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Pura Vida Photography
Добавлен 12 фев 2010
My humble collection of videos that really just reflects my hobbies and interests outside 9-5 life. Regular content around: gardening, exploring the PNW, travel, paddle boarding and maybe the odd cameo from my cat Benny! I'm a new and enthusiastic filmmaker; if you like what you saw and want to show your support please consider subscribing and help me grow. Thanks and pura vida!
Destination Pender Island: Nature, Relaxation, and Adventure
Quiet, charming, beautiful: these are 3 adjectives that perfectly describe what Pender Island is to me. I've made many visits through my life to this special Gulf Island of Southern British Columbia and always find something new to explore and appreciate. This time around I brought my camera to highlight some of the great opportunities for hiking, beach combing, eating, swimming and resting you'll be able to appreciate here.
Sections:
Beginning - 0:00
Beaches - 0:49
Hikes - 3:44
Lakes - 5:20
The Copper Otter & Vanilla Leaf Bakery- 5:58
Relaxing at my home away from home - 6:44
#canada #bc #pnw
Song 1:
Music: TheFatRat & RIELL - Hiding In The Blue
Watch the official music video: • TheFatRat & RIELL...
Sections:
Beginning - 0:00
Beaches - 0:49
Hikes - 3:44
Lakes - 5:20
The Copper Otter & Vanilla Leaf Bakery- 5:58
Relaxing at my home away from home - 6:44
#canada #bc #pnw
Song 1:
Music: TheFatRat & RIELL - Hiding In The Blue
Watch the official music video: • TheFatRat & RIELL...
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Exploring Salt Spring Island Like A True Bohemian
Просмотров 5404 месяца назад
Known endearingly as the ‘hippie island’ between Victoria & Vancouver, Salt Spring makes for an easy and enjoyable break from city life. It’s an easy visit by ferry and yet a world apart. In this video I show my week cycling around and trying to scratch below the surface to uncover some hidden gems of this beautiful location. I found markets, mountain vistas, coastal hikes, great lakes & beache...
Germinating Seeds on Paper Towel: Any better than direct sowing?
Просмотров 2555 месяцев назад
Gardening advice can sometimes be overwhelming and not always that practical or useful. An oft-repeated tip I’ve heard since starting the hobby is to start new seeds by germinating them on a wet paper towel & once they sprout move them into a soil container. I’ve done this at various times and yes, it worked out, but I got to wondering: why should we add an extra step to this process? Is it eve...
A Raven Annoys A Great Horned Owl
Просмотров 1,4 тыс.7 месяцев назад
I witnessed this unusual interaction between a Raven and a Great Horned Owl on a recent walk at Government House in Victoria, BC. It seemed like the raven was rather enjoying himself teasing and harassing the weary owl! #owl #raven #pacificnorthwest
Destination Saturna: The Park Covered Gulf Island
Просмотров 3588 месяцев назад
Saturna Island is the least developed of BC's Southern Gulf Islands and also one of the least visited. That's exactly why you should consider popping over and exploring! with 2/3rds of the island designated as protected park space it is a natural wonder to explore in Canada's Pacific Coast. This video highlights some popular sights and attractions of this paradise. #travel #explore #canada Time...
Two Waterfalls for the Price of One - A Great Hike on Vancouver Island
Просмотров 13210 месяцев назад
Nestled in the middle of Vancouver Island & part of Strathcona Park, Myra Falls is a true natural gem. An hours drive from Campbell River, you have your choice of 2 waterfalls (both easily reachable within a day with some light hiking). Lower Myra Falls features several cascades and is a family friendly walk that takes aprox 15 mins from the parking area. To reach the upper falls drive past the...
A BIRDthday At The Raptors - Cowichan Valley
Просмотров 15611 месяцев назад
What better way to celebrate a birthday than to spend it with a bunch of awesome birds?! Located in Duncan on Vancouver Island, The Raptors offers an interactive experience with a variety of birds of prey species including eagles, hawks, falcons and owls. We took full advantage to make my partner's birthday one to remember. In this video I feature some of the highlights to [hopefully] encourage...
Meet Emerson the Roving Elephant Seal
Просмотров 3 тыс.Год назад
Emerson the roving elephant seal loves to show up in unexpected places! Near the end of the summer he became a bit of a spectacle in Victoria’s inner harbour, choosing to hang out along the Songhees walkway. Like many others we became fans of this charming northern elephant seal and dedicate this video to him! #victoriabc #pnw #wildlife External Links: DFO video of Emerson's relocation: faceboo...
Should A Seedling Heat Mat Be Added To Your Gardening Kit?
Просмотров 347Год назад
Just how much of a difference will a seedling heat mat make when starting your plants and is it worth your money to buy one? In this video we will explore that question by experimenting with 4 varieties of vegetables, each with a tray utilizing and without a budget heat mat. I’ll show the difference between tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and celery grown this way. We'll follow their development ov...
A Summer Escape to Sidney Spit
Просмотров 623Год назад
Just off the coast of Vancouver Island is an unforgettable trip waiting to happen: Welcome to Sidney Island! A scenic ferry ride will take you to this paradise, nestled in British Columbia’s Southern Gulf Islands. Boasting picturesque hiking trails, wildlife and endless sandy beaches to bask in the sun on. Part of the Gulf Island National Park Reserve, there is even backcountry camping if you w...
Scenic Hiking at Scafe Hill: A Fun Trail near Victoria BC
Просмотров 102Год назад
Need an exciting adventure but don't want to venture far from town? Look no further than Scafe Hill! This short and easy hike is a hidden gem, located just a stone's throw from downtown but offering plenty of serenity for it's location. Situated at the northern end of Thetis Lake Park it's a great spot to get a quick hike or bike in after a busy day. You'll be rewarded with a great panoramic vi...
Gem of the Salish Sea: Visiting Galiano Island
Просмотров 1,4 тыс.Год назад
No two adventures on Galiano Island are ever the same! A beautiful and rugged destination sandwiched between Vancouver & Victoria, yet miles apart. From hiking through dense forests & mountains to exploring the rugged coastline, we appreciate the island's stunning natural beauty. Wildlife encounters with marine mammals and birds are not uncommon and certainly add to the overall easy going pace ...
Grow Better Produce by Testing Your Soil
Просмотров 73Год назад
Soil testing is a useful undertaking for any gardener looking to grow healthy and abundant plants. In this video I’ll walk you through the process of soil testing; what gets measured, the difference between home and professional lab testing, costs & how to prepare your soil sample. I also showcase my test results and interpretations made from it. #gardening #homestead #soil Intro - 0:00 Do you ...
How to Grow the Perfect Pickle: A Gardening Secret Revealed
Просмотров 241Год назад
Are you tired of buying expensive store bought pickles? Want to grow your own, but not sure where to start? In this video, I share my top tips for growing the best pickles ever. From selecting the right seeds, fertilizing and hydrating your plants, to nurturing your cucumber plants like a pro. It’s time to take your pickling game to the next level! #pickle #gardening #aprilfools Music from #Upp...
The Hauntingly Beautiful Ghost Town Near Whistler BC
Просмотров 200Год назад
Join us on a hike through the stunning wilderness near Whistler BC, as we make our way to the historic ghost town of Parkhurst. Once a thriving logging settlement, this abandoned community is now a haunting reminder of a bygone era. We explore the fascinating history of Parkhurst, and take you on a journey through its remaining structures, giving you a glimpse of what life was like for those wh...
Growing Jerusalem Artichokes: An Overlooked Crop With High Rewards
Просмотров 174Год назад
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Full Spectrum vs. 3000k vs. 5000k LED Bulbs - A look at the best options for your seedlings & wallet
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Cheakamus Lake: a Scenic Hike in Garibaldi Park
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History & Hauntings - Exploring The Stories Of Victoria's Oldest Cemetery
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Maximum Potato Yields: Does Container Size Matter?
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Renting & Using the Mantis XP Tiller - A beginner friendly guide to a beginner friendly rototiller
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I think it depends on the plant, it looks like one of the branches on the plant from the regular LED was trying to reach to the grow light. And the grow light plant looked a little healthier and stronger during the early veg phase and all its branches were reaching towards its respective light, it’s very close but when it comes to plants it’s best to get what they really like if you want the absolute best results, it can also make them taste better. I got 5$ 60W equivalent grow lights at Walmart and they are BRIGHT, haven’t tested them yet but I’m excited!
wow. cheers mate, very helpful!
Glad it helped!
Hey, great video, do you post locations on social media also?
Thanks, glad you liked it! Not very involved with social media at this time.
Great video! 👏🏽😊 Thanks for sharing
@@estebanortiz_mentor very welcome!
Is Brandywine waterfalls open in November? Because website shows it’s temporarily closed. Thank you
Unfortunately there is limited access during the winter. From the BC parks website: "Vehicle access to the park is not available during the winter season. Visitors can still access the park on foot, but parking may not be available. Check park opening dates, camping, and facilities for details and opening dates."
more info: bcparks.ca/brandywine-falls-park/
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Astonishing
Thanks!
Good video
How many hours should the grow light be on every day?
I was doing 16 hours on, 8 hours off for mine.
cool white/ warm white light makes a difference too, the growlight should habe performed way better if you consider the price difference
Basically grow lights are a gimmick unless you are wanting to control stages like flowering. Plants just want light.
You have no board inbetween, therefore the plants are getting light from both lamps control the light contamination for a true test
So the fancy bulb uses more electricity? what were the wattages of each. If the fancy bulb was more wattage them maybe a fair test would be getting a normal bulb of equal wattage.
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I agree with your conclusion but a single bulb seems good for a comparison experiment while I would think that you need more than that for any serious indoor growing - which seems feasible. I also question the use of single bulbs when they have rectangular arrays of hundreds of LEDS. For $20-$30, you can easily get an adjustable set up that will deliver close to a 1,000 PAR - based, of course, on close you want to keep the lights to your plants.
I think those are very good points. I'd agree, unless you already have the lamps and bulbs kicking around it might make more sense to purchase an array as you've suggested. If you were buying the lamps and bulbs that I have used here the cost difference might not be that different and you'd get much more power from the array.
This was just what I needed to know if I should rent this! Thank you!
No prob, Im glad it helped!!
Thanks for doing this experiment so that we don’t have to do it. It helped me a lot.
So glad it was helpful!!
Looks like the cat approves the 5000k one
He certainly does!!
To help strengthen the stems you really need a fan as well. Wind is an important strengthener of stems. Thank you for your comparison video!
That's very true, I plan to incorporate that next year.
link to bulb? can i use a regular GE bulb
That ravens sounds like it’s saying *huh?* It’s funny.
Owlet could kill crow
This is such a high quality video to only get 300 views in a year. Love your gardening videos (only seen a couple and subscribed). Hope your viewer numbers go up, because this is very enjoyable and informative to watch :D
Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate that! I'll be honest it can be hard at times to motivate myself to make new ones because it can be very time consuming and then disappointing when it doesn't get much attention. But I try to remind myself I'd rather make a video that helps 300 people than make none at all. So I appreciate you subscribing and will hopefully be putting out something new soon :)
Temperature of heat coming from light also makes a large difference I think what are the temperatures.
i have a plan to buy a 90 cm length grow light with 15 watt spec. i am not sure with the quality because it is only 15 watt power. how about it?
Hard to say for certain without knowing much about the specific product. But I would say that if it's and LED type then the watts shouldn't really matter. They will always be much lower than wattage of older style bulbs - but will output an equivalent amount of light. You might want to look into output as a better method of comparison. Happy gardening!
@@PuraVidaPhotography thanks !!! appreciate that..
Thanks 😊
Very welcome!
This is so helpful thank you very much 🙏✌️🇺🇲
@@eddiewest8477 very welcome!
I enjoy habaneros , And Carolina reapers. I’m getting 75% on my seating in dirt. I’m going to try with the paper towels and see how it goes. Like your videos, to see the next ones.
I enjoy growing habaneros myself, but mixed results in my cooler climate. Come back and update when you do the paper towel batch, I'd be curious to hear what the difference is!
Beautiful landscape!
Beautiful shot!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
The Tree House Cafe is one of my favourites.
It's a gem!
thank man! full spectrum is just a new way to make you pay more as the light manufacturers found out that the growers discovered that the cheap 5000k lights work very well. if you think about it .... the " full spectrum" is visible .... the visible part of the spectrum has a color that color represents a frequency and that frequency represents the whole perceivable spectrum at that moment ... if you have an array of different colored light that should represent " the spectrum" the colors will mix into one color. so it is impossible to create a full spectrum light. the same with pain.. you can mix all the colors of the rainbow ..but in the end you will have only one color - one frequency -one small part of " the full spectrum" the good manufacturers are really putting different colors together in the bulb or light ..so they can say without having to lie " yes we produce full spectrum lights" because the " technically " do. except practically they actually mix into one color and thus only one part of the spectrum and only that part if perceivable and usable for the plant .
Very well said and thanks for watching!
Much appreciated thanks bro good video quiet impressed ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Very welcome, thanks for watching!
The mutispectum LED grow bulb ones look little more healthier then average bulb.
I think it's possible they had a slight edge. Definitely minor though!
You can get a very significant increase in light output, in my experience at least around 20%, by ripping off the diffuser dome! Usually you can just massage the seam a bit and then pull it off carefully, it's either just clicked in place or secured with some kind of caulk-like glue. Should only be done if you can either ensure nobody touches the lamp or if you insulate it properly though, as it might expose mains voltage carrying bare contacts to the touch. Though it does differ from one manufacturer to the next, the lowest increase I've measured was a bit above 20%, the highest increase was a good bit more than a whooping 50%! Makes the bulbs way more useful without a reflector and they last quite a bit longer as a bonus, after all the plastic dome is a diffuser for a 270° to almost 360° emission characteristic - which is pretty much useless to us in most cases and only leads to unnecessary reflection losses besides swallowing at least 10% (~20% is probably more realistic for cheap mass produced diffusers) of light right away in the plastic material, besides keeping the led chips way hotter than they need to be. Without it most bulbs have a beam characteristic with I'd guess around 80-90% of light in an 80-90° beam, most of the remainder being within 120° - which makes reflectors more or less unnecessary. If you got small kids around, are rather clumsy sometimes and want to use bulbs where you/someone could touch them I recommend either leaving the done on or isolating every single voltage carrying piece of exposed metal with a proper isolating lacquer. Anyway, nice videos. Keep it up!
Wow that is some really relevant and useful information. Thank you for sharing! This has me excited to try!
Great video, thank you.
No worries, thanks for checking it out!
The better germination rate is key for those trying to grow harder plants. Knowing they've at least germinated helps avoid wasting resources and time sowing all of them
Absolutely, this would be the perfect case to use it.
Can't thank you enough Almost all the sources on the internet indicates "at least get a CFL" but a regular LED bulb works too, as we can see! Do you remember the wattage of the household bulb? And other parameters about it perhaps...
So glad it was helpful for you! The bulb was 9 watts, equivalent to a 60w incandescent.
thank you big time sir. info i was looking for. highly appreciate your videos!!
Hey, no problem at all, glad it helped!
do you live in costa rica???? i live in the south pacific bahia ballena
I wish! Just a country that had an impact on me, it's a beautiful place!
@@PuraVidaPhotography pura vida MAE 😀
Ich hätte nur an deiner Stelle die Samen vorher in Tüchern aufquellen lassen
Interessantes Video habe ich natürlich auch schon längst ihn gebraucht auch in Deutschland ist das eine gute Sache das müsst nur die Leute wissen die kaufen alle die teuersten Marken die es zu kaufen gibt/sunline & Co
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This is great! I love all your experiments.
Glad you like it!
Bro tried to pull back a branch and hit the owl with it
Smart buggers eh!
That raven's probably trying to find a way to murder that owl since ravens and crows absolutely despise owls and vice versa, probably trying to egg it onto chasing it so the raven can guide it towards the other ravens in the area so they can all gang up on the owl
Yeah, you gotta wonder what was up!
Amazing!
Amazing video!
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I live in Colorado and I m trying so hard to grow rosemary and I have tried 10 times to grow rosemary but I could not be success to keep them greenery.
I too have struggled with rosemary! It's odd because I'm in the PNW and see big beautiful ones left to the elements in people's gardens but the ones I baby often struggle come winter time! Are you trying from seed or starts from the garden center? As I hear from seed can be an added challenge...