Join Kyle Kushman and passionate newcomer Luke McCallen as they reveal the secrets behind a thriving indoor garden using organic living soil techniques. In this in-depth interview, Luke shares his journey from synthetic fertilizers to an all-natural approach and how it transformed his results. 🌱
They discuss the simple setup of his grow tents (from propagation to flowering) and explain why organic soil cultivation is surprisingly easy and forgiving for beginners.
You’ll hear about Luke’s soil mix recipe, how he reuses his soil each cycle, and the power of soil microbes and the soil food web in creating a self-sustaining ecosystem. Kyle also dives into the “Kushman Chiropractic” super cropping method (a plant training technique of bending stems) that can maximize yields in small spaces – a tip Luke has found to be a game changer. Plus, learn why organic-grown flowers provide smoother, richer flavor compared to those grown with synthetic nutrients, and how this natural method can even save money over time.
Whether you’re a new gardener or an experienced green thumb, this conversation is packed with indoor gardening tips and insights on sustainable, no-till practices. Luke’s passion for community education and growing for wellness shines through as he talks about helping others start their own organic home gardens. Don’t miss this deep dive into organic indoor cultivation – it’s an inspiring guide to taking your home grow to the next level, naturally!
00:00 – Introduction
01:40 – Luke’s Origin Story
04:00 – Indoor Setup & Seeds
05:30 – Embracing Living Soil
09:30 – Soil Mix & Reuse
15:30 – Organic vs. Synthetic Quality
16:45 – Motivation & Future Plans
19:50 – Super Cropping “Chiropractic”
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I've been using living soil for the last 5 years I currently growing with Gaia living with fort vee compost living, 707 roots organic and mother earth coco on top
fast buds 420 somewhere
Recommendations for seeds guys? I don’t want to get bunk seeds 😂
❤ absolutely love this.
Good video i see luke is actually local too me small world looking at getting into growing myself always grew things but never any weed strains. Really liking strawberry cough right now
I see people using worm castings but not raising worms in the same pot. I guess it's to wet for the plants?
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I just started my 1st living organic grow, pretty excited.
Wow, great episodes guys!! Luke keep up the great work this was an epic surprise to see you on a GWAH episode this a.m!! Thanks again Kyle for brightening my day and bringing solid info to us home growers. I can't emphasize enough how much this plant and the community/camaraderie it brings to my everyday life has made me the best me possible. Cheers guys STAY ROOTED
Newbie to the living soil so good to know some of the basics I won't need to use anymore 😂
Great information here guys, better smoke and kinder to the environment. Thank you Luke and Kyle for sharing your knowledge. Loyal to the soil ❗️🙏
What about super cropping auto's, if yes, than when? I snapped my girls neck almost off, painters tape and a support, big Ol' Knuckle formed, she's beautiful now, four more weeks. Stay Well, always grow green and fascist free. From Wilburr from the Wilburrness of Maine
8:30 exactly! I like to use the same analogy 😄 just provide the buffet and the plants will figure it out with the help of the mycelium
Living soil all the way 🙏🌿💚
How does one get a shirt
I learned a lot from you from a VHS tape. About super cropping
Chemical residue still temains locked into cell walls no matter how much flushing you do.
Environmental factors are a key part of phenotypical variation in cannabis. With chemicals some of the environmental factors iare artificial. Thus limiting the chance of full phenotypical expression.
Chemicals kill cannabis heals
The science of living soil is absolutely dascinating
Love this episode. I remember watching you talking about Veganics back in the day!
Great content 👌 watching in Ireland
Peat moss is unsustainable. We take it from old growth forests and it can't regenerate as fast as we take it.
Gwah and smoke it … w friends. lol
Loyal to the Soil
If you have ever watched EC change in a DWC tank you know plants can choose to uptake nutes or just water. The organic snobbery is a bit off-putting.
Anyone in uk know good sources for organic soils/admendments
I could never imagine selecting for denser buds, especially over effect or overall smokeablity. It's litterly the last thing i select for..
Primary selection based on..
1. Effects
2. Duration of effects &
3. Quality of effects
4. Smell/Flavours
5. Overall Smoke-ablity
Secondary selections
6. Grease/Resin Quality
7. How it breeds
8. Growability (fusy/easy feeders & adoption to environment)
9. Flower structure
10. Yeilds
How do you combat insects in living soil
I have always grown outside. My first grow was when we moved from Dallas up to Lake Texoma. I was a freshman in high school in 1977. Living in Dallas, finding decent smoke wasn't hard. Most of my friends had older siblings, and I actually took my first hit at 8 years old.
Anyways, I had made a few friends who smoked and could get weed, but there were times when you would run out, and it might be 2 weeks to a month before you could find any. A lot of times, it would be a bag full of seeds and stems, so you broke out mom's cookie sheet and sat there sifting for half an hour, lol. I never threw out my seeds, I kept them all. Dad had 20 acres, but I knew what he would do to me if he found it on his property. About a mile down the road was a creek, and I took off walking it one day. The woods were thick, but I found a little clearing. This was somebody else's property, so I marked a trail to it by tearing off peices of my t-shirt and tying them to branches. I went back home, grabbed a rake, and a hoe, tore up the soil, and pulled all the grass and weeds in about a 25×25 foot area. Went back to the house, grabbed several buckets of horse manure, and tilled that into the soil, which was probably already rich, being right next to the creek. My grandfather always had a garden, so silly me, planted the seeds in rows, no germination, just thunked them into the ground, got water from the creek, and watered them in. After about a month, I had probably 100 plants that were about a foot tall. Now I didn't know anything about male and female, or what would happen if you let it all grow together, but it couldn't have been any worse than the weed I'd been getting lol. It was raining a lot, so as not to be to obvious, I would only go there once a week to check on them. The last time I was there, they were 5 feet tall and had buds everywhere. Well I came home from school one day, and the motorcycle sheriff who lived up the road from us was talking to my dad out in the yard. As I got out of the car, dad said, hey Bill, come here for a minute. Eeeek, I already had a gut feeling that this wasn't going to be good. Dad said, Ron here, had his cows get out, and he followed their hoof prints down to the creek, where he stumbled across some Marijuana growing, do you know anything about it? Me, standing there in bell bottoms and hair past my shoulders, said NO! Dad, hmmmm, well your sister said that Ron posed for a picture at the store up town, with his pickup tarpped over, full of Marijuana, found in our little town. I said, oh wow. Dad said, your sister told him that you would stop down at the creek, on the way taking her to school with you, what were you doing there? I don't know what she's talking abou, Dad. I denied everything for about 30 minutes, and finally he left, but he followed me around all the time, I'd look in my rear view and there was that Harley behind me. Scared me so bad, that I never grew again, up until about 5 years ago, and this is my fourth grow. My first grow of 8 plants from bag seed rendered only one female, but she grew to over 7 feet tall and had koalas the size of my arm. After dry, it gave me 7 quart jars and two gallon jars full of sticky buds, which I shared most of with friends. The next two grows were plagued with everything from rabbits and bugs, to storms and hail. This year I decided to get some feminized seeds, and some auto flowers, which I did get, from Homegrown. This year, I also decided to grow in buckets, so that I could move them if needed. Well, weather played a mean trick on my grow, and decided to storm almost every day from March until about mid-June. I planted my germinated seeds in solo cups about mid April, way too soon, for all of the storms that we had, so they spent a lot of time in my shop, under a cheap light set up and I had a small fan blowing on them. This was my first time to try autoflowers, and I learned some very important lessons about lighting and watering, plus I wasted all of my auto seeds trying. The photos did alright under the cheap light, and I did a lot of low stress training on them when they were young. Out of the nine that I planted, I have three photos left, and one clone, they are all doing good, and went into flower about two weeks ago, and because of the LST, they are more of a bush, than a tree, which is what I was aiming for.
I will still grow outside, but I am saving up for a spider farmer tent kit now and will grow my autoflowers in there from now on. I am also going to make up my own living soil, I went with Fox Farm this year, and their fertilizers, but I think I want to mix the soil, to where there is not much need for all of that expensive additives, until maybe flowering time. I do worry about bug infestation in the soil though, for what I use in the tent, so I may just ammend some potting soil for in there, bugs are hard enough to deal with outside, much less in a tent. Got any tips, I'm all ears.
Don’t smoke O.P.P.
Single source rosin
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fire grow setup in the background. GWAH!
They sound more like sales men than growers lol
Thanks for this ,I've been growing in living soil for a few yrs now,I'm trying to grow auto's inside due to the humidity here on the coast of Maine always hitting hard at flower time, People like You and Nikki & Swami will/have made millions healthy by growing our own medicine. THANKS! Stay Well from Wilburr from the Wilburrness of Maine.
Th thanks for a good show, fellas
Yo! Where you go? MIA on Instagram… Hoping it's a mere blip or accident.
Hey kyle i truly appreciate how you do these interviews the time the patience you put into it for us to simplify the gardening experience and simply enjoying thank you for who you are have a beautiful day
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Im totally organic. I use 1 tbl . spoon of human fecal to 1 gal. water mix well. My friends say its the best shit they Eva smoked!!
synthetics won the dgc I still get better flavor and way more yield with synthetic/organic than I do straight organics
Hell yeah luke. U r an inspiration. U haven't been growing forever, but u put ur shit online and rocked it. U r making a name for urself
I've done the kushman chiropractics. makes you nervous, but after a few times its pretty easy. Definitely made my branches stronger as well.
Thanks for the vid and push. I learned to grow in the late 80s, outdoors in Hawaii. I miss the taste of that bud. Of course, the climate was different, too, and strain, but im going to try a different route next go and get away from synthetic.
I agree 1000% This was a GREAT conversation. I'm in Michigan as well & would really like to connect with Luke. We have the same thoughts on growing in living soil.
He Saif you need a bed to go organic you use organic amendments and casting starting with solo cups finishing in 1 fal 3 gal pots….
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