FAQ episodes, season review, process Q&A, troubleshooting
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BuildASoil's full lifecycle grow journal recorded inside a 10-foot by 10-foot tent, featuring four side-by-side quadrants that compare different no-till methods, container sizes, and genetics.
Jeremy treats this entire episode as the closer on Season 1 — the whole run across 33 episodes forms the review substrate.
ep 042
Unsupported claims passed around a hobby community as fact, often without data. Viewer Wendy City Rosin accused the 'soil beats hydro for terps' claim of being bro science.
Jeremy engages the label head-on, concedes that any science can paint either side winning in specific circumstances, but defends living soil as statistically producing higher terpene numbers in the rosin he sees.
ep 008
A growing method using coconut coir substrate with a drip irrigation feed delivering nutrient solution.
Listed as part of AJ's earlier run of growing methods before living soil.
ep 025
A hydroponic growing method where the root zone is periodically flooded with nutrient solution and then drained back to a reservoir.
Mentioned as part of AJ's hydro history before switching to living soil.
ep 025
The observation that the finicky plant that struggles most in veg is often the one that ends up yielding the best-quality flower — the best vegger is not always the flower winner.
Jeremy calls this a serendipitous true prediction he made mid-season that played out exactly as foreshadowed.
ep 042
The visual progression on a pepper plant where flowers open, are pollinated, drop petals, and a small fruit forms at the base of where the flower was attached.
Jeremy shows this on both peppers in quadrant two and tomatoes in quadrant four as an education aside for viewers interested in the greenhouse series.
ep 012
A recirculating hydroponic system that drips nutrient solution onto the top of a bucket of hydroton clay pebbles around the root zone.
AJ lists this among the hydro systems he dabbled with before switching to living soil.
ep 025
Jeremy's philosophy that a grower should not be tied to a specific grow shop's formula — if the shop closes you should still be able to grow the same quality at home.
He frames this as a motivating reason to choose living soil over hydroponic bottle programs.
ep 008
BuildASoil three-product IPM kit containing Procidic, Dr Zymes Eliminator and EM-5 at a discount.
Jeremy mentions the bundle as his recommended rotation kit.
ep 018
A grower reference chart attempting to pin specific visual symptoms on specific single-nutrient deficiencies.
Jeremy warns against using leaf deficiency charts to pinpoint one single nutrient — it's too Western a framing and the relationships are too interrelated in organics. Useful only as a learning device.
ep 028
The BuildASoil 10x10 methodology of running four side-by-side grows in one tent to compare soil, container, genetics and technique variables.
Jeremy walks all four quadrants each episode, showing how differences emerge: take-and-bake vs 3.0 recycled, Earthbox vs 10-gallon, vegetables vs cannabis.
ep 031
Growing with synthetic bottled mineral nutrients dissolved in an inert substrate, prone to tip burn from over-feeding.
AJ contrasts salt-based hydro tip burn from excess nutrition with living soil where you just let the soil feed the plant.
ep 025
The next full run of the 10x10 series with updated quadrants, dropped vegetables, no-till re-amend, automated drip, and feminized seeds.
Clones for Season 2 are already rooting in the mom tent at the time of the review.
ep 042
Physically agitating open tomato flowers to shake pollen loose so fruit sets when natural pollinator activity is low.
Jeremy warns that 'if you don't come in there and tap them or the moisture is off you'll actually just drop the flour, no fruit will be there', and says adding a bit of Craft Blend fertility can also help hold the fruit.
ep 012