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Theres minerals in salt water and salt. I even add a little himilayan salt when making bokashi. For bokashi i use red wheat, lab concentrate, molasses, photosynthesis plus and himilayan salt. I get plenty of micros from bokashi. Including plenty of mn.

Check out horse feed shops for red flake wheat grains. I pay $11 for 25 lbs of red wheat. 1 pound of bokashi lasts me one entire grow. I don't do the ffj. I do the lacto based ffe (kyusei recipe) . The recipe is earlier in this thread. I I get better results with the lacto vased5 flower...

Get an air lock for the bucket. Get a painters mask. Regardless of allergies. You do not want to breath in grokashi dust. It will make your chest hurt for a couple days. It makes you feel like a gnarly flu is coming on. It goes away after 3 days of breathing it in. It happened to me twice. You...

Once you get into using ferments it will be game changer.

Summers are way too hot to even be outside. I can't even grow anything other than aloe and citrus. Although my blueberry plant (fruit) survived the 110-120 temps. . The rest of the year. We have best weather. All the snowbirds all over the world come here during the winter. Coachella and...

Link to free book in pdf format on knf recipes written by one Cho's students. I don't follow all knf recipes. I do jadam and kyusei recipea too. But for imo i would do the knf version...

He's making an imo (indigenous micro organisms) Same idea as making bokashi. But using microbes in native soil to ferment and innoculate the rice. I don't do it because I'm in the desert and there's sand everywhere. No woods or anything here. I don't have anywhere to bury a box of rice...

looks like it's pelletized. Not sure. gypsum pellets are pretty small. I'd turn them into powder / dust to break them down faster. I've used gypsum pellets years ago. They take longer to break down. That was long before I started doing full no till or even knew what no till was. I was recycling...

Benefits of Aloe Vera Aloe has amino acids, anthraquinones, ezymes, minerals, vitamins, lignins, monosaccharide, polysaccharides, salicylic acid, saponins, and sterols. Amino acids found in Aloe vera include: Isoleucine, Leucine, Lysine, Methionine, Phenylalanine, Threonine, Valine,And...

worm castings don't need to break down, They're already as broken down as they can be. They're not like typical animal manure at all,.. Bokashi is grains fermented with labs or em1 among a few other inputs. it produces a mat of mycelium fungi which breaks down organic material very fast. Labs...

start at the beginning of this thread. I have recipes through this whole thread

You have a lot of unnecessary amendments. The bone meals and manures will make the soil run pretty hot. I'd mix it 50/50 with soil that has not been amended. I would water with compost teas and seed sprout tea to break every thing down faster plus add Bokashi and Bokashi will definitely speed...

look up toasted coconut flakes.. They were stored in too warm of a place probably.... Don't beat your dog. They don't understand what they did wrong. All you are doing is scaring the dog and making the dog afraid of you and less trusting. The best way to punish an animal is to take their food...

Are you sure someone didn't replace those flakes with canned peaches?

We don't test the ppm and ph of run off. It's irrelevant to living soil. We're not using salts (phosphates, nitrates, and phosphoric acid). Amendments are in the soil. The microbes feed on the amendments to make them readily available for uptake. The plant feeds what it wants when it wants...

No. Sounds like they're red spider mites. Broad mites are white. You need a scope or a loupe to see them. Red spider mites are 4 times larger than 2 spotted spider mites and harder to kill. Best option is what I said before. Dr. Zymes which is made from fermented citrus with potassium sorbate...

Aem is activated essential orgamisms or rather activated labs that you make yourself. Via Master Cho's korean natural farming recipe. You ferment rice wash for 4 days. Then strain and mix 1 part rice wash and 10 parts milk and ferment for 7- 10 days. Then remove cheese curd and strain. And...

You have broad mites. Get some Andersoni predator mites and dr zymes to spray

Its always good.to have extra soil on hand. I make a new batch of.soil of every few years and mix it with old. soil. You don't need to double your soil if you don't have the space. If your veg space and flower space are the same size. I would veg in final pots form the beginning and veg...

Mycos should still be present in the soil. After harvest they sporalate into the soil waiting for the next roots as long as the soil doesnt dry out. The mycos die off after a year. I keep aged recycled soil in rubbermaid totes that can be up to 3 years old. I use that soil for veg plants. I...