Posts by drake

Disclaimer: Folks with PhD (permanent head damage) may argue with this , and this is just anecdotal advice.

My recommendation is to decontaminate surfaces with KNF Protectors as well as to introduce fresh Indigenous Micro Organisms into the bedding/pen area, and complete a fresh Soil Foundation Treatment, so that these microbes will sanitize the environment and make it compatible for mammalian life again.

Also, in your entry and exit points, place a pile of IMO so that each person has to walk through it and get on their feet so that the ASF is not being tracked around.

Yes, the IMO should still be “good”. It is best practice to top dress IMO applications, but without being able to directly observe the situation, in theory the IMO will begin to inoculate and persist in the environment and spread throughout the pig pen floor as the IMO has access to water and the other KNF solutions you have referenced being applied.

Your nose will know. Rice hulls are not the only thing that should be added. There should also be a foundation of wooden logs beneath the rice hulls, but I have seen just rice hulls in Korea, and minimal odor was emitted from this situation, whereas with the logs underneath there is zero odor.

It sounds like you may not have made the IMO correctly. It is essential, especially when it comes to animals, that the IMO does not exceed 50 celsius during the fermenting process. It should smell like a rich forest floor when done properly.

The idea is to get the sun to go over the chicken house so a beam of sunlight will come through the split roof to go across the floor each day. In the Advanced Chicken Workshop by Master Cho, he explains the building design in the first lecture of the playlist.

Also, Master Cho’s Slides on Chickens may be a helpful resource as well.

The solutions you mention of Medicine, Cleanser, and Protectors sound like a good short term solution to controlling any infection that is in the tree.

In the long run, Foundation IMO is your best bet. Mix a bit of that with some oatmeal gruel to make it sticky and make a sort of poultice and smear it on the wounds to help them heal. Master Cho talks about healing trees in this video toward the beginning, even though the video is about collecting IMO, he gets side tracked by the health of the tree and talks about that instead.

To get the trichoderma under control in this situation, I recommend using KNF Protectors. The broad family lactic acid bacteria are adept at helping to control other pathogenic biology that gets out of control. In this case, you could dilute the KNF Protectors at around 1:100 (about 10x stronger than normally recommended) to ensure that you get a lot of them in there to correct this problem. Also including the other standard KNF Solutions recommended in the Soil Preparation Formula is also a good idea.

Another more radical approach is to use concentrated vinegar. Like a 30% concentrate sprayed in there will definitely kill most everything, but could also burn things, so I’m not recommending this, but perhaps look into it.

I don’t think there is any way to hack the dilution ratios as recommended, otherwise that would be the recommended application/dilution rate. We are always converging toward easiness and effectiveness.

The reason for this is that the water has to do with the absorption to dilution ratios. It’s like saying that we could make gatoraide twice as potent and it would still be effective cause you could drink half as much. Yeah, not so much. You would find it way too salty and not nearly as hydrating in its effect. Similar situation here.

Also, with spraying 25gal/acre is a light mist. In practice it really covers the plants very well with no drips. At application rates below that, there will be difficulty getting the solution to maximize the surface area available for absorption.

Another way to think about this is “can i just double the nutrient density of my food and eat half as much?”. Probably not, because your intestines and digestive system can only get so much out of the food through the digestive process, and most likely you will be taking big dumps with a lot of extra nutrients in there, and no perceivable benefit to yourself besides you are still hungry. Though this does not quite really apply because our current commercially available food is much lower below the natural nutrient density per volume, so some benefit probably would be realized by concentrating more nutrient density at this point. However realize that the KNF solutions are already concentrated, so not diluting them is not nearly as analogous in this example. ie. concentrating a concentrate vs concentrating a dilute.

As for resources, I will refer you to texts by Paul Stammets.

As for what most folks want to accomplish is to have maximum yield when growing mushrooms, so sterilization of some sort is necessary to eliminate any competition for nutrients/space that will be consumed by other species other than the one desired.

I’m not sure if there is any evidence that mushrooms are more nutritious, abundant, or grow faster with other species/organisms competing for the same resources, but if this is a concern, then it is probably better to wild harvest than trying to create similar situations in artificial conditions beside their natural habitat?

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

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.