Mike Mitchell

Role: recurring guest
Appears in 2 episodes

Mike Mitchell, of Mike’s Mighty Micros, discusses application timing and rates for the product across clover, alfalfa, corn, soybeans, fruit trees, and gardens, generally advising against overdosing or spraying more than about once a week. He explains use of clean water for spraying, tank-mixing with herbicides, drought-stress applications on beans, and pruning young fruit trees. He introduced a companion line called Vital Force and described components like the Energizer, Top Line, and Root Line.

Appearances

What they said

Showing 40 of 56 claims across the 20 most-discussed of 32 topics. The complete record is on the episode pages above.

albrecht

• Mike attributed the product’s science to soil scientist Albrecht, who studied nutrient deficiencies at the University of Missouri decades earlier. 19:21 — Episode #272 - Farming for Nutrients - Better Food Plots

amino-acids

• Mike explained plants make the amino acids methionine and cysteine, both containing sulfur, into the highest quality proteins. 15:51 — Episode #272 - Farming for Nutrients - Better Food Plots

application-frequency

• Mike said spraying more frequently than recommended, like daily instead of weekly, doesn’t improve results. 49:09 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324

application-rate

• Mike recommended mixing one ounce of solution per gallon of water and misting garden leaves about once a week. 46:40 — Episode #272 - Farming for Nutrients - Better Food Plots

biochar

• Mike explained his biochar is derived from chicken manure, is full of minerals, and lasts hundreds of years in soil. 49:53 — Episode #272 - Farming for Nutrients - Better Food Plots

cancer-diagnosis

• Mike shared that at age 40 he was diagnosed with large B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. 68:54 — Episode #272 - Farming for Nutrients - Better Food Plots

compost

• Brian reportedly said twenty years of compost couldn’t do as much for soil as five years of adding the microbes. 28:38 — Episode #272 - Farming for Nutrients - Better Food Plots

contact-info

• Mike clarified that the phone number listed on the Mike’s Mighty Micros website is his business line, not his personal number. 55:57 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324

corn-soybeans

• Mike tank-mixes Mike’s Mighty Micros with herbicide, fungicide, or insecticide without any problem. 18:21 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324

deer-pressure

• Mike recounted that after spraying his trees, deer began aggressively targeting the more nutrient-dense orchard foliage, becoming a persistent problem. 23:54 — Episode #272 - Farming for Nutrients - Better Food Plots

don-higgins

• Mike Mitchell said he expects Don Higgins will have a powerful testimony once his family’s current trial is over. 2:53 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324

dosage

• Mike warned against overdosing — using more ounces per gallon than recommended does not improve results. 48:56 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324

drought

• Mike said trees treated with the micros grew less than usual during last year’s severe drought but didn’t wilt like an untreated newly planted tree would. 37:07 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324

drought-stress

• Mike recommended two quarts of micros per acre mixed in at least 15 gallons of water to perk up drought-stressed soybeans. 61:19 — Episode #272 - Farming for Nutrients - Better Food Plots

family-business

• Caleb, Mike’s youngest son, lives at home and runs all the shipping, assembling orders, pallets, and bottles. 53:11 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Ben, another of Mike’s sons, manages roughly 90 dealers across 16 states, handling dealer relations, invoicing, and packets. 53:23 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Ben designed and built the new Mike’s Mighty Micros website himself. 53:39 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Michael, Mike’s oldest son and a professional programmer, handles the technical side including Shopify and the website. 53:45 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Mike’s wife serves as the business’s secretary, handling all the paperwork. 54:01 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324

food-plot-application

• Mike said a food plot only needs one micronutrient application, when beans reach about six inches or corn twelve to eighteen inches. 65:50 — Episode #272 - Farming for Nutrients - Better Food Plots

fruit-trees (8 of 10)

• Brian taught that when planting a fruit tree, the dug-out dirt should be replaced with living timberland soil rich in necromass and biology. 5:29 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Mike backfilled two newly planted trees with timber soil and saw six to eight inches of growth, versus two to three inches on trees without it. 6:05 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• For fruit tree planting, only the top three to five inches of timberland soil should be collected, since that’s the tree’s root zone. 6:40 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Mike’s Mighty Micros contains sulfur, which can thin apple blooms, so it shouldn’t be sprayed until bloom is finished. 14:28 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Mike sprays his apple trees roughly every ten days with Mike’s Mighty Micros during the season. 14:49 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Mike continues spraying his apple trees until fall color change so they enter winter fully charged with nutrients for spring growth. 15:09 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Mike explained that training limbs into an open bowl shape empties the tree’s center, letting moisture escape and reducing disease risk. 44:02 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Cutting a young tree back reduces top growth so the root system can develop and strengthen in the first year. 45:04 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324

garden

• Mike sprays his raised bed tomatoes and peppers about once a week until they get so big and bushy his wife asks him to stop. 19:06 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324

vital-force (8 of 10)

• Mike introduced a new product called Vital Force. 26:48 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Vital Force was created because customers wanted soil-health support but didn’t want to ship or carry heavy bags of biochar. 27:17 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• One Vital Force component is super concentrated — a tablespoon treats one plant, so a one-pound bottle treats about 55 plants. 27:57 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Mike recommended sprinkling a tablespoon of the Energizer into the planting hole before placing a transplant like a tomato. 28:13 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Mike tested the Energizer in his garden last year on half his plants; the treated half was noticeably better than the untreated half. 28:23 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Vital Force’s Top Line uses natural fertilizers like bat droppings, worm castings, and azomite biochar, targeting top growth after bloom. 29:17 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Vital Force’s Root Line focuses on root development, applied as a tablespoon at planting time. 29:45 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• For underground plants like beets, Mike recommends using Root Line rather than Top Line at planting. 29:59 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324

water-quality

• Mike recommended using distilled, reverse osmosis, or rain water rather than tap water, since impurities can block nutrient uptake. 48:30 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Purdue University has published research showing that using cleaner water significantly improves the effectiveness of sprayed products. 50:52 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Using cleaner water lets growers cut Roundup use to half or three-quarters of normal rates, saving money. 51:01 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324

Questions they answered

• How should Mike’s Mighty Micros be used to help clover as it comes up and blooms?
  Mike recommended spraying clover about a week before cutting so the nutrients enter the plant before it’s cut, helping it reenergize and recover for regrowth. 9:51 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked whether to apply the product as clover starts regrowing after mowing, or right before the next mowing.
  Mike advised waiting for clover to resume growing after a cut, then spraying about fifteen days before the next cutting. 10:36 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked whether there’s a point in spring when it’s too early to spray clover with Mike’s Mighty Micros.
  Mike said clover can’t really be sprayed too early, though he’d avoid spraying right before cutting, aiming for at least a week before the cut. 11:10 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked how to treat his alfalfa field with Mike’s Mighty Micros.
  Mike recommended treating alfalfa like clover: spray about two weeks before cutting, then again two to three weeks after. 11:39 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked whether spraying between cuttings during a drought, off the normal schedule, would harm the plant.
  Mike said the product has no nitrogen, so it won’t burn plants — he’s tried to overdose it for years and never burned anything on his farm. 12:34 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry jokingly asked whether shampooing with the product would help regrow his thinning hair.
  Mike joked that he’s afraid shampooing with the product will not help regrow hair. 13:00 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry jokingly asked what Brian’s method was for growing hair back on his balding head.
  Mike joked that hair loss is probably a mineral deficiency, best left to a doctor rather than the product. 13:10 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked how to navigate spraying Mike’s Mighty Micros on fruit trees through spring and summer.
  Mike explained he doesn’t spray Mike’s Mighty Micros on apple trees until bloom petals fall and apples have formed. 13:58 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked whether the micros absorb through green leaves and stop once leaves dry up.
  Mike confirmed absorption stops once leaves change color, usually around October. 15:39 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked whether wildlife orchard owners should wait for bloom petals to fall before spraying, then spray every mowing.
  Mike said not to spray wildlife orchard trees more than about once a week to ten days, with every two weeks being ideal. 16:05 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked whether Mike’s Mighty Micros should be applied with a fine mist sprayer.
  Mike advised spraying until the mix runs off the leaf, ideally in the evening or morning when the leaf stays wet longer for better absorption. 16:44 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked how Mike’s Mighty Micros should be used on corn and soybeans during post-emergent applications.
  Mike said to apply the product during the last herbicide pass of the season on corn and beans. 17:51 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked whether flower and vegetable gardens need the same bloom-timing precautions as apple trees.
  Mike said tomatoes, strawberries, raspberries, and flowers aren’t sensitive to sulfur like apple blooms, so they can be sprayed any time. 18:52 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked if there’s ever a situation calling for spraying more than once a week.
  Mike said not more than once a week. 20:03 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked Mike for a story about using the product on a nonedible plant, like a rose bush.
  Mike shared that his sister’s roadside rose bushes flourished with the micros, prompting neighbors to repeatedly ask what she’s using. 21:26 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry suggested that Al Foster, a dedicated gardener, would want Vital Force for his flower beds.
  Mike said Al Foster already bought micros and received a Vital Force sample to try, and plans to turkey hunt at Mike’s place soon. 31:50 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked Mike to explain how Mike’s Mighty Micros helps soybeans during a drought and when to apply it.
  Mike explained that when soil is too dry for a stressed bean plant to move nutrients through the roots, spraying nutrients on the leaf lets it continue its normal growth cycle. 36:17 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked at what point during a drought farmers should decide it’s time to use the product.
  Mike said the time to apply is when there’s no rain in the forecast and plants are starting to lay over and droop. 38:03 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked if there’s any issue applying Mike’s Mighty Micros by drone during a drought year.
  Mike confirmed drone application works, and new labels matching the Vital Force labels will include drone application rates. 39:14 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked what Mike recommends for trimming young fruit trees before they’re strong enough to bear fruit.
  Mike said he cuts young trees low to establish starter limbs, then saves three to five main limbs on each side of the trunk. 43:43 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked what to do with a first-year fruit tree that’s blooming — grow apples or remove the blooms?
  Mike said he would cut off every limb bearing bloom or apple on a first-year tree, letting it restart growth. 46:13 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked how many years growers should remove blooms before letting a young tree bear fruit.
  Mike said trees planted using Brian’s method are typically big enough to let crop at three years old. 47:18 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked Mike to share common mistakes people make when using Mike’s Mighty Micros.
  Mike said failures are rare, but when they happen it’s usually one of a few common mistakes: bad water, overdosing, spraying too often, or a contaminated sprayer. 48:23 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry joked about whether fluoride added to tap water is also unnecessary for plants.
  Mike confirmed fluoride in tap water would just interfere with the product’s effectiveness. 51:16 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked Mike to talk about how the family business has been a blessing to him, his wife, and his kids.
  Mike said all his kids are part owners of the family business, each taking on different roles. 53:08 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Terry asked how listeners can reach Mike if they have more questions.
  Mike said people can reach him through mike’smightymicros.com, where his phone number should also be listed. 55:45 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324
• Dan Schultz from Brilliant, Wisconsin asked how to balance applying Mike’s Mighty Microbes as directed weekly with limiting human intrusion on food plots and fruit trees.
  Mike said food plots only need one application, when beans reach about six inches or corn twelve to eighteen inches, though a second application would be even better. 65:50 — Episode #272 - Farming for Nutrients - Better Food Plots
• Terry asked how the nutrient-dense plant theory would benefit a beekeeper relying on clover for pollen.
  Mike explained a fully genetically expressed clover crop keeps producing pollen all day, so bees are still swarming it even in the afternoon, unlike a nutrient-deficient crop. 59:26 — Episode #272 - Farming for Nutrients - Better Food Plots

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