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Here’s my personal view on it and this could be wrong but I believe that an FFJ is basically just a FPJ and that the type of FPJ you feed is dependent upon plant cycle. Fast growing tips for the leaf cycle, unripe fruit for changeover, ripe fruit for fruit/flower…

You don’t want to store the mother with the final solution. Also if the vinegar isn’t pasteurized, it will continue to grow more scoby.

It doesn’t matter if you’re using FPJ or FFJ leftover, both work just fine. But it does take some time, guive it a couple months, or add to it a little bit of some vinegar wich is alive to jump start it.

Pinks and reds are not good. I want to be encouraging here, and I think you did your best with limited information to just move to the next step, so that is good, but sounds like you could get a better collection in the future.

Most likely those certain pink microbes that you collected will be outcompeted when you move on to further steps in the IMO process.

My hunch here is that there were also other colors and that the batch looked more like a tiedie shirt? If this is the case, most likely there was too much moisture present in the collection. There are several solutions, the simplest being to add less water to the rice when cooking it, and to wait until it is completely cool before putting it in the collection box.

Collecting IMO can be challenging, so try again!

no – if super saturated it can be stored in a cool dark place all KNF solutions are shelf stable – if unsaturated with brown sugar then yes store in fridge

KNF is about global natural farming and not all places have access to refrigeration so Master Cho developed his process so that it would work anywhere on the planet so that it could be available for everyone to use

i store all my solutions in a tote on a closed front porch yr around i live in the NE USA we can get highs of 98f in the summer and lows of -15f in winter, Drake is in Hawaii i believe he keeps all his in a poll barn shed thing outside

Happy Experimenting

Great use of the toss away you could just throw everything in a bucket and layer with sugar as you go fill 2/3 full could add a rock to help hold everything down add a airtight lid put it in a cool dark place and forget about it for 6-8 months or longer (the longer it sits the better it will be) ….i would not recommend ingesting raw chicken so refrain from tasting it and use your nose for testing (the nose knows)

Happy Experimenting

The Level 2 handouts can be found at Natural Farming Hawaii’s Website. They are currently available in an ebook format with additional recipes included.

The textbook I talk about in the class is the Janong Book translated by Rei Yoon. It is not currently in print.

From what I have found, Magnesium is present in many places in KNF. To demonstrate with two examples

KNF 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 Mg are:

• All leafy greens
• Bananas
• Sweet Potatoes
• Winter Squash

KNF Minerals – Magnesium is present in seawater in amounts of about 1300 ppm. After sodium, it is the most commonly found cation in oceans. Rivers contains approximately 4 ppm of magnesium, marine algae 6000-20,000 ppm, and oysters 1200 ppm

I am sure there are more places where magnesium can be solubilized for plant to uptake in KNF naturally from a well balanced soil with indigenous micro organisms.