have you tried to add 50-100 grams of salt to the soaking solution? it would help avoid the mold

all the comments leading to to the same problem. You need to properly sanitize trays and also deal with the flying bugs that carry fungi. Purifying water for animals and plants is always a challenge. Remember, everything in Africa is tougher than in other parts of the world. Read up on biosafe fungicides and algaecides. It will give you good ideas for solving your problem. Education and implementation are so important. I found that almost every country has at least one genius who works in the government, but most people do not ask for advice. And usually, when one person has a problem, there are many with the same problem.

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kzbin.info/www/bejne/onqpeaCEr959pbs has good advice but the key issues seem to be the racks are not alternating front to back the tray holes are not large enough, are in the wrong location and not kept clear of grains so water is standing, you need to use worm tea to maintain bacteria balance and limit watering to three times per day best of luck

Please can I get the your contacts?I need to visit the farm after watching you in citizen

Hello can I get your contacts…Just watched your show on citizen

That's what i use to feed my Rabbits though hope you will master it

Hydrogen peroxide will help. Its also a cheaper option. 6% H2O2, use teaspoonful in 2 litres and spray. It also helps to add oxygen

I've noticed you poked the holes on the part which is raised if you look from inside the tray instead of the furrows. This means the furrows will actually hold water since they have no holes. I hope you managed to make it work in the end though

Whoever said soaking in bleach has no idea what they're talking about

Im looking at feeding my chickens this way. Thankyou for your experience. I agree with the advice that the holes would be better in the lower parts of the tray but all the other videos ive seen use flat trays. But i have no experience with this yet. Leaving the seeds in water to long is how you ferment the seeds for food. As for the apple cider vinigar (ACV) im more experienced. You can ferment your own. All you need is apples, sugar, unclorinated water and some apple cyder vinigar mother. What you bought wont work. Go to a health food shop or to someone who already has some they can give you. The clear is not alive. You need the cloudy ACV with strands in, it these strands that are the mother. Its still alive. Mine has grown a scobi on the top. And makes stronger vinigar as its got older. The mother feeds on the sugar and apples turning the water into vinigar. The cores and skin is the best part some eat the apples and save these parts for the ACV. I Use the hole apples cut up. After a few brews the apples turn into a pulp. This pulp can be fed to the chickens but it makes the most butiful apple sauce. As for using im not sure what the purpose is in the hydroponics. If it is to clean and seteralise i would have thought white vinigar would be more suitable. ACV has many madicinal properties. And is good in the waterers. Some use this to control algea in the stock waterers. Personnally i dont use it all the time. But at any sign of illness or parracites i ues ACV and crushed garlic in the water and its usually works so long as you practice all the other good husbandry paractices too. If you know some one with an apple tree and can get sugar once you have the mother it is very cheep and healthy for the family to. There are many youtubes on fermentation and ACV. I have a 27lt fermentation kit now but started with glass bottles and chease cloth or paper towel and rubber bands as a lid so it can breath and off gass. I what i do 2/3s fill it with fresh apples choped and the apples from the previous ferment if younhave them (some fill the container) Leave about 1/5 of ACV from previous ferment. I leave about a 1/3 of the container with apples in it so not actually 1/3 by volume. Fill with syrip 10 lt water to 480ml of sugar i use raw sugar. Disolve sugar in some hot water then add the rest of the warm water. Dont add hot water to the living culture or use anything metal. Caution it becomes alcohol before it turns into vinigar. It can over flow so put somthing under the container in case Dark and warm place is best. Organic paales are best. Chemicals can interfere with the process. There used to be special cider apples i just use what i can get.

There's also a better chance of success with flat bottom trays rather than grooved ones. Water sits in the grooves creating pockets of moisture promoting mold. Whereas it is absorbed or drained on a flat tray laid on an incline. This is great information all around. Great approach!! Thanks.

Cleanliness is a must to avoid molds

Too much soaking 24hours it can give you alot of fungus

Soak for 6_10hours more than that fungus will be your best friend😮

you are doing this with no seriousness at all

You doing it the wrong way,breach soaking the seeds for 30 minutes and then rinsing will solve ur fungi problem

From what i can see in the video.. there are allot of things that you do that is wrong and cause the mold and fungus to spread. Use flat trays! Clean the ground from those molded and infested barley! They will spread ... the room has to be ventilated so that fresh air can come in, and the temperature should be stable as well as the humidity.

Where can I find the seeds in South Africa?

I will guess that water is your problem. Over watering will definitely be a source of rot and mold combined with the trays not being flat bottomed. But I like your videos they are very instructive

Where can i get barley seeds?

Plain vinegar is fine ... why apple cider for this application? It's the PH that is used to clean the seeds

It's good to tell the truth, keep it up. However, you may also try to use dilute bleach solution( chlorine solution) for washing the grains and also for watering. Let us hear again from you.

Don't give up use flat trays because those trays hold water in those ridges and causes water retention which causes the seeds to rot and leads to mold. don't use anything else just water and flat trays you are over complicating things.

Well done

Nice review

I've made it a lot at home, but it produced mold only when too much water accumulated on the bottom of the box. First, you will wash the grains 2 or 3 times well with just water then leave them in water for about 10 hours, finally spread them on trays. Also, the grain you spread on the trays should not be too thick. It needs to get some air. The sun definitely dries it. Finally, my advice is to try in small amounts. With time you will experience a lot and make the right decision. Growth rate varies depending on the type and production of seeds. I tried it in different countries. Their growth rates were different.

punching holes in the tray should help with the mold that is being caused by stagnant water collected in the tray.

Thanks for the video showing your experiment. Today is my first attempt to try barley sprouting for chickens and I'm looking at every video on the subject. I am going to try a few drops of bleach in the first soak (we use Rosy brand at home as it's cheap, but has the same active ingredient) and I am going to soak them straight in the bucket rather than use a gunny bag. The barley I got here in Nakuru had a lot of floating seeds, maybe 10-15%, when I washed a few handfuls in a bucket. I read that they should be removed as a potential source of damaged grain that won't sprout and can go mouldy. Good luck with your farm and thanks again for sharing your insights.

Just watched a successful farmer using this method but it seems you need to wait in the buckets till they sprout before putting them in trays! Research is everything before you try it. Good luck

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Wheat need less water to germinate. Others wise it causes fungas , corn need mor water to germinate

From what you said, there is a lot of mistakes. Watering it in the Night is PART of the problem. It suppose to be 3times. Morning, Lunch and Evening NOT NIGHT. 7,12, 4 OR 5. Again have you thought of your TRAY? for not being flat instead of it being zigzag. have you considered that option? from all the fodder tray that l have seen, all are using flat tray be it plastic or aluminium.

Please another video on fodder washed with bleach

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Keep watering them even the when you're about to feed them

Soaking should be done for 4 hours not 24 hrs. incubate for 48 hours before putting them on the trays. They should have sprouts before you put them on the trays.

Jik is also good

Visit nurisha farm ,they have a very simple yet highly producing hydroponic unit ,on Mombasa road

Too much wetness causes mould, I think you should put more hole for water drainage into the trays. Second reason might be too much of seeds in one tray causing it to mould. Try with just one tray and see if that works before closing it down. Its rainy season already, water them 2 times a day

Use bleach, also rinse out well after 4 hours. Also, always wash the trays after each batch with bleach and rinse thoroughly with clean water.

Change the trays and use aluminum ones

Ohhh,,, so bad that it didn't work out,,, however don't give up,,,,,, am also researching on the same,,,, but I haven't started my trials yet,,,, n I got the Insight that they can develop mould from your last week video,,, so am working on it,,,, will share if I get anything

Kindly where can I buy this trays

First u should wash the grain with gik like 3 hrs,then leanse with pure water after soak the seeds 48 hrs, remove them in water for 12 hrs,thn display them in trays,gik helps in that issue of molds

Hydrogen peroxide is another, white vinegar is another

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Good job and educative content.