Feeding fresh juiced fruit and vegetables

Hey all,

For the last six months I’ve been juicing for my own personal health. Without getting into my story, I learned a lot about the power of fresh juice. Fresh fruit and veggie juice contains dense concentrations of many vitamins, minerals, sugars, enzymes, anti-oxidants, growth hormones, flavonoids, and many other phyto nutrients. I use apples, blueberries, cucumber, beets, kale, green peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, carrots etc.

In the human body, these compounds do wonders for you. I myself noticed so much energy, mental clarity, skin clarity, weight loss etc. I have to believe this juice would be good for plants, bacteria, fungi etc. In fact I know the latter love it, as fresh juice is between 7-12 degrees Brix(roughly 7-12% sugar) and that is the range that fermentation is conducted for most beer. Feeding carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals is common in Cannabis growing, as is adding photo nutrient sources (seaweed, kelp, alfalfa)

Annnnyways, I’m interested to experiment with this concept on watering days, perhaps diluting the juice with water down to about 5% sugar. My control would be a clone in similar Medium without juice; and another control with juice ( feeding AND watering). Juices would be standardized and applied per unit of grow medium. The juices themselves would vary depending what’s juicing in my kitchen. More to come anyways.

Any experienced growers, microbiologists, biochemists, juicers or others have any comments or experience with similar concepts?

I hope you're composting in some way. It sounds like you have some great inputs. Worms rock.

I'd put all those things you're talking about into a worm bin.

You could check into FPJ (fermented plant juice), but I'm not sure you'd end up using all your input. It could help, but would it put you total available biomass to use? Probably not.

Your discussion reminded me of Kevin Jodrey's story about judging the high times and labeling with the same icon various plants which had unique, identifiable terpene profiles that he likes the most.

When he talked to the growers, he found that they bought compost from a guy that used pomace (the grape waste from making wine). It's high in specific sugars that, when added to compost, apparently grows the fuego.

But, is it practical for you to have a 3x3x3 thermal compost pit? If so, give it a shot. Otherwise, worms could work. There are other types of composting: black flies, gross bugs that I'd kill myself if the spilled in the house, but I've yet to try them. My worms do work.

You're right about some the inputs you named. I currently have those three and a whole closet of other stuff in my bin.

Check out build a soil; clackamas coot; the modern farm (themodernfarm; search SST or FPJ with this term). Definitely check out Kevin Jodrey.

Citizen,

I do currently have a compost, although it lacks the dimensions for the appropriate thermal mass...

I use store bought compost made in my city from the compost bin program we have here in my growing media though. I know organic matter needs to be broken down to be available to plants, but in terms of a lot of the components of fresh centrifugal juice, they would be able to be transported into the roots (vitamins, minerals and sugars).

Thanks for the leads on fermented plant juice and Kevin Jodrey. Will give me something to read with my coffee this morning. Cheers!

So I gave the flowering girls about 6 oz of juice, diluted with the usual 3 gallons of pH controlled, aerated city water which has sat out for 24+ hrs to remove chlorine.

I waited for an immediate explosion of eruptive flowering... and waited. I guess I will pack my pipe and evaluate the response.

I expect this treatment to be more effective in larger sized organic soil pots, with more established microorganisms. My current system is a hybrid and I don’t think my micro flora are thriving as well as they will when I build and age some soil for an upcoming run.

I am confidant that my flowering plants won’t have any micro bite deficiencies, and hopefully some benefits can be realized from the application of these phyto nutes to the root zone. Prost!