Jadam organic Farming & Gardening : The Way to Ultra-Low-Cost Agriculture, Make All-Natural Fertilizer, Pesticide and Microorganism Inputs Yourself

3. Grain medium for microorganism
Other than potatoes, grains are another excellent ingredient in culturing
microbes. To grow many different microbes, you need medium that contains
many different nutrients. If you cook rice using brown rice and other mixed
grains, it will be wonderfully rich in nutrients. It is the best medium for grow-
ing microbes. Prepare so that brown rice is 7 parts and other grains 3 parts. You
can buy mixed grains from the market. ere are many cheap ones. e nutri-
ents in the grains must be easily absorbable by the microbes if propagation is to
speed up. Leave the grains in water before cooking for 1-2 hours; when cooking
add a lot of water. If the dry grains weighed 0.5 kg (1.1 lb), add equivalent
amount of water so that end-product weighs about 1 kg (2.2 lb). Use this as
To store the medium, blend the mixed
grains, add 5 L (1.3 gal) of water and
boil. Do not use pressure pots. 
Pour into heat-resistant bottles while
boiling; tightly seal; store in cool place.
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medium to make 500 L (132 gal) of JMS. Potatoes are easy to dissolve into
water by kneading it inside a cotton bag, however, grains are more difficult.
Easy method would be to add some water to the cooked grains and grind with
an electric blender. And then, put it in cotton bag and knead it out into water.
Don’t worry about C/N ratio. It works well. 
4. Customized microorganism medium
While using potatoes as the basic medium, you can add fruits, leaves
and branches of a crop to make medium customized for that crop. is is
in principle same as selective medium method used in labs. Bell pepper
farms can use bell peppers to culture indigenous microorganisms that are
best for bell peppers. For grapes, add grapes to medium. For tomatoes, use
tomatoes. For 500 L (132 gal), blend 1 kg (2.2 lb) of the ingredient into
ine particles; put in cotton bag; knead in water. When you add these in-
gredients to potatoes (or grains), the results are not visibly different. How-
ever, if you use these ingredients by themselves, the results are visibly
different. at is because, for instance, when bell peppers are used as feed,
microbes that like bell peppers will propagate. ese microbes are the ones
that help bell pepper farming. If you want to grow great strawberries, you
need microbes that like strawberries in the soil. Use crop residues and
waste fruits; you will have an even better JMS. You can still make JMS,
using only the crop residues and not using potatoes, however, the problem
is that it takes too long. 
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