Sprouting!

[MysticTree]

I do mine in jars - large ones and only use a small amount of bean so there is lots of space for them to breathe and grow.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

Anyway, first about rejuvelac..i discovered that one of the Wigmore places(one of the originals) does ot recommend rejuvelac any more. They said to me that multiple tests had been done and many batches were found to have psthogenic bacteria as well as good bacteria.

Anyway, these are a few of the things i have found. I did contact the wigmore centre by e msil. I should have kept the correspondence. This was not Brian Clemens group.
Once again, i think that they ight be being overly cautious,although the people i spoke to (gardeners there) say thst they do not use it .

Brian Clement from Hippocrates also told me the same thing a few weeks ago. ln actual fact, Hippocrates haven't used rejuvalic for 30 years.

l have also reluctantly stopped using it.

Yes, rejuvalic is very easy to get wrong. lt is very easy for bad bacteria to develop because there is a very small temperiture tolerance that it can be made in. Slightly high and it develops dangerous bacteria, and slightly too low and it develops dangerous growth also; it need to be just right. Best to keep it inside a room temperiture between 68 degrees F - 77 degrees F. Use a thermometer to make sure, and use your nose. Keep a lose plate over the top of the rejuvalic jar so nothing spoils the bacteria.

BE CAREFUL!

l wasn't going to post here again but l felt it my duty to warn people about rejuvalic.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

Update on my sprouted chestnuts
l have had chestnuts (in their shells) soaking in a plastic bucket of tap water (full of chlorine and flouride) for over 4 months. Eventhough the poor nuts have had a bad home in such poor conditions they are still sprouting amazingly well. l am still transferring chestnuts from the bucket, shelling them and placing in jars for sprouting and they are growing 1/4 inch hooks/tails overnight.

Note: recently l have moved all the nuts to a proper glass jar. Eventhough the nuts only have a short shelf life (3 weeks) l have managed to prolong the life of the nuts by 4 months by soaking in water. Lots of lessons learned from this and well worth noting here.

[T-Bird]

cool!

I have some sprouted pumpkin seeds at home - hopefully get to do something with them tonight....any suggestions?

Also - finally found at the store seeded watermelon! woot woot! saving the seeds for sprouting - read somewhere it was good for something I wanted/needed health wise - but can't remember, lols.....maybe memory...tehe - wasn't that for real - maybe mercury or heavy metal of something - I'm full of that!

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

l have always been extremely fond of sesame seed sprouts and have been crushed by the recent failure of being able to sprout my new overseas source (Bolivia certified organic) properly. The great news is that with the warmer weather has been a dramatic increase in the sprouting rate of these beauties. They have gone from a sprout rate of about 5% to over 50% in only a few days and l am over the moon with happiness and feel like throwing a party to celebrate. l now feel like l am back in action.

You can't see the pictures too well below, but the little white dots are the hooks/tails coming out of the black sesame seeds. ln ideal conditions they only need two days at most. Any longer than two days in warm weather and they will become bitter. Check out these little beauties:



Some other sprouts in the shed (i've also got some inside, on the back lawn, and all over the place). All types of seeds, adzuki, sesame, lentils, sunflower, wheat, rye, buckwheat, alfalfa etc.


Front from left to right = Adzuki, green peas, sesame (see all the white little tails amongst the black seeds)


A sprouting shelf to save space. l use it to store all my seeds that l grow on soil. l cover the trays with plastic and then place a newspaper over them and keep in darkness until they grow underneath about an inch, then l put out on the shelves outside to get green. You can't let them grow too long in the dark otherwise they grow too thin and many sprouts like Buckwheat and sunflower won't lose their hulls properly.

l have a couple of these shelves. Still not as tidy as l will get my set-up in time, but it does the job.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

The green set-up on the varanda (wheatgrass, sunflower greens, pea shoot greens, buchwheat lettuce etc)


A typical large tray of sunflower greens l consume nearly everyday for an evening meal. Full of the rare vitamin D, the most balanced land pre-digested protein on earth, most of the vitamins and an abundance of minerals, and essential fats predigested down into fatty acids that are immediately usable by the body. The sunflower greens also have an abundance of photons which naturally enhance mood as well as an abundance of the amino acid tryptophan which activates serotonin production in the body, also a feel good nutrient. This is one of the most nutritious feel good foods that you can possibly eat on the planet, and some have even argued that being a flower plant, it is the ideal food of man. When you consume sunflower greens you will know that you will never be able to live without them again, they are so great because they make you feel great every single day. Nuff said!


Pea shoot greens:


The king of the foods with the most phytonutrients...wheatgrass, with the wonderful pea shoots, barley sprouts, lentil sprouts and alfalfa sprouts. A perfect carbohydrate meal and provides about 700 calories.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

Sprouting seeds the best way possible - hitting them with high quality water under explosive force
Some seeds are easily breakable so they need a softer spray, some seeds (bigger seeds {peas} and seeds that have fast and heavy growth rates {wheat/barley grains and beans}) are harder to move around in the trays so they need a much harder spray. Different sprays are used for different sprouts and different sprays are used on different days depending on how what period of the growth stage the sprouts are at. lt all needs to be fine tuned to an art, but with experience you get to know this.

Here l am pumping up a water squirter to at least 60 pounds per square inch of pressure. Notice the black band around the bottle so l don't burst it. l also use plumbers teflon tape to provide an extra tight ceal inside the squirter. Sometimes l go up to 80 ppsi pressure for really heavy duty spraying, but altering the squirter by drilling a hole at 90 degree angles straight into the end of the spray hole helps increase the power dramatically too. l altered the original squirter by taking out the hand squirting section so l could use the car pump to add extra pressure because pumping it by hand with such pressure would be impossible.


Foot on the pump, hand on the pump handle and pumping hard to at least 60 ppsi, and holding the pump nose to the squirter:


Action! Spraying those beans with high pressure pure energised water. Gets all the rot and bacteria off them better than anything. Doesn't get better than that.


The pump with the gage to measure the pressure

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

A wheatgrass juicer, squirter, glass water container with filtered water sitting on an energiser for the highest quality water possible under city conditions.


Those bits of wood serve a purpose too (sit the sprouting trays on an angle so they drain quickly). Contrary to sprouting companies advice, l do the opposite of what they say. They say to NOT line up those syfhon draining thingies, but l not only line them up underneath each other, but l also drill 4 small holes underneath the drainers. Why? Lining up the draining thingies means the above trays of water won't contaminate the trays below with bacteria and filth (minimizes potential for rot and mould), and putting four holes in the bottom means that the trays drain properly (minimizes potential for rot and mould). No sprouters are made like they should be, they all have faults. This is the best way to sprout and overcomes all problems.

[Leone]

Wow Mr Raw! Your pictures are amazing! Thanks so much for posting. They say a picture is worth a thousand words and I have really enjoyed seeing a peak into your sprouting setup.

I think I will try some pea greens soon and also some sunflower greens. Do the sunflower seeds have to have the hull still on? I only have hulled ones right now.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

Wow Mr Raw! Your pictures are amazing! Thanks so much for posting. They say a picture is worth a thousand words and I have really enjoyed seeing a peak into your sprouting setup.

Nice to hear that. lt is good seeing into people's lifestyle.

I think I will try some pea greens soon and also some sunflower greens. Do the sunflower seeds have to have the hull still on? I only have hulled ones right now.

Sunflower greens (10 days growth) with shells on. Sunflower sprouts (2 - 3 days) without shells. Both serve a different purpose.

Note: l use hulled 2 day old sunflower sprouts very very sparingly because they are far too high in phosphorous and not balanced enough in calcium to make a regular practise of eating them, so it's much safer to grow the greens. Much safer to use sprouted chestnuts, chia and sesame for my main meat foods (hopefully sprouted almonds next year). Since l use alot of algae l need to be careful to balance things out properly. The calcium - phosphorous ratio for Chlorella is something like 1 - 1,300 or something due to the extremely high ratio of protein (about 60% of the total food).

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

A much better picture of my sprouted sesame seeds:

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

Remember how l told you all of the massive struggles l had sprouting many different things, well things have taken a massive turn and everything is going perfectly now, but it did take much effort on my part to make that happen. The adzuki beans had been dying all year, but since l neutra;ized the electromagnetic radiation, filtered the water supply and run it over mineralised rocks + hit the beans with a whopping 90 psi of pressure, they have been growing fantastic and growing within days. AMAZING!!! Pics of the adzuki bean sprouts tommorrow.

More exciting news is that l may be able to locate poppy seeds for sprouting also. That means l can have 5 sprouted seeds for my dinner each night. Sprouted sesame, sprouted sunflower, sprouted poppy, sprouted flax and sprouted chia. l am trying to locate hemp seeds for sprouting but l feel l will be unsuccessful and will be forced to buy hulled hemp seeds instead. l have also located truely raw almonds and will be on my way to sprouting some soon.

l recently installed an outside water filter system. lt removes the bacteria and cultures, and they also remove the heavy metals 100%. lt is a very good system.


A sack of sunflower seeds. This is HUGE...bigger than my body. When l carry it you can't even see me behind it, all you see is legs lol.


A big industrial air compressor. l fill those green bottles up with the compressed air and then let the sprouts have it! Cleans all the junk off them better than any tap or automatic sprouter ever could. Sprouting perfection!!!


Yes, definitely worth locating sesame, sunflower, chia, flax and poppy for sprouting. Poppy is truely phenomenal and is the highest source of zinc of any land plant food and looks to be the highest source of calcium on earth also. The seeds are also high in magnesium and manganese and loaded with B vitamins so things are easier to deal with in a stress filled world. Lots of other amazing stuff in them too, the seeds really have it all...loaded with life supporting nutrients. Sure sprouted grains and sprouted legumes are good, but life really starts kicking along when you eat the sprouted seeds with a bunch of sprouted greens.

[climbing]

Mr. Raw... wow. I have no words. That is one amazing operation you've got going!

Gah... And I struggle to keep my 2-3 sprouting jars on a constantly moving rotation... lol

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

Mr. Raw... wow. I have no words. That is one amazing operation you've got going!

lt has taken almost a year to get to this stage. l am close to being completely set up. Thanks for the kind words. Now l am in a position to really teach other people this stuff. Not everyone will want to go to this level, but at least l am in the best position to teach sprouting, talk about the lifestyle and talk about why the foods are so important. Videos will be coming soon and my website is currently being written. l am hoping to make some really great raw food videos. l am excited about this stuff and so is my mate, and many other people will be soon too. This will be something really different from what people are used to seeing. l feel these videos will be really special, really informative and fun to watch. lf l start really going off people are gonna start getting hooked. Hope l can pump it up to cloud 10 on the day and not wither in front of the camera....me need to practise what me need to say.

This is not just sprouting stuff. This IS a lifestyle.

Gah... And I struggle to keep my 2-3 sprouting jars on a constantly moving rotation... lol

LOL. You haven't developed the habit yet.

Living on the sprouts requires being very organised, developing habits, spending lots of time locating seeds and knowing farms/companies, lots of trial and error sprouting foods, being aware of stock levels and planning 12 months ahead so you can ensure supply of future foods.

This lifestyle is like going back in time. lt's like l am doing what my ancestors did 150+ years ago, working hard and growing my food with love. How many people do that these days? Even most raw foodies just buy produce and don't give much thought to who grew it or the water and love used to grow the foods, but a sprouting lifestyle makes you think more intimately about it, and it gets you much more involved and makes you feel much more appreciative of it all.

My sprouts always love the classical music. l never believed `sproutman' when he told me, but now l know he was right.

[Adam4man]

I recommend starting with quinoa and buckwheat. they are both super duper easy to sprout. little concern for the batch going bad, Ive never had mold. You don't really even need to rinse them (depending on how long you want the tail to grow) you can simply soak them overnight, put them in a tray/jar the next day. by that evening they're ready to go!