When making FAA, chop or blend the fish up. Big chunks take a long time to break down. It wont smell. Especially if you add imo or labs. Imo is the hardest to make. Everything else is easy… it just takes time.
Fermented plant juice for veg growth, femented fruit juice to promote flowering
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His soil, pests, and climate are not our soil, pests, and climate.
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The foundation to korean natural farming is “indigenous mircroorganisms” which is capturing local indigenous micro organisms (IMO) from your woods to introduce into your soil. Focus on indigenous and try not to think about korea. IMO isnt necessary if your soil is already healthy but other korean natural farming (KNF) techniques like fish amino acid fertilizer can be used to improve fruit taste. This technique took off in southern oregon by cannabis growers. They improved taste and potency of cannabis with KNF techniques and these same techniques will improve tree health and produce better tasting fruit. These are techniques that can be used anywhere. They were just developed and written down in korea. These techniques require little to no money, and are more effective than any store bought fertlizer or soil amendments. They just require a tiny bit if work and some time. If you want healthier trees with greater disease and pest resistance as well as better fruit quality, adopt KNF techniques. They are proven. Synthetic fertlizer require the trees to use their energy to convert the chemicals to food. Fish amino acids allow for direct nutritional absorption and is basically free to make. You won’t hear about any of this because the fertlizer company you use wants to keep you as a customer. It seems taboo, but im suggesting we revert to the old ways of farming. For example instead of using rooting powder use willow water. It require nothing but 20 mins worth of time and you can make 1 quart of rooting gel for 50 cents worth of thickener… and its natural… it contains 2 rooting hormones instead of 1 thats in the store bought rooting gels. One of many examples. We have been made to believe we must buy all of these products from a store when we can make them ourselves for pennies and its all derived from our yard.
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@Bogovich
You’re misinformed. I’m not going to argue about it. One request: enjoy your fruit trees 
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Misinformed?
Why is this man belittling my efforts without presenting evidence as to why i am wrong and misinformed? Why does he speak when he should listen and learn? These old people sure arent like they used to be. Give me the WW2 generation, man i miss that crowd.
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I’ve completely got time for KNF and JADAM methodology and enjoy incorporating it where possible in my own efforts to remediate soil and provide plants an extra boost. It’s applicable in many places.
You can see below how it’s being taught in Hawaiian communities to encourage accessible regenerative agriculture.
https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2025/02/23/hawaii-cc-korean-natural-farming/
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ive been doing alot of this for awhile now before it had a name. i also add in some urine to kickstart the process. i fish so i have tons of scrap to use. only bad thing about it is the critters get attracted to your yard so only use it in early spring and be prepared to deal with some digging. i use a sharpened on one end 2ft piece of pvc pipe to remove a couple plugs about a ft. deep of soil, then pour it in there fill in the hole with the dirt you pulled out and cover with some mulch. the critters are less likely to smell it this way.
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Try it out and report back to us in 10 years. Then you can say it worked
Very careful variety and species selection (accepting some species in some climates cannot be grown without sprays) would take care of about 90% of it
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Why is this different than just composting your scraps? I don’t really see anything revolutionary here. My inground plants are in ground, so isn’t the native microbes already there? And, as @Richard said, his soil is not our soil (or at least not mine). My soil has like 4 different species of RKN and pontentially sting nemotodes. I think they are gonna do a lot more harm then good introducing them somewhere they are not.
Those fertilizer companies sell bottles of fish emulsion (aka chopped up and blended fish) at like every garden store. I don’t think this is a secret. They also sell bonemeal for that water soluble calcium. These things aren’t secret and they aren’t trying to hide it from you. If anything, they want you to know so you can buy their products. The average person doesn’t fish enough or have access to bones to make those things themselves.
Its not like these are bad practices, composting is good. Fish emulsion and bone meal are good natural fertilizers. I actually use fish waste myself and would use more fish emulsion if it didn’t attract raccoons. But its not some big state secret.
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Ive been doing this for almost a decade with everything i grow. Especially making labs to promote good soil health. Ive witnessed it improve soil health resulting in better tasting cannabis and fruit. Healthy soil = healthy trees = an abundance of delicious fruit. Im not selling snake oil. Im doing quite the opposite, im giving you a cheaper more natural option
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Fish emulsion is good but lack the amount of quality amino acids. When i knock fertlizer companies i mainly knock the synthetics. Fish emulsion is good. Fish amino acid fertilizer is better and cheaper. This is part of my message here.
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Wow thanks for sharing. JADAM SULFUR looks promising for preventing brown rot. Thank you.
Awesome. Sometime try putting 1:1 ratio smashed up fish scraps and brown sugar topped with thick brown sugar cap. Put in 5 gallon bucket with lid and come back 6 months later. Great fertilizer. Wont smell during fermentation… if it does a little, cap with more sugar, you can leave in basment or garage without it stinking. Shad and herring work the best due to high oil content so if you bass fish, keep the big shiners you get in the cast net. Those make premo fertlizer.
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Are the amino acids intended to function primarily as biostimulants rather than as essential nutrients?
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I don’t know if this accomplishes the same things, but I’ve wondered if it does something similar to Jadam and so forth: I don’t currently bother to filter the leaves out of my rain tanks, so they sit in there along with the water for months before I water the plants with them. The plants seem to love that. I’m pretty sure this accomplishes something similar to the “stick weeds in water and leave them there for a few weeks to create liquid fertilizer” method.
I originally didn’t filter out the leaves purely because it was too much bother. Now I don’t filter out the leaves both because it’s too much bother and because my plants seem happy with the results.
I otherwise fertilize my plants by burying kitchen scraps under them and pouring wood chips around them.
I like using low-effort systems that allow nature to do most of the work. 
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JADAM was a follow up to the original KNF methods designed to be more scalable an organic alternative for industrial agriculture while at low cost.
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it basically complements your regular fertilizer regimen by adding micronutrients that target the biome of the soil and sending it into over drive. by itself its not 100% effective but i have noticed the difference between regularly fed plants and ones with the fermented additions. the koreans started this but its the cannabis / permaculture growers that really brought it into modern times. why most folks dont take it too seriously. try it yourself. the proof is in the results and it saves alot on costly fertilizers for a little time.
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i get alot of perch frames with some brown cats and fall fish. i throw it all in a med tote with a quart of blackstrap and a gal. of urine in early june. i let it cook in the sun all summer and by next spring its ready to use. even the bones have dissolved. im in a cold enviroment so it takes more time for it to break down completely but it gives me about 5 gal. of gold with barely any work..
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Bro that is intense 
right on though