Super LAB
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Combining different microbes, again, is not novel. Folks have been selling EM1 which is a combination of Lactos, Yeasts, and Purple Bacterias for decades. This is also a very powerful combination, and when you combine independently very powerful microbes together they will and do work synergistically with each other to produce amazing results. Steve may be popularizing these ideas, but by no means is it his discovery, even if he did independently come to this formulation.
Spirulina is very easy to cultivate at home and with a small starter and a few inputs can be kept alive and grown as long as you maintain it.
Typically when you hear someone "invent" something it is because they are wanting to patent and sell it and thus hamper something that you can easily do at home, or they want ego aggrandizement which only leads to further suffering, but let them thirst for fame, which is liking begging for the blade of the sword.
I do encourage open source sharing, and I thank Steve for opening his work and sharing as he does, much like what I do, and we all need to support each other through peace and positive encouragement.
From the KNF library
From the KNF library
Drafted by Claude from Office Hours and the books
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Sep 2026
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The library says nothing about spirulina, phycocyanin, or "Super LAB," and gives no price for it. It does cover plain LAB.
- Cho says LAB speed root growth at transplanting and assist early plant growth (Cho, Recipe, p. 53).
- Cho calls LAB very effective for large fruits and leaves. He says to cut the dose as fruiting nears (Cho, Recipe, p. 56).
- The UH extension sheet warns that over-applying LAB to fruit crops can lower sweetness (Student's Manual, Basic Course, p. 15).
Plain LAB can skip the milk step. Fresh rice wash water works straight and peaks in three to seven days (Office Hours Ep. 23, 21:10).
The library holds no test of the spirulina claims. They rest on Steve's account alone.
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- 21:10 Office Hours Ep. 23 (Mar 2022) — IMO4 Pig Feed, LAB Without Milk, Disgustingly Cheap Microbes · “just use fresh rice wash water straight, which peaks with lactobacillus in three to seven days depending on temperature.”
- p. 53 Cho, Recipe · “LAB accelerate root growth during transplanting, and effectively enhance the initial growth of the plant.”
- p. 15 Student's Manual, Basic Course · “Over-application of LAB culture to fruit crops may result in the loss of sweetness (lowered brix) of fruits.”
- p. 56 Cho, Recipe · “LAB are extremely effective in making fruits and leaves large, but the amount of LAB used should be reduced approaching the later stages.”
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