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183 episodes mention “IMO”
Seed IMO Collection, Dry-Area Microbes, IMO Turning Machine
- 20:20 …toxification bring in the moisture keep it sealed in the char putting the imo4 down even liquid imo…
- 28:29 …but, um, all those things. IMO, well, IMO cheese in your rant, you said make IMO cheese and spray…
- 30:18 …it's better to go through the whole IMO process, make IMO, uh, propagation, um, foundation IMO,…
OHN Frost Spray, Jadam Sulfur for Canker, Coffee Leaf Rust
- 1:00:16 How can KNF or Jadam help with coffee leaf rust? Kona farmers are giving up organic certification over it.
- 13:41 Does adding soap to the maintenance spray help it absorb better, or does calcium in the water ruin it?
- 16:32 Can fermented seawater be given to animals through their drinking water?
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Skipping IMO#1, Seed IMO Naming, and Moisture Ratios
- 33:53 …do an imo3 without collecting imo1 or 2 and using the leaf mold directly pile of imo3 that will be…
- 44:27 …Giving a separate name to IMO1 and IMO2 is meaningless because IMO1 always becomes IMO2.…
- 44:37 …Giving a separate name to IMO1 and IMO2 is meaningless because IMO1 always becomes IMO2.…
SIMO, PIMO, AIMO: New IMO Names, Moisture Ratios, Box Material
- 39:01 …No, IMO 2 is not IMO 1.…
- 45:32 …So giving a separate name to IMO1 and IMO2 is meaningless because IMO1 always becomes IMO2.…
- 2:15:02 …People find IMOs difficult, but if you have seed IMOs ready, and you have other inputs like FPJ and CAT and all that, then you can easily make IMOs when you need them.…
Frost Protection with KNF Medicine, Worm Castings, Boron
- 32:25 …time to do imos granted it's not the best time to get an imo1 collection so get your collection…
- 41:16 …microbes. So start with seed IMO, then you get propagated, then you get activated IMO.…
- 57:27 …best things about IMO is once you put out your IMO um you um you encourage worms worms love it…
Storing KNF Fuel, Building a BMW Brewer, and Gut-Brain Health
- 35:29 …will digest those oils. So don't add IMOs to your amino acids at all. IMOs will eat away your fats…
- 36:15 …go back to the book and do I have a liquid IMO? Is there a liquid IMO? There's no liquid IMO in…
- 36:26 …here. There's no liquid IMO. I really should add a little bit about liquid IMO because there's…
IMO5 Explained, Flea Beetle Fix With Calcium, Drone Spraying
- 15:02 …for IMO. In fact, I think it is just searching for IMO. That's why it's not giving us any results.…
- 16:35 …And that's if you're just making an IMO five by taking your compost pile and blending in 10% IMO four into it.…
- 19:37 …imo4 to it imo5 he also calls the floor of the pig pen imo5 and he also calls the chicken pen…
Seed IMO Black Spots, IMO Tea Dilution, 72lb Peach Tree
- 14:20 …know, like you're going to take something like IMO2, which is the seed IMOs, you're going to put…
- 19:39 …when you start getting into brewing compost teas, IMO, liquid IMOs, and all these things,…
- 37:36 …is i'll make a five gallon brewer of imot liquid imo brew up five gallons and then i'll dump that…
IMO Drone Army for Fire Prevention, FPJ Alcohol Smell, Biochar
- 12:36 Could a drone army spraying liquid IMO help prevent fires like the Lahaina blaze?
- 30:26 I make biochar in a sealed 55-gallon drum. Will it absorb the water-soluble potash elements when I put out the fire?
- 1:01:52 What are the ups and downs of putting LAB and IMO into a septic tank or an RV's black and gray tanks?
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Seawater Dilution Ratios, Restaurant Waste for Pigs, Powdery Mildew
- 25:46 …inoculate it again with IMO4, fresh IMO, and spray the soil foundation and really get that good…
- 53:53 …harvest the floor and talk about the best IMOs in the world. You can make IMO 1, 2, 3, 4 all day,…
- 54:00 …and they will never compete with the IMO 5, which I don't call it IMO 5, I'm going to call it bio.…
JMS Shelf Life, OHN Herb Reuse, Fermented Mixed Compost vs IMO5
- 24:19 …a bag of IMO4 dangling in here. So this is a way to make liquid IMO that he's talking about.…
- 32:16 …IMO, you're getting fermented mixed compost. He calls a bunch of things IMO5. So how does it…
- 32:28 …this, that, that. It's like, I've heard people say IMO6, IMO7, IMO8. It's like, what the heck…
Fish Amino Acid (FAA) Recipe, Vinegar Pasteurization, JMS Starches
- 33:09 …add IMOs to that. Totally. If you make an IMO tea, say you make a liquid IMO tea, so you take…
- 33:30 …concentrated liquid IMO typically. You typically want to dilute your liquid IMO. So say,…
- 38:45 …IMO rather than the plant? And the answer is sort of, yeah, that's going to be consumed into the IMO's…
Sea Salt Minerals, FPJ Alcohol Smell, IMO3 to IMO4
- 54:31 …into IMO4, what I call activated IMO, because you're taking the IMOs and you're activating…
- 54:39 …them ready to go in your field. IMO3 is called propagated IMO. So you're propagating what was…
- 55:01 …so that's what imo4 does is it takes your imo3 that you that you um train and it adds one to one…
Water-Soluble Phosphoric Acid, Chitin, Bare-Root Tree Planting
- 52:27 …make IMO one, capture them, the seed IMO, preserve and sugar, propagate it, then activate it with…
- 58:53 …yeah and in the and it's hard to scale IMO up to a huge scale but you can make liquid IMO after…
- 1:03:25 …uh, emailed me this and he's doing some IMOs. He did an IMO three pile, a 350 pound pile.…
Livestock Feed Ratios, Water-Soluble Calcium, Ensiling with IMO4
- 23:50 …and he's just stepping on it, smashing it down. AIMO is just activated IMO. It's also IMO4,…
- 24:07 …propagated IMO, which is your IMO3. So it's actually IMO4, it's activated IMO. That's what…
- 58:58 …all this IMOs, how all the IMOs get in there, what disease leaves look like, and then going into IMOs.…
Red Dirt for IMO4, Storing IMO3/IMO4, Spotting Bad KNF Ferments
- 34:20 …and Master Cho calls it IMO5 but he also calls like four things IMO5 so it's a real confusing…
- 47:25 …they need to create this huge colony. And that's what makes the IMOs, especially the IMO4 and this…
- 58:56 …loamy soil, you know, after you get the IMOs in there, IMOs love clay. If you take IMOs,…
IMO Animal Feed, Calcium Fixes, JADAM Pasture Revival
- 42:08 …um and so um if you're if you're able to when you do make imo and you make imo three or four…
- 1:00:50 …imo4 and i took maybe i would say um like two coffee cups worth of the of the imos and i put…
- 1:04:14 …operation you smell something stinky put imos you don't have imos get the protectors and just…
IMO4 for Trees, Worm Bin LAB, Goat Pellets
- 23:38 …here's your you know you put your imo4 there these imo4 are like trained leaders and when you put it…
- 38:08 …whatever you're feeding them but i'm about 10 their feed to be imo4 so activated imo the dirt…
- 38:46 …you perfect imo inoculation imo uh you know like bio pellets that are imos plus um digested food…
Powdered Milk LAB, FAA Storage, and Bokashi Balls for Ponds
- 22:10 …We went up yesterday to check our IMO, seed IMO, our IMO1 collection, and it was cool underneath.…
- 1:07:25 …cleaning your floor, scatter some IMO3 or IMO4, scatter it in there just so it starts to put…
- 1:16:33 …deals for the the big imos you're gonna apply so you know when you apply your imos that you've…
120-Acre Land Restoration, IMO4 Rates, Cheap Microbe Recipe
- 36:33 …least just keep spreading the IMO and the IMO4 and the maintenance solution or the soil solution…
- 46:21 …should I add IMO5 instead of IMO4 to enrich the nutrients in the soil? The answer is no.…
- 46:29 …IMO4, in Master Cho's terminology, IMO4 is what we call adapted IMO. So it's adapted to your soil.…
JADAM Sulfur, Humic Acid From Compost, C90 Seawater Ratio
- 35:49 …when you're using IMO 4 which is like what I call like activated IMO it's like that's what you want…
- 44:21 …But then when I go to make my IMO, um, prop like propagate the IMO in, in mill run to make what…
- 1:18:03 …imo one two three four what i call you know seed imo propagated activated imo those are these oh…
Desert IMO Collection, Lawn Biochar, WCA Bone Ratios
- 59:52 …up this dust there's too much imo for the lab to out compete the imo and instead of creating…
- 1:03:10 …Sioux bioreactor and convert IMO2 into IMO at the same time? When do you think I should combine the…
- 1:10:46 …4 orange spores in your mycelium and how to grade your imo1 imo collection uh you know a graph of the…
FAA (KNF Fuel), Water-Soluble Nutrients, Chick Feed Timing
- 1:40 …than his IMO 4 and 5 piles. My feeling is that FAA could be incorporated into IMO 4,…
- 4:12 …you're asking, should the IMO be used or should FAA be used to prime the hard cooked rice for IMO1?…
- 15:25 …seed IMO. IMO 2 is also the preserved seed IMO. 3, you're doing an activation step, or excuse me,…
Fermented Seawater, Brown Rice Vinegar, Fish Amino Acid
- 26:48 …is there a way to jumpstart a pile of IMO4 that won't heat back up? IMO3 went well,…
- 44:42 …so storing IMO4 after you're done and I think there was a question about IMO3 somewhere in here…
- 46:15 …If there was a question about IMO3, I just want to tell you right now, I just had a bunch of IMO3 spoil.…
IMO4 Degreaser, Pig Pen Biochar, Maltose Growth Stimulant
- 59:46 …of different medias to collect your IMO. But she's saying here that, you know, IMOs are always…
- 1:09:59 …between imo4 and liquid imo the answer is yes imo4 is a solid amendment that you put around the…
- 1:10:16 …liquid imo you're usually taking either imo2 which i call seed imo or imo4 which i call activated imo…
IMO1-4 Explained, Pig Pen Roof Design, Mold on IMO2
- 22:22 …talking about, which is like an IMO3 or an IMO4 process, which is just taking that the substrate…
- 37:20 …And the IMO1 is what I call seed IMO. And actually in my vocabulary that if you checked out last week's office hour, I was talking about how, or maybe it's two weeks ago, I was talking about how I kind of have redefined these terms to be simple and into our understanding instead of esoteric like IMO1234.…
- 40:29 …IMO4 activated IMO and or tuned IMO. So what you're doing in the IMO4 stage, those microbes…
Deep Litter IMO Storage, BIO vs FMC, and Disease-Free Pigs
- 4:38 …I kept digging down deeper and deeper and deeper until my IMO pile, which I was trying to make IMO 3, which I was just using horse feed and the IMOs plus the liquid solutions.…
- 5:48 …usable. And in my case here on this farm, largely what I'm using my IMO for. So I go from IMO one,…
- 7:54 …So taking a compost pile and blending an IMO4 to it, IMO5. He also calls the floor of the pig pen…
