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33 questions about “seawater”
Minerals (Diluted Seawater) Ratios and Soil Formula Application
dagoofman iv been fertigating through a hose end sprayer for a yr now and it works great u just have to get the solutions correct for your sprayer the one i use has a dial so i adjust the sprayer to the solution i feel that even with overspray im just feeding the soil…Mineral Recipes A - E
From the KNF library The library covers Mineral A and D, but not B, C, or E. Cho's Mineral carries a lot of elements, especially Ca, Mg, and Fe (Cho, Recipe, p. 83). Mineral A is one type of it. • Mineral A helps with soil treatment, seed and seedling treatment, disease control,…Imo4
Drake Weinert L4 · provisional IMO3 is considered Propagated IMO (PIMO) where the microbes you collected in your Seed IMO (IMO 1&2) are grown to immense populations. IMO4 is considered Activated IMO (AIMO) where the PIMO is mixed in equal proportion by volume to field soil and/or red clay…Troubleshooting less than desired IMO culturing results
sef5224 I didn’t get the desired activity I was after until I started using worm castings from my woods next to some rotting wood, and I also used 3 times as many potatoes as the JADAM book recommends, like Chris Trump recommends in his YouTube video. Hope this helpsSea minerals
Drake Weinert L4 · provisional The information for the Solution Calculator App comes verbatim from Master Cho, you can watch his lectures on the nutritive cycle, and here is his handout in the original Korean. I don't really have a good reason for you why he leaves seawater out. Sometimes…Sea water - chloride and chlorine build up
From the KNF library Seawater is sodium chloride plus trace minerals. (Office Hours Ep. 48, 55:36) Drake recommends diluting it to one part seawater in 30 parts fresh water. (Office Hours Ep. 72, 52:55) That ratio gives perfectly diluted seawater for agricultural water. (Office…Fermented Sea Water as Animal Drink
Drake Weinert L4 · provisional Yes, fermented sea water can be given to livestock. Do not give it if it is clumpy or smells rotten.Natural minerals solution
Drake Weinert L4 · provisional Cho has not taught the method for making the minerals outlined in his literature. He has said that a lab in Japan has the recipe and also produces it. Largely under testing the minerals vary widely from batch to batch and there is no consistency in the…Can anything be added to maintenance solution to make it a soil drench?
dagoofman Soil Drench Formula Food/FPJ 1:500 Cleanser/BRV 1:500 Medicine/OHN 1:1000 Structure/WCAP 1:1000 Protectors/LAB 1:1000 Sea Water 1:20 adding microbes IMO/LIMO/JMS and doing a 1 time till or forking to help breakup the compaction ...could also add organic…KNF solutions in chickens drinking water?
jay.buhrt Lukas, Use LAB (1:500) with FPJ (1:300) as drinking water for livestock, to recover their digestive function. As a prebiotic in poultry and livestock production source: (Samanta et al. 2013) OHN can be mixed with animals’ drinking water (1:1,000 dilution) and…If you don’t have access to sea water can you dilute Sea90 with water for a similar effect ?
dagoofman yes ...i went with average salinity of the ocean to make my SW out of sea90 ....3.5% salinity that is 33g per QT of waterIs it a problem to use iodized sea salt instead of non iodized sea salt/sea water?
Drake Weinert L4 · provisional i'd avoid iodized sea salt. the less it has been processed or heated the better.magnesium
Drake Weinert L4 · provisional From what I have found, Magnesium is present in many places in KNF. To demonstrate with two examplesKNF Food - Mg will be present in the fermented plant juice, and even more so if it is made from certain fruits. Plants known to contain high concentrations of…How do we supplement zinc?
Drake Weinert L4 · provisional Zinc and other Micronutrients are present in KNF Minerals, also called diluted seawater. Seawater is typically applied as a soil drench at 1:30~1:20, or if you are using sea salt you can reconstitute it to a 1:30 dilution by mixing 1g per liter of water. The…ULC/KNF for pasture restoration
Drake Weinert L4 · provisional In my practice with this sort of large scale remediation, Ultra Low Cost is the way to go. You may also want to supplement with KNF Minerals aka diluted seawater because the mineral content tends to be low in exhausted land as well. This can be reconstituted…Trying to make FPJ out of dried seaweed n kelp Need Ideas Please
joelorusso I remember master Cho stressing that a true FPJ is from new growth from live plants only. This insures you are getting plant growth hormones and active enzymes. If you are trying to capture the minerals from the sea, you could probably add some wild harvested…Mossy trees
dagoofman if i remember i think drake was talking about maintenance solution and suz was also talking about it on that episode if so it is OHN,BRV,FPJ,WCAP ....LAB i would think might help alsoLab for cattle
From the KNF library The LAB fact sheet says LAB culture is used for livestock production as well as plants. (Student's Manual, Basic Course, p. 13) The dilution it gives is for plants: 1:1,000 in water. (Student's Manual, Basic Course, p. 15) The manual lists OHN as an aid to…Mineral A,B,C, D & E
collectivecellardoor 1:30 SW (sea water)What is the knf way for tree wounds and scars?
Drake Weinert L4 · provisional Tree wounds and scars in trees can be healed with KNF Microbes made into a paste with seawater and bound with oatmeal so it sticks to the bark. Master Cho talks about this solution in regards to sunburn in the following video (starting at 7 minutes 40…Blossom end rot
devilish_behavior503 Well Blossom End Rot is caused from a lack of Calcium so WCA and WsCaPhos would both work.Coffee plantations
From the KNF library The library has one coffee-specific recommendation, and it covers minerals only. Rain washed the trace minerals, including the coffee's boron and zinc, into the ocean. Drake's fix is to dilute seawater 1:20 to 1:30, add calcium, and spray it on the leaves…IMO4 Smell Ammonia
From the KNF library The library does not say why an IMO4 pile smells of ammonia, or whether to cover it with straw for two days. Drake's IMO4 method holds the pile at 40-50°C and 60-70% moisture, and turns it for about a week. Staying under 50°C fits that (Office Hours Ep. 57,…Giving water soluble calcium to chickens
jamieewashko01 L2 · provisional yes i have added WCA to my chicken water for years. nice hard shells.What is Mineral A-D? Calcium Phosphate & Calcium... do you need Phosphoric Acid too?
Drake Weinert L4 · provisional Mineral A-D are special extracts that Master Cho makes. He has never taught the recipe, and in our testing of them vary greatly from batch to batch. The closest we have come to making them is to put different rocks into what he calls a BMW Machine. Because…Soil repair
dagoofman yes in time the soil drenching w/JMS and IMOs well fix the issue i would recommend deep tilling 1 time if you can before the soaks or short after you start the soaks id also try to till in organic materiel any and as much as you can at that time to improve…What pump/sprayer everyone using and any damage from knf usage?
Drake Weinert L4 · provisional I use a Maruyama MS75E Sprayer when on foot, and then I use a 50 gallon Gearmore Sprayer with a diaphragm pump on my tractor. By the time the solution is diluted, there should be no problem of the pump degrading from salts. Especially if you flush it out with…KNF MINERAL C,D
Drake Weinert L4 · provisional These are proprietary solutions introduced by Master Cho's daughter Ju-Young Cho, and are not readily available anywhere due to her departure.Disease from pruning
Drake Weinert L4 · provisional The solutions you mention of Medicine, Cleanser, and Protectors sound like a good short term solution to controlling any infection that is in the tree. In the long run, Foundation IMO is your best bet. Mix a bit of that with some oatmeal gruel to make it…Natural solutions for soil test help!
dagoofman compost is a very good place to start also making (IMO 4) Activated Microbes will help a lot also and using Soil Prep Formula ....start with adding a good amount of compost to the soil to bring up the plant matter and get a loamy soil to grow in ...spread the…Corn As Cover Crop: Drake's Quandary
dagoofman Sorghum-sudangrass is a great cover crop and chop n drop for gardens its a winter kill cover crop so it easy to terminate, grows fast, digs deep and provides lots of sugars ( i myself grew it in a patch for 2 seasons and used it as a chop n drop mulch it…KNF applied to salt marshes?
From the KNF library The library does not cover salt marshes. It does cover the pieces you would build on. Drake's manual names two basic sets of microbes: fresh water microbes on land and saltwater microbes in the ocean (Pure KNF Manual, p. 53). He collects seawater from the top…Said on Office Hours
Dr. Drake on “seawater” during the live show. Each link opens the episode at that moment.
Fermented Seawater, IMO3 Contamination, Papaya for Gout
- 53:17 …seawater diluted with fresh water at the ratio of 1 to 30. So take seawater and dilute it with…
- 53:25 …seawater 1 to 30. So meaning like one gallon of seawater goes into 30 gallons of fresh water,…
- 57:16 …just putting it in so seawater seawater rice wash water which is starchy water right at one to 200…
OHN Extraction, Salted Land Remediation, Foliar vs Drench Rates
- 6:48 …says my app talks about storing seawater. Could you elaborate on what needs to be done to store…
- 6:55 …the seawater and ferment it? No, you know what? I actually I got to this question last time. Sorry,…
- 9:03 …on this screenshot that I had was asking, he's asking if he's collecting seawater from the Puget…