In short, the only reason to ever use Epsom salt is if you KNOW you have a magnesium deficiency. There’s really no other good reason in the home garden.
00:00 – Intro
00:56 – Epsom Salt History
02:10 – Prevents Blossom End Rot
03:13 – Prevents Pest or Diseases
04:10 – Use As A Fertilizer
05:14 – Bloom & Fruit Booster
06:24 – Improves Germination
07:09 – You Can’t Overuse It
08:15 – Outro
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What do you think about Epsom salts? Lemme know, I know this one's a bit controversial ⬇⬇⬇
Epsom salt is one of those things that sounded fishy to me but I never looked into it.
I grew up gardening with zero inputs other than compost, so I guess I am probably more suspicious of additives, knowing that they probably aren’t needed based on anecdotal experience: I never used it and nothing terrible happened!
The laundry list of promises is a sign that it’s probably BS, just as with the many uses of baking soda (which doesn’t whiten or absorb odors) or the latest in pseudo-scientific snake oil (herbs or essential oils with purported super-powers only backed up by claims by those who pedal them).
People like the idea of an easy fix, or getting to feel like they are clever for being “in” on some “special tip” for doing something better, cheaper, faster etc. and generally speaking products that are appealing to that urge are more about generating profits than providing an honest product.
As consumers, it’s easy to forget: business isn’t about solving your problems for you. Corporations exist to generate the most profit possible for their shareholders, period. They aren’t charitable. They aren’t compassionate. When other people make positive claims about their products, they are not bound to dissuade consumers from buying their products for an ineffective purpose. They only care if it could cause a legal liability (such as Q-tips putting a warning against in-ear use on their package: I’d bet the company would be bankrupt if NO ONE ever went against that instruction, so it seems tongue-in-cheek at best to tell someone that’s not what they are sold for).
Anyway, good job trying to combat misinformation; with any hope things like this teach people to question the veracity of their sources & be less trusting of unsupported information they stumble across.
I got a ton of peppers from a little Epsom salt this year… Its important
Man you are well prepared for what's coming. Keep your food and plants close to you it will be gold in a few months
There's another issue with BER in tomatoes that is often overlooked, especially for us in San Diego. Nutrient lockout is a big problem caused by pH issues. Our water here is 8.0-8.5 on average, and that pH locks out calcium (and other nutrient) uptake due to chelation. Soil naturally buffers watering for a while, but in containers *especially*, that buffering potential quickly diminishes. Most water has plenty of calcium to stop BER in its tracks, but it needs to be dropped to ~6.5 in order for the plants to use it efficiently.
Don't most Fertillisers contain Espon salts. I was told a while back that if your leaf's on your plants are going yellow water in some Espsom salts that will help, not sure if this is true or not as never tried it
Thankfully I have never used this powder
Interesting that in your country it's advertised as remedy for many problems. Where I'm from it's recommend only when observed deficiency of magnesium.
I have never heard any of these myths! My mom did have one though; she insisted that epsom salt and water in the bottom of the hole will prevent transplant shock. Don't know if it's true or just the benefit of root watering, but I did notice that the few plants I would inevitably forget to Bless would wilt while the rest in a row would be fine. Again, I doubt it's the epsom salts making the difference, but it is one superstition I have kept though the years anyway!
So Epson Salt can Kill Weeds but be Bad for the Soil
Also this doesn't have anything to do with Video but can Bell Peppers still Survive the Fall… I got Peppers at Half Price at the Store I grew em in late August like the 13th is this fine or what?
did not watch the video through yet and had to post this, but blossom end rot requires calcium, we crushed egg shells added banana peels and some Epsom salts. a 90 year old lady taught me that
This video is bull shit with love dude!! Your teaching these newer growers wrong! Magnesium unlike calcium )an immobile nutrient) is of profound importance through flower.
Epsom Salt is a great source of magnesium. You need to delete this video.
I lost all confidence in you and your opinions. As a gardener for longer than you have been alive I think your assumptions are dead wrong. Where is your comparison video? Grow a tomato, pepper or even a Seminole pumpkin with Epsom salt and one without. Don't quote studies funded by the folks a Miracle Grow that say the cheap stuff doesn't work. Prove it yourself. Put up or shut up.
We owned a feed store for many years and sold tons of the stuff to REAL farmers. I personally used a pinch in each of the plants we sold in the spring when they started to look a little raggedy, within a day they would green up and look as good as new. I've also used it on my gardens for years and years. No, it doesn't cure blossom end rot or kill pests, but it does green up a plant that looks a little worse for wear. You should state that this is your opinion and not make a blanket statement. Your condescending tone when you say, " If you think it works for you, then use it," is insulting and demeaning to those of us who grow actual food for us and our neighbors. We may not have a YouTube channel or books to sell, or import raised beds, but we do grow food for actual people and have 30 years of experience on you.
Lesson of the day : epson salt, vitamin C, same fight
what proof you have to back up this fox
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Thank you for such a informative video ☺️.
I use it only to kill snails in my terrace garden, not a good way but during rainy season I have so many of them that it's difficult to control them by just picking and throwing them away so I have to take a pick and put on the snails and they die
can you do a video on whether we should use an inline hose filter or other type of water filter? Particularly for city water? Thanks
I have Epsom salt in my cart right now. Thank goodness I've seen this before purchasing another one!
Epsom salt absolutely made my palms better almost immediately.
Thanks!
Gonna have to hold you to that fungus busting Kevin. Powdery mildew is my nemesis.
Do you know your videos are filled with lying commercials…. scams?
I have see benefits from using Epsom salt.
We I get the time maybe I'll do a side by side video on my channel and maybe I'll be disappointed or maybe not.
It's not about not using empsonsalt. It's about how each nutrient interacts with all other nutrients you can find a great graph that's shows how to much of one might lock out other nutrients. With good soil correct ph and not over doing the nutrients and consistency will solve most nutrient problems. Dont blame the salt for ppl not using it correctly