Alternate leaf and flower for veg.
Start alternating flower and fruit 2 weeks before flowering starts.
Make sure that the last two weeks are fruit then harvest.
- FlereusBioAG answered 5 years ago
Fermentation itself is not a “cure” in natural farming. Fermentation is used as a means of converting biomass into more plant available compounds.
That being said, you can very likely cure your flight through the use of natural farming. Good fungi beat it had fungi, to just have to get t right fungi. I recommend finding a location that is thriving with similar soil and moisture content at a higher elevation. IMO the snot out of it and apply it to your land.
I have all but completely cured Fabraea Leaf Spot, aka black leaf spot, on my pear tree.
When we moved into our house, the pear tree was half rotted and dead. The filling year it barely had any foliage, and all foliage had Fabraea. I was told by the previous occupants that in the 12 years they were here, they had never seen a single flower. I removed all dead and damaged branches, then began applying Natural Farming Techniques.
Our soil is 100% clay, so I began adding organic matter to the top of the clay. Mostly grass clippings that were chock full of deer droppings. Every 2 weeks I brewed up the soil treatment with some imo 2 and let it bubble for 24-72 hours depending on the temperature. I sprayed so surfaces of the tree, troy whatever was left on the ground inside the root zone.
Immediately that spring, the tree came to life with a renewed vigor. Covered in green foliage, it looked 100 times better than I had ever seen it. Still no flowers. But!, there was only maybe 10% Fabraea compared to the year before.
This is currently year 2, remember trees take time. Only about 5% Fabraea and I got flowers, about 30 of them! None produced any fruit, but we are making progress.
- FlereusBioAG answered 5 years ago
For soil applications, use 4 to 5 gallons of solution per 100 square feet and water it in with about 15 gallons.
For foliar applications, it depends on your sprayer. The smaller the droplets, the less you need to use. If the droplets are 50 microns or smaller, 20 gallons will cover an acre. At 100 microns, it takes 8 times as much to cover the same area. These numbers assume that you are using JWA, if not, double them.
How do you determine your micron size? The quick and easy way is to spray it in the air, if it is a fine just and floats away, it is roughly 50 microns. If it does not float away, it is 100+.
If half of the spray floats and half falls immediately, two things are true.
1. You need a better nozzle
2. At 50/50, you need 6x the volume
At 75/25, you need 4x the volume
- FlereusBioAG answered 5 years ago
The bones won’t dissolve. The chemical reaction between the vinegar and the bones puts Calcium and Phosphorous into solution. The warmer the vinegar, the faster it happens. It won’t go crazy most of the time. If you want to see a more violent reaction, heat the vinegar first. If it starts steaming, its too hot and you are cooking off the compounds that make it vinegar.
- FlereusBioAG answered 5 years ago
Regular white vinegar has been distilled. It can be used, but even the crappy apple cider vinegar from the same brands at bog box stores would be better.
- FlereusBioAG answered 5 years ago
White mold growing on top is a sign it is done. I hope you poured it off.
If mold is growing after you pour it off, most likely you need to supersaturate it.
- drake answered 5 years ago
Hi there,
- Yes, so here is the deal: when adding sugar you should stir the solution, at first you’ll notice how fast the sugar sinks and dissolves, when aproaching saturation the sugar will sink in “slow motion” and need more stirring to dissolve, but when you see sugar precipitating at the bottom and not dissolving, regardless of how much you stirr, then the FPJ is saturated.
- Most likely yes, if not i guess it will be very close to, but just add a little bit of sugar until you notice it precipitating at the bottom, then you know for sure its super saturated.
- You could try, in theory the microbes there wont differ but keep in mind that the sugar is no longer dry, so im not sure if it will create enough (if any) osmotic pressure to extract everything from the new plant material. Anyway, you still could use that sugar in the kitchen for example.
- Not sure i understood what you mean here.
- Outside I would say 3-7 days, depending on your specific conditions, temperature mainly. Just check that yourself, if you see bubbles in the FPJ, they are still there, when bubbles become less intense its an indicator the food is running out and the microbe population is fading. When the solution starts smelling like alcoohol then it’s already degrading, it is still usable but less effective. In the fridge at least 6 months.
- If you think of it, banana flower is a material with more in common with fruit than with the tender parts of plants we use in FPJ, I believe that’s why Chris does the sugar cap. So I would say sugar cap for fruit or fruit like plant materials, stuff which is denser and has more fiber in it when compared to regular tender shoots or leaves (which is what we use in FPJ).
Hope it helps!
- Hugo Matos answered 4 years ago
I didn’t get the desired activity I was after until I started using worm castings from my woods next to some rotting wood, and I also used 3 times as many potatoes as the JADAM book recommends, like Chris Trump recommends in his YouTube video. Hope this helps
- Scottie Fame answered 4 years ago
Chris Trump has talked about making vinegar from FPJ there is a how to vid also in his FPJ vid on banana flowers he talks of making vinegar from it, its kinda a FFJ also so id think either would work fine
- dagoofman answered 4 years ago
i would think if u harvested local microbes they would be fine they have been living in the soil for 1000’s of yrs in a since it is the whole point of collecting Indigenous MicroOrganisms is to collect the strongest healthiest microbes in your area that have been there forever building the forest floor and surviving all the harsh elements breed them and introduce them in large numbers into your soil
- dagoofman answered 4 years ago