Sprouted Soybean Flour As a Cheap, Ezymaticaly Active Nitrogen Ammendment

[Eleutherios]

I recently came across this:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e35b/a732fcd895be73cf776af4c5fdb60d837b5a.pdf

Effectively by malting soybeans before rendering them into flour, you can increase their amino acid content by about 6.9% as well as creating a material rich in enzymes. Also, if you get this down, full malt beer brewing is just a hop, skip, and jump away. You just malt barley instead (a little more involved)

At the end of the day though, Down to Earth sells 5lbs of soybean meal for around $10. I can pick up bulk non-gmo soybeans from Winco for $0.89 per lb. Granted you need a good blender to grind the whole beans, but even soaking them makes it easier. The dried, sprouted seeds would likely be easier as well and if you had to manually grind them and there was variation in the size of the granules as a result, that would just translate to faster and slower release respectively. Additionally, they add some calcium, magnesium, iron, and potassium to the soil/ compost, and it just seems like this would be highly compatible with bokashi and em1 style growing/composting. Just thought that I'd pass it along. I'm about to make a batch for my next flowering cycle (White Rhino x Critical Mass) x White Rhino, Strawberry Cough x Erdpert, Erdpert, and a few Seeds Man's Jack fems. All SOG style. I'm fucking stoked to have some proper bedtime smoke. I have severe insomnia and the dispensary weed, that I can't really afford, doesn't have a drop of CBN in it and CBD on it's own is weak sauce for me. I digress... I hope that someone else finds this research article useful. They were evaluating it as a means of making soy flour more nutritious. So for those, who are culinarily inclined...

 

[hellfire]

I was looking at DTE's soybean meal at one point...but then read up a bit on how most modern soybean farming is done. I would want to get the stuff tested for pesticides before using it myself. Most soybean farming uses glysophate. Non gmo is fine and dandy but any idea what they might be using if any herbicides pesticides insecticides etc?

 

[Eleutherios]

Herbicides:
https://weedscience.ca.uky.edu/files/managing_weeds_in_non-gmo_soybeans.pdf

On pesticides and insecticides, I am not finding as concise answers. However, the questions that become pertinent are: how much of an exposure hazard are we talking about? which begs to ask: how environmentally persistent are the compounds in question (how quickly do they break down, especially in as biologically active as a medium as many of us are creating) Bioremediation is a thing. Then also, how much is actually on the seeds to begin with, being that we are talking about something, that is approved for human consumption and we are talking about 2-4 tbsp per gallon of media at most.

In your case, perhaps the local organic co-op would be your best option though. I think that you could still get it for around $1.50 a lb. For me though, when I need horse shit for an example, I get what I can find. Would I prefer manure from organically grazed animals? Sure, but I am poor. So I use what is readily available.

 

[Eleutherios]

Also I would add that there is also a clear presence of heavy metals in most marine sourced products to some extent, anyways. Then there is the ecological impacts of harvesting guanos, etc. My point is that we have to look at our options and choose our battles wisely regardless.