There would be many factors to look into id think comparing your diet and what nutrients u might be lacking to the plant u r fermenting and what nutrients it may hold the added microbial activity is always a plus Dr. Park says “3% of r total body weight is germs both good and bad the highest of those r lacto” Lacto is everywhere in our r air on r skin it is one of the main microbes that ferment r FPJs along with other yeasts and microbes that live on that plant to break it down it is the main reason we do not mix plants when making FPJs so that the microbes do not compete also it could be a sugar high from the FPJ especially if u do not have a lot of sugar in your diet and as long as u used edible plants to make the FPJ there should be no bad juju i hope this may help u look into more aspects to find answers
KNF is all about the health and love of not only your plants and animals but yourself the health and love put into it is adsorbed back as energy and it excites me to continue forward when i hear story’s like this thank you
- dagoofman answered 4 years ago
Yes IMO will survive, they just go into hibernation and will wake up in the spring time. Snow is great for insulation actually, so they will be going to sleep in the winter under that layer of snow.
- Hugo Matos answered 4 years ago
It is possible to burn them on a propane grill. The ideal way is to put them in some sort of column with the heat source at the bottom so they are able to completely char. When the smoke turns clear the process is complete. Remove and extinguish the Bones.
- drake answered 4 years ago
I was watching a YouTube video made more recently, now that Chris Trump is in Idaho? At any rate, he stated that his latest favorite for IMO3 is crimped oats.
Not free for me in Southwestern Ontario Canada, but doable and that’s better than wheat bran (quite cheap here, relatively speaking). Crimped oats is naturally carb plus carbon, I’m pretty sure, and if it gets too hot (I’m not allowed to make IMO until spring, lol…hubby thinks it’s just pointless now that we’re headed into winter), I can cover with wood chips. I still have to make OHN.
I’m thinking maybe it’s a good idea to start this all in the fall, so I have time to make some of the longer process inputs.
- Linda Vanderbaan answered 4 years ago
Rain Country Homestead on YouTube has lots of videos on making your own vinegar from things in your garden – fruits, flowers, greens – anything. Vinegar Q & A. She advocates just for 4 weeks or so, but try leaving it for longer, try adding a mother, see how it goes. We need a pH of about 2.5, she typically goes for 3.5. Take her ideas and apply the KNF principles.
- Linda Vanderbaan answered 4 years ago
Salt and brown rice will change the colonies of LAB that colonize the nutrients. The white rice method of Master Cho is designed to catch a broad family of Lacto.
- drake answered 4 years ago
iv had very good results with taking a old leaky bucket putting hardwood lump char in it and pouring unused JMS in there it leaks out slow i also use the bucket as a boys room in the garden after a few weeks of this i get really good growth on the char to add into the garden
- dagoofman answered 4 years ago
a lil white mold is fine as long as theres not a rotting smell or black or green mold… a lot of fermentations get a bit of white mold its mostly yeast from what i am to understand and id guess they r feeding on the oils floating on top iv noticed if i put a lot of garlic in a batch of pickles or something the oil floats up and white mold will grow on it sometimes …. if u wanted to u could spoon it off or just mix it in the LAB in there breaking down the fish should take care of it
- dagoofman answered 4 years ago
I don’t see why not, when supersaturating you will induce the microbes to hibernate. Try using at least the same ratio as LAB, or even more because LAB are not only super though but also super fast to multiply, and since I’m not sure how fast that microbe community is, so just to help in speeding up their propagation add more, just in case.
I guess the humic and fulvic acids are a diferent deal tough, I don’t know if those will be preserved or degenerate in the solution.
- Hugo Matos answered 4 years ago
iv had some green & white molds but never like a black mold would recommend carefully removing the curd from the whey then smell the whey ….is it rotten ..bad juju …does it smell fine .. should be ok trust your nose it will tell u if its bad or not the only other concern i would think would be the amount of microbes u r harvesting the longer it set as the microbes feed the more that would have died off as the food ran out but id say as long as its not rotten it’s fine LAB is really hardy and will beat out most bad juju as long as there’s enough food and if all else fails compost it nature will make it great food in time
- dagoofman answered 4 years ago