Jul 21, 2025
Ricky from Riverview Living Soil has returned to the program for
a stellar episode about optimizing your grow through improved
nutrient uptake! Ricky gives us an update on his new product line
and his foray into worm farming, which leads to a conversation on
the benefits of quality castings. Castings aside, live worms
themselves do incredible things in the soil to optimize nutrient
uptake for plants. Not only do they increase the bio-availability
of all types of nutrition, but they also help carry minerals from
one area of the soil- where the mineral may be rich- to another
part of the soil- where the mineral may be lacking. Ricky describes
the three main ways that plants uptake nutrients, and
extrapolates on how things like saponins- as well as worms-
help increase the efficiency of all three types of nutrient uptake.
You can now use code GROWCAST for 15% off for a limited time at
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(00:00) Introduction
(03:40) Types of worms, and benefits of worms
(13:28) Quality castings, and rehydrating old soil
(18:00) Saponins and nutrient uptake
(30:02) Utilizing sugars to feed microbes
(45:22) Riverview soluble nutrients
(48:21) Outro