Living Liquid, Not Enzyme: Collect at Dawn, Face South

What makes a Natural Farming solution alive, and when and where should you collect for the strongest one?

Cho at the flip chart with Kim Chang interpreting. He adds to the vinegar sheet: 酵素 — 化學物質 (enzyme = chemical substance), 醱酵液 — 生命體 (fermented liquid = living thing), then 太陽光線 / 遠적외선 (sunlight / far-infrared). Much of this stretch is Bible stories (the loaves and fishes, the widow's oil, Cana) used as parables; they're translated in the transcript. Around 2:35:15 Cho is in tears and the room is quiet. At the end he writes the three parents on a second chart, which isn't legible in the video.

• When to collect material — Pick papaya, banana or mango in the morning (the interpreter: before sunrise, at dawn), when the plant holds the most of nature's power. (Cho's Korean; the interpreter.)
• Where to collect Microbes (IMO) — On ground facing south (he also says east) where the sun comes in first. (Cho's Korean.)

1. What we make isn't an enzyme (효소) but a fermented liquid (발효액), and a fermented liquid is a living thing

   Board: 酵素 — 化學物質; 醱酵液 — 生命體. The enzyme is the substance microbes produce; while the microbes are alive, the liquid is alive.

   ▶ 2:27:37 Written on the board

2. Cho's test for a professor who called it an enzyme: was it made by water, chemicals or microbes? If microbes, it's alive

   Told as a joke: the professor 'went red in the face and ran off'.

   ▶ 2:29:01 As spoken

3. One fist-sized lump of Microbes (IMO) can be multiplied for about 6,000 pyeong

   6,000 pyeong is about 2 ha, about 5 acres; the interpreter said '6,000 acres' and the room corrected it to 5 acres. Told with the loaves and fishes.

   ▶ 2:33:57 As spoken

4. Given with love, we can bring dying land back to life

   The interpreter said 'change the whole universe'.

   ▶ 2:34:40 As spoken

5. Farming isn't done with technique; it's done with love that gives

   Not interpreted. Cho had just been in tears.

   ▶ 2:35:30 As spoken

6. Solutions made after a fight, in anger, won't work for the crop

   Same as a dinner cooked after a marital fight tasting bad. Farming goes well only when every living thing is happy.

   ▶ 2:36:56 As spoken

7. People's greed has overworked the crops

   To satisfy greed, crops were made to work far too hard (혹사).

   ▶ 2:40:07 As spoken

8. Cho says his recipes came as revelations, written down from dreams, tried, and found to work

   His Japanese book, 'Let's Bring Indigenous Microorganisms Back to Life', is 'not a best seller but a steady seller'; most agriculture professors there have it.

   ▶ 2:40:37 As spoken

9. When making materials, what matters most isn't which plant but when you collect it: when the plant takes in the most of nature's power

   ▶ 2:42:11 As spoken

10. Cabbage pulled in the morning makes better kimchi than cabbage pulled in the evening

    Mothers know it by taste. The interpreter said 'afternoon'.

    ▶ 2:42:57 As spoken

11. Pick papaya, banana or mango in the morning to make your materials

    Interpreter: before the sun comes up, at dawn; pick mature fruit early.

    ▶ 2:43:30 As spoken

12. Strongest Microbes (IMO): collect where the sun comes in first, facing south (or east)

    Cho says he's telling this in Hawaiʻi for the first time, because now there are ears ready to hear.

    ▶ 2:45:03 As spoken

13. Sunlight holds far-infrared (원적외선); within it, the growth ray (생육광선) makes crops grow

    Board: 太陽光線 / 遠적외선. The interpreter said 'ultraviolet'; Cho settled it in English: 'Infrared. No UV.'

    ▶ 2:45:46 Written on the board

14. Watch any sprouting seed: its head faces due south, to receive the growth ray

    South is where it sees sun all day. If you looked at your seedlings with love, like your own child, you'd know; not knowing is a careless farmer's answer.

    ▶ 2:48:17 As spoken

15. God built our house, the earth, and we treat it carelessly with chemical fertilizer and pesticide

    'We live on a star.'

    ▶ 2:52:31 As spoken

16. Everyone has three sets of parents: birth parents (생부모), raising parents (양부모) and teaching parents (사부모)

    The crops that feed you, corn and tomatoes, are your raising parents. The interpreter said 'corn, papaya, or rice'.

    ▶ 2:54:51 As spoken

17. Spraying pesticide on the crops that raise you is parricide (존속 살해죄)

    'Should you farm in a way that kills your raising parents, or in a way that loves them?'

    ▶ 2:56:47 As spoken