WWIII Victory Garden: DIY JADAM Wetting Solution for Garden Pest Management

Have you heard of the JADAM Organic Disease and Pest Control Program? Well, this wetting agent that we made today is a key component of that. It's very inexpensive, might be the best thing that you've got coming. Hey Provident Preppers, I'm Sam. And I'm Kyleen. And as we work really hard to grow our own food in our backyard, sometimes we come up with diseases and pests that make it really frustrating. And we're trying to do it organically and inexpensively. And sometimes that's really rough. And seriously, I love these books by JADAM. The books are in Korean originally, so you'll notice there's a little bit of a translation issue. But what's inside of them is fabulous. And today, we're going to show you how we make the JADAM wetting solution, which is an important part of the pesticide. Now wetting solution is what makes the pesticide stick, right? It's the soapy part. And so we're going to make that and then we'll talk about how to use it. So Sam, the first thing we need to do, Sam here, he's got all the muscles, right? He's going to do the actual work. I'm just going to be the supervisor. Anyway, so he's going to dump that water in the bottom here. Yep. It's 250 milliliters of water. And then potassium hydroxide. We've already majored this out and it's 0.32 kilograms, so you can just dump that in. I mean, it's 90%. It's important that we use the right stuff. And now he just wants to incorporate that. So he's going to put the lid on it, so we don't have any splashing. And just kind of roll it around for a minute. And that sizzle is cool. I like that. So this feels, ow, this feels hot and it looks like it's all melted in there. And then we're going to take and pour this canola oil in. And canola oil, from what the book said, works best. But this was 1.8 liters. Now this is where Sam comes in. So he's going to take this drill, yeah, and just mix this. Okay, so this one didn't work. This was too big for the amount. We're going to make 10 liters, right? And so this is smaller. And now you can. Yeah. Also, remember safety first. Wear your goggles. Wear your gloves. Otherwise, you're going to end up with holes in your skin. Sam's been mixing this for about 15 minutes. It's supposed to take about 10, but I think the problem could have something to do with it being a portable drill and not a regular one. But it is thick. Like, it's kind of like a thick pudding, sort of. It's like a caramel sauce. Yeah, kind of like a caramel sauce. And it kind of looks like it too, yeah, the color. So the next step is just to put this lid on it, and we're going to set it aside for three days. And when we come back, it should be like butter. So hopefully it all works. A few days ago, we started this, and just like they said it would, this has turned into like a butter. So we can kind of indent it a little bit with our fingers, but it definitely has solidified. So that's perfect. And this, it was more than three days because I got sick, so we couldn't do it right away. So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to mix it gently with this drill again. And we have a cup of water or 250 milliliters, right? Yeah. And we're just going to mix that in. And the purpose for doing this, we just want to kind of get it all off the bottom. And we expect there to be a lot of large chunks. Now it looks like it's all off the bottom, and we want to be careful not to overmix it with this because we don't want it to turn into like this creamy substance. So now what we're going to do is we're going to take the drill out and leave all the good stuff back. All right. And then we are going to actually start with a stick, and we're going to dump in how much water? John? 2.11 gallons. 2.11 gallons, because ultimately we want to make 10 liters of this, right? So here we go. All right. And so now what it kind of looks like, it's got like clumps of the original butter-like substance in it. And what we can do is we can just stir it with a stick, let it set for a while, come back and stir it with a stick. And within 24 hours, it's supposed to all be nicely mixed in. But I think for us, we are going to actually accelerate the process by using this. Now this is stainless steel, and I'm hoping it's stainless steel because otherwise it might not fare too well for it. But we're just going to accelerate it by blending this soap in so we don't have any chunks. Okay, this stuff looks really good. It's totally liquefied. It's got some bubbles in it. And we might have a few chunks left, but for the most part, those should just all dissolve. So the only thing left to do now is to put it, would you hold that for me, is to package it up. There is no shelf life. This should last pretty much forever. You can put it in plastic jars, but we had decided that I was going to use the glass. So we'll pack this all up and we'll label it and we'll be right back. We just finished creating the JADAM wetting solution. This is really great stuff. Very simple to make. Some canola oil, some potassium hydroxide, some distilled water. And then when we first mixed it up, it just had to sit for three days and then we added additional water and stirred it in to create what you see before. So about $10 to get all of this. And this will last us quite a long time because we're only going to be using maybe a cup at a time of this. So this will last us, I don't know, probably two or three years. Very inexpensive and just a great component of the whole system that we're creating here. Yeah, because we don't want to use any chemical pesticides. Well, okay, chemical, I'm using it loosely. Dangerous pesticides on our food, anything that would make us sick. We want to make sure that it's good for the environment, that it's good for our family and that it is sustainable and economical because right now things are just going crazy and it's getting more and more expensive. So if I can produce this for only a dollar a jar, that is fantastic. It has an indefinite shelf life. It will go a little bit dark in storage, but it actually improves in storage. The ingredients can be purchased and stored so that we can make more later. The only thing that doesn't store really well is the canola oil. It will go rancid. You need to make sure that you keep it cool, but you still have quite a long shelf life as long as it's in a cool place. The wetting agent is a really important part of your natural pesticide because it makes it so that the pesticide can actually stay on the leaves of the plant and adhere better to the insect and it can significantly improve the quality of the insecticide and how it works. And like John said, you need very little of it. I think it's like around 500 milliliters for 20 liters. So the dilution rate is really low and it's just great. I think it's a good solution. We're going to talk next about the JADAM sulfur solution. We're going to make that and we'll share with you how we do that and some of the natural herb solutions. So this is a really great path to walk on, I think. I think they've really, JADAM's done a great job of developing something that anybody can make in their own backyard and that we can use to make sure that we can produce food in our own backyard and feed our families. Yep. Great stuff. So now for the question of the day. How are you controlling the pests in your garden? Comment below. And thanks for being part of the solution. Solution? Or the solution? Okay. Solution. Ha ha ha. Solution.