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My wheels get turning, I tell ya what. So as I am thinking about my next ferment, I was considering using some tall grasses I have in the back yard. Then I considered adding the 2 ferments together to bolster the supply of a single bottle.
I went looking for info about using more than 1 plant in a ferment plant juice. Well...it's not advised. I can't say I know this info, so struggle to understand the reasoning. Cho has way more experience at this junk and has proven success, so I just need to accept what I read from him. Here is some reasoning behind the idea of keeping a single plant ferment to enhance the overall efficacy of the ferment itself...
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The reason for only using one plant material at a time is in the stage of fermentation, to make it as clean and efficient as possible. The microbes colonizing the plant’s surface are designed to digest it and break that specific plant down as it naturally sloughs off cells, so when you mix them with sugar and cause the juice to come through the cell boundary, these microbes do really well. However, if you have multiple plants, the microbes from one plant are really good at digesting their own plant the are only okay at digesting a different plant. When the microbes mix with multiple plants and the resulting fermentation is only so-so.
The best way to combine KNF Food made by fermenting plant juice is to mix the different KNF Food solutions right before using them. So where a recipe calls for 1:500 of KNF Food, I can put in 1:1000 of one plant material and 1:1000 of another plant material. Both of these together will make 1:500 dilution.
The other thing to note is that different parts of the plant correspond with different phases of the plant growth. In the early vegetative stage, it is best to apply KNF Food made from plant tips, as the plant starts to enter puberty, it is best to use KNF Food from flowers, and as the fruit starts to ripen a KNF Food made from fruit will have added benefit. ---
To contradict the single plant ferment theology, when making the fermented FRUIT juice, we can use 3 or more. All fruits and vegetables are great additions for this method.
@NuttyProfessor has come up with an ingenious method at doing these ferments on a larger scale. He fills up a fabric pot with mixed plant material and sets that fabric pot in a bucket. That bucket has holes drilled in it and as the juices are extracted, they seep out the bucket from the hole and the mixture is already sieved through the fabric pot. That is some forward thinking! Some farmers are doing this in 55 gallon drums. I could not fathom the potential smell or cumbersome nature of a tub of ferment.
I went looking for info about using more than 1 plant in a ferment plant juice. Well...it's not advised. I can't say I know this info, so struggle to understand the reasoning. Cho has way more experience at this junk and has proven success, so I just need to accept what I read from him. Here is some reasoning behind the idea of keeping a single plant ferment to enhance the overall efficacy of the ferment itself...
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The reason for only using one plant material at a time is in the stage of fermentation, to make it as clean and efficient as possible. The microbes colonizing the plant’s surface are designed to digest it and break that specific plant down as it naturally sloughs off cells, so when you mix them with sugar and cause the juice to come through the cell boundary, these microbes do really well. However, if you have multiple plants, the microbes from one plant are really good at digesting their own plant the are only okay at digesting a different plant. When the microbes mix with multiple plants and the resulting fermentation is only so-so.
The best way to combine KNF Food made by fermenting plant juice is to mix the different KNF Food solutions right before using them. So where a recipe calls for 1:500 of KNF Food, I can put in 1:1000 of one plant material and 1:1000 of another plant material. Both of these together will make 1:500 dilution.
The other thing to note is that different parts of the plant correspond with different phases of the plant growth. In the early vegetative stage, it is best to apply KNF Food made from plant tips, as the plant starts to enter puberty, it is best to use KNF Food from flowers, and as the fruit starts to ripen a KNF Food made from fruit will have added benefit. ---
To contradict the single plant ferment theology, when making the fermented FRUIT juice, we can use 3 or more. All fruits and vegetables are great additions for this method.
@NuttyProfessor has come up with an ingenious method at doing these ferments on a larger scale. He fills up a fabric pot with mixed plant material and sets that fabric pot in a bucket. That bucket has holes drilled in it and as the juices are extracted, they seep out the bucket from the hole and the mixture is already sieved through the fabric pot. That is some forward thinking! Some farmers are doing this in 55 gallon drums. I could not fathom the potential smell or cumbersome nature of a tub of ferment.
GO P.P 
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but gives you peace of mind at the end of the day hahahaaaa 
someone has to be the alpha male 
do you ferment your trimmed leaves or use them for something else ?
feeding my plants to my plants
must be true though. It's in black and white
lol
There is no intent to grow outdoors this year, so let the testing commence.