You watched the video.
This is the part you
wanted to write down.
Mr. Lou’s soil mix with the real ratios. The no-soak sequence. And the one job he does four times a year that he says costs other growers more crops than anything else on the list.
Your trays keep molding. You’ve tried more airflow. Less seed. A different soil. Maybe a spray.
Mr. Lou has been growing wheatgrass and microgreens since 1980. Some weeks he put out five thousand trays, and a room that size cannot carry mold. One bad tray takes ten with it.
So he worked out a method, and ten rules came out of it. Most of them run opposite to what the books say.
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Ten rules, in four parts.
Every one of them came out of a five thousand tray week that could not afford to lose a crop. Two of them are below, because they are the two people argue with him about hardest.
Eight of the ten are on the other side of the checkout. Number nine is the one he would bet money on.
Grown from no ordinary soil.
It’s been on the front of his building for thirty years. Now it’s on paper.
Peat, perlite, coir, castings, kelp and crustacean meal. The ratios are in the guide, and so is the part nobody publishes: what grade of each material to buy, and why the wrong grade wrecks a tray before you ever plant it.
Nothing in there is a secret. It just took a very long time to learn.
Lou’s Soil Mix
The rest is on page three.
You could just grab the transcript.
Somebody will. The video is public, the captions copy out in one click, and any AI will turn an hour of talking into a tidy document in about a minute.
Here is what that document tells you to buy.
Straight off the auto-captions. That is what the machine hears, and that is what lands on your shopping list.
Spelling is the small problem.
Twice in that hour Mr. Lou gives a soil recipe, and the two answers do not match. One is two parts peat to one part perlite. The other is thirty percent coir, twenty peat, twenty perlite, which is one to one and adds up to seventy. He was describing two different mixes and the talk moved on before anyone noticed.
Build your soil from that transcript and you build it wrong. Worse, you will not know why.
And then there is what he never said on camera at all.
| In the video | In the pages | |
|---|---|---|
| The soil mix | Two answers that contradict each other | One recipe, reconciled, plus the grade of every material and why the wrong grade wrecks a tray |
| Pests | Squirrels, in passing | Rodents, grain moths, and the one that is really a water problem |
| Washing seed | Don’t | Don’t, and exactly what to do if you are going to anyway |
| Storing seed | Put it in a cooler | What to do at four hundred trays a week, when a cooler stops being an option |
| Order | Ninety minutes, out of sequence | Seed, soil, water, room. The order you actually do them in. |
A transcript is a machine’s best guess at what a man said. These five pages are what he meant, in the order he works, corrected and signed off by him.
He had something to say about this in the video.
“Some of these programs start at like a thousand dollars. Man, when I saw that, I said to myself, these people are not patriots. They’re scoundrels.”
Mr. Lou, on cameraHe meant it. So this is twenty-seven dollars.
Not a program. Not a course. No login, no modules, no eight-week cohort. Five pages, ten rules, and a soil recipe from a man who spent thirty-four years working it out in a room that could not afford to be wrong.
And so you know before you buy rather than after: if you read it and you want him to look at your own room, he does that too, and he will tell you plainly what it costs. The pages stand on their own. Plenty of people will never need anything else.
Now think about what one bad tray actually costs. The seed. The soil. The ten days it sat there. And the person who was expecting it on Thursday.
Throw out one tray this season and you have already spent more than these pages cost.
And if you read all ten and every one of them was something you already knew, tell Mr. Lou and he will send your money back. You keep the pages. He would rather you had them.
Duncanson
Mr. Lou has been doing this since before most growers were born.
Louis Duncanson started growing around 1980 and went commercial in 1992, building Florida’s first urban organic wheatgrass and microgreens farm. For decades he supplied juice bars and grocery across South Florida. Five thousand trays a week, every week.
He is also a licensed nutritionist in the state of Florida, and he met Dr. Ann Wigmore before most people in this business had heard her name.
These days he grows by special order out of a refrigerated container in Miami, and he still answers the phone himself.
“This is some of the cleanest grass I’ve ever seen.”
John Kohler · GrowingYourGreens, after searching Lou’s trays for mold on camera
Ten rules. Five pages. Thirty-four years.
Number nine is the one he would bet money on, and almost nobody does it.
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Read all ten. If you knew them already, Mr. Lou sends your money back and you keep the pages.