Biochar Activation, Fish for FAA, and Fruit Sweetness Formula

11:00 well hello natural farmers and good morning welcome to knf office hours for february the 6th of 2022 and yeah I wanted to kind of a little bit of a rainy day here in Hilo but wanted to start off with some I Ching and see where we're at check in make sure we're on the right course here and feeling like today's mode is today's number is 41 and it's decrease

11:50 It says, Be still, lessen the power of the ego, and misfortune will be avoided. It is a fact of life that times of decrease come upon us. Our resources are limited, difficulty surrounds us, and our egos generate angry and unhappy emotions. Nonetheless, such times are good for us. If we respond to them by quieting our egos and turning sincerely to the higher power for help, we emerge from a period of decrease, stronger, healthier, and wiser. When we discover that we are unable to achieve our goals, our egos become infuriated.

12:34 We are tempted to harden into anger and bitterness, to lash out, to desperately and aggressively grab for control over the situation. If we do this, however, we only push our own salvation further away. The I Ching counsels a withdrawal into stillness now. The image is that of a spring reverting inside of the mountain during a time of drought. By returning to its quiet center during the time of decrease, it avoids evaporating and exhausting itself in vain. you would be wise to follow this example. To try to force progress by arguing,

13:20 manipulating, or making excuses will only bring your own downfall. Instead, disengage from your inferior elements, however passionately they seek expression, and turn to the sage for guidance and assistance. The hexagram sun issues a call to sacrifice negative feelings, accept the powerlessness of the ego against the currents of life, and return to the contemplation of the principles of the sage. In stillness and meditation, we enrich the higher parts of ourselves and thus end the time of decrease. Oh my, well, yeah, feeling a little bit of that

14:08 today. Checked in here. There's no questions in the email, but did get a few in the chat. Want to say what's up to Eyewitness, Joe, how's it? You guys tuning in, Earthbound Organics. good to see you guys here um maybe part i think part of the um natural farming stuff we're getting really good at it and um so so that's good um so first thing i wanted to jump into here since there was a question in the chat about this is um getting to our brown rice vinegar hey good morning. How's it, Stonemason? What's up from Indiana? So I wanted to, there was a question

14:59 in the chat here. Let's see. It says, it's hard to find organic brown rice vinegar where I live, but organic apple cider vinegar is easy. Are the chemicals in the conventional rice removed by the microbes in the vinegar process. Is ACV as good? So ACV, apple cider vinegar. Okay, cool. This is a good question. This is a great question and especially relevant as we scale Korean natural farming across the ocean where when this comes from Korea and they are doing, you know, a lot rice cultivation there so for them brown rice vinegar is just available you know at your basic

15:47 like 7-eleven or whatever uh quickie mart that um you may have in your area there's these shops all over korea that that's just they carry this brown rice vinegar so um here in hawaii um when we asked master cho well you know brown rice vinegar is kind of hard for us to get we have to bring it across the ocean. We have to do all these things. So is there an easier way for us to make brown rice vinegar? And he said, well, why not use bananas? And a banana, if you think about it, is kind of like a giant rice in a weird sense. Like imagine a rice plant got, you know, 12,

16:29 15 feet tall and the rice that got that big, it's just kind of like a banana hanging out of there on the rack, right? So they're kind of similar, you know, that way. But Master Cho was saying that the important part is that you have a fruit vinegar. And somehow the fruit vinegar, when you do it, and fruit or grain, I should specify because, you know, rice is not a fruit, right? It's a grain. So when you make this vinegar that way, somehow, and I don't know this, this is where I could use a little bit more expertise here is in the, but he says that the fruit vinegar

17:10 alkalizes the cell. So the vinegar comes in, it, it finds where the cell is, it interacts with it, and it will flip the polarity from being acidic to being alkaline, which then releases things that may be clogged up in there. And that's why when I went to name vinegar, I called it a cleanser. So with all this known of like what's the function of it is to alkaline your plants and your system and to balance the acidifying effects of maybe the fermented plant juices, the KNF foods that you're using, which contain a lot of brown sugar, which tend to be acidic.

17:50 When you can also include a KNF cleanser, which is this vinegar, which is acidic, but upon metabolization in this way, it becomes alkaline. And that alkalining factor is why Master Cho says to use brown rice vinegar, a grain vinegar, a fruit vinegar, and apples fall right in that fruit zone. So I should have done a TLDR. Yes, use apple cider vinegar. It is a fruit vinegar and one caveat I want to add to it is if you can make your own vinegar which I pulled up the recipe here and it's basically adding two parts of water here to one part of can of food

18:37 that you've made from a from a fruit like say you make you know a food recipe for you know using this recipe here with apples, apples, brown sugar, mix them, pour off a juice. That's your apple juice. This juice is then being added into a container. One part of that being the fruit, two parts of that being water, and trying to get it up about two-thirds full, three-quarters full, somewhere in that range, and then placing a breathable lid. This turns to a vinegar.

19:07 And so the idea is that if you have a living vinegar, it's going to be much better than a store-bought, like, pasteurized vinegar because there's all kinds of amino acids and different things in there. So, you know, some of the functions of cleanser that we may not think of is that it facilitates vegetative growth, affects the initial growth of leaves greatly. When it's applied to leaves, it helps form a wax layer. And, you know, that helps reduce diseases and insect damage. cleanser improves the flexibility of a tree and increases its absorption ability when other things

19:54 are sprayed and again that's what i'm saying that alkalinizing if something is stuck in a cell is acidic and this acidic attracted food is there if you alkaline as the cell the acidic attracted food goes away and then you know opens that cell surface in that binding site for more things to bind with. It also, acetic acid helps to sterilize and restrain bacterial growth, and it also helps maximize the effect of calcium. So, and cleanser in high concentration affects or accelerates reproductive growth. So, if you're

20:34 using vinegar in high concentrations, you may be able to accelerate that reproductive growth. So, all these things about vinegar to use a living vinegar yes um any any place that in korean natural farming it calls for a cleanser or brown rice vinegar it's talking about using some kind of living fruit vinegar so these um this here um making it from any fruit berries uh anything just one part of that two parts of water and then the ph after fermenting for a few months will drop below 2.4 and you'll have a finished vinegar so anyway start starting off here with

21:20 the vinegar and um yeah so um so i hope hope that makes sense um yeah use apple cider vinegar use what's around you. It's also really easy to make vinegar from any type of plant material mixed with sugar. Similar recipe to what I had just on the screen. And, you know, as long as you get your bricks up, and Iceman was just telling me about this, he measures using a refractometer to measure that amount of bricks in his mixture before he lets it ferment to find out if it has enough sugar

22:06 to convert it to a vinegar. So that's important. You have to have enough sugar to make vinegar, but using a fermented fruit juice, like a can of food made from fruit, you know, our thing, I think checked in at seven bricks and you needed five bricks to make vinegar. So in practice this because the foods are super saturated in the vinegar like in that process if I'm using a can of food that's been super saturated and well stored I've added additional sugar to super saturate that so by the time I take that to the vinegar stage it has enough

22:48 sugar and it has enough plant material to really make a nice vinegar for me. So that active living vinegar has all the things you need that makes that alkalinization flip. However, when I do make calciums and the structure, so making reproduction and structure using eggshells and the charred bones, those I use white vinegar. It doesn't matter. I'm just looking for that acetic acid content. Okay, so got another question here. Good morning, you guys. What's up, GrowPro? Good to see you. There's a question here about biochar and how do I use it?

23:34 um so this is a great question um activating biochar um what i recommend is there's a couple videos on my channel um and they're by josiah hunt and um he has um he he's kind of the biochar expert and wizard here um let's see let's see i'm gonna pull a few of these up for you here but Josiah talks about how to use biochar so what he says is you want about five percent in your soil your top five inches of soil I think and if you want to do that over time though you

24:21 want to add biochar one one season the next season the third season by that third season And if you can get your biochar up to 5%, it then has everything you need to keep the moisture. Sorry, I'm kind of doing this other task over here at the same time. I'm going to switch this screen over here, transition this one, and then I'm going to bring this window over. So, um, so biocharged, um, on my channel here, this video here, biocharged natural farming

25:12 by Josiah Hunt. Um, he talks about it in 20 minutes or so. and he did a test plot at my place and we grew amazing corn with it what i recommend is um pre-charging the biochar though if you're just using fresh biochar and um putting that into your land all this cells all this pore structure this is biochar zoomed in here and um all these structures can be loaded with microbes as well as Korean natural farming nutrients. So if I make like a seed soaked tea and I include, you know, all those or a leaf soaked tea and I

25:58 put this biochar into this tea and it absorbs all of that into this pore structure here, that that can be um like it's like a bank he he talks about it um you know here here's the hyphae tapping directly into the biochar um so in my case i just did um the put biochar in my in my garden beds. And what I did is I soaked that biochar in fish amino acid and a little bit of microbes and for about 15 minutes. And then I took that and I spread that biochar just,

26:45 um, and then I raked it in lightly. So it was just in the top, um, inch or so of my soil. And then after that, I came back and, uh, well, I also, I also put down some dolomite at that time which is kind of like a crushed coral although dolomite's a little bit different than that but it's a like a mineral calcium with also manganese I think which is important and my soil is just exhausted so they say about dolomite if you use it it makes rich fathers but poor sons meaning that it'll tend to burn up other things but really helps me kickstart my soils into what

27:27 I'm amending into like really poor soil area. Um, and so the biochar went down with the dolomite and that was raked in the top inch. Then I put down, um, my IMO four on top of that soil bed. And then, um, then put a bit more biochar that was there that as I was watering the rest of that liquid into the soil bed, um, that's what I put there. Um, so anyway, that's, that's how, that's how I use it. Um, the reasons to use it are all of these, um, you know, uh, scientific papers here that Josiah goes over looking at, um, you know, if they've added biochar or what is this?

28:10 Oh, like how much it can absorb of, um, nutrients. It has to be heated up a certain amount. what else does he go over here I don't know but that that talk then I also have this one soil amendments in Hawaii Josiah came to talk to us as at the farmers union this is more of a lecture type thing but he goes into all his his uses and I just set my ipad on the ground to record this video um and then um josiah presenting um with his slides here and this is how him using imo4 with biochar you know and look at that bloom out i think he

29:02 he put in a little bit of fish into this, but he's using IMOs with, with bio, you know, biochar. And let's see here. What else does he have? You know, some papaya sprouts there. Let's see. Yeah. And I think this was like a, a cucumber trial. And so anyway, Josiah, if you really want to go deep on biochar, take your methods of making it, and then he talks about it with natural farming. So these three videos, I'll link below and do that.

29:59 So transition back. So, um, other, other question I'm reading here, um, it says, um, there's videos on BRV and YouTube, um, but it takes up to six months to mature and, you know, making it, um, basically, you know, if you want to make a vinegar, the easiest way to do it is to make, I mean, not, not like the easiest way, the easiest way is the way I showed just pour the, the, the food in one third pour water in two thirds and then you know and let that ferment throw a mother in there it'll happen even faster but the other way to do it is that if you if you take alcohol so go

30:43 get wine and let it sit out wine will turn from alcohol to vinegar so that's that's why always to make alcohol, you always have to have an airtight seal because if you expose that alcohol to air, it will convert to vinegar. So if you're worried about, you know, I don't have vinegar and you want a living vinegar, maybe go buy some box wine or something. I don't know if this is really a good suggestion at all, but it seems like an idea is, you know, buy some box wine, put it into a container expose it to air add in some fresh grape skins and let that turn into a wine and

31:28 get that yeast and i i don't know that might be an interesting idea has anyone ever tried that i i'm not sure uh thanks gropro for the for the sticker there how's it going it's going pretty good um rainy day here in hilo it's it's nice uh it's been beautiful weather prior to this though been doing a whole bunch got my tractor fixed got the fuel filter changed refilled my pig pens up I need one more I need another load of wood chips refill one more pig pen actually I got two more to fill and then this week also interesting development that I didn't get the pig food that I usually get

32:16 And so I've been this week completely natural farm, off the farm, feeding my pigs. Usually I pick up some papayas in these big bins and pick them up and bring them here, which would otherwise be kind of like a waste product and feed my livestock with it. But this week I went to the factory and no papayas there. so um you know putting me putting my banana forest to the test and my sugar canes and all the things to really close the loop and and feed the pigs here so it's you know it's nothing like uh practical natural farming living it doing it having the pigs feeding the chickens

33:05 knowing what it takes to keep food in the stores and food on the tables and you know i feel for so many people out there in the world that are living in cities and haven't had the opportunity to get your hands dirty and get into this stuff um but that's also why i think um you know korean natural farming is sort of this gateway into farming because we're all farming our guts and you know using natural farming being able to drink these solutions being able to

33:50 bathe in these microbes get these things on our skin provides us you know immunological support provides us just you know um the the essentials of our our food is you know going down and talk about the food nutrient meter and all that and um you know all those reasons to really start doing natural farming and getting into these things um so sam is saying i love your stuff. Thank you. Korean heart for you. I would suppose that water-soluble potassium, one can use the whole tobacco leaves instead of just the stems. Is that correct? Okay.

34:43 So you're talking about water-soluble potassium, and that's one of Master Cho's recipes that is not covered in the nine core solutions. But I think it is here on, let me pull this up and get it for you. But when you char the tobacco stems to make water-soluble calcium, So I'm going to pull up that recipe. So naturalfarminghawaii.net here. And then under recipes, under legacy recipes. And then is there water soluble?

35:36 No, it's not here. okay so it's not it's not listed on this but it is it is in that other book um so but basically you're charring the stems the stems are where most of that potassium is located um yeah so um i i'm not sure if it would help to to char the leaves i suppose you could i mean you might want to just dry those and sell them to somebody and get those let's let me actually see let me pull up here let's see um the old book

36:21 yeah let me let me see here i man you know one thing is there's so much so much information by Master Cho. Let me just pull this guy up, though. So, why mess around when you can pull it up? Okay, so here, this book, this is Master Cho's old, old, old recipe book. and looking at these, there is water-soluble potassium.

37:14 I think he goes into water-soluble phosphorus too, though, right? Somehow that recipe got out there, so it must be in here. Okay, so 10. So this is his old recipe book here. calcium phosphate phosphoric oh WP potassium instead of calling it WSK water soluble potassium so here you go this is the OG stuff so here's the recipe for making this

38:00 and how to make it. So tobacco stems and water. Dry the tobacco stems and ground them. Oh, so they're not charred. It's the sesame stems that are charred. Man, this is why pulling up the original stuff is always good. That's why if you look at my channel, it's original Master Cho recipes because don't just take my word for it. It might get corrupted somehow. So the tobacco stems in a hemp cloth bag. Dip it in 100 liters of water. It's 100. Yeah. Okay. So and then dissolve the potassium in water. Her liquid of natural potassium takes about seven days.

38:51 And he says here, interesting, it is necessary to use the water-soluble potassium alone, so don't include it with other things. Dilute 0.7 liters of the crude potassium and liquid with 20 liters of water. Okay, and he says that your attention is needed, that weather conditions should be taken into consideration when water-soluble potassium is used. If it's applied with nitrogen in a hot and humid condition or what the potassium is given on a rainy day, the potassium may bring about a synergistic effect which helps the plant to absorb nitrogen resulting in overgrowth.

39:40 so if it's raining and you use this um you may um overdo your plant which is again why this is why water soluble potassium here is not part of the nine core solutions even though clearly it's one of master cho's recipes and here he's talking about you know what like why use potassium what the heck like do you guys you guys know about this um but excuse me he says potassium activates the starch synthesizing enzyme facilitates the translocation of photosynthate

40:28 and helps relocate the storage substance in start in the starch crops so if you're growing something starchy, you need that to happen, you know, especially during the changeover period. It's going from a cumulative growth photosynthesis to starches being stored in its, you know, later periods of growth. Potassium deficiency symptoms occur first on older leaves because the potassium is highly mobile element in the plant. The potassium content in the leaf decreases rapidly in the fruit enlargement period because a lot of potassium is translocated to the fruit.

41:12 So again, if you have potassium, better fruits, that changeover period, it's the mover, shaker. This is also why here in Hawaii, if you look at our banana crops, you can tell if you have potassium. Oh, you know, I'm talking about potassium. You're talking about um phosphorus yeah oh my gosh it's like a chemical nightmare here this could be like a super funny one oh is there any way you can check out this book yourself well yeah well you can see it here and then um i should also put up a download link for this you know what you're talking about

41:58 a different one. You're talking about, but you're talking about the tobacco and this is the tobacco. So you know what, man? Yeah, I think you were talking with the wrong WSK is what he's saying, but potassium, man. Okay. I don't want to get too off here because that was going, but I just got royally confused on this. I'm talking about potassium and he was talking about phosphorus with K. That's why I was talking about charring sesame stems to make that. But okay. Anyway, oh yeah. So I was talking about bananas and potassium leaving the banana tree. The leaves

42:45 will wilt and die while the racks of bananas are forming. So if you ever look and you see your bananas are there, but the plant above all the leaves that are there are dead, it's because it's move that potassium down into the banana plant itself. So if you probably, if you spray this on there while you see that type of function happening, this water-soluble potassium, you will, you'll fix that. Yeah, okay. Okay. So anyway, you guys, you know, checking out this book, it's here. I guess my screenshot is over it.

43:31 But this book, OG book, I'll try and link it to this. See, it's out on the internet places. Do they talk about the WSK? They do in here, I think. He's talking about minerals, lowest powder. That's minerals, compost. No, that's the back of it. There is, though, I swear, in this book somewhere. Let me see here. So this thing has all these. um yeah okay so okay phosphoric acid okay so maybe is this what you're talking about because

44:16 okay so anyway i just want to show you another solution that's again this isn't in the nine core solutions which is why i'm not like um you know uh talk about this a whole bunch but here's the the water soluble phosphoric acid okay versus the before we were looking at the water soluble potassium, which potassium is made from the tobacco stems just soaked in water and then used. The phosphoric acid up here is made from charred sesame stems and water, okay? So I just want to clarify these extra recipes from Master Cho, these things that he's talked about that are good.

45:11 The reasons they're not in the nine core solutions is you should have enough potassium and phosphorus if you're following the other solutions. However, these are for specific deficiencies. so for instance phosphoric acid is used it says phosphoric acid can easily travel within the plant and move to the vigorous new leaves first as a result symptoms of deficiency appear mainly on the petiole and veins of the old leaf and so the new leaf does not grow well and it becomes smaller and dark green in color

45:57 so if that's happening and the petioles are starting to look all bloodshot and stuff that's that's a phosphoric acid deficiency okay so anyway maybe maybe we'll come back to this in a little bit here but um okay jump back over here so um francis was wondering if fermented plant juice could be made from tobacco leaves and it might be effective against small insects i would say yeah watch watch out with that um it'll be highly medicinal um even you know even watch out human consumption of tobacco, very strong thing. And it may have that pesticidal properties, those neonicotinoids

46:51 and all those plant secondary metabolites are extracted in a fermented plant juice. So when you're diluting it and using it, you may get additional effect. So, yeah, so, but you can, you can make a fermented plant juice out of anything, basically, just be careful um even wear gloves when you're working with a tobacco might might hurt um be gnarly on your hands um okay so hjs divine hands what's up um is asking um can you use any fish for faa can you use any fish for faa um well the best fish to use for

47:45 faa are the fermented uh or excuse me are deep water uh fish like um predatory fish um anchovies would also be a good thing um people use salmon they're kind of oily um but yeah you can use any type of fish uh to make faa um let me just since i have the um the og book up here let me just show you what um master cho says on that let's see here I'm pulling up this okay so here

48:32 it says the blue black fish okay you know it's blue black fish may be used as well so initially he's saying fish wastes. And then blue black fish is a common name for blue colored fishes. For example, mackerel, Spanish mackerel, horse mackerel, saurie, garfish, herring, yellowtail, sardine, salmon, sweetfish, bluefin, tuna, skipjack, tuna, anchovy. Blue black fishes have good proteins, amino acids, and fatty acids. So that fatty acid is something you should also remember. those omegas and all that balance really is in good fish amino acid will be there

49:20 they contain a lot of DHA and EPA which are well-known unsaturated fatty acids that are recognized as healthy food both DHA and EPA function to lower cholesterol level and prevent prevent adult diseases such as arterial sclerosis, arterial sclerosis, tongue twister, and high blood pressure. Blue blackfish help children to be bright by supplying oxygen to their brain cells. Yeah, so it helps you think better. Maybe I should take some of that before I start the office hour here. Blue black fishes also prevent Alzheimer's disease in elderly people

50:06 by preventing aging and death of brain cells. Wow. Blue black fish contain various abundant vitamins. Vitamin A prevents night blindness. So you can't see at night, what do you gotta do? Drink your FAA. And it strengthens the immune system, which apparently this could be considered real good today in today's world. Increasing resistance to diseases such as the common cold. Whoop whoop. Vitamin B complex prevents anemia and beriberi, not sure what that is, and helps cells to regenerate. So putting this on wounds, all kinds of things. Vitamin E

50:52 functions to slow down the aging process by blocking perioxidized lipids in the cell. Such effects are also excellent in plants as well. So this is why it's worthwhile to go back to Master Cho's original stuff. There's so much more in there of knowing these things of like, you know, FAA, you think, oh yeah, it's, you know, nitrogen makes the plants, leaves get bigger. No, it's reducing brain fog in your plant. It's strengthening your plant's immune system. It's adding vitamin B complexes, you know, like what the heck?

51:36 So when you think of these solutions and you think of what they're really about and what you're getting into and you ask, can you use any fish? Well, right here, the blue black fish, I just read a whole bunch of reasons why to use that so you're going to use some other different fish you know it listed salmon in there anchovies um you know I'm not sure uh to er yeah tuna are listed there that's that's what I use I use yellowfin tuna not bluefin tuna but still a blue fish um so letting you know I mean it this this is the the magic of Korean natural farming the magic

52:17 of, um, you know, master Cho, all these reasons beyond just, you know, go ask, go ask your fertilizer salesman. What, uh, what triple 16 or, you know, what can this stuff do for you? And, you know, if I eat a bag of salt-based fertilizer, am I going to cure night blindness? Probably not. So, but if you eat, you know, your fish amino acids, you get these things going. all of a sudden now I can see at night what you know um so anyway just sharing the further love of Korean natural farming those reasons for you know what what are we doing why are we doing this

53:04 imagine you know your kid gets into the fertilizer cabinet as a Korean natural farmer your kid gets stronger. As a other type of farmer using other things, your kid may need a trip to the hospital. All right, well, let's see here. So can you use any fish for FAA? Hopefully that answered it, but went way more in depth and the reasons of what and why. Let's see here. People are talking about more omega-3s.

53:53 Okay, eyewitnesses saying, can you elaborate on what is essential for the flavor and sugar content of fruits, both KNF applications and what functions are occurring within the plant. I know of seawater plus calcium. Okay. Okay. So I think the way I'm going to interpret this question is your eyewitnesses asking what is the um what is the way to increase the fruit sweetness towards the end I'm gonna I'm just gonna phrase it that way and say say that's what it is so let me go here and pull this up

54:43 and what I want to look at here is what we call the harvest formula so I'm on this page of the recipe book here. And this has all the how to combine all the nine core solutions. So if I look down here at the bottom line, I'm going to go down here to this harvest formula here. And so he's asking about increasing sweetness in fruits. So one thing, if you notice, it has food in it. So if you're going to increase the sweetness of fruits, what should this food be made from? This food should be made from three fruits that are really good. So what do I mean by really good?

55:31 I use papaya, banana, guava. The papaya is that nice orange color. The guava is that nice pink color. And the bananas, that nice sweetness, starchy potassium richness to it. If you make of fruit juice from those three fruits and you spray it on at the last week or two weeks of before harvest with that trifecta of fruits. And this could be something like, say you're in America, you make it from like apples, plums, and berries. There's so many fruits. Don't just think, because I make it from these tropical fruits, so you're going to bind yourself that way. But think

56:15 think three fruits like three the rich you know like pumpkins um apples um and i don't know what are their what are their pears or peaches or you know um any anything uh and and make that food then so so those three diluted one to 500 putting it in there then what what else is going to make it sweet this medicine here it really helps to deliver these compounds into the cells keep everything high immune system functioning high digestive capacity happening that absorption is happening because of the medicine and then like eyewitness said you're

57:00 adding in the structure or excuse me um this is the minerals here minerals which is seawater he mentioned the seawater and this is 190 which is 1 to 20 this can even go down as low as like 1 to 10 if you wanted that last week to really get a lot of minerals in there depends on what you're growing but you can stress the plant out a little bit more and even a 1 to 10 dilution here would make sense and then that calcium also helps and so adding adding this KNF reproduction which is made from the eggshells that reproduction

57:42 that egg that helping that translocation moving those minerals getting them into place and and that's really what helps sweeten your fruits towards the end so it's it's this formula right here and formulating it properly and using it that will really help your keep those fruits sweet. Um, so, and then, and then I wanted to, you know, you're asking, can I elaborate on what, you know, for flavor, if you're using different fruits in that food system there, you, um, you know, like you can add different plants, secondary metabolites and bring in different compounds, depending on what you're using.

58:29 You know, if I make a food from mangoes and I'm putting that onto a lettuce that I'm about to harvest, it's going to have some of those compounds of that mango in there, those different terpenes and plant secondary metabolites that could translate through and create really interesting lettuce experience. Okay. and uh goof demand is saying um to goofman uh that any fish is okay but you heard those other reasons um okay sesame stems yeah okay okay so i'm just reading the comments here and it says um

59:17 okay so so um jc is asking is it beneficial to add compost when applying im04 when doing an initial soil building um so let me uh so my my short answer to this is no not initially um a lot of people want to like amend the soil and make it really rich and make this you know put compost and of mend and make everything there for the plant. But what that can do is it can cause, it depends on what you're growing, right? It really depends on what you're growing and how you're growing it. But if you actually make the soil a little poor in the beginning, you end up having plants that

59:59 aren't spoiled. And so if the IMO4 is added, you build soil foundation, your soil is getting better and better and better over time. But each time you're putting down IMO4 before you're starting your bread prep, getting everything planted, get everything in. Don't put the compost right then. That's like giving a kid extra food. Wait till it's a teenager. Teenagers are voraciously hungry and what they want to eat is compost. Teenager plants want to eat compost. So not in the first week, like not pre-amending your soil with extra compost, but after week one, week two, depending

1:00:42 on how short your cycle is, then adding compost in. Because then the plant is like a teenager, it's ready, it has those leaves, it's ready to grow, it's ready to expand, it's ready to absorb that compost. So I recommend not over-amending your soil too much in the very beginning, but then coming back and dropping compost. Now, this all depends on your scenario, how you can do it. This is just theoretical, you know, do what works. Don't be like, oh, like, you know, if you only have one pass, do it all, you know, compost, IMOs all at the same time, biochar, dolomite,

1:01:15 you know, your whole prep one time. But if you have ideal conditions, you're going to go out and you can top dress compost in a week or two after planting, after your plants are starting to get to that juvenile stage, after they're starting to be ready for that food, then give it to them. And especially at that same time, water, spray the solutions, activate the biology, bring your whole soil to life right then. So, yeah. Okay. So, hopefully that helps you out, JC, there. A little bit on that theory. In practice, you got to do what you got to do. Theory is one thing. Practice is another.

1:01:59 Really making it work. okay and then eyewitnesses saying that about that same thing that um you know imo4 plus compost is imo5 or fermented mixed compost um and and again that's like you know you don't want to use that to bring your soil to life you want to use that after your plants are established to bring your boost your plants and really bring that microbial tie-in all those things um and and you know organic matter in your soil good you know especially if you're doing soil foundation early bring in those things i'm i'm not trying to say don't uh amend your beds it's just

1:02:41 understanding that theory of kind of you know you don't want to have spoiled plants you want to have them kind of reach for nutrients reach out grow tie into the hyphae and then compost build and grow and encourage this like expansion versus a amend right here and keep your plant right here and produce something that goes, that's not really healthy. That's kind of, um, you know, like health is when root systems are big and finding minerals, plugging in, you know, as above, so below, you know, having, having this whole thing happen. Um, no, what's up, Javin? Um, yeah, bless up you guys. Um,

1:03:28 yeah and you guys are saying you know fermented mixed compost is great so okay so higher omega-3 the better charred cucumber skins okay yeah so stone mason saying charred cucumber skins make a good potassium and phosphoric acid solution i would say making a fermented plant juice making a can of food from chard making one from cucumbers, cucumber skins, you're going to get these different things that those are really good choices of things that grow fast and easy that you can make, you know, growing those as your ground cover, uh, harvesting those and spraying those onto other plants and, and,

1:04:09 you know, starting a market garden for cucumbers and all the ones you can't sell ferment and make your fertilizer process happen. You know, that's, that's when you're closing the loops. That's when you're making IMOs happen. That's when we're getting into this stuff and really that's how to do it. Yeah. Okay. So we're getting into that extracting. Clayton into water soluble with KNF methods is this true um you know so uh so francis is asking about extracting chitin into water soluble form with knf methods so maybe like toasting crab shells and dissolving them in

1:04:57 vinegar would be a chitin mix there is another thing that i have called gcm and it's using these specific enzymes and microbes and what they're doing is they're taking um things like like if you take worm compost and you brew it at a high temperature, meaning you keep the water at, um, you know, a hundred, 110 degrees somewhere up there, um, and brew it real aerobically with a bunch of nutrients, you'll get a bunch of chitin microbes to grow, and then you'll create chitinase, um, enzyme in the water. And we did a whole trip to Korea in 2019 on that. Um, and it was pretty,

1:05:37 pretty awesome oh and i'm sorry if the stream is freezing it does look like i lost the like 20 of the frames here today so um you know my internet when it rains like this it's not it's not as good of a connection for me um yeah thanks thanks guys for checking out the other videos that i have out there um you know there's there's just tons of things spreading natural farming throughout the world is top priority. So go, go check those things out and, um, and do them. Sam is asking, can you use IMO two for FAA? And I don't put any IMOs in my fermented amino acid,

1:06:18 like my fish amino acid. I, I, I don't use my, any microbes and those tends to eat the oils, the fats. Um, I sugar fish, like just sugar fish. That's all you need. Don't, don't complicate it with any IMO, any OHN, those things, no need. Sugar fish, and it comes out amazing, sweet, tastes great. So, and then Ronnie is asking, is KNF medicine the only tincture you make or do you grow and use other medicinal herbs? Behind me over here, right there, is one made from turmeric. It's called Olena in the Hawaiian language. And it's a medicinal herb similar to ginger.

1:07:07 You can make one from like gall and gall, those types of things. Medicinal herbs, anything like that. Make the same recipe as the KNF medicine. Figure out what those things do and use them and make them. It's a really good idea. Ronnie, go for that. And people are saying IMO3 is needed for FAA. You don't need that. And could I talk about supersaturation and how to dilute from supersaturated for use, please? So when you, everything should be supersaturated. If it's not, it's you are, like, it's not how the KNF recipes are designed.

1:07:54 So to talk about supersaturation, one of the best ways I know how to do that is to look up this video right here. Let me pull this one up. I'll link this one in the video below as well. but this video here on supersaturation so this one's called how to supersaturate KNF solutions and basically what I do is I show you know like I got a I got these ferments here and prior to this there's you know I just poured this off I'm not exactly sure what kind of might have been a banana

1:08:42 of ferment, some sort of can of food that I made. And when you look at it, I'm adding sugar to this. And let's see here. Play it here. Let's see. So as the sugar is added, it starts to float on the surface slower and slower. And when I get to the end here, you can really see this. I think I do it twice and what I end up with is a little ring on the very bottom of a little sugar and this is indicates that once this is well stirred in if this ring was bigger it would mean that this wasn't it was oversaturated and this means that I've added just enough sugar that all the all the

1:09:29 water in here is tied up with sugar and just a little bit of sugar floated to the bottom here and so um if you watch this video on how to do it it's pretty informative only uh it's 10 minutes long there. I'll link that in today's notes as well. Um, so yeah. So anyway, hope that's helping you guys. Um, yeah. Looking through the comments here, just kind of the discussion on these things. yeah there's all really good tips here so I just want to let you know here that again this if you have more more questions more comments you want to figure this out

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