And then have a constant vortex and airation for 24 hours, will I have a kick ass plant feed with lots of Chitosan?
Sounds like you hit the sweet spot and good to hear your plants are doing well.
I like the idea of chitin from insect frass but the price excludes me.
I had to go with a less expensive frass harvesting method
open source and no patents pending if you can believe that
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Very nicelook up solid state fermentation and submerged substrate fermentation processes and see which one you might be able to perform
good luck and have fun
Cultivation conditions
For fungal cultivation, 1 ml spore suspension (107 spores ml–1), prepared from a 7‐d‐old slant, was inoculated into 100 ml PDB in a 250‐ml Erlenmeyer flask. The cultures were incubated at 30 °C, 180 rev min–1 for 15–21 d. For yeast cultivation, 1 ml yeast cell suspension (107 cells ml–1), prepared from a 7‐d‐old slant, was inoculated into 100 ml YMB in a 250‐ml Erlenmeyer flask. The cultures were incubated at 30 °C, 180 rev min–1 for 6 d. Fermentation broth from each culture was sampled to monitor growth. Fungal dry weights were determined by filtration (GF/C glass microfibre; Whatman, Maidstone, UK), washing twice with distilled water and drying the biomass pellet at 85 °C to constant weight. All experiments were carried out in triplicate and the results are expressed as mean ± S.D.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1472-765X.2002.01118.x
very good thank you.
the waste generated by chitin production from crustaceans is not sustainable(IMO) and is why any attempt at a more eco friendly option has my vote
(black soldier fly and other insects for example)
hopefully your thread gets the wheels spinning and a simpler method becomes a reality