[sophisto]

Originally Posted by jaykush

hey g33k speak, that info is posted here multiple times, but its all good. a nice read for sure.

this is my favorite part
“It’s ten dollars,” Carandang says, “but you don’t need to buy it. Just make your own. I guarantee it will be better.”

also a few parts i think need mentioning.
"Last year, I saw Dierks’ brews as they came to life in his potting shed. They weren’t pretty, mostly soupy brown liquids in jugs and buckets, but the life inside them was astonishing. He went to give me a smell of one, labeled “Root Brew,” only to find the bottle cap had been sealed on by liquid seeping out from inside. He wrenched the plastic bottle between his hands, pulled, and bang! The cap popped off and liquid exploded all over the shed.

We stood there for a moment, our bare arms and faces and shirts brown and wet, Dennis holding what had become a sated volcano, calm but still dribbling out lava. “If this were chemicals we would be totally poisoned right now,” he said, “not to mention out of a lot of money. But that’s the beauty of it. Instead, your skin feels soft. It feels alive. And it’s free. I haven’t been this excited about farming for 25 years.”"

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Too funny I can only imagine the looks on there faces at the moment of detenation...........LOL

I said this earlier but I was thinking in the future of getting some sturdy cylinders with screw on lids that I could install a bleeder valve in the top to allow gas to escape.....seems like it would work...

[G33k Speak]

I have some lacto brewing now- I used dry white rice and just rinsed it and used the water. Is that correct?? Some sites seem to be using cooked rice.
I'm brewing it in a plastic jug with air holes and screen/filter material on top.

I wonder if I could or shoud put it into glass or a clear plastic container when I need to seperate the lacto layer..??

The lacto should be a nice addition to my aquaponics.

[G33k Speak]

well, after a tour of all my local asian stores, I struck out on the EM. I tried whole foods, but they didn't stock it either.

I did pick up some ginger root.
Has anyone made the garlic-ginger extract??

[jaykush]

I said this earlier but I was thinking in the future of getting some sturdy cylinders with screw on lids that I could install a bleeder valve in the top to allow gas to escape.....seems like it would work...

plastic bottles are fine imo, there cheap and reusable. when they go bad just toss em.

I have some lacto brewing now- I used dry white rice and just rinsed it and used the water. Is that correct?? Some sites seem to be using cooked rice.
I'm brewing it in a plastic jug with air holes and screen/filter material on top.

I wonder if I could or shoud put it into glass or a clear plastic container when I need to seperate the lacto layer..??

yes its the rice wash, thats how i do it and have told ppl to do it. i usually wash the rice twice to get a thicker colored liquid.

and i also used glass, a quart mason jar. then the final culture into a 1 gallon jug(also glass).

[ThaiPhoon]

Hey G33k Speak here is a link to a webstore in the US. I found it using a google search, there must be others...That is DAMN expensive, the same product here cost less than one dollar...I think that because this is "food grade". I have eaten the EM here and it hasn't made me sick! I breathe the EM sprays everyday while spraying as well...

I wouldn't mind buying some cheap EM here and shipping it out to whoever wants it. I guestimate that the small plastic 250 ml bottle of EM would cost roughly 10 US to send...just send me a PM if interested

[G33k Speak]

Thanks for the answers y'all.
I guess i'm going to buy it from Dr. Higa and do it up properly.

The Lacto B sound better the more I read about it.....

I've got a sudden hankering for a nice microscope now.

[MrFista]

Fishies like the lacto B geekspeak, I've reduced my feed a good 10 percent since the lacto about a month ago. I did the greenhouse and the fish got the drift. A few drops in pond to be sure... They're eating greens more too.

[G33k Speak]

I'm reading up on Dr' Higa EM1, and they recommend it for aquaculture and for hydro... but it seem slike a small percentage of the solution... like 1 tsp per gallon.

What dilution ratio are you using???

I'm finally getting a little bit of a smell from my lacto jug today.

I wonder if I add yougurt instead of milk, if I'll get lactob casei???

anyone know what would favor Lactobacillus plantarum production??

[ThaiPhoon]

I usually spray straight EM on everything at 2ml/litre (1:500) Same ratio with FPE and EM-5 ferments. There is about 50% lactic acid bacteria in the EM, the other 50% is made up of groups of other types of microbes...

[G33k Speak]

Ok so here is the next project

beneficial indigenous microorganisms.. considering the baptism with Hydroguard and Mycorrhizal fungi, I should have a boat-load of expensive microbes growing on my healthy roots, and surrounding substrate(lava rock).
I'm going to pull up a fresh rootball and some media, and put it into a rice box collection thingy. Let it grow for 5-7 days and then add some sugar and perhaps a little dose of yeast and ferment it out.

Here's the sticky wicket: should I use some of the mold/fungi/yellow WTFE that grows on the leaf debris on the grow bucket's surface??
At face value. that would seem to be taking the dreaded 'leaf mold/fungus' and growing more of it, and then pouring it over the roots....