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I’m having the same issue in Colorado in mid-April.  It’s been 36hours and it’s not heating up.  For the record, I used 50lbs of rolled oats and wood shavings with the IMO3 liquids per the manual (2x different IMO2’s).  The pile is outside on dirt and covered with feed bags.   It’s been mid 60’s during the day and mid 40’s at night; there’s a cold spell coming with some rain. I’ll cover the pile with a tarp if it rains.  I’ll give it a few more day snd then give it more water to see if i can get it to heat up.

Yes, fermented sea water can be given to livestock. Do not give it if it is clumpy or smells rotten.

The pile finally heated up. I think low moisture was the issue.  I didn’t soak the wood chips, which I’ll do next time.   I’m making a batch of IMO4 with this batch of IMO3; I soaked the materials better and I’m having better results.

There are three major types of KNF Food based on which part of the plant is fermented.

1. Growth Tips – Best during the vegetative growth phase
2. Flowers or Unripe Fruits – Best during the puberty growth phase
3. Ripe Fruits – Best during the maturing and ripening growth phases

Mushrooms can be prepared either following the KNF Food or the KNF Medicine recipe with great benefit. Doing a Food recipe will result in a water based extraction, and following the Medicine recipe will result in an alcohol based extraction. Both have pros and cons and will extract different compounds from the mushrooms and will also have different delivery methods upon the metabolizing recipient.

You are edging into the verge of unstudied (or at least unpublished) territory, so you are becoming a true scientist that will have to create hypotheses, experiment, document, and repeat. If you were in a university, perhaps you could publish and gain some fanfare and accolades!

If you are just a humble farmer, you will know more and stay humble, and share with those that are worthy.

Personally, I think this will be the future of most pharmacopeia in the post synthetic (oil based) world. It was in the past, so it shall be in the future.

are you sure he was not saying CA, there is reproduction (WCA) in the skinny formula

look up Hydrolized fish fertilizer, this is pretty much KNF style product found in many garden and farm supply stores.

i add dolomite lime to my garden beds and it does not effect the microbes in there

its the evolution over the years of testing even master cho changed his recipes over the years

never heard of using fruits to make a IMO3 and i would not think it would be a complete carb sufficient for making IMO3,  but a great source of complete carbs that can be found almost anywhere very cheaply is cheap bags of dog food it is packed full of grains and is a complete carb, rolled or crimped oats sold as horse feed is another good inexpensive source …id use the apples to make KNF foods (FPJ/FFJ) and KNF cleanser (BRV) can use un-ripe apples to make Sour Food, ripe apples for Sweet Food along with other fruits and ripe/over-ripe apples to make Cleanser… chipped maple and apple wood would make for great carbon in a IMO3 lots of sugars to help boost microbe production

Happy Experimenting

the gunny sacks would work but you might need more then 3 months for the compost to finish and be plantable the biggest risk in planting in pure compost is it not being finished yet and heating up ..in the gunny sack method i would  mix the compost with something else before use to help reduce the chance it will go off again

my favorite way of filling raised beds is the hugelkultur method … start with large pieces of wood, logs and sticks and such on the very bottom to take up space and retain water, back fill with whatever organic material you might have wood chips ,saw dust, cut grass, unfinished compost pretty much anything to fill in spaces between large wood and fill the bed, add moisture to this layer, using JMS here is a good way to get microbes going in this mid layer, reserve the top 8-10 in (20-25 cm) and fill with a mixture of compost, IMO4 and biochar FMCs also work really good here can also add some bulking substrates in the soil mix like coco coir or peat moss maybe some perlite, if you need to bulk out the soil mix (this is the soil mix i used to bulk out all my garden beds)  …top dress with IMO4, water in with Soil Prep Formula and plant  …depending on how deep the raised beds are you might need to dig down a little for layer 1 …. hugelkultur is a mounding system at its roots and the mound planting might also work well in agroforestry

Happy Experimenting