Great video series! After reading JADAM and watching all the videos, I was left with some questions and curiosities about ideal amounts of ingredients, ingredient substitutes for things not easy to get in the US, etc. I appreciate the simplified and accessible approach of JADAM, but it's also refreshing to see the thought and experimentation you've put into fine tuning the JMS process. Thank you! I'm looking forward to working my way through the rest of your JADAM/KNF videos, and hopefully more to come. I think this low-cost approach to organic farming is going to be a gamechanger.
Hi @Sarah White I agree that there is a lot more to learn. I also believe that different crops will definitely exhibit optimum dosages of both JMS and JLF. Lots of fun experiments ahead. Love the fact that 95% of this stuff is already on the Farm
Hello my name is Rose from Jax FL. I was watching Jadam's Vlog and after that I saw your channel. And I am glad I watch you and learn how to make it for the garden (Smaller scale then Jadam lol). Question on water, can I use purified or spring water that we buy in the store cuz I have well water. thank you and btw I subscribed to your channel too. thanks for sharing your way of doing it cuz I was so interested in Jadams technique and also his pesticides. Hope you make them and share it too lol.
The bag is used to keep sediment from the potato and leaf mold/ compost soil from the solution. if you don't have a paint strainer bag you can use an old sock too.
What would cause a batch to not start a foam in 24 hours, with correct heat temp? Does the brew need the loose lid covering, or can the bucket just be covered with a loose plastic bag in a warm environment? If the pH is to low or high, can it still be used, or how corrected?
For us the temp set around 68F/20C seems optimum. For PH 6.5-7.0 seems to work best. If your solution is super low PH you might want to bring it up using baking soda. The exact amount per gallon depends on certain buffering factors. I would take a sample of your water, say 1 liter and then start adding baking soda about 1 gram at a time and testing pH between each addition until you've reached your desired pH. This should give you the addition rate necessary for your batch size. A lack of activity could be that your inoculum has lost viability. for example it was stored too hot. Try some fresh inoculum. You can use a loose fitting bag or a lid. The cover basically is to keep critters/bugs etc from flying in. Your food source might also be too low, I use 60g of potato per 4gal of brew. Also, I have found the better potatoes to use are the earlier season types like red norland. Russetts don't seem to work that well for me. Hope this helps!
Hi @ Parmbir Dhaliwal I think in culturing a good growth of a LAB using something that has a lot of lactose type sugars will probably be best in that the LAB will aggressively out compete the other microbes and become dominant in the solution. In the JMS brew though the goal is diversity. Certainly LAB will grow in the potato medium too but slower allowing other bacteria, yeasts, actinomycetes, protoza etc some space to grow and colonize as well.
Hi @Kick-adead-cat Good JMS shouldn't smell bad but slightly fruity. Sometimes the things that can lead to a bad outcome are 1.) the inoculant wasn't good quality such that it wasn't taken from a healthy leaf mold soil or it was from anaerobic soil. 2.) Using tap water that is treated will kill a lot of microbes and may allow an unbalanced conditions to create bad odors. 3.) The process went way beyond its peak and the batch turned totally anaerobic creating odors. 4.) The potato wasn't organic. Conventional potatoes are heavily treated with fungicides in their life cycle and some of these still remain enough to disrupt they batch of JMS We use only Organic potatoes and have found that yukon gold or red norland work best All this taken into account if it wasn't any of these one of last thing to watch for is using too much inoculant and or too much potato for the batch size. Too much food can quickly contribute to an imbalance and the solution going anaerobic before a good diversity of microbes can develop. we have found consistent success with 20g of inoculant, 15 g of sea salt, and 60g of boiled pureed potato for a 4 gallon of water batch. Hope this helps!
@@BareMtnFarm it wasn’t that bad, it smelled a little farty, like Jersey on a good day. the soil I used was nice black soil I got from under leaves from under a tree in the back of my property. I think the temps were a little high. Around 80. I wrapped the can with 2 plant heating pads. The next batch I will use only one. I used rice, didn’t have potato. I used it on my fruit trees.
Great video series! After reading JADAM and watching all the videos, I was left with some questions and curiosities about ideal amounts of ingredients, ingredient substitutes for things not easy to get in the US, etc. I appreciate the simplified and accessible approach of JADAM, but it's also refreshing to see the thought and experimentation you've put into fine tuning the JMS process. Thank you! I'm looking forward to working my way through the rest of your JADAM/KNF videos, and hopefully more to come. I think this low-cost approach to organic farming is going to be a gamechanger.
Hi @Sarah White I agree that there is a lot more to learn. I also believe that different crops will definitely exhibit optimum dosages of both JMS and JLF. Lots of fun experiments ahead. Love the fact that 95% of this stuff is already on the Farm
Great explanation.
Many thanks 🙏
So great to hear our thoughts and videos make sense and are helpful. Thank you for watching.
Hello my name is Rose from Jax FL. I was watching Jadam's Vlog and after that I saw your channel. And I am glad I watch you and learn how to make it for the garden (Smaller scale then Jadam lol). Question on water, can I use purified or spring water that we buy in the store cuz I have well water. thank you and btw I subscribed to your channel too. thanks for sharing your way of doing it cuz I was so interested in Jadams technique and also his pesticides. Hope you make them and share it too lol.
Thanks for this process. I made my first batch it was a success!
Today....mine was the most bubbly that I’d seen.. but it did have a slight funky door mixed with a dirt smell
Do I need a bag. Or can I add everything to the bucket?
The bag is used to keep sediment from the potato and leaf mold/ compost soil from the solution. if you don't have a paint strainer bag you can use an old sock too.
I've got a bit of pink forming around the edges of mine. Do you think that's a problem?
What would cause a batch to not start a foam in 24 hours, with correct heat temp? Does the brew need the loose lid covering, or can the bucket just be covered with a loose plastic bag in a warm environment? If the pH is to low or high, can it still be used, or how corrected?
For us the temp set around 68F/20C seems optimum. For PH 6.5-7.0 seems to work best. If your solution is super low PH you might want to bring it up using baking soda. The exact amount per gallon depends on certain buffering factors. I would take a sample of your water, say 1 liter and then start adding baking soda about 1 gram at a time and testing pH between each addition until you've reached your desired pH. This should give you the addition rate necessary for your batch size. A lack of activity could be that your inoculum has lost viability. for example it was stored too hot. Try some fresh inoculum. You can use a loose fitting bag or a lid. The cover basically is to keep critters/bugs etc from flying in. Your food source might also be too low, I use 60g of potato per 4gal of brew. Also, I have found the better potatoes to use are the earlier season types like red norland. Russetts don't seem to work that well for me. Hope this helps!
@@BareMtnFarm Great tips and answers.
Have you experimented with using cooked white rice to make JMS? Wonder if it takes more grams than the potato to brew?
For lactobacillus using potato instead of molasses or oats should work . Just a wild guess.
Hi @ Parmbir Dhaliwal I think in culturing a good growth of a LAB using something that has a lot of lactose type sugars will probably be best in that the LAB will aggressively out compete the other microbes and become dominant in the solution. In the JMS brew though the goal is diversity. Certainly LAB will grow in the potato medium too but slower allowing other bacteria, yeasts, actinomycetes, protoza etc some space to grow and colonize as well.
Could this be done with cooked unwashed rice or pasta water?
yes it can... any natural starch really... I use sweet potatoes sometimes
You should get paid for this work. Have you ever offered your content to Curtis Stone for his platform?
What does it smell like
I kept mine in the unheated greenhouse for about 4 days!
I kept it going for 4 days because it was being brewed in a cool greenhouse .not heated
Did it produce bubbles after 4 days?
I had it in my house. Had to remove it. Smelled like Jersey....
Hi @Kick-adead-cat Good JMS shouldn't smell bad but slightly fruity. Sometimes the things that can lead to a bad outcome are 1.) the inoculant wasn't good quality such that it wasn't taken from a healthy leaf mold soil or it was from anaerobic soil. 2.) Using tap water that is treated will kill a lot of microbes and may allow an unbalanced conditions to create bad odors. 3.) The process went way beyond its peak and the batch turned totally anaerobic creating odors. 4.) The potato wasn't organic. Conventional potatoes are heavily treated with fungicides in their life cycle and some of these still remain enough to disrupt they batch of JMS We use only Organic potatoes and have found that yukon gold or red norland work best All this taken into account if it wasn't any of these one of last thing to watch for is using too much inoculant and or too much potato for the batch size. Too much food can quickly contribute to an imbalance and the solution going anaerobic before a good diversity of microbes can develop. we have found consistent success with 20g of inoculant, 15 g of sea salt, and 60g of boiled pureed potato for a 4 gallon of water batch. Hope this helps!
@@BareMtnFarm it wasn’t that bad, it smelled a little farty, like Jersey on a good day. the soil I used was nice black soil I got from under leaves from under a tree in the back of my property. I think the temps were a little high. Around 80. I wrapped the can with 2 plant heating pads. The next batch I will use only one. I used rice, didn’t have potato. I used it on my fruit trees.
@@BareMtnFarm Can you use sweet potato instead of regular potato?