Ep.15 This quite possibly is CHEATING in your garden! (Pre and Post Compost Tea treatment)
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- In Episode 15 of Northern Thai Garden Guy I finally review a product that I have been reading and researching for a couple of years now. It's benefits touted so promising that if even half of them turn out to be true, it really is worthy of the click-bait title above. I will let the video do the talking, but here are some additional benefits not discussed in the video due to time (their importance goes without saying).
Additional Benefits of Chitosan:
- Virus suppression (I could do a whole video on this alone).
- Helps manage Stomatal transpiration even better (meaning your plant or tree will not transpire out the moisture it has just because it is too hot and will shut things down more readily during a sudden cold snap or frost).
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Farm discussion Part 1
• Chitosan Part 1
Farm discussion Part 2
• Chitosan Part 2
Farm discussion Part 3
• Chitosan Part 3
Deep dive benefits and science behind Chitosan and Chitin
• Chitosan is in Insect ...
Excellent demonstration of the Alkaline Deacetylation process
• Preparation of Chitosa...
Broad, high level overview of the various extraction techniques
• The various chitin ext...
NTU Scientist shares fruit fermentation method for Chitosan extraction
• NTU scientists discove...
Thank you for giving so much more information. I bought some food grade chitosan, but felt very unsure how to use it. Now I have the liquid form, so much more comfortable with it. I do feel like it has been beneficial in several ways, but want to have a plan in place for my garden next year. I still have a few questions: Is there anything it should not be used on? Could foliar spray be applied with a hose end sprayer because my garden is large? Would a hose end sprayer work to apply to fruit trees? How often would you apply it throughout the summer? Would it be beneficial to do a soil drench after my garden is all harvested and the vines, etc. are disposed of? My strawberries have an issue like leaf spot and also white flies, etc., how would you deal with that while the plants are producing strawberries. Thank you so much, I feel like we all need some additional information on how to use it, and it sounds like you are an expert. I appreciate the fact that you spent so much time studying it out before sharing your video.
Grind up shrimp heads and ferment with brown sugar like Fish Amino Acid or use LAB and molasses to ferment the ground up shrimp heads and shells. Bam! You have an amino acid fertilizer and a chitosan supplement.
I was discussing this very process in one of my natural farming Facebook groups. The only question I have is going the opposite direction in pH leaves me wondering about the end result. The recipe I was given is 1 part ground exoskeleton (Shrimp most likely is what I will eventually use), 1 part LAB, 10 parts RO water. All that in a 5g bucket with a lid and a bubbler at the top for off-gassing. It needs to go no less than 3 months or when the bubbler is no longer showing activity.
@@NorthernThaiGardenGuy pH is only and issue with LAB or EM ferments if you arent diluting appropriately. Personally there isnt a huge reason to use a TON of chitosan just to have enough around to impact the microbiology and stimulate ISR in plants. Dont use much more than a 1:100 for the molasses prep and dont use much more than a 1:500 for knf preparation.
Your recipe is good. The LAB will process somewhere between 30-50% of the chitin into chitosan. Plus you will get the biostimulant properties of amino acids and polypeptides if you choose to include the guts or grind up whole shrimp.
Hello
Do you use cooked or raw shrimps/lobsters exosqueletons ?
@@laurentchungseong1454 probably works both ways, but I would lean towards raw.
@@Spencer_Plant_Projects Very interesting, thanks for sharing your knowledge! Will an FAA ferment of the shrimp heads yield a similar strength of chitosan as would the LAB and molasses technique or @Northern Thai Guy's LAB recipe?
Is this similar to powdered crab or shrimp shells (cooked)? Can I use the powder as fertilizer?
Yes and yes! I am making a green version of this now, but have not completed the process yet.
thnks for ur explanation....it helps me a lot sir!
You are most welcome. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Do you know if it's great for rose bushes with their black spot on leaves, rust & fungus. And, at times huge growth fungus carbuncle at bottom stem near ground.?
It definitely won't hurt to try. The earlier you can get it applied the better. Each situation is going to be different depending on the current state of the issue you may be trying to address.
I Purchased Cheetos in it a liquid. How much of that should I put into a 5 gallon bucket to make a soil drench? Any advice would be appreciated.
I tried looking up Cheetos, but only found the snacks and some reference to a Fungi pack. If the directions on it are not clear, did they provide a product website on the bottle?
I bought a bottle of this lately thanks to you, and applied a thin foliar spray over some of my plants this morning. Just wondering if your bottle of Chitosan smelled like old sewer water? My bottle definitely has a unique odor. Did you get the results from your foliar spray that you were hoping for? Thanks for all your informative videos. Cheers, Richard
Yeah Richard that's totally what you will get. Kind of an off-putting smell of seafood, but that is where it comes from (shellfish waste). The one thing I have found out is there is no need for a wetting agent (the Chitosan makes a liquid plastic cap after being sprayed on the leaves) so you can remove that from the solution. Let me know how things look on your end and thanks for coming by!
Great informative video. I have been exploring this a little lately myself as I'm moving into BSF farming and of course it can be extracted. I've ordered some from Lazada to try out
That's exactly where I got the bottle in the video from. Everything is looking really good with the trees it was applied to. Next up is my compost tea regime. Good seeing you again!
You take care too my friend. Highly informative. Great job.
Thank you for all that information. A recipe would be great! How much raw crab or shrimp shell material would i need for a batch of 100 litres?
Big parts of my garden seem to be infested with root knot nematodes and i would like to give this a try. (I have been using home made fihsh emulsion the whole last season and it did a great job... but the roots of many veggies still show a lot of damage.)
That's a really great question and a concerning condition that you describe. The recipe for making Chitosan ourselves is something I am still working on and will share once I have it down. The one I use in this video goes about 1 liquid cup in 5 gallons of water. As for the nematodes, you should look into Natural Farming and specifically KNF (Korean Natural Farming) for making IMO and the various stages to do so.
Thank you for your answer. I will definitely start using IMO solution on a regular basis. Looking forward for Your chitosan recipe!
Is a foliar application safe on edible fruits, vegetables and cannabis?
I believe so. Take a look at the 3 part series in the description box below. Farmers go over the details of the differences in their crops, yields, and nutrients from just a single application some seasons ago. I cannot stake any specifics regarding Cannabis, but I would have to believe the benefits are equal as seen with the other crops.
Where do you buy it?
I purchased mine online with Lazada here in Thailand. You may be able to find a comparable product in your country.
Would power form work? How would I be able to make water soluble?
What is power form? Tried looking it up but could not find anything relative.
@@NorthernThaiGardenGuy sorry lol powdered form I seen it on Amazon in supplants for human consumption
@@jgottinc3992 Ah! Gotcha! No those are not the same thing, but let me do a search out on Amazon and see what I can find for you.
Is there anything this stuff doesn't do? 😯
It hasn't cooked me dinner yet, but if my crops turn out as good as the Farmers in the videos below have claimed, it soon will have done that as well!
Would be great to see a side by side with and without comparison 👌 sounds great though and you've convinced me to try it
That is a test I have been wanting to do for a while now. I will see what I can get put together for coming episodes. Thank you for the suggestion!
Look forward to watching that down the line. Good luck with your gardening man
@@Twatnuggies Thank you!
Just get liquid crab meal or use insect frass, crab meal shrimp meal Lobster meal etc(any Shell meal ) .
Absolutely. Working on a Green process right now with those very ingredients using lower pH.
@@NorthernThaiGardenGuy you can also make your own with lactic acid ( or phospheric acid 87%) like you said..
You can use " leaf mold " in a keg of water with a little fresh compost ( takes about 6 months to a year, you can dissolve a body in this stuff but it stinks like Holly Hell😁), or you can use enzymes the same ones they use for fish Emulsion or u can use fulvic acid preferably ful-power ( like the company nectar from the gods, they digest everything in this stuff, seaweed, kelp meal, Alfalfa Meal, pig meal ,pig bone meal ,Rock phosphate ,bone meal fish meal crab meal Leonardite, sugars, proteins, worn castings, bat guano etc) .
@@ronevergrow8319 Thanks for these tips. I will start to experiment with all of these over time and perhaps put together a gathered study for all, but right now the focus is with LAB and SuperLAB.
where i buy son?
This is a really great question. My channel is still small so I do not have my own links yet to product, but if you have the app for Lazada, I got it from there. Just do a search on Chitosan and the product is by Bio-Proroots. Chitosan with Vitamin B1. Let me know if you are having trouble sourcing it and I will try to get you more info.
@@NorthernThaiGardenGuy can you make a foliar spray and if so how would you mix in a gall of water? Thanks
1:10 initial foliar is what I used, and then I went really light at the end of the month with a 1:500 mix.
Found a product for you to search. Google 'EZ-GRO CHITOSAN'.
I have looked everywhere & cannot find that product, have you got a link?
If you are in North America, search 'EZ-GRO CHITOSAN'.
@@NorthernThaiGardenGuy
Thanks, I’m in the U.K.
@@BrettSucks If you have any issues getting it, let me know and I will try to find something else.
@@NorthernThaiGardenGuy thanks, I found it using those search words but it seems they only ship to Canada or USA .
Here's one in the UK...www.platergroup.co.uk/chitosan