There is a great explanation of KNF Medicine made of oriental herbal nutrients on Natural Farming Hawaii
- drake answered 6 years ago
the main thing to think of is u want Carbs and Carbon at a 50/50 to 60/40 ratio to make IMO3 the Carbs r food the Carbon is the hotel if u think of it like this u will find 100s of alternatives and the ones that r cheapest or even better free are the best to use for u – one of the greatest ideas of natural farming is the ingredients r not really specific its use what u have – chris trump uses nut shells and nut left over from his nut farm drake iv seen use grain and wood chips iv most recently used cracked corn and grains (old chicken feed from a friend) and hardwood lump charcoal ( for my BBQ ) its about remembering Carbs n Carbon and use what u got
- dagoofman answered 4 years ago
KNF Fuel (FAA) can be used as soon as liquid emerges, however, for sufficient amino acid break down, it takes between 3-6 months depending on temperature. The longer you wait, the simpler the aminos, and more available they become.
I’d advise not to use Cho’s Global Natural Farming, by Rohini Reddy book as a primary source of information by the way. It’s not an accurate source of information, but can be good if you’ve had good instruction and understand where that book fails.
- drake answered 2 years ago
The only reason for the liner is to comply with certain federal mandates for funding. My pig pen the way it is set up does not have to comply with State or Federal regulations as long as I do not have more than 4 pigs. If I exceed that limit, I will have to be subject to the Hawaii State Department of Health, and they will require a liner and a full waste management plan.
- drake answered 2 years ago
I have checked out Master Cho’s book and he writes of using a sugar cap for FFJ (“put enough sugar on the uppermost surface”) and writes of using a sugar cap for FPJ (“cover the uppermost part with black sugar”). He illustrates the sugar cap for the FFJ, however, he DOESN’T include a sugar cap in the illustration for the FPJ. There is a discrepancy here.
Making FFJ is done by layering the material and sugar like a sandwich, making FPJ is not. It would make sense to end with sugar as the sweet material needs the sugar for the osmotic pressure to draw the essence out. FPJ doesn’t need the sugar cap and in fact it makes the FPJ unnecessarily sweet, diluting the essence further.
When I have made FPJ, I have at times had some mold but it looks like IMO- it is fermented at that stage. It smelled fine- slightly fermented and sweet. Just as we make IMO and culture what appears to be mold, it doesn’t mean the mold is bad. I have poured the FPJ off, added the stabilizing additional brown sugar and have never had a mold issue or had my FPJ go “bad”.
I vote to keep the essence of the FPJ as concentrated as possible and avoid using the sugar cap, following the illustration in the book. This is also the way Drake has taught me and it works.
- Jennifer Weinert answered 6 years ago
The soil formula is specifically for the soil to feed the biology while inoculating with KNF Microbes. This process builds what KNF refers to as soil foundation.
Each solution can be used as a foliar spray or soil drench for good effect. Typically I drench at 100 gal/acre, while I foliar spray at 25 gal/acre. For me the spraying is easier with the setup I have. Many folks prefer to apply via a fertigation setup.
- drake answered 6 years ago
We use lactobacillus (Plantarum mostly, which is pretty common in the wild) a lot in sour beer brewing and the lacto does not seem to be bothered much by anything under 5% … around 10% growth is starting to get impaired but some strains can survive 12-16% and still grow a bit.
- Maxime Cloutier answered 6 years ago
Vodka is a distilled product with near %40 alcohol whereas rice wine has only %3 like beer.
for dehydration you can use rice wine but for tincturing you need vodka. Yes OHN is the most expensive KNF food but it goes a long way.
- Gürkan Yeniçeri answered 6 years ago
Most of the solutions will be fine, and all are actually fine if you are not testing for the medical or recreational market, but instead growing for personal or friendly consumption.
If you are going through stringent microbial testing, IMO and FPJ in the late stage may show up, though they should not ring any alarms, but still better to be safe than sorry.
KNF Police however will nullify the effects within 12-48 hours and kick the ass of any pathogen that may upset your testing. There is current research to spray the flowers after harvest with KNF Police and then submit them for testing and the preliminary results are A okay.
KNF Fruit on the flowers themselves should act to harden them up and Calcium is a transporter, so when combined with KNF Minerals, it can really increase the profile of the smoke considerably in the favor of “what was I smoking before this!?”
The idea however is not to spray this directly on the buds (unless you are using a KNF Food for personals and you want to customize the smoke in other ways), but instead the plant absorbs all the KNF Solutions best when sprayed on the underside of the leaf just before sundown. This gives the plant a nice dinner to go to bed with and then do majority of it’s growing over night.
- drake answered 6 years ago
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The process of fermentation eliminates many of the pesticide type functions when making KNF Food. In fact, many things that are known poisons are made edible after fermentation has elapsed, so I am very skeptical of the papaya leaf KNF Food being an effective pesticide.
You may find it works, but in my best understanding, it acts as a food to stimulate good biology rather than killing or inhibiting something you want to eliminate. I have made KNF Food from papaya leaves and it was quite tasty, though I prefer to make it from the fruits for my purposes.
If you are looking for an effective way to get the proteolytic enzyme from papaya leaves, perhaps consider putting them in a pressure cooker with water and cooking them for many hours until the water reduces in half. This dark slurry is then strained and combined with liquid soap to become an effective pesticide.
- drake answered 6 years ago