AJ Tibayan, known as CanCannGrow on most platforms including Instagram, joined me almost a full year ago to record this great interview that covers a huge range of topics. As this is an old interview, and AJ does homegrow consulting in Canada, the format covers a wider range of topics instead of going deep on a few topics like we have been. We talk a lot about how to increase yields, his suggestions for Integrated Pest Management, his biggest challenge with PM, and more. Along with this BONUS episode, I also include the BONUS content that we usually publish on our website. You'll get almost an hour of quality cultivation educational content! This bonus episode is brought to you because we're currently accepting new members in to help elevate grow skills with the guidance of our team at MyGrowPass.com. Join up and master your grow with our help! New show partner, RainScience Grow Bags, will be participating in our giveaways moving forward. Listeners and members will have many chances to win a few of their 3-gallon grow bags, designed for easy cleaning, transplanting and some of the best water flow through of any grow bag out there! Check them out at RainScienceGrowBags.com and let them know The Homegrown Helpers sent you! Dr. Coco is continuing to do a ton for our community, and the cannabis community in general. Join him at 3pm EST in the GrowPass Grower's Chat on Slack to get your questions answered, or WIN a 20-minute call with Dr. Coco by becoming a member at MyGrowPass.com! You can see all his work at cocoforcannabis.com along with joining their current Grow Challenge!

HG Burner joins me to share his advice on popping cannabis seeds, picking the right plants to keep in the garden, picking the right strains for you, and some beginner breeding tips sprinkled throughout.  After walking through his grow setup, where he doesn't have any air conditioning(!), HG provides tips to growers to avoid problems and achieve success. We dig right into plant selection and strain selection, enjoy how in-depth this conversation goes. Connect and follow along with HG on Instagram @hg_burner2 Let us help you master your grow with the knowledge and experience locked away inside MyGrowPass.com. Join today before it's too late! Get in on the giveaways by October 1st to maximize your chances at winning a piece of the $6k giveaway.  We're also doubling down on our AMAs this month - sign up to attend one at mygrowpass.com/ama Find everything we do, including applying to be on the show, at linktr.ee/growcast SuiteLeaf.com is a partner for just a few more days. Use code GROWCAST15 to get 15% off on their entire nutrient as well as the tents, watering systems and everything else on the site. Expires 9/30, grab your Suite Leaf today! Have you smelled Fish Shit before? Before the product came along, I would have never thought I'd be able to say yes to that question. Let me tell you, it doesn't smell good - so you know it's got to be good for your plants. Use in any application, from seedling to flower and reap the rewards of increased cannabinoids, terpenes and plant health. Use GROWCAST at checkout at FishHeadFarms.com and save 10% on your entire order.

Thor joins me from his garden in Western Maine where he's found a new home and got to chase his dreams of growing great cannabis and helping people with a variety of ailments as a caregiver. Between Thor and his wife, they share a long history growing in Deep Water Culture and Thor shares that background and how DWC turned into what defined him as a grower! You'll enjoy stories from Thor's past, tips for getting started with DWC, and how to pick the right strain for you. You'll also get that down to earth feeling when you are done with this interview.  Connect with Thor on Instagram @VikingGardens_Thor or via email at cgud1989@gmail.com. Follow linktr.ee/growcast to find everything that we're doing at The Homegrown Helpers, Growcast and MyGrowPass.com. What can you find there? Well, a link to all of our resources, sign up for our latest giveaway featuring TrimBag, apply to be on The Homegrown Helpers, or start a 7-day GrowPass trial. Thanks to Green Goddess Supply for their continued partnership, please make sure you use them to grab all the smoking supplies that you need from papers, to dab kits, to bowls and rolling trays, and more! Use code GROWCAST to save 10% at GreenGoddessSupply.com. While you're there, check out The Armoire, a personal, self-contained grow cabinet perfect for that discreet grower. Use code GROWCAST100 to save $100 off The Armoire. Ready for the best ventilation components on the market? Check out the fans over at ACInfinity.com because you won't find better products anywhere else. You can save 15% on all of their grow room ventilation, ducting, and clamps that you'll need. Code works on Amazon too! Check them out at ACInfinity.com and save 15% using code GROWCAST15!

Doc Calyx has a passion for helping people and wants to help people realize better health through cannabis. Combining his two passions in life brought Doc here, to share his grow room setup with you along with other tips that will help you in the grow room! Doc and I cover lots of helpful tips, but most importantly a discussion about how to get started with Korean Natural Farming and steps to take to avoid overwhelm. We also cover his critical steps to transplanting to avoid shock to your plants and impede their growth.  Find and connect with Doc @doc_calyx on Instagram where he does regular live videos where he discusses a wide range of topics that is sure to help you out in the cannabis garden. Doc will be in Slack tonight, 9/11/2020at 7 pm EST / 4 pm PST. Hit the link in our Instagram bio or at Linktr.ee/growcast to join Slack and hang with Doc and all our other previous guests! The Fireside with Frenchy was so much fun. We're gonna be releasing the replay within the next couple of days to our GrowPass members, so if you want to catch it make sure you join up on September 23rd when we open the doors again! DYNOMYCO Giveaway - Drawn on 9/13 with our very special Harvest Giveaway starting next where we give a TrimBag to one very special winner - drawn on 9/30. RootedLyfe.com to get your premium CBD products that I personally use every single day from their all-in-one tincture to their soothing pain cream and topical salve, I need all organic inputs in any cannabinoid I consume, and I trust Rooted Lyfe to deliver that. Use GROWCAST at checkout to save 10% at RootedLyfe.com. DYNOMYCO is the most refined, premium mycorrhizal fungi on the market, perfectly designed to enhance your cannabis grow and improve your results. Proven to increase yields from 20-30% without any other inputs, DYNOMYCO stands out against the competition with proven results. Use code GROWCAST to save 10% at DYNOMYCO.com or Amazon!

Aaron brings the heat during this interview, and it couldn't be better timing as fall settles in and your outdoor plants need a little extra care in order to have a successful fall harvest. After learning about Aaron's path to get here which takes him from Florida, to Northern California and soon to be Oklahoma. Aaron then goes through how his outdoor grow setup and how he lives off grid growing amazing cannabis outdoor. We spend the rest of the show digging deep into two topics - drying/curing your cannabis and how to get through the fall, avoiding bud rot, powdery mildew, and bug issues. This is a must listen to episode if you are growing outdoor this fall. Sign up for the Fireside with Frenchy happening on September 10th at 8 pm EST by hitting the link HERE! Aaron brings the heat during this interview, and it couldn't be better timing as fall settles in and your outdoor plants need a little extra care in order to have a successful fall harvest. After learning about Aaron's path to get here which takes him from Florida, to Northern California and soon to be Oklahoma. Aaron then goes through how his outdoor grow setup and how he lives off grid growing amazing cannabis outdoor. We spend the rest of the show digging deep into two topics - drying/curing your cannabis and how to get through the fall, avoiding bud rot, powdery mildew, and bug issues. This is a must listen to episode if you are growing outdoor this fall. Sign up for the Fireside with Frenchy happening on September 10th at 8 pm EST by hitting the link HERE!

Max joins me for a long-awaited interview where we cover a wide range of topics all designed to help the homegrower learn a little something to improve their garden. Max lives in the land of prohibition still, and as a reminder, we all have a part to keep pushing legalization forward and for everyone's rights to grow this plant. After going through Max's history and how he got to be on The Homegrown Helpers with me and discussing how his grow room is set up, we move onto quite a big topic, discretion, as we all can't grow freely and there are people out there, besides law enforcement, that want to take your plants. I go on a little rant about rippers in the fall and how they should all be removed from this planet. We go onto a good talk about fighting, Max's biggest lesson learned around plants that hermied on him and so much more that you'll have to listen to the show to learn. Connect with Max @max_scrim_n_ruby on Instagram, or find his podcast "Talking Buds" that I'll be on this weekend. You can also hang out with Max in our Slack channel this Sunday at 3pm EST, join HERE! Big, EXCITING Announcement: Frenchy & Madame Cannoli will be joining us for a Zoom call to share stories from years in the "industry" and then answer your questions about hash making, traveling, or just being awesome, along with whatever else comes to mind. Sign up to ensure you get the invite at https://www.mygrowpass.com/fireside/ Today's episode is brought to you by our friends at Green Goddess Supply along with their grow cabinet The Armoire! Along with 10% off their well-designed smoking accessories that are exclusive to Green Goddess Supply (because they design them) like rolling trays, stash boxes, pipes, grinders, and more, they also have designed an amazing, self-contained grow cabinet with everything you need to yield 2-3 ounces every 100 days or less! Use code GROWCAST to get 10% off at GreenGoddessSupply.com and then GROWCAST100 to save yourself $100 on The Armoire! Fall harvest season is coming up, and that means trim jail for a lot of you. Free yourself from jail by getting the Trim Bag, and use code GROWCAST to get $30 off + free shipping. Save time, effort, and energy with Trim Bag, you won't be disappointed with the quality of bud that comes out or the time that it saves you. Check out their videos on Instagram @TrimBag - this thing works great! Members save an additional $20 by using the member-only code at TrimBag.com!

Smot Poker joins me from his home in Pennsylvania where he's been growing cannabis for medical reasons for many years, but we kind of focus on the last 5 years where he's grown Autoflowering cannabis strains in a room that has other uses - meaning the plants just sit in an open room while Smot does other things around them! I bet you weren't expecting to hear that today! On this episode, we cover all things autoflowers, and how to keep you grow super simple while yielding great results. You'll hear how Smot yields 8 ounces per plant in under 100 days, all while growing in the center of a room with no tent and no light leak prevention. Growing cannabis is great because you get to decide how much effort and how "perfect"  you want to make your grow. Even with a ton of effort, things will still go wrong! Give Smot Poker a follow and check out his grow journal over at CocoForCannabis.com and on Instagram at @RealSmotPoker. Also, join Smot Poker in our Slack Channel at 3pm EST Sunday August 23, 2020 to talk about the interview along with Dr. Coco. Enjoy the interview! Linktr.ee/growcast includes a link to our Slack Channel, Listener discounts, apply to be on the show, Extensive Resources, and start a 7 day trial of GrowPass. Check out BuxtonHollowFarm.com to grab your biochar, compost tea kits, worm castings and so much more. The best part? It's a family-owned company in Rhode Island making premium products for your cannabis garden & you get 10% off by using GCL10 at checkout. https://www.buxtonhollowfarm.com/ DYNOMYCO is setting the cannabis industry on fire with their formulation of endomycorrhizal fungus that is returning 20-30% yield increase when no other inputs have been changed! Who doesn't want 30% more weight on each plant? Head on over to DYNOMYCO.com and use code GROWCAST to save 10% on all sizes, and yes, it does work on Amazon.

Dr. Coco joins us me to discuss the upcoming Plant Training Grow Challenge found at CocoForCannabis.com, along with his history with cannabis, his current grow setup, and what caused him to create the site, forum, and grow challenges found at CocoForCananbis.com and what he hopes growers will find there. We dig into cultivation talk as we discuss environmental controls and the problems that Dr. Coco is experiencing as the temps and humidity rise in California and across the country. This is a great discussion for this time of year as growers across the world will be dealing with botrytis or bud rot due to humidity and moist conditions as we head into the outdoor harvest season. Join the CocoForCannabis.com Plant Training Grow Challenge and flip your plants on October 1st with Dr. Coco & the rest of the crew featured in the last 3 weeks here - Miss Myrcene, Mike Angel, and Bill! Win $50 to shop at GreenCraftDistribution.com and scoop some Buddha's Tree, Clean Roots Platform or Kushley's by entering our giveaway at growcastpodcast.com/giveaway Ready to share your story? Join me by submitting at thehomegrownhelpers.com/apply Check out SuiteLeaf.com to enjoy 15% off EVERYTHING you need to get growing, and growing better, bigger buds from lights to soil, timers and more - not just their award-winning nutrient line for all growing media. Help dial in your grow and remove disappointments with this amazing line of nutrients found at SuiteLeaf.com and use code GROWCAST15 to save 15% off. Want the best fans in the industry? Want 15% off all your ventilation needs for your tents or grow rooms? Visit ACInfinity.com and use our code GROWCAST15 to save 15% on the industry-leading fans, duct work, controllers & more. You won't be disappointed, these fans are the best in the business. ACInfinity.com!

Mike Angel joins me from sunny Southern California to discuss growing with a community and why it's critical to his success and why he suggests the CocoForCannabis.com's growing challenges to get started, how to sort through the myriad of advice on the internet and determine the best advice to follow. If you'd like to connect with Mike join our Slack Channel on 8/8/2020 from 9am - 12pm EST and find out why community is so important! We kick things off with Mike (find him @MichaelangeloGrows on Instagram and anywhere else he hangs out) with his medical history and how he got into growing cannabis for medical relief for the last 15 years. We go into great detail on Mike's unique grow setup, which is dutch bucket style, and we get into a great conversation about nutrient absorption and Mike provided his PPM info after the interview, as we discussed. 20 gal reservoir ph kept in check between 5.8~6.1 6/9/2020  - 805ppm 6/10/202 -  827ppm 6/11/20 - 890ppm 6/12/20 - Topped off with 10 gal of water -> 797ppm 6/13/20 - At work, unable to come home and measure 6/14/20 - Topped off with apx 5 gal of water 595ppm 6/15/20 - Final 900ppm (approximate 5 gallons of fluid left in the system, high concentration) Mike wraps things up with a personal invite to reach out to him if you are a professional and are concerned with consuming cannabis because of work, he'll help you navigate what that looks like. Enjoy! Apply to be on the show at thehomegrownhelpers.com/apply. In need of web design, site building, social networking and more? Check out our friends at CannaPlanners and the new site they built for us at growcastpodcast.com. They are a local New England company owned and ran by a husband and wife team that knock things out of the park. When you talk to them make sure you tell them Growcast or The Homegrown Helpers sent you! Fish Head Farms is sponsoring our latest giveaway for you to enter at GrowcastPodcast.com/Giveaway. Win one of 2 Liters of Fish Shit, for free, just be entering your email address. MyGrowPass.com members are entered to win every giveaway automatically. Fish Shit is aquaponics in a bottle and helps you to maximize all other inputs for your plants. Use code GROWCAST for 10% off at FishHeadFarms.com.

Miss Myrcene joins me fresh off her first harvest, reaping the rewards but realizing how much work proper curing methods can be! With one complete grow under her belt, this was a great time to hear her thoughts on all the things she can improve upon and make better for the next grow. We cover things like her personal journey to growing cannabis, including a horrible first experience at a shady dispensary in California which she overcame to realize the true medical benefit after a visit to The Apothocarium in San Francisco. I go on to pick Miss Myrcene's brain about the many lessons learned and the improvements she plans on making for the next grow like better journaling, airflow/circulation, and overall environmental controls. Miss Myrcene attributes a lot of her success to the help she received from the form at CocoForCannabis.com. She also plans to use the Atlas Plant Trainer in the upcoming Plant Training Grow Challenge hosted on CocoForCannabis.com! This amazing episode is brought to you by Green Goddess Supply and their discreet grow cabinet, The Armoire. Check out their personalized lineup of smoking accessories at GreenGoddessSupply.com and use the code GROWCAST to save 10% off, while our members enjoy 25% off all the stuff you'll need to consume the fine cannabis we help you grow. Lastly, use GROWCAST100 to get $100 off the amazing Armoire! Make sure you scoop your environmental controls with ACInfinity.com using code GROWCAST15 to save 15% off your entire order on fans, ducting and more at ACInfinity.com Also brought to you by the amazing time-saving invention - Trim Bag and their $30 off + free shipping using code GROWCAST. save yourself time, effort, and frustration by using the amazing Trim Bag on your next harvest. With a few flicks of the wrist, and some light tossing you'll be amazed when your harvest comes out close to trimmed without ever using a pair of scissors. Check it out at TrimBag.com and make sure you watch the videos & use coe GROWCAST to save $30 & free shipping.