There is a great explanation of KNF Medicine made of oriental herbal nutrients on Natural Farming Hawaii
- drake answered 7 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 5 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 3 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 3 years ago
I know I have a video of it somewhere. I have been working on transcribing all the videos to make them searchable for myself.
In the mean time, I can describe the basic process
- 1-3 weeks before transplanting
- Spread IMO and Soil Formula in area to plant
- 1-3 days before transplanting
- Stop watering the tree – this will make the plant thirsty
- Turn the tree 90 degrees in it’s pot – this pre-stresses the plant
- Transplanting time – best in the late afternoon
- Do not amend the hole with anything.
- Soak tree roots in Soil Formula liquid for 15-60min – the thirsty plant will absorb all the good nutrients
- Bare root the plant – knocking off the soil encourages it’s readiness to be a new environment
- Trim tap root 1/3 (leave 2/3) – will force more lateral root growth
- Place tree
- Spread out lateral roots
- Brace to keep upright if necessary
- Bury lightly and do not compact soil around roots
- Water soil lightly with soil prep solution used for soak above buried roots – do not over water. this encourages the microbes to plug into the tree for nutrients and the roots to reach for moisture.
- 24 hours later
- Mulch around tree in donut shape
- Water normally
- A few weeks later – the plant should have taken root well
- Remove the bracing
- You can amend on the surface in a donut shape to encourage the lateral roots to reach out
The hole dug for planting should look more like this -> |…:i:…| where it resembles a pyramid in the middle. The edges should be about 8 inches deep and the center rising to about 6 inches. This is a shallow hole where the lateral roots can naturally spread out and remain close to the surface where they want to be.
Folks will mistakenly dig a grave for a plant that looks more like this |__| that is much deeper than it should be. They will amend the hole and soil with tons of nutrients. This is like placing a baby in a grave with lots of food. The food will rot, the baby will die, and if somehow it manages to live, it will be spoiled and never reach out to find it’s own nutrients or establish healthy relationships with the microbial community.
The point here is to give the plant somewhat of a rough start. Make it forage on its own, but place it in a way that it can take care of itself. Do not spoil young trees. Make them work for nutrients by applying them just further out than the drip zone and make them have to grow into them.
- drake answered 3 months 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 years ago
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