Great question Karry! In Natural Farming literature it is very ambiguous. I chose our rate based on coverage and 'wetness' of the leaves. We apply liquid IMO full strength at a rate of 20gallons / acre. This rate is for an orchard, but because it is undiluted I believe this rate would still apply for a row crop situation, though I might dilute by 50% and double the rate (same IMO/acre, just more water). I would do this so that you get more of a drench effect. I used this rate for grassland treatment with Great results.
why not to say thank you, as you know poor guy like me from third world country would never ever have access to these kinds of information i do appreciate and thank you again.
I live in Malaysia. The climate here is more the same as Hawaii. I learned a lot from your channel. Thanks Chris Trump. Your information help me in understand more about KNF.
I Feel an intuitive connection to this extraordinarilly earth connected methodology to Natural Farming..C.T. is my favorite resource of the many because of how the process alone of collecting microbes has given me wagonloads of food for my imagination thinking about how this art science is working in my garden...Thanks and Peace to Chris Trump ! ! 🤔🤗🌄
The cool thing about composting in a 30 or 55 gallon worm tower is that they're easy to move. I can put them around a tree that needs a little help, a little break from TX sun soil drying, a little help w/ nutrition, attract a little earthworm population to the root system of the tree, that sort of thing.
god bless you sir and thanks for bringing your knowledge of natural farming to the world and youtube! you have improved my gardening so much and given me guidence when i was unsure on certain recipes..i really appreciate you taking time to clarify natural farming practices and i will continue to follow and learn from you
Thank you so much for these fantastic videos! I'm getting this started in Cockatoo Australia and have learned so much from your teachings. I just think it's all really good, amazing stuff and I can't wait to see what it's going to bring. I' ve always loved growing, fermentation, tinctures, growing mushrooms and microorganisms, weeds, medicine, puting back and so on ..... It all finally fits into one full circle of nature and production of beautiful things. With sixty acres of cleared land, bush forest, and a spring, healing this cleared with its own forest power through growing is a dream. So thank you again for your wisdom.
Thanks for the info Chris, but i gotta ask, why do you need all those ingredients? Couldn't you just take your IMO 1/2, mix with some sugars and water, and make a tea in order to propagate the microbes? Or in the case that fungi won't propagate in water, couldnt you just take some organic rice meal and mix that with the IMO1 for colonization? Just not sure why you need like 8 different products just to make imo3.
What is the maximum temptature the heap go. If it goes over & abobe 40 degree celcious who the bactiria survive at that temprture. Hope Cris will respond
SWEET mixer! I have a 6X6X4' high compost bin for initial breakdown & then I load into either 30 gal or 55 gal plastic drums which with major holes and rabbit cage wire in the bottom are essentially big assed worm towers. This means to turn my shit I either shovel or rake it out of the main bin. OR I'm raking it out & dumping it out of a barrel, stirring, raking, shoveling in fresh medium to break down and then loading the drum back up. A little bit of work.
We need more people to be doing that so we have evidence to show forth and I’m working on putting that evidence together I don’t quite have enough yet but I am collecting it. There needs to be more of us out here collecting this data to show forth in order to help change the world even further.
Chris, we are doing something very similar, we are using only the waste from our property along with waste from our local Grain Mill waste facility. I would say the only difference is that we also add biochar to our IMO3 making stage. We make IMO4 as you do and sprinkle IMO3 between weeks. So, my question is, how many acres do you cover with your batch please?
I do not understand from watching this video what materials to look for in MY area. Are you using Macadamia nut because that is a carbon material? Am I just looking for carbon materials in my area?
Oh, brother am I wicked glad to have found your channel! What a wealth of knowledge, please don't stop sharing! One question I have is: could you elaborate what the nutrient solution is inside your large final mixing tank? Aloha!
Question;What type tree are you spraying?Working up in Pupukea on O'ahu could use some tips what type trees benefit from IMO?We have Avocados,mangos,U'lu,Apple bananas,Lime,Tangerine,Lychee,Longon,Dragon fruit(Pitaya)some Coffee,Cainito.
+w. scott Hamilton everyone of those would benefit :) I am spray macadamia nut trees. Just make sure that you get a ‘fungally dominated’ IMO for tree application. Bring in wood chips and humid acid for IMO3 :) hope that helps man.
Is JADAM JMS inferior to this liquid IMO? As the steps is much easier to make. In addition, we wanted to prep another 100acres vacant land for planting somewhere next year. What's your recommendation on the prep regime? Thanks in advance. Cheers mate
Hi Chris, It's me again. Hope I'm not a pain in your butt yet. Also hope you and all your family are well. I wondered about using spent beer grains as a carb and saw dust as a carbon for my IMO3 base. I can get then moth consistently and free. I figured I could mix have the sawdust (kept as dry as possible) ready before I got the grains once I get them I could mix them together using the sawdust to absorb as much of the moisture as possible. Hoping i could get a good mixture in terms of C:N ratio, and in terms of moisture level concurrently. I guess I'm just wondering if there was asny reason that those two ingredients would not be good for IMO3.
Great video! Most Natural Farming seems to be done in Hawaii. I have a permaculture farm in the Tennessee mountains. I obviously don't have the same plants to make the formulas. How can it be applied here?
+Jerry Snelling the beauty of NF is the philosophy and science is centered in using indigenous resources. I am currently apply NF principles in Boise, ID on a 2 acre farm. It works here just the same as in Hawaii. Farming is different here, but the NF principles are the same. Let me know if you run into any specific questions.
@@biomei.solutions what sort of plants do you use in Idaho if you want to make FPJ for example? That's the toughest thing to adapt for a beginner like me.
@@adamlogan384 I’m from northern Japan, and some of the things we use here that you might have is bamboo shoots, mulberry, acacia flowers, apples, grapes, or even the side shoots of tomatoes or cucumbers. Nettles would probably be great too.
Sounds good Ben! Thanks for the support! I have already filmed the video you are asking for, I just need to edit and put it up :) trying to find the time, they are coming soon!
that is great news chris, i have been waiting for more step by step guides. i will be also be looking forward you video on ohn as there is little in terms of how to videos on the subject. thanks again for passing on your knowledge.
+ben allotey , I went strait through step by step OHN, it was the hardest one for me to film as it is the least intuitive of the processes. I have only made OHN four times. We made one batch that was 87 gallons and have been using that for five years now. :) There were some funny trips to the store. Please share the videos as they come out, let's change the world of food production! :)
+Robert Turner (Mr. Turner) hey man, I apply about 20 gallons per acre for an orchard. I would 5-10gallons/ acre for row crops. Here is a link to a "how to: Liquid imo" ua-cam.com/video/6fEzfpsmRlM/v-deo.html That might help determine amounts per gallon.
Hi Mr. Trump, I would like to ask if you have a manual or a bucket list of all the ingredients from IMO 1 to 5, during my OJT in the Farm here in the PH, we have very limited resources and information about the NFS, on my field study I used FAA as my foliar fertilizer on my lettuce and the root got burn. I don't know if the cause of burn is the amount or dosage or the formula. I'm not so sure about the FAA if a made it correctly or not. Thanks for your help in advance Mr Trump for a piece of advice.
+Freddie,Jr. Barcelenia I am sorry you had damage on your lettuce. FAA in Natural Farming, is use at a rate of 1ml/liter water. Please watch the videos IMO 1-4 that I made and then ask me your questions then :)
*Chris Trump wakes up sweaty and startled, heart pounding and breathing hard and clutching his chest he springs to sit up in bed" Chris's girl: you okay Chris? Chris : (takes a while to gather thoughts) yeah , just had a horrific nighmare. these men... they were brutal Chris's girl: OMG, hun were they trying to hurt me? Chris : no, these animals....they walked into my lab and stole all 8 Mason jars with the IMO2 collections.
my imo3 got little bit greene not all white, its good or got anaerobic? or my imo2 was not good? Can i use that to make liquid imo? max temp went 62C on day 5 and i turned it 3 times now is 48C on day 6. I got mix 10l wheat bran and 20l larger saw dust. Any suggestions? thanks
Hello Chris, thanks for you're video. I am french in Reunion island and i want to reproduce you're imo3. But what substratum i can use if i haven't rice or wheat here? we have a lot of bagasse extract of sugar cane, it is good too? and what are the element primary i must have to do imo3? sorry for my english :)
Hi Chris, Great videos. I was thought to store IMO #2 with a lid on top with no air coming in. You have covered your IMO's with only paper towel and store for 3 years?. Can you tell more about that, please? Is that tank specifically designed for natural farming? Where did you get it, if I can ask? I'm from Hawaii Big Island. I have only 7 acres and I just started doing natural farming. Your videos are awesome. Love it. You have a new subscriber :)
+Marta Wilson breathable is better for the storage of IMO2. :) For 7 acres check out my "how to: liquid IMO" I don't think you need a big tank like mine. You probably want to aim at making 40 gallons at a time. Have fun with KNF!! Thank you for your encouraging words!
What about ants? I have problems with ants crawling in and around my IMO 3 and my 4 . Do you or anyone has problems with ants in IMO 1,3,4,and what to use organically to kill or get rid of these ants?
where do you learn this method? im semi chemical guy this is very unusual. i use compost tea, worm tea, and make kind em4 solution with pineapple juice for leaf. but this kind alcoholism thing never seen.
I am an agronomic soil scientist. A word of caution about aqueous vegetative extracts "compost tea". First: the finish extract contains very little, if any, nutrient value in lab analysis. When compared to groups receiving an equal amount of water on the same schedule the two groups are indistinguishable. Secondly: these malto-lactic fermented solutions can be dangerous. E. coli, salmonella and even cholera have been incubated this way with deadly consequences in Korea and Taiwan. Compost does not have these issues and is generally recognized as safe and effective.
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Great question Karry! In Natural Farming literature it is very ambiguous. I chose our rate based on coverage and 'wetness' of the leaves. We apply liquid IMO full strength at a rate of 20gallons / acre. This rate is for an orchard, but because it is undiluted I believe this rate would still apply for a row crop situation, though I might dilute by 50% and double the rate (same IMO/acre, just more water). I would do this so that you get more of a drench effect. I used this rate for grassland treatment with Great results.
karry fisher, there was a bug to reply to your comment... :(
Do you sell your Imo? I live in Laie on the north shore. I would love to come check you out.
why not to say thank you, as you know poor guy like me from third world country would never ever have access to these kinds of information i do appreciate and thank you again.
I am glad you like it. I hope it is helpful
I live in Malaysia. The climate here is more the same as Hawaii. I learned a lot from your channel.
Thanks Chris Trump. Your information help me in understand more about KNF.
Having just built my first compost brewer out of a 55G drum, that brew tank u got just blew my mind 🤯 it’s a beautiful beast!!
I Feel an intuitive connection to this extraordinarilly earth connected methodology to Natural Farming..C.T. is my favorite resource of the many because of how the process alone of collecting microbes has given me wagonloads of food for my imagination thinking about how this art science is working in my garden...Thanks and Peace to Chris Trump ! ! 🤔🤗🌄
The cool thing about composting in a 30 or 55 gallon worm tower is that they're easy to move. I can put them around a tree that needs a little help, a little break from TX sun soil drying, a little help w/ nutrition, attract a little earthworm population to the root system of the tree, that sort of thing.
great job Dud!!!
I just harvested my first 2 collections of IMO , thanks to your instructions, both came out great , one bamboo, one Forrest
I am soooo happy to hear of this being sprayed on the trees instead of pesticides!
I feel fortunate to have come across your videos and channel. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. It is very much appreciated.
god bless you sir and thanks for bringing your knowledge of natural farming to the world and youtube! you have improved my gardening so much and given me guidence when i was unsure on certain recipes..i really appreciate you taking time to clarify natural farming practices and i will continue to follow and learn from you
Thank you so much for these fantastic videos! I'm getting this started in Cockatoo Australia and have learned so much from your teachings. I just think it's all really good, amazing stuff and I can't wait to see what it's going to bring. I' ve always loved growing, fermentation, tinctures, growing mushrooms and microorganisms, weeds, medicine, puting back and so on ..... It all finally fits into one full circle of nature and production of beautiful things. With sixty acres of cleared land, bush forest, and a spring, healing this cleared with its own forest power through growing is a dream. So thank you again for your wisdom.
(on a friends farm )
Now I'll be looking into this for months.
Thanks. Haha.
Please make more videos. Thank you so much for the info 🇿🇦
You are knowledgeable and humble.
WOW! You are an AMAZING CHEF! I want your kitchen! Shalom! Aloha! Arigatou Gozaimasu!
That's a Spanish cedar box or Port Orford cedar. It maintains an even moisture & 70° temperature.
Thank you so much! Pure admiration. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and process freely like this. Beautiful life you have going.
Thanks for the info Chris, but i gotta ask, why do you need all those ingredients? Couldn't you just take your IMO 1/2, mix with some sugars and water, and make a tea in order to propagate the microbes? Or in the case that fungi won't propagate in water, couldnt you just take some organic rice meal and mix that with the IMO1 for colonization? Just not sure why you need like 8 different products just to make imo3.
This is great. Love seeing your processes and equipment. The cedar box!!!!
Thanks man! Yeah we have to bring art back to agg ;)
I would be very interested to know if these materials have efficacy against powdery mildew in sweet cherries. Now that would be something.
What a top bloke!!👍👍👍
Aloha. Great work, looking forward to more videos, it's very much appreciated! Greetings from the UK.
Thank you DOC!
Differently fingers washed and put right back in? Tissue samples round for container insert vented dish of rice syrup checks with microscope cam?
Damn this is good information. Instant suscribe
If I'm not close to the sea, can I use any natural salt water source, like from a lake or stream?
What is the maximum temptature the heap go.
If it goes over & abobe 40 degree celcious who the bactiria survive at that temprture.
Hope Cris will respond
SWEET mixer! I have a 6X6X4' high compost bin for initial breakdown & then I load into either 30 gal or 55 gal plastic drums which with major holes and rabbit cage wire in the bottom are essentially big assed worm towers. This means to turn my shit I either shovel or rake it out of the main bin. OR I'm raking it out & dumping it out of a barrel, stirring, raking, shoveling in fresh medium to break down and then loading the drum back up. A little bit of work.
Chris,
What are the ratios being used here? The sheet you provided and showed us really blurry. Would love to jot those down. Thanks
Thank you for this video! It is Truly a gift!
Curious about spraying at the end of the day, or so it seems. Are you concerned about fungus?
I would like to see before and after pictures of a farm soil transformation
We need more people to be doing that so we have evidence to show forth and I’m working on putting that evidence together I don’t quite have enough yet but I am collecting it. There needs to be more of us out here collecting this data to show forth in order to help change the world even further.
Chris, we are doing something very similar, we are using only the waste from our property along with waste from our local Grain Mill waste facility. I would say the only difference is that we also add biochar to our IMO3 making stage. We make IMO4 as you do and sprinkle IMO3 between weeks. So, my question is, how many acres do you cover with your batch please?
I do not understand from watching this video what materials to look for in MY area. Are you using Macadamia nut because that is a carbon material? Am I just looking for carbon materials in my area?
Oh, brother am I wicked glad to have found your channel! What a wealth of knowledge, please don't stop sharing! One question I have is: could you elaborate what the nutrient solution is inside your large final mixing tank?
Aloha!
Question;What type tree are you spraying?Working up in Pupukea on O'ahu could use some tips what type trees benefit from IMO?We have Avocados,mangos,U'lu,Apple bananas,Lime,Tangerine,Lychee,Longon,Dragon fruit(Pitaya)some Coffee,Cainito.
+w. scott Hamilton everyone of those would benefit :) I am spray macadamia nut trees. Just make sure that you get a ‘fungally dominated’ IMO for tree application. Bring in wood chips and humid acid for IMO3 :) hope that helps man.
Hi Chris, where can we buy the big tank for making liquid IMO as per your video on large scale spraying? We have a 100 acres durian farm. Thanks
Is JADAM JMS inferior to this liquid IMO? As the steps is much easier to make. In addition, we wanted to prep another 100acres vacant land for planting somewhere next year. What's your recommendation on the prep regime? Thanks in advance. Cheers mate
Hi Chris, It's me again. Hope I'm not a pain in your butt yet. Also hope you and all your family are well.
I wondered about using spent beer grains as a carb and saw dust as a carbon for my IMO3 base. I can get then moth consistently and free. I figured I could mix have the sawdust (kept as dry as possible) ready before I got the grains once I get them I could mix them together using the sawdust to absorb as much of the moisture as possible. Hoping i could get a good mixture in terms of C:N ratio, and in terms of moisture level concurrently. I guess I'm just wondering if there was asny reason that those two ingredients would not be good for IMO3.
William Tolbert did you try this?
Great video! Most Natural Farming seems to be done in Hawaii. I have a permaculture farm in the Tennessee mountains. I obviously don't have the same plants to make the formulas. How can it be applied here?
+Jerry Snelling the beauty of NF is the philosophy and science is centered in using indigenous resources. I am currently apply NF principles in Boise, ID on a 2 acre farm. It works here just the same as in Hawaii. Farming is different here, but the NF principles are the same. Let me know if you run into any specific questions.
Thank you Chris! I'm definitely looking forward to trying it out!
@@biomei.solutions what sort of plants do you use in Idaho if you want to make FPJ for example? That's the toughest thing to adapt for a beginner like me.
@@adamlogan384 I’m from northern Japan, and some of the things we use here that you might have is bamboo shoots, mulberry, acacia flowers, apples, grapes, or even the side shoots of tomatoes or cucumbers. Nettles would probably be great too.
Is there a good book on this? I am not on a farm but would like to make this for my 2 acres. I have 5 raised beds and fruit and nut trees.
Thanks Chris!
I learned how not to get floating chunks of wasabi in my soy sauce. Genius haha. Thanks for the tip.
Hello! Great info on your vídeos! Can i use rice shells as the main carbon source?
Hello Chris,!Thx for great video, question do you spray under the trees or on trees?
can we buy your finish product? where? thank you
thanks for the videos please do a video on the liquid imo specifically. what is the ratio of imo3 to water and such. many thanks from bristol uk.
Sounds good Ben! Thanks for the support! I have already filmed the video you are asking for, I just need to edit and put it up :) trying to find the time, they are coming soon!
that is great news chris, i have been waiting for more step by step guides. i will be also be looking forward you video on ohn as there is little in terms of how to videos on the subject. thanks again for passing on your knowledge.
+ben allotey , I went strait through step by step OHN, it was the hardest one for me to film as it is the least intuitive of the processes. I have only made OHN four times. We made one batch that was 87 gallons and have been using that for five years now. :) There were some funny trips to the store. Please share the videos as they come out, let's change the world of food production! :)
When you make the liquid brew, how much imo3 do you use per gallon, and then how much of that do u spray per acre?
+Robert Turner (Mr. Turner) hey man, I apply about 20 gallons per acre for an orchard. I would 5-10gallons/ acre for row crops. Here is a link to a "how to: Liquid imo"
ua-cam.com/video/6fEzfpsmRlM/v-deo.html That might help determine amounts per gallon.
I really love all your videos. Thanks again for sharing them and keep up the great work. Hope you don't mind but I've been sharing them on Facebook
With pleasure :)
Hi Mr. Trump, I would like to ask if you have a manual or a bucket list of all the ingredients from IMO 1 to 5, during my OJT in the Farm here in the PH, we have very limited resources and information about the NFS, on my field study I used FAA as my foliar fertilizer on my lettuce and the root got burn. I don't know if the cause of burn is the amount or dosage or the formula. I'm not so sure about the FAA if a made it correctly or not. Thanks for your help in advance Mr Trump for a piece of advice.
+Freddie,Jr. Barcelenia I am sorry you had damage on your lettuce. FAA in Natural Farming, is use at a rate of 1ml/liter water. Please watch the videos IMO 1-4 that I made and then ask me your questions then :)
Love it love it!!
*Chris Trump wakes up sweaty and startled, heart pounding and breathing hard and clutching his chest he springs to sit up in bed"
Chris's girl: you okay Chris?
Chris : (takes a while to gather thoughts) yeah , just had a horrific nighmare. these men... they were brutal
Chris's girl: OMG, hun were they trying to hurt me?
Chris : no, these animals....they walked into my lab and stole all 8 Mason jars with the IMO2 collections.
this is so beautiful.
Great videos!
Chris Trump What is FPJ?
Thank you for sharing.
Great stuff I am new to.
What brand of cement mixer are you using?
Heyyo, I see you use cedar a lot. Do other woods still work well? Hard to find cedar it seems where I am
Any untreated with the exception of black walnut if you can’t find cedar AFAIK.
my imo3 got little bit greene not all white, its good or got anaerobic? or my imo2 was not good? Can i use that to make liquid imo? max temp went 62C on day 5 and i turned it 3 times now is 48C on day 6. I got mix 10l wheat bran and 20l larger saw dust. Any suggestions? thanks
Hello Chris, thanks for you're video. I am french in Reunion island and i want to reproduce you're imo3. But what substratum i can use if i haven't rice or wheat here? we have a lot of bagasse extract of sugar cane, it is good too? and what are the element primary i must have to do imo3? sorry for my english :)
use any by product of agriculture. you just need a high carbon material
How do you made humic acid
If you squint while watching it becomes a video of Ethan from H3 teaching you a Korean farming technique.
Thank you very much.
Why did you stop making videos?
Thank you Sensei!
Hi Chris, Great videos. I was thought to store IMO #2 with a lid on top with no air coming in. You have covered your IMO's with only paper towel and store for 3 years?. Can you tell more about that, please? Is that tank specifically designed for natural farming? Where did you get it, if I can ask? I'm from Hawaii Big Island. I have only 7 acres and I just started doing natural farming. Your videos are awesome. Love it. You have a new subscriber :)
+Marta Wilson breathable is better for the storage of IMO2. :) For 7 acres check out my "how to: liquid IMO" I don't think you need a big tank like mine. You probably want to aim at making 40 gallons at a time.
Have fun with KNF!! Thank you for your encouraging words!
4 steps total? How long total?
wow,this is the good life,i would do this,i like it
He forgot to mention how much of the IMO3 in that box goes to that large brewer.
Wow, thank you.
What about ants? I have problems with ants crawling in and around my IMO 3 and my 4 . Do you or anyone has problems with ants in IMO 1,3,4,and what to use organically to kill or get rid of these ants?
tomato fresh leaves,just put them around
I would want to work in this farm.
where do you learn this method?
im semi chemical guy this is very unusual.
i use compost tea, worm tea, and make kind em4 solution with pineapple juice for leaf.
but this kind alcoholism thing never seen.
+sawadikin there is very little alcohol in any of this. I learned this from Cho Han-kyu and then developed it into a large scale process on my own.
Humic Acid?
humic acid...........
@@bdc211 vermacomost?
Can I get a cheat sheet Barbara
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Imo why not
I need a cheat sheet of acronyms. Whats OHN?
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I would get eaten alive by mosquitos but it looks amazing thanks for the information
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I am an agronomic soil scientist. A word of caution about aqueous vegetative extracts "compost tea". First: the finish extract contains very little, if any, nutrient value in lab analysis. When compared to groups receiving an equal amount of water on the same schedule the two groups are indistinguishable. Secondly: these malto-lactic fermented solutions can be dangerous. E. coli, salmonella and even cholera have been incubated this way with deadly consequences in Korea and Taiwan. Compost does not have these issues and is generally recognized as safe and effective.
100
so many acronyms for a newbie... FPJ? IMO? etc dumb it down for us newbs
he stated that this was for existing farmers using these methods. He has tons of videos, just study for a day and understand all the acronyms.
Cheers!
@@ianholt1067 Fermented Plant Juice. Indigenous microorganisms