I was participating the other day in a thread on best organic fertzs one has ever used. I threw my bokashi bucket up on there, but this is my thread and I think it also has a benifit to be on here since it's titled Real Organics.
I collect all my ingredients from the grocery store dumpster. It's free and loaded with microbial spores and cysts. When we ferment, we encourage only a few benificial microbes. These are flaculative anerobes. They are not anerobes or pathogenic. Flaculative anerobes can live and function within either enviroment. One flaculative anerobe everyone is familiar with is lacto bacillus, a bacteria solely responsible for the production of yogurt and keifer. Which are known for the antibiotic like effect and excellent digestive health benifits they give us. The bacteria and yeasts create an environment that's unsuitable and inhospitable pH for any bad bacteria and any aerobe, like what we all use in AACT. These aerobes stay dormant until the ferment is diluted or returns to a favorable condition. Then, once prompted to colonize, the soil and "pre chewed" fermented food waste is ready for its final decomposition. One that feed the soil and the plant. Worms go nuts for it too and you can guarantee a high EWC ratio with your beds or pots. Or give it to the worm bin.
The ingredients that you choose will dictate the final product. If you want a bloom fertilizer, add lots of fruits high in PK. If it's for veg, add leafy greens and fish. And you mix even ratio for a complete fertilizer. It's your call and really, anything goes. I like to add any thing that's yellow and orange like carrots. Very high in beta caratine and plants need that too. But the idea is to also add fruits that are very high in natural sugar, ie. Cantaloupe, figs, strawberries,ect.. microbes are all fueled by carbohydrates. I also add blackstrap molasses. High in calcium and magnesium plus iron.
The oatmeal in the picture is used for extra nutrient value and mainly as a sticker. In most bokashi tutorials it shows to spray the em1 onto grains or shredded newspaper and let it dry. Lol fuck that. I just add dry oatmeal in layers between the scraps and spray it with EM1. Save some wait time and extra hassel.
After you fill the whole bucket up with your layers it must be full with little to no headroom. This is an anerobic process and air is not conducive. Also make sure your bucket layers are pressed down as sto push out any trapped air within the layers.
An airlock or a loose cap is perfect for venting the C02 that produced as a byproduct. The mix will finish in about 1 month if you did things correctly. The smell should never be nasty or gross. It will smell like sweet vinager or clearly something that's fermented. If at any time you observe molds (black,blue,green,red) or bugs that may have enteted, don't use it. Dispose of that shit asap. Like I said before a sweet smell is desired. The liquid that drains off as leechate is liquid fertilizer. Give to plants @5ml/g for young to mid age. And @10-15ml/g for older/large plants. Non burning and immediately bio avaiable.
i recognize that from the beans in my outdoor garden any day. careful with those bad boys! or are the beans a decoy from the cannabis??? there is a friggin epidemic of spider mites in my outdoor city garden from all the growers with mites around here dumping their shit outside and spreading them. it's gonna make the news one day i'll betcha, not that i'll be watching 