Hey - share as much over here as you like. You know i'll ramble on over at your place! And not that what you posted was rambling at all, it's all good. Heaps of this is all new to me in terms of practice so I'm really just going to be taking the first steps of making this happen outdoor in this environment this season. Mmm - might pull that old blender out of the shed and sharpen it up on some eggshells! Great tip thanks.
So, what's FPJ please? Anything that works visibly and is less likely to make me gag is most welcome
I could look it up of course, but this having a journal and folks to engage with takes a lot of energy (I'm discovering!), and I'm energy deficient so I have to ration - in this instance I'll just ask you to explain it to me!
My LAB is still conceptual unfortunately - I have to go away for a week in 2 days, so that's delayed everything. Which is for the best actually - I need to move slowly, and while I'm away I can formulate a plan for mixing my soil and contemplate ways to get the bush sites secure from critters, and order my soil amendments etc. So the LAB will be started when I return, along with everything else. It's going to be a lovely trip away too - family that I like and adorable niece&nephew so it'll be a real treat and in the evenings I'll formulate my plans
Best part is now that I have a vaporiser, there's no need to go without for the week due to the obviousness of smoking. I can happily have a medicinal low temp toke or two during the afternoon like I always do, and then a recreational hit when I retire - all in the comfort of my room without any impact on the household except my own well being
(it's not a Volcano though, that'd be hard to hide! I have an Arizer Solo
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It did! and I'm glad it was you
here... while I've got you
... glad to have you here - it's very grounding
Awww, thanks, sweetie! ❤❤❤
FPJ/E: Fermented Plant Juice / Extract. It's a way of quickly breaking down vegetable material into "bite-size" chunks for your lovely green friends. Hyper-speed composting, someone i know referred to it as microcomposting, but i haven't researched that aspect of it.
Essentially, you take a weight of beneficial plant material. Nettles, h/t fern, comfrey, kelp, beetroot, whatever (i'll explain how to pick one in a sec).
Then, mix 1/2 that weight of crude-as-possible sugar with the chopped veg matter, stick it in a container, 30ml LAB , cover with about 5 cm of water, stopper container loosely, stick in the shade for a week.
Say you use comfrey: 250g comfrey + 125g crude sugar + 250ml water in blender (which you handily just sharpened with eggshells ).
Grab a rinsed 2l cola bottle, funnel chunky plant gloop into bottle, rinse funnel with your 30ml of LAB, fill with water to about 1l mark. Stick in the shade (trust me, you're in Aus, it's summer, cool, cool shade) for about a week, loosely capped. (I'll tell you about the Incident with Exploding Beetroot FPJ before i'd had my Morning Coffee another time. It was tightly capped.)
All the 'net-info says to wait until the bubbles have stopped before use. At first, you'll imagine a bit if bubbling, then wonder if that's it. It's not.
You'll KNOW when it bubbles, and when it's stopped. I burp mine once a day to get rid of gassy build-up (Beetroot Incident. It went everywhere. I looked like Gorbachev's bald bit for 3 days.)
When the bubbling has stopped, strain out the chunky bits. Reserve liquid, store in a well-sealing container in a cool, dark place. Use this liquid at 10ml per liter for foliar feeds in veg, early flower, 30ml per liter as a soil drench.
Notes on method etc:
*You use LAB because it's a known, beneficial anaerobic bacteria. This ensures that the juice ferments with good bacteria, and you don't poison your babies with a nasty, lurking spore or something.
*the tinier you chop the veg matter, the quicker it breaks down. Great big palm fronds would take +/-700 years to decomp if you tried to use them whole, whereas blended soft veg matter takes about 7-10 days.
*Korean Natural Farming & Dr Cho speaks of using things like cucmber shoots, which grow rapidly, to encourage rapid growth in cukes & other garden plants. It also encourages using only 1 type of plant per batch of fpj, eg only comfrey not that + lucerne (alfalfa) + cukes + radish. I have a very long list of plant ppm values ito N, P, K, etc, and above makes sense when the ppm's of the plants differ greatly. I'm scared of them working against each other somehow, but i'm a bit paranoid for some reason. Tell me if i should detail this more later.
* choosing plant matter: i've been trolling forums & the net for years, so i forget where i learned some stuff, but SUPER simply: green leaved "superplants" = good for N feeds, coloured fruit & veg (mostly orange ones like pawpaw & carrot, also beetroot) = good for K (flower). A bit too tired to remember P beneficials right now.
* crude sugar- the osmotic pressure gets better the cruder the sugar is, so white will work, but not as well as muscovado sugar. You can use molasses iso sugar, but because it's a liquid, not crystalline, again, osmotic pressure (she says as though she has the slightest clue as to what osmotic pressure is.. No effing idea, but it does something important).
* great plants to use: seaweed /kelp stimulates growth, has ooooooodles of nutes in. Beetroot: sugar boost plus lovely vitamins & minerals. Comfrey: N + trace minerals from deep within the soil. Alfalfa/ lucerne: massive N boost. Banana peels: K + sugar boost. Pawpaw: nice growth hormones + sugar + beta carotene.
Sorry, hun, i want to keep going, but it's 1 am & i have to be up at 5 for a site job again, catch up later!
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I'm honoured, man. 
It was such a loooog day yesterday that the only thing I did on site was my late post. Sorry to be late here Amy. Let me jump back and catch up while I fix my breakfast canna omelette. 
and excited about the upcoming season. I'll be doing my best to rise to the occasion!
Welcome Conrad 
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