Amazing testimony @Born_From_Above! Thank you for sharing. We would love to do some side by side comparisons as well.

I think he just put a couple of leaves in water for a couple of days. I have one barrel going for years. It will definitely kill goud plants full strength.

My version of this story is fish tank plants and an expensive bottle of brown liquid from the fish tank products aisle. It’s just this stuff.

usually tap water contains chlorine, so make sure you remove chlorine first by putting water in a basin or such and leave it there for 2 days

@@farhanibrahim5925if you leave the water for 2days the chlorine goes away?

Yes! JADAM is intimidating at first-until you get the basic ideas down and can implement them using the resources you have available. Wonderful to hear about your success in the desert-we’re also in a more desert-like climate.

@@GrowingwiththeGriffins I might have created a misunderstanding. I was trying to be tactful 😂. I feel he has, in his exuberance, traveled too far away from the tenets that his father developed with KNF. This is evidenced by his “anglicizing” of his name, and his Christianity mindset. He has unwittingly developed a intellectual Western mindset and moved almost completely away from the Confucian Korean concepts of farming….which is working hand in hand with Nature. If you have read any of the history of KNF, it was not done with a scientific method but a inner development of a relationship with Nature. They were simple people….hence Youngsang, I feel, is getting away from the main concepts of KNF…and in fact much of his writings are just watered down science which I feel confuses people. Yes, his method initially works but what he teaches does not anchor the main foundation of KNF into the minds and hearts of the reader. It leads them to a dead end when they think “so much of this, and so much of that” is the methodology of successful growing of food. They should read the book, then throw it away and listen to Nature and their own heart. People need to move to a more balanced cooperation with Nature, work with the elementals on their land and listen to what those elementals share as information to successfully rebirth KNF on their own land.

Thank you for sharing your recipe and for your very kind encouragements! We love learning and sharing about this stuff and it’s great hearing about others successes!

Yeah it’s called lactic acid bacteria LAB right?

Thanks for that insight! Glad to hear about another person benefiting from JLF.

Good to know about the acidic thing! We have heavy clay here in southern Indiana, and I am a big fan of liquid fertilizers in general. Thanks!

Glad you enjoyed it 😊

Thank you!

Our pleasure!

You are welcome!

Thanks 8oclocktomatotalk!

Thank you!

You have to make it! But at least it’s free!

Great question! The JADAM Microbial Solution (JMS) serves a different function. JLF provides plant available nutrients to the soil with some microbial activity. JMS acts more as a soil inoculant and provides a robust quantity of microbes that help deliver nutrients to plant roots as well as aerate the soil. JLF is also shelf stable, whereas JMS must be used when the microbes are at peak activity. Hope that helps!

@@GrowingwiththeGriffins Thanks for the reply! That makes a lot of sense! I didn’t catch the difference in the names at first but the name really says it all! I might have to pick up the book you referenced. It seems really interesting!

Absolutely! Local collections will work just fine-especially if they have been left undisturbed and the leaf litter has accumulated for a while!

My hunch is that your JLF will retain nutrients - however the living organisms will potentially not survive the cold. Beware of not filling containers too full so that they don’t burst when frozen. You might consider burying JLF buckets to keep them from freezing too much. Perhaps someone else can weigh in on this as well. As far as leaf mold soil collection, it will look different in each location-however if you are able to find mycelium (thin, white strands) in the soil it is a good sign. Sorry for not having more insight here. Best of luck!

JLF has an indefinite shelf life! But we usually make new batches for our plants each season.

I suppose you could, although some whey strained out from your yogurt might be a better option! The dairy solids could react in a strange way with the fermentation process. That said, give it a try and see what happens!

We’d recommend you go to a forest - specifically one with deciduous trees as conifers create more acidic soil and the “needle-litter” soil doesn’t seem to work quite as well.

@GrowingwiththeGriffins OK thanks for the reply 👍 I appreciate

Great insight! That’s part of the reason it’s good to dilute natural fertilizers substantially!

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@@jenlgriff84🙂

Washington!

Yes, except that you’re adding in the “leaf mold soil” for a boost of microbial activity.

Thank you. I will try your method. @@GrowingwiththeGriffins

Oh we don’t claim to understand how it all exactly works-just that it works 😂! If you have some specific feedback we’d love to hear

This is soil nutrition,so you are correct

You lack fundamental knowledge of why this works when it is pretty obvious why it would work.

Rude

Does that make this video unhelpful? I lack anything more than the most rudimentary knowledge of plant nutrition but even I know that “compost tea” and complex microecologies coexisting around the plants are a good thing. Perhaps you could share knowledge instead of emotions? That might be helpful.