hey hyroot, what part of the pumpkin do you use for the FPEs? and would you say that FPEs are the same as EM-4? only ever found the process on a permi site, but it was just em-1 (lacto syrum) fermented a few more times with fruit peels and the like. reason i ask is they also said that em-5 was just some ratio of em4 with vinegar and alcohol.
Use the flesh and skin of the pumpkin. Toss or compost the stem.. The seeds, cook or make an sst or grow more pumpkins.
EM1 liquid mixed with vegetable and fruits. Then ferment for a week. It will develop into EM2.
EM2 liquid mixed with bran, brown sugar and rice water and ferment for about a week, it will become EM3.
Let ferment for about another week without adding anything. It will become EM4.
Add vinegar and distilled alochol. Then ferment for about another week, it will become EM5
The FPE recipe I'm doing; For flower I'm sticking to using red, yellow, orange fruits. No citrus. Its fermented for 4 weeks total.
For veg I'm using green plants. All my other veggie scraps go to the worm bin.
I'm using labs in my FPE not EM1.
EM1 is the same lacto bacteria in labs plus photsynthetic bacteria and yeast.