Over supersaturated FPJ
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The settled sugar layer is not usable as plant juice, per Drake. (Office Hours Ep. 133, 1:04:40) Scrape it out and bake cookies with it. The hormones, enzymes, and endophytes have already dropped out. (Office Hours Ep. 133, 1:04:40) That differs from the reply above, which says it hurts nothing.
Adding sugar to the point of supersaturation is the plan. The Pure KNF Manual says to let fermentation happen once, then saturate the liquid with sugar to stop it. (Pure KNF Manual, p. 38) For long-term storage, the library says to combine the FPJ with equal parts brown sugar. (Student's Manual, Basic Course, p. 36)
The library does not say whether the liquid above the sugar is still worth using, or when to start a new batch.
Sources
- 1:04:40 Office Hours Ep. 133 (Jul 2024) — IMO Soil Fixes, JADAM Leaf Mold, FPJ Settled Sugar · “scrape it out and bake cookies with it instead, since the hormones, enzymes, and endophytes have already dropped out”
- p. 38 Pure KNF Manual · “we want fermentation to occur once, then we want to super saturate the liquid with sugar to arrest the fermentation”
- p. 36 Student's Manual, Basic Course · “For long-term storage the FPJ can be combined with equal parts brown sugar”
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