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yan402 Welcome to the Disgusting Diary
Started this side project out of boredom — took fruit scraps, veggies, cannabis leaves, tomato trimmings, eggshells, chicken bones, old coffee, and black sugar… dumped it all in a bucket and let it rot outside for 3–4 months.
Now I’m testing it as fermented plant juice (FPJ) — 10ml per 30L of feed water.
No filters, no rules, just stank and curiosity.
Let’s see if the girls thrive or cry.
Welcome to the Disgusting Diary.
Out of pure boredom, I decided to brew something truly questionable: a homemade fermented plant juice (FPJ) that’s been sitting for 3–4 months in a bright green 8L bucket. This mix wasn’t made with just fruits and vegetables like the traditional Korean natural farming recipes — no, this one’s a monstrosity.
Ingredients:
Overripe fruit and forgotten veggies
Cannabis fan leaves from defoliation
Tomato plant scraps
Chicken bones
Eggshells
Old ground coffee
...probably more stuff, but honestly I forgot what else I threw in
Fermentation agent:
Black sugar (the dark, sticky stuff — not molasses)
Storage:
Sat outside in partial shade for 3–4 months untouched, through winter and early spring
Sealed and stirred occasionally with a wooden stick (which also lives in the bucket now)
Tools for processing:
Stainless steel sieves
Cooking pot for filtering
Repurposed 5L fertilizer jug
Two glass bottles with caps
Funnel with mesh
Current use:
Instead of bottling it and forgetting it again, I’m finally using it in my active grows. Starting light: 10ml per 30L nutrient solution — just to see if the plants explode or run away screaming. Applied across both my tent plants and the tomatoes/chilies outside.
Why?
No reason. Boredom. Curiosity. Chaos.
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yan402 Welcome to the Disgusting Diary.
Out of pure boredom, I decided to brew something truly questionable: a homemade fermented plant juice (FPJ) that’s been sitting for 3–4 months in a bright green 8L bucket. This mix wasn’t made with just fruits and vegetables like the traditional Korean natural farming recipes — no, this one’s a monstrosity.
Ingredients:
Overripe fruit and forgotten veggies
Cannabis fan leaves from defoliation
Tomato plant scraps
Chicken bones
Eggshells
Old ground coffee
...probably more stuff, but honestly I forgot what else I threw in
Fermentation agent:
Black sugar (the dark, sticky stuff — not molasses)
Storage:
Sat outside in partial shade for 3–4 months untouched, through winter and early spring
Sealed and stirred occasionally with a wooden stick (which also lives in the bucket now)
Tools for processing:
Stainless steel sieves
Cooking pot for filtering
Repurposed 5L fertilizer jug
Two bottles with caps
Funnel with mesh
Current use:
Instead of bottling it and forgetting it again, I’m finally using it in my active grows. Starting light: 10ml per 30L nutrient solution — just to see if the plants explode or run away screaming. Applied across both my tent plants and the tomatoes/chilies outside.
Why?
No reason. Boredom. Curiosity. Chaos.
Thats really cool ! Love these kinds of projects ! Assoon as you are using it please tag it your diary so i will notice it ! Maybe i will try it in the future bro💪
@MonyetDiablero, I'm already using an old batch from last year, much weaker though, I'll tag you once I've used the new one, guessing on the next update.
@yan402, im always open to grow as self sufficient as I can. Currently i buried my old soil in a burlap bag mixed with some cheap soil . The bag will prevent bugs and the rain will remove all the old salts … that’s what my mom said she did in the past … so I’m curious towards my next grow . I love these things you do mate !
@BarneyRumble420, Thanks growmie 🙏♥️
I'm using FPJ and FFJ the last two years, first diaries I used it on though were Medusa F1 RQS and mainly as a main nutrient in my Nirvana mystery seeds diary which was a failure on this aspect, ok not a failure exactly because I did manage to draw some conclusions.
@DutchFarmer, Thanks growmie 🙏♥️
I do this about once a year, first time that leave it to sit that long though lol, it felt thicker than some of the organics I buy.
@Fisseb, When it comes to this batch yeah I'm curious too lol, have been using FFJ/FPJ for two years now with great results. See you around growmie and thanks for dropping by 🙏♥️
@Grow4Releaf, Hey growmie ✌️♥️
I'm curious as well, done some before but I never let it sit that long, the last couple of times it was either just greens for the vegetative phase or just fruit for flowering. I'm already using FFJ and FPJ the last two years,
Main experiment diary 👇growdiaries.com/diaries/172828-grow-journal-by-yan402
@yan402, just fell into that fermentation rabbit hole , started my compost up hoping next year the stuff will be good to go. Gonna add clippings n what not as the summer goes n hopefully have usable stuff in a year or so.
Thanks for the other post link u had too, gonna poke around that one a bit see what sticks out !!
Great stuff 💪👍 I've been wanting to get into homemade nutrients for a long time. I'm just to lazy and my old lady is against any stinky poop buckets hanging around the house
Can't wait to see how this one turns out. I have also started doing ferments, although I really don't do it for nutrition...it is moreso to recover phytohormone inputs from steering and natural phytohormones from the cycle the refuse is from. That process looks a little different but I will share on a diary soon. Basically you take as premium of plant material as you can (like refuse bud from a selfing project or root mass from a flowering plant) and exploit osmotic pressure gradients, with something like the fresh plant material packed into a jar with brown sugar and some RO water (small amount). This is your hydrophilic side. Add a nominal amount of denatured ethanol to the mixture towards the end to get the hydrophobic side and you're in the money. About a week or two in a cool, dark place...but then since we are only keeping phytohormones and soluble parts, a filtration step around the 20 mic is added. Increasing ethanol allows for a longer shelflife of the concentrate or you can increase the sugar content to ~50% by mass.
I imagine that your blend as shown would not only have an NPK value but is heavy heavy on humics/fulvics. I imagine that blend would do wonders for soil EC and water retention.
@ATLien415, Look, I actually sacrificed yield in one of my diaries just to see how viable FPJ is as a main nutrient — even though most say it’s not recommended lol.
growdiaries.com/diaries/172828-grow-journal-by-yan402
It’s been great as an extra. The biggest difference showed up in my tomato plants, they used to max out at 180cm, but since using FPJ, they’re hitting over 2m and producing fruit earlier than anyone around me.
I’ll admit, it’s a mess to use as a primary feed, but as a supplement? It clearly works.
But FPJ works. Damn well.
This is the sort of stuff I get up to mate it's endless the possibilities growing your own bacteria, fungi and all other microbes with lacric acid bacteria making your own EM1 etc... and then you can add sugars to this potassium humate, aloe vera,, alfafa meal... loads of good stuff...love this...much love 💚..