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Thanks for stopping by!! Yea I figured this could be a place to come and talk about what ya got going on and diff lil way to maximize your efforts. I have a fairly large outdoor area to work with but really only grow veggies outside bc of the legal status of my state. I usually grow 1-3 plants out there kinda in the mix. It's not that any neighbors would ever see it but my luck would be I start a good size canna crop outside and for some reason the state troopers just stop by for something or my cable guy rats me out...lol...So as for using the knf products like fpj, ffj, faa, ohn, ws-ca, ws-k, ws-capo, and ws-pa AND the imo's 1-4 outside but will condition my soil and use the ferments on my indoor container plants...I grow for personal consumption so really i am just trying to grow the cleanest possible meds for myself and if I can give back to mother nature and save money I'm all over it!!Nothing to add, but I have been checking out the knf methods and think they sound great. What sort of environment are you looking to use it in? To me, it looked they would be best applied to large beds in a greenhouse, not sure how well it would translate to container gardening indoors. I like the thread idea:)
Yea I watch his feed and also another guy Thewholeshot or something but I have dm'd them both and politely asked some questions but have gotten no responses...There are some folks over on instagram called the.nature.farm that use it in some really nice and impressive looking grows.
I use organic brewers yeast. Never thought about bread yeast..hmm... great Idea's for a thread. Cheers, :smoking:Back to the yeast question...I just thought, should I try to culture my own yeast instead of using store bought? If so I have only found ways to culture bread yeast or brewers yeast and I am not sure which, if any, is better to use....
Substitutes. Rice hulls can provide the Si, potatoes or dates can provide the K.Cool well since I just started this thread I'll go ahead and open with.....I am having a lil difficulty sourcing some items needed to follow Master Cho's methods...One thing I can't seem to track down are sesame stems for making WS-PA (water soluble phosphoric acid and tobacco stems for making WS-K (water soluble potassium)....also I found it so interesting how much yeast can help plants and have been dying to try it out on a few but the only yeast I have is champagne yeast and I am unsure if that is okay or if I need to go get regular cooking yeast....See!!! This is exactly why I started this thread so me and hopefully all of you can ask these questions and hopefully get answers..lol...Anyway I hope this really takes off and if anybody has any answers to my questions or wants to ask their own please pull up a chair and lets get learning...lol
thanks and good to know i can use either but i think i am actually going to start to culture my own with water and flour then you keep feeding it every few days and it expands and contracts...illl find the link to the recipe and post it....I use organic brewers yeast. Never thought about bread yeast..hmm... great Idea's for a thread. Cheers, :smoking:
lol thanks for joing the convo Sea!!! I just posted a wikihow on the exact thing you posted before seeing it!! Great minds....lol Do you use the yeast in your garden as well as making bread??Outside of the yeasts cultured for brewing, which are very specialized critters, it's all the same species.
Substitutes. Rice hulls can provide the Si, potatoes or dates can provide the K.
You want yeast? I've got your yeast! I'd go with a sourdough starter and keep feeding it. Bakers yeast is comprised of one species of yeast, whereas sourdough has various species of lactobacilli and yeasts, including the bakers yeast species.
Don't know if you can start a wild levain? Use the pineapple juice method, it's what worked for me.
When this cat, of Breadtopia, liked my SD on IG, I literally did a fucking dance. No knead, FTW!
Whoops! Almost forgot AGAIN, I have a batch of dough needs some stretch & folds.
Yes, but only when I have discard. The way I'm doing it now I never have any discard. And don't forget the Lactobacilli! I'm culturing those as well. :)lol thanks for joing the convo Sea!!! I just posted a wikihow on the exact thing you posted before seeing it!! Great minds....lol Do you use the yeast in your garden as well as making bread??
Just use what you can find, which I think is really more the point than following a given recipe exactly. Can't find sesame stems? Get rice hulls. There you go, Si and K.
Yes, but only when I have discard. The way I'm doing it now I never have any discard. And don't forget the Lactobacilli! I'm culturing those as well. :)
That Wiki is ok, but it's not the best IMO, for a couple of reasons.
You don't have to use dechlorinated water.
Science now shows us that the microbes we culture for levain come on our flour(s), not the skins of fruits or anything like that.
Using different flours can net you wildly differing results.
Airtight seal is fine, these are anaerobes we're culturing (I debate this often in my SD groups, there are people who will insist on it despite the scientific facts), but yes, it can blow (that's why I use plastic ice cream containers, not glass with screw-on lids).
Unless you're using organic whole rye berries for the flour source, it's usually going to take you at least a week to see activity, not a couple of days. I think this is why most new SD bakers give up, believing they are unable to culture the microbes, which is really what we're doing. Just set the dinner table and they *will* come to eat.
They're not very clear on how to properly build the starter, doing it the way it's outlined in this Wiki you WILL end up with The Starter That Ate Detroit, and you'll go through a qualified metric shit-ton of flour JUST building the fucking starter. That's bullshit.
You WANT the alcohol odor! That's your sign of yeast activity! It may not smell like alcohol, it may smell like acetone. That's ok! It's still the same thing. Since I prefer a yeast-dominant type of bread, this is my goal. If I start detecting the sour odors most Americans associate with 'sourdough' then I know I've gone too far towards the whole wheat and time side.
The dark 'brown' (often black) liquid is called hooch, and yes, it is a sign the microbes have gone through all available food sources. It does not mean your starter is dead, however.
I keep about 200g of starter on hand at any one time. When it comes time to bake, I pour it out of my container and what remains is my inoculation culture. I use a 1:1 mix of organic AP flour and WW flour, sometimes with a small addition of spelt.
(Did you know that whole wheat is not, in fact, whole wheat? It is the white flour with wheat bran added BACK, no germ remains and the germ, the part the goes bad most quickly, is where most of the nutrients are.)
This is a somewhat lengthy article, but it digs a bit into the science. Keep in mind that one of the main reasons why the pineapple juice method is so effective is that the juice naturally selects out for the appropriate microbes, whereas just using water could allow anything to live. Once you have your microbial populations up, they will naturally disallow bad players, mostly through pH control.
Ok, now for something to chew on. Lactic Acid Fermentation in Sourdough.
yes thank you i had gotten it a while ago....
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