Hydrolyzed Protein Dog Food

john: this is john kohler with growingyourgreens.com. today, i have another exciting episode foryou and i’m coming at you from my front yard garden. i just got done planting out, i don’t know,man, probably like about a hundred pepper plants in each bed. i spaced them probably about 12 inches apart. we got 60 in this one and probably another40 in that one at least. so over a hundred pepper plants. now i know what you might be thinking, youknow, i know it’s getting a bit dark but

you can still see the color on these guysare not nice and dark green. they’re like a little bit yellow and peopleare like “john, what’s going on, man? what’s going on with your plants?” well, you know, this is what happened to myplants. i got some of these pepper plants for freeactually because i rescued them and i need to nurse these guys back to health, and thisis how they look like. i mean, i got them like this, they’re kindof shrivelled and yellow, and this may happen if you overwater or underwater or the plantsare stressed out for some reason or maybe they just don’t have enough nutritionalsoil for their stage of growth.

i don’t exactly know what happened but itook them and you know, there’s been plenty of times where i took plants that look likein this condition and i nursed them back to health. you know, i always recommend you guys justget healthy plants in the first place. it’s always easier and better but you knowwhat? i like a good challenge, especially when itcomes to gardening. so i got some of these guys for free and we’regoing to see if we can bring them back to health because a plant is a terrible thingto waste. alright, so – so once we got all this planted,you know, i water them in, i watered them

before i transplanted and watered them afteri got them into the ground, and the next thing we’re going to do is i’m going to actuallyadd some supplemental fertilizer or nutrients. now for those of you guys that have seen myshow before, you guys know that, you know, i’m big on actually not doing supplementalfeeding, only when and necessary. now this is a case where it is necessary. but the majority of you, if you don’t useany supplemental fertilizer like you know, some gardening methods, once your fertilizelike every weed, every week, you know, i don’t got the time to fertilize every week. i travel, i do all kinds of stuff.

i don’t have to remember to like fertilizemy garden because if you miss it, you know, your plants might not do well, you know. i want to use the smart and you know, theprudent approach and to me, what that is is actually building good soil and if you buildgood soil and you have microbes including bacteria, fungi, nematodes and protozoa. so by building good soil, basically you canhave your soil make enough nutrition including nitrogen and all the other nutrients thatyour plants need. but by themselves because what happens isone thing eats another thing, which is eating another thing and then another thing and thenthe worms eat all that and then they poop

out and the worms make worm castings and alongthe chain, each thing eating the other thing is pooping out nutrients and those are nutrientsthat are bioavailable to your plants. so that’s my style of gardening. i don’t actually advocate supplemental feedingunless when necessary such as this situation when, you know, the transplant didn’t haveenough nutrition. now that they’re in the ground, they willget enough nutrition but i want them to recover quickly from the transplant shock plus alsothe nutrient deficiency that they probably had when there were still in the containeror the stress they were going under. so what we’re going to use today and whati would normally use is, you know, depending

on 2 things. sometimes i use some kelp extract or kelp,you know, spray foliar feed and actually drench, i’ll use that stuff and that’s one optioni have. but sometimes if it’s like a more extremecase then i’ll use the fish emulsion so we have some standard fish type emulsion here. this is called the ‘fish mix’ and thisis omri-listed so it can be used in organic agriculture. whenever buying any fertilizer, i encourageyou guys to make sure it is omri-listed so that it can be used in organic agriculturebecause you know, even things that say ‘fish’

and whatnot can have a lot of things thati wouldn’t want to put in my garden, let’s just put it that way. with that being said, fish emulsion, i wantyou guys to be aware of, it’s basically the leftovers from different food processingindustries and it’s basically the bottom of the barrel, whatever’s left just getsturned into fish emulsion with basically careless disregard for what’s in there. the other thing is that, you know, becausethe fish was processed in whatever way, it may not have as much nutrition if it’s processedin a very specific way. so with that being said, what we’re goingto do today is actually talk to you guys about

the best fish fertilizer to use on your plantsand it’s a new product that just came out. and we have 2 different kinds, actually they’rethe same thing just different packages. one’s actually called the “organic nutrient,ocean grown soluble protein, codfish hydrolysate for use in all phase of growth”. this one’s basically the same thing fromwhat i’ve told. it’s “pure protein dry made from codfishhydrolysate. so you know, why this is different than thisguy here is because of the processing. they specially use codfish on these guys andthey basically – after they use the cod to make fish sticks or whatever, they takethe frames, which is the bone and all the,

you know, leftover meat and all the otherstuff on the – on the fish, and they actually put that through a special enzymatic processat low temperatures. so what this does, the enzymes break downthe proteins that are in the fish and then it breaks it down into amino acids and i’mgoing to stop there for a second. you know, when guys eat food like you eatcows or fish or chickens for the protein because we think we need the protein because “ohyeah, you need the protein to be big and strong”, right? we don’t actually need the protein. what we need is the amino acids that are actuallythe building blocks of the protein.

so if we eat chicken, fish, cow, whatever,we get the protein then our body has to now, at low temperature, break these proteins downinto the amino acid components and then once we got the amino acids then our bodies getto perform our own protein that we need. so we’re absorbing the protein second-handwhen we’re eating, you know, animal products like that, and that’s why i like to eatfruits and vegetable and especially the leafy greens. leafy greens are high in amino acids so thatour bodies can actually reduce the whole breakdown process so we can have better energy, morenutrition and more importantly, the phytochemicals and phytonutrients that come along with theprotein because in my opinion, more important

than the protein are the phytochemicals andphytonutrients that are in all the plant foods that you see growing behind me. so vroom, let’s fast forward back into theplants. so basically the fish hydrolysate has beenbroken down into the amino acid components for you and now the amino acids can be directlyabsorbed by the plants, much like we absorb the amino acids from the plant foods and thenwe build the proteins. this is a way that the plants can get thebest utilization out of this. this is also rich in nitrogen and it’s anon-leeching nitrogen. so the way this is processed, it basicallygives you a nitrogen that’s not going to

have residual build-up. i mean, excess build-up of nitrogen in yoursoil is actually a really bad thing because it’s just going to basically run off, runinto the ground water, run into the gulf of mexico and trade dead zones, all this crazystuff. so this product will not do that. once again, this is also omri listed so thisis considered organic but no, it’s not vegan. so the thing is, you know, this to me, i liketo add only when possible to, you know, get my plants healthy because i like to use anatural system, biologic system for the soil to make it’s own nutrients that i don’thave to continually spray and feed my plants.

that being said, if you want extra productionand all this kind of stuff, you could use this more regularly than i do, i just don’tpersonally believe in it because actually, this stuff can be expensive and even worsethan expensive, once you guys open this jar up, this actually comes with a seal in a jarand then also in a plastic bag that’s actually been opened. as you can see, it’s dusting off there. this is why i don’t like this stuff. if you smell it, oh man, it smells like rottenfish. it smells so terrible.

so i’m not a huge fan of this stuff buti’ll spray it when my plants are in need because i don’t want to lose my plants buti do want them to bring them back to life. so yes, doesn’t smell the best. the other thing is that this is very attractiveto some dogs. don’t leave this out or your dog can findit, they might break into the package and eat it because basically, after all, it’sjust the amino acids from fish and it smells like fish so if it smells like fish, it tastesfish. but i’m not eating it. that being said, for people that are intoplant-based eating and don’t want to spray

fish on their foods, there are actually asoy-based amino acids as well. the main difference between the soy-basedamino acid and this, the fish-based amino acid is one amino acid actually called ‘tryptophan’and from what i hear, it doesn’t work as well as this stuff. but nonetheless, it is available for thosethat, you know, want to, you know, do a plant-based amino acid solution. now the thing is, to spray this stuff on,it is soluble so that’s another thing that’s really cool. it can be used in hydroponics unlike the standardfish emulsions.

what you’re going to do and i’m drippingit everywhere here. what you’re going to do is you’re goingto have to basically put it into a water solution and basically spray it on or water it on. man, this stuff smells so terrible. this is why i don’t like it. so while you could put this in like a pump-sprayerand spray it on or you could just mix it up and then, you know, put it in water or a canof water. man, this stuff smells so bad, i don’t – ireally don’t like it. i got to get this – it’s all over my skin,probably smell like fish for days and that’s

not because my hands were down there somewhereor my girlfriend that i don’t have. so what we’re going to use today is we’regoing to use a chameleon sprayer to spray this out at the right proportion. i really like this chameleon sprayer becauseit will basically take any liquid substance and then it has this little dial here andyou can set it to like, you know, how many teaspoons to dilute per gallon and it’sfairly accurate actually, and we’re actually going to set it to 2 tablespoons per gallon. alright, there it is. 2 tablespoons per gallon.

we’re going to go ahead and twist this guyoff, and how this works is you’re just going to hook in your hose right here. it’s really cool because it also has a quickdisconnect right there. so nice and easy and convenient. and then basically, you’re going to rotatethis to the different sprayer nozzles. it has a little circle, little like a rainfan and then a little spray. so we’re going to go ahead and put it onthe rain fan there and what we’re going to do is we’re going to take some of thepowder here and it’s kind of cool, we don’t really have to measure this because it’sgoing to be measured as it comes out.

just going to put a bunch in there and i’mgoing to take my standard hose and we’re going to add some water to the mixture. we’re going to put the top on and we’regoing to shake it up. shake it up, wait, wasn’t that a car song? shake it up. alright, so we got this all soluble and it’sall filled in there. what we’re going to do now is go ahead andtake the end of my hose here. i have an off and on ball valve right here. so that just such an occasion like i can actuallyremove my hose sprayer and we’re going to

then take the chameleon and just screw thisin. i like screwing things in. wait, i like screwing things in more thani like screwing things off. alright, so we’re screwing this in justlike that and now we’re set on a 2 tablespoons per gallon. all we simply need to do is turn this on andall we need to do now is spray on my peppers. so i’m going to go ahead and water all mypeppers. i’m going to foliar feed it and also doa root drench with this guy right here. man, that stinks and i’m doing it at theend of the day so i can go inside after this.

i don’t have to smell it anymore and hopefully,wash it off my hands as well. now this can be foliar applied, it can alsobe root drenched, it can also be put in hydroponics because once again, it is water soluble. it can be added to your compost tea and it’llactually make the bacteria and fungi go nuts, which will increase your food soil web. so i mean, i think the pure protein all roundis definitely a good product to use. that being said, i’m only going to use itas needed. i’m not going to apply it all the time byno means because i got better things to do than smell stinky fish because i don’t normallyhave to smell fish.

and maybe next time, i’ll use the kelp insteadbut i wanted really to show this to you guys to give you guys options and that’s whatmy show is about. i want to give you guys options whether youwant to use it like i do in extreme emergencies like this or whether you want to use it moreoften and get better results, you know, that’s up to you guys. but i always want to show you guys the latestand greatest products that will allow you to grow a better and healthier crops morenaturally and organic so that you and your family can eat healthier and, you know, savethe planet one person at a time. if you guys are interested in buying someof the pure protein powders, please check

the links below the video. i have negotiated special discounted – growingyour greens discounted pricing for you guys. that’s going to be below. to get the special pricing, click on thatlink and follow the directions and you’ll get some of this stuff and rescue your plantsif they have some transplant shock or yellow up like mine did and i’ll be sure to giveyou guys an update in a future episode to show you guys how my peppers are doing. so hope you guys enjoy this episode, learningmore about the codfish, fish hydrolysates, better than fish emulsion, better than anyother fish fertilizer that are found.

once again, my name is john kohler with growingyourgreens.com. we’ll see you next time and remember, keepon growing.