Fermented plant extracts

[redneck shogun]

So I got a collection of plastic bottles of different fermented plant extracts and I had been feeding only one particular kind per watering. Could I, for example, add more than one together for a single watering or would that not be anymore effective?

 

[Amber Trich]

Plants that help our plants

 

[jaykush]

So I got a collection of plastic bottles of different fermented plant extracts and I had been feeding only one particular kind per watering. Could I, for example, add more than one together for a single watering or would that not be anymore effective?

you can apply them together, specially if you know the extracts and have used them by themselves. i just reccomend you dont brew them together.

 

[descivii]

As far as using fruit goes, it does smell like a wine-cooler but I've had no ill effects from using it as a foliar and further grew a tomato plant hydroponically in it once and the plant wandered everywhere and produced tomatoes too big for their own good. I think theres pics of it in the Bio-Cultivator thread by Pyrex. I use fruit among many other things in a trug (floppy buckets from UK) and stir the mixture several times a day with a bamboo cane. I tend to use fruits and flowers or green vegetation but not real specific. I Haven't used the fruit mixture in soil though, only the "green" mix.

J

 

[jaykush]

fruit in the biocultivator is fine. its about the season to get mine up and going again too.

 

[descivii]

JK,
I've been thinkin about a Bio-Cult 2, I shut mine down and haven't gotten it back up for almost 2 years now. Last we had talked, you were going to make some improvements over what I had done. What did you change about yours? I had a problem with a black sludge building in the bottom res that I couldn't easily get at without taking it apart for starters. Do you have a thread or pics of yours?

J

 

[Krshna]

Im sure this has been asked before, infact Ive seen it, but is this nettle? I was out in a field picking interesting things and from my fuzzy memory this seemed like nettle, had the fuzz needles etc, but didnt sting me..... could somebody give me a quick ID please before I go making potions with unknown weeds? There were so many different pics on google images of 'stinging nettle' it was confusing the hell out of me.

 

[mapinguari]

Kinda looks like it, but they call it stinging nettle for a reason...

 

[Krshna]

Kinda looks like it, but they call it stinging nettle for a reason...

true, thought i might have nettle sting resistance powers? i have my doubts now after seeing the seeded ones in the nettle tea thread... i think i saw seeded ones in the field i was in.. next time ill have to rub them and see whats up.

Anybody have any idea what this is if its not nettle? In my hand is 3 or 4 tops of the plant, they just grew as stalks and seem to be purpling at the top...

 

[descivii]

I'm resistant to nettle as well as poison oak and ivy, don't know why but some people are...just a minority is all.

J

 

[Krshna]

I'm resistant to nettle as well as poison oak and ivy, don't know why but some people are...just a minority is all.

J

So do you reckon that looks like nettle to you? Ive been searching pictures and the closest guess I can come up with is purple dead nettle, one of the pics I found looks exactly alike, but all the others dont... idk but ive got it sitting in some 2L bottles anyway till I can figure out for sure. One other interesting note is that at every leaf node, where the pistil and balls apear on pot plants, there was something that looked identical to a female preflower, with 2 orange hairs and everything.. thought that was kinda odd, but maybe Im just not inspecting enough weeds? I dont know but I hope somebody does, because I got something fermenting lol

 

[descivii]

Never seen purple on the nettle I run across. I care for a native prairie and the nettle there is all green and it stings everyone else but me. Sorry, thats all I know of it. My assumption is that any nettle is probably still good with stinging being the preferable nutritionally.

J

 

[jaykush]

its not stinging nettle. aka urtica dioica.

 

[Krshna]

its not stinging nettle. aka urtica dioica.

thanks jay, I was afraid it was not. now that i typed in urtica dioica and saw the seeded pictures of the plant I know exactly what it is, and saw it yesterday but avoided it because I was collecting mulch and following your advice of finding weeds that had not gone to seed lol. funny how that works At least I know now what it is. would you reccomend using the seeded parts of the plants as well, or just stripping the leaves off for the extract?

Ive got the other stuff fermenting in bottles, maybe Ill experiment and give it to my tomatos

 

[mad librettist]

it's not deadnettle either. I know my purple deadnettle even if I know nothing else

 

[h.h.]

http://eatingmymoccasinsnow.blogspot.com/2009/02/dead-nettle-lamium-purpureum.html

 

[Amber Trich]

guys, is this dead nettle? thanks..

 

[jaykush]

would you reccomend using the seeded parts of the plants as well, or just stripping the leaves off for the extract?

seeded plants are best used to start your own patch of nettles.

amber i dont think thats dead nettle, but looks to be a good plant for compost, worm bin or mulch.

 

[mad librettist]

dead nettle sort of makes little spikes. kinda looks like nature's SOG. very purple.

 

[3rdEye]

Amber Trich that is called creeping charlie. Haven't used any yet, but it's all around where i'm at.

I just finished a dandelion flower FPE. Gave some to plants at a 1:30 dilution and they seem to like it.