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JADAM has copyright on some certain terminology, though the recipes are free and open source and so old that they are impossible to patent, so to avoid the wrath of that terrible organization, KNF Support has chosen to call these solutions Ultra Low Cost or ULC for short.

The ULC KNF Pest Solutions all fall into the list of OMRI approved materials that can be used for organic practices in the United States of America Inc. You will have to check with your individual certifier once you start mixing things.

In terms of a spray that can be used preemptively to discourage pests without damaging your plant and at the same time staying organic, yes, what you are looking for is to mix ULC KNF Pest Solutions.

There is a way to make Ultra Low Cost liquid soap at home, or a bottle of Dr. Bronners will also work, then this is blended with a concentrated herb solution.

To make the concentrated herb solution, you want to look for a plant that grows in your area that no bugs eat. In my case I use wadelia, but other recommended plants are ginkgo or jarusalem artichoke leaves. Gather a bunch of material and stuff it into a pressure cooker, then fill it half way with water and turn it on for a couple hours until the water reduces down to about a 1/4 and becomes very dark in color.

The key then is to blend these herbs with the soap and apply all over the leaves surface making the plant very unpalatable to insects.

The ratios to combine with water are
1:100 for the concentrated herbs and
1:170 for the soap.

or in other words, if I have 1 liter of water, put in 10mL of concentrated herbs and 6mL of soap.

The key to long term storage with KNF Food (which contain both FFJ and FPJ in the old vocabulary) and KNF Police (LAB) is to tie up the water through a process called supersaturation thus arresting the fermentation.

Supersaturation in KNF means that every water molecule is bound with a sugar molecule, and when the microbes try to continue to ferment the solution and thereby degrading it, they instead hibernate because they can not obtain water without obtaining sugar which further dehydrates them.

KNF Police will require equal volumes of brown sugar, so 1 liter of solution will need 1 liter of brown sugar. Volume of irregular solids can be easily measured using Archimedes Method.

Supersaturating KNF Food is a different story as the sugar content of the poured off solution will vary. To be absolutely safe, add equal volume as with KNF Police, but to be economical and not to waste sugar, add the sugar slowly and stir thoroughly. When you are approaching supersaturation the sugar will begin to float like an iceberg on the top of the liquid, and if using a wooden spoon to stir with sufficient volumes the spoon will begin to float. These signs indicate you are close, so in practice a bit more sugar is added to slightly over saturate the solution.

Over saturation will result in a ring of sugar falling out of solution no matter how much you stir it, and it is best to slightly over saturate to ensure that you definitely supersaturate for optimal preservation.

A supersaturated solution will store for many years.

In the case of a KNF Food that is made from the growing tips, the hormones, enzymes and metabolites that are so vital to growth will begin to break down after one year and should at that point be considered more of a KNF Food made from fruits when used in KNF Application Theory.

KNF Food made from fruits will get better over time and will store indefinitely at 1 celsius.

KNF Police will store for 3 months to a year at room temperature, but is best to use within the 3 month window as they are very aggressive microbes and even supersaturating them will not arrest them for long.

KNF Medicine stored out of sunlight and around 1 celsius with a airtight lid will last millenia, and in fact will improve over time just like a fine whiskey. The particles micronize as it ages and it’s effects becomes more potent as they are more readily absorbable upon metabolization, thus an aged KNF Medicine can be reduced by half when formulating for every year of storage.

It is recommended to store each KNF Medicine component separately to facilitate this micronization and only combine the 5 herbs together for the volume you will be needing for that month’s use.

KNF Foliar Chart suggests 4 tsp/gal WsCaPhos during fruit puberty and 4 tsp/gal WCA during Fruit Maturity.

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 folks in the audience will ask and he will be like “oh yeah, add that too”. KNF is really about intuition and less about this shotgun approach, but this app is designed to get you to be able to hit the target at least close enough for government work.

You will also notice that on his sheet there are the proprietary minerals which he refuses to teach to even his most advanced students, so most likely this knowledge will die with him and we will forever be left hampered by an old man’s greed. whoops.

When using KNF Food it makes sense to use a few, just like when you go to a potluck, you don’t just load up on the potatoes, you grab some meat, some chips, some dip, a bit of salad, a few brownies and maybe some tasty pudding. Plants are no different. They want the mixed plate too. All this helps to lead to a more balanced diet if done right.

But, say you are watching your weight, so maybe you forgo the brownies and double up on the salad. This is the same concept for plants and how KNF Food can alter their growth behavior, so getting to know your solutions will help you create the perfect mix to help your plant get what it needs. Knowing what food does what to your plant is a matter of really understanding the Cho theory of the house model, which unfortunately was the first seminar I took with him and I neglected to record it on video so I only have the vaguest of notes. Still this shouldn’t be hard to reverse engineer with contemporary science and knowing what nutrients each plant aggregates and then what those chemicals do in terms of modern plant science.

I note that you want to mix all the KNF Foods together, and I recommend for the most part to store them separately, but yes combine them all into one jar, but just enough for a month’s worth of working material. This makes it convenient so you don’t always have to be mixing, but also helps them store better individually as noted elsewhere.

Also please note that making them and storing separately is crucial, and I think that is implied in your question. Take this analogy to demonstrate the concept: If I want curry and a cake but instead I throw all the ingredients in the oven then cook it, I will end up with neither curry nor cake, but if i cook them separately and then put them on my plate once they are cooked, there is a good chance I will be able to enjoy both the curry and cake within the limits of this analogy.

When we start to think of KNF in this way, things become almost intuitive, and this is what I hope to share with you. The concepts we already know the answer to, and with slightly different thinking we become masters of KNF.