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I love that song 
I found a bunch of baby worms today when doing my week 5 langbeinite topdress. They’re multiplying nicely 
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@Ss2442 Ima place the info here to make it easier for me to find in the future.
This is the basics. There’s smell cues that take practice to learn. I’ll do my best to write a walk through.
1 cup rice
1 cup & 2 tbsp water
Bring the water to a simmer and take off heat
Add rice and whisk for 1 min
Drain rice wash into a sterilized clear cup
Cover with a coffee filter and rubber band.
Place somewhere warm until it separates into 3 distinct layers.
Time depends upon your specific environment.
Tip: smell every day until you smell a sweet scent followed by slightly sour finish.
Use something to syphon the middle layer. I use a syringe with some air tubing, but a simple turkey baster works. Whatever you use must be sterilized first. Most turkey basters get used a couple times a year, so buy a new one for this.
Try not to disturb the starch layer on the bottom when collecting. Then measure out the solution into a sterilized measuring cup. It should be somewhere close to 100 ml.
Now add milk at 1:10 ratio.
So for example, 100 ml solution gets 1000 ml of whole milk for a total in container of 1100 ml or very close with my recipe.
Cover top with a paper towel, doubled over and rubber banded.
Let it sit somewhere dark until it separates curd from whey. If done right it shouldn’t really stink.
Remove the curd. I give it to my dog as a special treat.
Then symphony out the whey you created.
*Tip: I use a 25 micron screen to filter out any solids, but a coffee filter will do the job.
Again, with a sterilized measuring cup, measure out the cloudy liquid.
Add equal amount of brown sugar or un-sulfured molasses to it.
Tips: if using brown sugar I use Bernoulli‘s principle to measure equal amounts.
I also add in a lil bit extra to make sure the solution becomes supersaturated.
Place somewhere dark with a loose fitting top for 3 weeks.
After this time, transfer into the fridge for long term storage. It should be used up within a year and within 6 mos if not refrigerated
Burp jar weekly or it will explode eventually.
Weekly use, for soil drench, is 15-20 ml/gal
Hope this helps people.
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Ty Bud! U think of everything!
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Love the smell be one with the smell…
Thanks for the write up I gotta make some.
Never tried the simmer water thing before will give it a go.
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Be one with the smell?? Lol
There is no spoon. . . .
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Hey those are very interesting I could use those for mead gives a man a halo does mead!
Thanks
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I have a meade I made and have 5 bottles left. This past July it was 12 years old!!! I open a bottle every Nov. for my birthday and Thanksgiving.
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I made without cooking wash, seemed to turn out fine. Is step necessary? Also feel like I read the brown sugar is only necessary if not refrigerated? If refrigerated the lab can go straight in once separated from curd, no?
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Yea that’s how they explain process as you stated above in the KNF video dude in Hawaii. I think maybe the simmering water helps rice give up its goodies better? My guess anyway.
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Sounds right. I think i was watching Chris Trump on YouTube and read an article from someone else. I just know that I didn’t work that hard lol, otherwise I probably wouldn’t have done it.
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The heated water helps to in the collection, and isn’t a necessary step. With this added couple minutes to the process you’ll have more rods collected.
The brown sugar or molasses part, is necessary to strengthen them. As bacteria break down sugar, lactic acid and carbon dioxide are formed, removing oxygen. The last stage of adding brown sugar to the mix to super saturate the solution for preservation also acts to activate the lactic acid bacteria present. This encourages the growth of even more lactic acid bacteria and prevents the growth of other microorganisms.
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I just found this recipe, and I plan to give it a try on my veggies for fun.
Years ago, the Brand ‘Knox’ – a manufacturer of gelatin had a theory that the gelatin could be a rich source of nitrogen for plants. To test their theory, they had the University of Houston test it.
Two years were spent testing 49 species of plants and the study conclusively found that the gelatin does indeed provide a rich source of nitrogen to plants.
Check that out here: Knox Unflavoured Gelatine - Gelatine
The original Knox Gelatine is sold on Amazon and in some grocery stores. There are other manufacturers of unflavored gelatin, however, Knox is the product that’s been tested and proven to be beneficial when used as a fertilizer.
To make a batch of fertilizer, the Knox instructions are:
- Mix 1 pouch of Knox Unflavored Gelatine with 50 ml of cold water in a 1-liter jug
- Leave it for two-minutes
- Add 250 ml of cold water and stir until it dissolves
- Then fill the jug up with cold water and water your plant with the mixture
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How to make EM-5
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Complete Living soils info from building, to re amending, teas and top dresses, & 10 week flowering schedule
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So u start out making EM5 with EM1. Where do u get that at? Or do u make that first?
@Budbrother
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Build a Soil sells EM1 and EM5 if you do not want to make it.
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