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Advanced Horticultural Strategies · Hydroponics Daily

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  Hi, welcome back to Hydroponics Daily with me, Dr. Russell Sharp,
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  the inventor of gold leaf, or as it's called in the UK, liquid gold.
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  And I thought I'd do an episode today about what advanced growers can do to
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  advance their knowledge even further.
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  So say you're a master grower, you know more than your average horticulturalist,
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  and you're looking to increase that knowledge even further. Where do you go to?
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  Because obviously, the sources that you have
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  been using up until this point can only
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  go so far and often it's a
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  struggle to find new and exciting insights when
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  it comes to growing you can you can feel like you you're not learning anything
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  especially if you're you know using the same books or social media sites so
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  i just thought i'd go through where i find new inspiration new new studies and,
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  sort of in-person events and online so
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  online i think two great
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  places is there's the pure scientific area where
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  you can look at journals and then there's the the applied horticultural sciences
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  where you can look at sort of trade press and so when it comes to the journals
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  and pure plant science then i look at journals like the journal of experimental botany that's a really.
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  On because that's that's showing you advances it's not just
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  genetics because that's one of
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  the issues you can't really apply genetics into horticulture
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  very easily you know talking about the functioning of
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  a specific gene but the journal
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  of experimental botany has got a lot of plant physiology a
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  lot of very advanced physiology that you can you can
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  take and apply into your
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  into your grow other sort of
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  journals you might look at are the journal of plant science plant
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  physiology but also things like actor horticulture i
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  anything that's got a name like the journal of horticultural science
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  things like this they're really good and you might even find
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  articles in nature that are related
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  to horticulture i was made aware of one recently
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  that involved people grafting cereal plants
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  and i was like that can't be done you can't graft a
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  monocot turns out i mean somebody a
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  group of scientists have managed to do this and and
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  it got published in nature which is the most prestigious journal there
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  is for biology but on the on the other side so when it
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  comes to like applied stuff then i really love a
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  website called haughty haughty daily and i checked that daily just like i do
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  horticulture daily daily and horsey dailies i think it's published in in europe
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  but it's applicable it's got it's got stories from all around the world and
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  there there's loads of information about the current trends in horticulture.
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  Breaking diseases and the latest trends
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  in in what's coming and what major threats are in horticulture
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  pest diseases weeds things like this it's mainly to
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  do with glasshouse horticulture but a good tip is
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  to scroll down to the bottom of haughty
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  daily and you'll see there's a
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  load of partner sites like fresh plaza vertical
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  farm daily floral daily and there's
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  another one called mmj daily which deals with
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  the american legal cannabis and
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  other legal cannabis stories so
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  he i'm looking at one now harnessing plant immunity
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  and microbial synergy to boost kind of
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  quality and yield and that obviously that you that
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  screams to me oh that's interesting because i look
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  at it and i'm thinking you know i know what they're going to say and
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  yet there's there's a company there that's using chitosan
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  and salicylic acid to improve secondary metabolites and flavor compounds in
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  in that crop and i'm thinking well you know from my perspective at utreema we
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  make the most concentrated form of chitosan and the most concentrated form of
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  salicylic acid i think oh this could be good for us so could i could i piggyback on that sort of.
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  Research and and maybe we could do something
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  similar uh where we we put our chitosan and
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  salicylic acid on on legal crops there
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  so um as well as you know liquid gold we
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  do we do things that stimulate plant defense so
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  that's that's the sort of online areas where
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  i would go to so things like you know journal experimental botany
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  or haughty daily for to research
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  and to just keep up to date and then in person
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  i tend to avoid the the too many
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  of the grower related shows so like in Europe we have things like Spanibus and
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  Mary Jane Berlin and things like this and then for pure horticulture things
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  like Four Oaks and in the UK the trade shows for horticulture are pretty rubbish and.
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  At the moment there's very few but there's a
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  there's a really good one green tech in amsterdam
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  and anyone globally if you can afford to go that's
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  a brilliant show that's all about greenhouses that's a
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  that's a fantastic show it's massive and
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  obviously it's based in amsterdam so you've got all the
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  dutch growers there and everyone comes to to showcase
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  their technology at green tech and i
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  think that's a great show there's also fruit logistica
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  in berlin but that whereas green tech is
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  in amsterdam in june fruit logistica
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  is in berlin in late january and
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  that is cold eastern europe in in january
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  but it is hall upon hall of wacky
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  weird fruit and all the top guys in fruit cultivation
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  go there and so i
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  would go to those events for inspiration and find out what's going on in applied
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  horticulture applied plant science and then i always make sure that i go to
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  a few pure scientific conferences every year so you know only a third of it might be.
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  Applicable but you know it's always good to be there you can always check your
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  emails and you know take phone calls while you're there so we
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  like the association of applied biologists
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  in the uk is really good but the society of experimental
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  biology there's loads of conferences all going
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  there's loads of scientific countries all all around the world
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  every year and try and
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  get yourself to one that sounds interesting to you going back to applied horticulture
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  shows there's the indoor ag con in vegas as well so everyone goes to you know
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  mj biz daily in that sector in vegas but indoor ag con probably you're probably going to see more.
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  Advanced technology there than you would even even
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  though your sector your crop might be you might have a crop specific
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  conference you're probably going to see more advanced technology
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  and what's coming through sort of global
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  leading vertical farming conference there i would say so if you've got a resource
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  that you use to keep you up to date on plant science and horticultural sciences
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  that you think i'm missing and it's probably an obvious one but yeah apart from.
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  Podcasts it is an amazing podcast as well let me know and
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  i'll take some inspiration to improve this podcast so if
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  you if you if you're reading horsey daily you might see some some stories that
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  i am going to reference in the near future i also that's a good point i also
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  have my own files and i I have like a manuscript for a book that I once wrote
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  that never got published.
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  So I always dip into that before I research any studies, any topics and any episodes.
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  And that's been really good. It was called The High Tech Gardener.
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  I never actually published it, but it's like, you know, 400,000 words.
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  It's a massive document and it's got loads of applied plant science in there
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  that is related to horticulture.
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  And a lot of that i got from a gardening
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  magazine that had a page called tomorrow's garden
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  i think and that was all like applied plant science that
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  month and i used to go to the british library for
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  like two months i get down to the british library every weekend i
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  just read this magazine back issues back issues back issues
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  finding anything related to it you know and and
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  that was really good and then there's
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  one other source as well so there's that and then horticulture week
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  magazine i used to read that a lot but online magazines there's
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  often a paywall and i'm not subscribing to horticulture week
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  just for the case there might be one particular interesting article
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  in there linkedin i tend to avoid it's
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  a lot of you know self-congratulations and
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  you don't tend to find much real innovation going
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  on on on linkedin and same for social media really but yeah as i say that is
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  where i would find inspiration from if i was looking to take my knowledge even
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  further as an advanced gardener or horticulturalist okay thank you very much
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  until tomorrow that's been hydroponics daily.