got an alocasia houseplant and I saw
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  some deposits on the leaf in the veins, I'm looking at it now.
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  White and yellow deposits.
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  I was thinking, oh god is that spider mites so i got
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  my dr hydro hand lens out put
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  the led illumination on and looked at the veins and realized it
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  was just crystals from trichomes developing
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  over time so nothing to worry about but just
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  shows you've got to inspect your plants and not
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  put your head in the stand your sand like an emu or
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  an ostrich which one is it which one puts their head in the sand you've got
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  to inspect your plants every day don't water them every day if you're
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  in soil or cocoa but do inspect them and
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  that led me to thinking or remember that before
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  i was doing this hydroponics daily podcast one of the things i did to market
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  our products was to create a top trumps set of top trumps now i don't know they
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  sell top trumps in america let me just check if they sell top trumps a top trumps
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  a thing in america so chat gpt tells me that top trumps is not really a thing in america however of a.
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  Chat gpt often lies top trumps is a
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  card game where you each have
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  half a deck each and then you
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  choose a characteristic about whatever
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  it is you're competing against so say you've got
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  cars you might pick speed or
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  value and then you you you
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  choose yours and you say eight or 25 miles
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  an hour and then your person you're playing against will
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  on theirs their card will have a different figure and
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  if it's the highest figure then you win and then the aim of
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  the game is to get the whole deck of cards and one
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  card is called the top trump and that's the one you want because that has the
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  highest figures of all okay so top trumps is really really popular amongst kids
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  it's been going since about 1978 and i did a hydroponics version you can get
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  all sorts of ones, Doctor Who, superheroes.
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  Tanks, boats, airplanes, everything.
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  But I did a hydroponics version and I'm going to get them printed.
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  So if you'd like a copy, then they'll probably be available either to buy or
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  give them away to grow shops or big customers and things like that.
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  I'm not giving a, I'm not promising I can give away a pack
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  to everyone or ship them abroad or things
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  like that they will very much be a a a
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  collection piece and i've got there's 32
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  cards in a pack of top trumps so i've got 32 cards
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  i did these and i did these a couple of years ago so i've just been looking
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  at them and i'm going to redo them and make sure they're up to date so let me
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  know if you think any of these are not should there's anything missing that
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  should be in here that's not and they're pest diseases problems physiological
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  problems so i've got powdery mildew,
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  oedema, which is a physiological issue,
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  nutrient toxicity, so applying too much fertiliser, scorch, thrips,
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  pythium or damping off, bud rot,
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  peach potato aphid, root aphid, nitrogen deficiency, iron deficiency,
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  spider mites, and spider mites is the top trump, or should be the top trump.
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  I think it's listed twice. There's a mistake, right? I've already found one mistake.
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  Just reading it out. Russet mites, transplant shock, fungus gnats,
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  hoplatum viroid, mosaic viroid, leaf miner, white fly.
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  Hermaphroditism, calcium deficiency, magnesium deficiency, slugs and snails.
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  Now, can we think of one better than slugs and snails? Because that's not really
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  a big hydroponic headache.
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  Alkaline pH, acidic pH, cats and dogs. It's not great, is it?
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  Can we think of anything better than cats and dogs?
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  Cold stress, fasciation, stretch, light leak, water deficits.
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  And then i've got spider mites again which is a duplication
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  so we've definitely got at least one or two additions and
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  removals that we need to do so hopefully we'll
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  be able to get these printed my friend neil at inkwell printing in peterborough
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  will be able to print these for me i'm sure and they'll look really good well
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  as can we say some of them have got really high damage so i haven't talked about
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  the characteristics and the four characteristics are damage caused commonness,
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  difficulty to treat, and bounce-back ability.
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  Now, bounce-back ability is a word that exists in.
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  Oxford dictionary but it only came about about about 20
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  15 years ago a famous football manager
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  described this word as his team's ability
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  to bounce back after a defeat and so bounce back ability entered
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  the dictionary and it's basically i've used it here to say
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  when you've had the problem does it come back when
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  you're on your your second grow so something like mildew it's
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  got a 10 for bounce back ability whereas edema i
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  mean you're an idiot if you get edema twice in a row nutrient toxicity
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  if you put too much fertilizer on and you do it twice in a
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  row you're an idiot or thrips thrips have got 10 for bounce back ability what
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  else has got really high bounce back ability score and nitrogen deficiency has
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  got very low fungus gnats obviously if you get fungus gnats they keep on coming
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  back and alkaline ph bounce back ability of one.
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  Um cats and dogs i've got eight but we're looking to get rid of that one and
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  uh spider mites yeah nine so i think this is an interesting one it'd be debatable
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  and then unlike normal top trump cards.
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  The reverse of the card tells you how to
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  cure the problem or if that's possible and some
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  helpful tips as well so as i say 32 cards and
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  i will get them printed and hopefully
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  you can play around with them so that's been hydroponics daily
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  for today talking about the potentially new
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  top trumps card we've done 300 episodes of hydroponics daily and we've had how
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  many 30 000 downloads it's about 100 downloads per episode which i'm happy with
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  when i was a lecturer i didn't have 100 people in an electric theater every
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  day so that's you know it's i'm reaching more people than if i was.
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  And i'm able to run a successful business
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  and entrepreneur enterprise i
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  can't think of that word enterprise oh um
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