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Any nightshade family of plants can be used.
– Spinach, broccoli, cucumber, zucchini and eggplant will work

No, the concentration would be weak. Pulverise and throw them in your worm farm.

How are you going to measure the dilution? Wouldn’t you than waste a lot of KNF inputs?

Atul, try my PP slides. It is a comprehensive list of recipes.

Thanks a lot for the answer, it has been very helpful and practical indeed.

Burned banana leaves or any ash has high levels of potassium. If the word is said slowly, pot-ash-ium, you will find it contains potash, which is found in most things burned to ash. Making it water soluble is easy by both soaking it in water and using it.

Enough to supersaturate it, which means every water molecule is bound with a sugar molecule.

If this was pure water, it would be equal volume, but since there is a variable quantity of sugar already in your knfFood, you will have to slowly add sugar while stirring to detect the signs of supersaturation, which include the sugar starting to float on the top of the surface of the liquid.

Put it in water then boil that down until you reduce the volume to half. This will give you a concentrated herbal solution which can be added to the wetting agent.

How much to add for pests? Depends on the pest.

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 dirt.

Both in PIMO and AIMO the liquid solutions are added to ensure nutrient content and “food” for the microbes to populate. The piles should be brought to ~60% moisture content once, then allowed to ferment until they cool, turning frequently so the temperature never exceeds 120F or 50C.

When combined in equal volumes of PIMO with field soil, the result should heat up within the day. If it does not, there may be the issue of contamination of the field soil, the proportions of PIMO to field soil may not be correct, the PIMO was made incorrectly, or the moisture content is incorrect.

That means my imo4 is wasted huh?Is there any use of that product?So if I make a new batch of PIMO,can the failed AIMO be used with the newly made PIMO to make new AIMO?