Fish Hydrolysate

[Swftroml]

"Take 1/4 cup of kelp meal and cover that with about 1/2 cup of water and let it completely re-hydrate. Once that is done then pour off any excess water and use that for a kelp meal tea.

 

Take the hydrated kelp meal and puree it as much as possible to make a kelp meal paste. You'll want to do this in small batches and store in the refrigerator in the coldest place which is usually in a corner.

 

When you need to apply a kelp meal tea than add about 2 tsp. to 1 gallon of water, shake until it's completely dispersed and this is a safe concentration for spraying the leaves and you would probably want to double that amount to apply to the soil.

 

That's it!

 

CC"

 

 

I have tried this, it works well. What I haven't tried is replacing the kelp with neem,alfalfa or a very concentrated 4 hour soaked malted barley tea (maybe even dynamic lifter) but from reports other than tweaking the dose it works equally aswell. What's even better is some have even started freezing up the paste into single dose sized ice cubes!

[itchybromusic]

nice one

Swftroml

[Swftroml]

Alright everyone, i have just realised that I made a massive mistake in my post on page one with the rates of malted barley grain and water.

The recipe calls for 4 us gallons and an oz of malted barley grain, I don't know what happened other than I am a complete and utter moron, but I did not convert that over to litre's when I posted up the recipe here. I have never used it @ 1oz per 4 litres of water. Only ever at 16-20 litres and do not know if that strength would harm the plants. If it has caused any issues to anyone's plants, I am deeply sorry and I am going to try it on my own plants. I am obviously unfit to be on a forum giving advice with mistakes like that. Itchybromusic has the right application rates in his post.

[itchybromusic]

Hey swftroml 

 

I think you'll find it's not a prob although i have never used at that rate 

i know with sprouting barley seed you can go allot harder than the 7g per litre suggested rate 

 

so i don't think you would have caused any issues for anyone considering we are 

using the malted barley more so to help what the little blokes are doing under the surface

plus i don't think to many round here would have raced out & got themselves some

malted barley , but it is good that you cleared it up , on ya brother

Edited November 18, 2015 by itchybromusic

[louise]

Alright everyone, i have just realised that I made a massive mistake in my post on page one ...

 

No worries Swftroml, thanks for the correction.

[louise]

... cool info on cheese making , & Lu the market gardener moon shiner ! , i can just see Mr Lu playin the banjo while your sayin , " go-wen ta mak him squile like a pig "

We used to do heaps of dairy products, butter, soft and hard cheeses as well as cottage cheese and yogurt. Back then there was no distilling. Beer, cider and wine making, but with the kids I didn't think it was safe and with an alcoholic partner... well better he drank beer, cider or wine rather than hitting high proof moonshine.

 

Myself, I seldom drink alcohol and my forays into distilling are perfectly legal in Australia... I am distilling alcohol for the purpose of extracting essential oils from various types of plant material.

 

ISO works out expensive and difficult to get in the quantities I need (processing 6-8 oz of resinous material every 3 months) and I didn't like the idea of evaporating off litres of alcohol in a rice cooker. The answer was a bench top distiller, I can make the alcohol I need and then I can reclaim most of it off the essential oils by sticking it back through the distiller.

 

Sorry to hear that Louise. I can tell you are abit of force but there is always something to do in the garden and teas can be a pain at the best of times. I will try and post up some other tea hacks soon (concentrated ice blocks). All the best

TY Swftroml, Sunday is the first anniversary... I can manage now, maybe, 50% of the activity load I could manage a year ago. And a redesign of the garden layout hasn't lightened the load any for this year... but it will make things better for the years to come.

[itchybromusic]

We used to do heaps of dairy products, butter, soft and hard cheeses as well as cottage cheese and yogurt. Back then there was no distilling. Beer, cider and wine making, but with the kids I didn't think it was safe and with an alcoholic partner... well better he drank beer, cider or wine rather than hitting high proof moonshine.

 

Myself, I seldom drink alcohol and my forays into distilling are perfectly legal in Australia... I am distilling alcohol for the purpose of extracting essential oils from various types of plant material.

 

ISO works out expensive and difficult to get in the quantities I need (processing 6-8 oz of resinous material every 3 months) and I didn't like the idea of evaporating off litres of alcohol in a rice cooker. The answer was a bench top distiller, I can make the alcohol I need and then I can reclaim most of it off the essential oils by sticking it back through the distiller.

 

 

TY Swftroml, Sunday is the first anniversary... I can manage now, maybe, 50% of the activity load I could manage a year ago. And a redesign of the garden layout hasn't lightened the load any for this year... but it will make things better for the years to come.

interesting life Lu , seems like "been there done that" would be your middle name 

Had a very little dabble in this area & it's not for me i'll stick with bubble & bud 

good luck with your extracting Lu , love to here how you went with it 

 

cheers 

itchy

[louise]

What can say? I like to explore the possibilities of a situation. The still is still in trials but I will post something when I iron out the kinks... It's not really my thing either, I'm doing the processing for a friend. I'll do some other extractions (peppermint, lavender, eucalyptus) for myself but the real motivation behind it is to help out a friend in a tight spot.

[Naycha]

Alright everyone, i have just realised that I made a massive mistake in my post on page one with the rates of malted barley grain and water.

The recipe calls for 4 us gallons and an oz of malted barley grain, I don't know what happened other than I am a complete and utter moron, but I did not convert that over to litre's when I posted up the recipe here. I have never used it @ 1oz per 4 litres of water. Only ever at 16-20 litres and do not know if that strength would harm the plants. If it has caused any issues to anyone's plants, I am deeply sorry and I am going to try it on my own plants. I am obviously unfit to be on a forum giving advice with mistakes like that. Itchybromusic has the right application rates in his post.

 

I have corrected the post.

 

We are stoners, mistakes are bound to happen

 

Keep up the good convo, it's nice to see a thread here with a difference.

[Swftroml]

Well maybe I was stressing abit to much, the thought of harming anyone's garden is a heavy load. Cheers for the peace of mind.

Thank you Naycha for the quick fix up. We are but stoners I'll keep that in mind

I'm going to copy and paste whatever I can to try avoid my typos.

 

TY Swftroml, Sunday is the first anniversary... I can manage now, maybe, 50% of the activity load I could manage a year ago. And a redesign of the garden layout hasn't lightened the load any for this year... but it will make things better for the years to come.

Wow, what a year to look back on Louise...I don't know what to say really as it would be quite personal but I'm Wishing you all the best for the future and with the redesigning the garden, sounds like a good plan

 

Hey swftroml 

 

I think you'll find it's not a prob although i have never used at that rate 

i know with sprouting barley seed you can go allot harder than the 7g per litre suggested rate 

 

so i don't think you would have caused any issues for anyone considering we are 

using the malted barley more so to help what the little blokes are doing under the surface

plus i don't think to many round here would have raced out & got themselves some

malted barley , but it is good that you cleared it up , on ya brother

Oh that's good to hear itchy. It's probably fine then, I will give it a go on a plant with the malted barley out of curiosity.

Haha yeh I had the worst case scenario running through my mind :S