WWIII Victory Garden: DIY Low-Cost JADAM Sulfur (JS) for Pest and Disease Management

I want to talk about why we're doing this because I know that it seems a little bit crazy to be making all this stuff but quite frankly because it's organic and the cost is incredibly cheap. So we need to use both of these together right? We use the JADAM sulfur and the wetting solution but each of them only costs about a dollar a quart and then so seriously to fill this up it's gonna cost me just a few pennies. It's amazing how far it stretches and that way I can take care of all of the bugs in my garden and preserve the crop for our own family right? It's highly destructive when you have a bunch of insects taking over and and killing all of your hard work. So great low-cost solution. Hey Proud of Preppers I'm Jonathan and I'm Kyleen and today we have some excitement. Now I hope this doesn't get too exciting actually because as you can tell we are going to be working with some chemicals and we are making JADAM's JS solution. So it's JADAM sulfur solution and this is part of the insecticide program that we have that is natural organic and pretty exciting because once we make this it has like this indefinite shelf life but I haven't done this before and these chemicals are a bit scary so I think we're gonna be okay but you never know. John's gonna do all the work I'm gonna stand back and tell him what to do. Okay it's really important with this that we add the ingredients in the order and do this exactly like it shows in JADAM's book and the first thing we're going to add is sulfur. So we are making a 10 liter batch you notice this is a stainless steel pot and we are going to add 5.51 pounds of sulfur. The next one we want to add is actually the they have felite but we're going to do azomite or azomite which is right here it's just a powdery rock and then that's 0.5 kilograms and then 0.5 kilograms of loess and now you don't have to use either of these in there but it does increase the ability for it to be able to stick on some bugs and kill them and now we're going to put in the how much of the sea salt are we doing one cup one cup of the sea salt yes and it has to be sea salt it can't be regular salt because we want the nutrients that are in the sea salt so that's why you use the sea salt now we move over and we're going to add the sodium hydroxide 4.41 pounds so what we did is we measured out the the smaller amount the 0.41 but then these containers come really conveniently in two pounds so now the water is in two different parts the initial water is 1.32 gallons and we're going to add that all at one time it's really important that we don't add it slowly that we just dump it all in and start stirring so do you want me to dump that and you can stir okay all right are you ready yeah it's gonna get hot here it's really important that you stir the bottom and keep it off the bottom of the container and then my job is actually to monitor the temperature because if it exceeds 80 degrees celsius then we are supposed to add water the second amount of water that we're going to add is actually 0.85 gallons oh that smells nasty you can't smell good stuff not as much as you probably can so if it gets too hot we're going to add a little bit of this water it's already measured out because at the end this is the total amount of water that should be in this batch now we're getting up a little higher we may want to add just a little bit of water to control the reaction but we do need the heat there to melt the sulfur and i think the danger is boiling over we don't want it to boil over and if we add too much it'll ruin it all it's really important that you do this in a well-ventilated area if you need to do it inside do it someplace like the garage but i i definitely personally would never do this in my kitchen it's pretty stinky okay it looks like it's mostly dissolved how does it feel at the bottom is there any more on the bottom not much there's maybe just a few little spots but nothing serious okay so the directions say stir sulfur with stick thoroughly to melt it completely and check if there's any unmelted sulfur at the bottom sulfur melts completely in approximately 20 minutes at high temperature all right what do you think time to add the rest of the water i'd say it's time so you add that one and i'll add this one we pre-measured this water so the total of the second um watering what is that we call it the added water is a total of 0.85 gallons the next step is to actually let this the sediment settle in this for a day or two i'm trying to decide if we should package it up today and then strain it later so after a little bit of debate we decided that what we're going to do is we're just going to go ahead and stick the lid on this and we're just going to leave it alone for a day or two and then we're going to come back and bottle it we'll strain it and then we'll bottle it we'll see you in a day we let this jadam sulfur settle for a couple days just so that all the sediment would would settle out and now we're going to strain it now this is my own little concoction so john put those on on this because we left this outside and we didn't want the dog to get into it or anything to happen to it but what what we decided to do is we've just got this little pot here and it had something in it okay so we've got this little pot here and this is just a colander and then this is a paint straining bag i don't know if we need more filtration than a paint straining bag but we'll start here and see how this goes so the plan is just that we're going to dump this into here this is pretty heavy all right let's see what you can do johnny and we want to take it slow right so check out the sediment that's on the bottom of this can you see that like it's a good reason to have that um strain and this caught some stuff right i think there wasn't a whole lot um to be caught but for the most part it did a really good job of melting all of that sulfur okay we'll just set this aside for now it's like this beautiful color actually you want to push that over there we're going to try and not make a mess but something tells me that it's going to be a bit messy we're just going to fill up these quarts it's supposed to have made 10 liters so we'll see how that goes okay so it smells it still smells sulfurish but it doesn't smell as bad as it did the day we were making it when we were making it the first day it smelled really bad take that and um so i used some of this a couple days ago right after we'd finished making it i went ahead and mixed up a batch and it's interesting i don't know if it's the sulfur itself but i used it on some of my brassicas that had some aphids problems with aphids um some of my kale and my broccoli and it's been two days and the plants actually look a lot happier so i'm not i'm not sure how much this had to do with it or maybe just getting rid of the aphids but i was pretty excited i am so excited so we finished this it's all bottled up indefinite shelf life and quite frankly i was pretty scared to do this i was really intimidated but the process really wasn't that hard and now i would do it again no problem at all um i think that it it looks really good in the bottles i think it's going to be effective but the thing i need we need to remember is that without the wetting agent that you mix together with it it really isn't anywhere near as effective so you need both for it to work really well um the dilution rate is between a hundred and a thousand times and you can find out all that information in these books um i would just highly recommend them he's done such a fantastic job and there's a lot of really good helpful information along with step-by-step instructions on how to make this and now for the question of the day what are you doing to organically take care of the pests in your garden comment below and thanks for being part of the solution