There is a great explanation of KNF Medicine made of oriental herbal nutrients on Natural Farming Hawaii
- drake answered 7 years ago
KNF Fuel (FAA) can be used as soon as liquid emerges, however, for sufficient amino acid break down, it takes between 3-6 months depending on temperature. The longer you wait, the simpler the aminos, and more available they become.
I’d advise not to use Cho’s Global Natural Farming, by Rohini Reddy book as a primary source of information by the way. It’s not an accurate source of information, but can be good if you’ve had good instruction and understand where that book fails.
- drake answered 3 years ago
The only reason for the liner is to comply with certain federal mandates for funding. My pig pen the way it is set up does not have to comply with State or Federal regulations as long as I do not have more than 4 pigs. If I exceed that limit, I will have to be subject to the Hawaii State Department of Health, and they will require a liner and a full waste management plan.
- drake answered 2 years ago
I know I have a video of it somewhere. I have been working on transcribing all the videos to make them searchable for myself.
In the mean time, I can describe the basic process
- 1-3 weeks before transplanting
- Spread IMO and Soil Formula in area to plant
- 1-3 days before transplanting
- Stop watering the tree – this will make the plant thirsty
- Turn the tree 90 degrees in it’s pot – this pre-stresses the plant
- Transplanting time – best in the late afternoon
- Do not amend the hole with anything.
- Soak tree roots in Soil Formula liquid for 15-60min – the thirsty plant will absorb all the good nutrients
- Bare root the plant – knocking off the soil encourages it’s readiness to be a new environment
- Trim tap root 1/3 (leave 2/3) – will force more lateral root growth
- Place tree
- Spread out lateral roots
- Brace to keep upright if necessary
- Bury lightly and do not compact soil around roots
- Water soil lightly with soil prep solution used for soak above buried roots – do not over water. this encourages the microbes to plug into the tree for nutrients and the roots to reach for moisture.
- 24 hours later
- Mulch around tree in donut shape
- Water normally
- A few weeks later – the plant should have taken root well
- Remove the bracing
- You can amend on the surface in a donut shape to encourage the lateral roots to reach out
The hole dug for planting should look more like this -> |…:i:…| where it resembles a pyramid in the middle. The edges should be about 8 inches deep and the center rising to about 6 inches. This is a shallow hole where the lateral roots can naturally spread out and remain close to the surface where they want to be.
Folks will mistakenly dig a grave for a plant that looks more like this |__| that is much deeper than it should be. They will amend the hole and soil with tons of nutrients. This is like placing a baby in a grave with lots of food. The food will rot, the baby will die, and if somehow it manages to live, it will be spoiled and never reach out to find it’s own nutrients or establish healthy relationships with the microbial community.
The point here is to give the plant somewhat of a rough start. Make it forage on its own, but place it in a way that it can take care of itself. Do not spoil young trees. Make them work for nutrients by applying them just further out than the drip zone and make them have to grow into them.
- drake answered 5 days ago
The soil formula is specifically for the soil to feed the biology while inoculating with KNF Microbes. This process builds what KNF refers to as soil foundation.
Each solution can be used as a foliar spray or soil drench for good effect. Typically I drench at 100 gal/acre, while I foliar spray at 25 gal/acre. For me the spraying is easier with the setup I have. Many folks prefer to apply via a fertigation setup.
- drake answered 7 years ago
Most of the solutions will be fine, and all are actually fine if you are not testing for the medical or recreational market, but instead growing for personal or friendly consumption.
If you are going through stringent microbial testing, IMO and FPJ in the late stage may show up, though they should not ring any alarms, but still better to be safe than sorry.
KNF Police however will nullify the effects within 12-48 hours and kick the ass of any pathogen that may upset your testing. There is current research to spray the flowers after harvest with KNF Police and then submit them for testing and the preliminary results are A okay.
KNF Fruit on the flowers themselves should act to harden them up and Calcium is a transporter, so when combined with KNF Minerals, it can really increase the profile of the smoke considerably in the favor of “what was I smoking before this!?”
The idea however is not to spray this directly on the buds (unless you are using a KNF Food for personals and you want to customize the smoke in other ways), but instead the plant absorbs all the KNF Solutions best when sprayed on the underside of the leaf just before sundown. This gives the plant a nice dinner to go to bed with and then do majority of it’s growing over night.
- drake answered 6 years ago
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The process of fermentation eliminates many of the pesticide type functions when making KNF Food. In fact, many things that are known poisons are made edible after fermentation has elapsed, so I am very skeptical of the papaya leaf KNF Food being an effective pesticide.
You may find it works, but in my best understanding, it acts as a food to stimulate good biology rather than killing or inhibiting something you want to eliminate. I have made KNF Food from papaya leaves and it was quite tasty, though I prefer to make it from the fruits for my purposes.
If you are looking for an effective way to get the proteolytic enzyme from papaya leaves, perhaps consider putting them in a pressure cooker with water and cooking them for many hours until the water reduces in half. This dark slurry is then strained and combined with liquid soap to become an effective pesticide.
- drake answered 6 years ago
Pinks and reds are not good. I want to be encouraging here, and I think you did your best with limited information to just move to the next step, so that is good, but sounds like you could get a better collection in the future.
Most likely those certain pink microbes that you collected will be outcompeted when you move on to further steps in the IMO process.
My hunch here is that there were also other colors and that the batch looked more like a tiedie shirt? If this is the case, most likely there was too much moisture present in the collection. There are several solutions, the simplest being to add less water to the rice when cooking it, and to wait until it is completely cool before putting it in the collection box.
Collecting IMO can be challenging, so try again!
- drake answered 3 years ago
i’d avoid iodized sea salt. the less it has been processed or heated the better.
- drake answered 3 years ago
As said in the Office Hour, I do not believe that calcium hydroxide Ca(OH)2 can be used because it will not dissolve the same way in vinegar, and may be hazardous to eat. However, the limestone crumbles can be used directly or used in the Water Soluble Calcium (KNF Reproduction) recipe because it is calcium carbonate CaCO3, which is non hazardous to digest and will dissolve in vinegar.
- drake answered 2 years ago