JADAM Microbial Solution (JMS) Question

To make JADAM Microbial Solution (JMS) I put 4 gallons of tap water in a 5 gallon bucket. I waited 2.5 days for the chlorine to dissipate.  I added compost, boiled potato, yeast, and molasses. I waited 2 days, and there was foam on top. As I understand it, that means the solution is ready to use.

But here is the problem: I am supposed to dilute the solution 10 to 1, or even 20 to 1. But all I have is tap water. I have nothing to hold 40 to 80 gallons of tap water to wait for the chlorine to dissipate. Not knowing what else to do, I diluted the JMS with straight up tap water. I might have killed all the microbes, but oh well.

What should I have done? Everybody seems to say not to use the undiluted  JMS. But I wonder, if the JMS was disbursed over the soil, not poured on the plants directly, or even poured very near the plants, would it still be dangerous.

Maybe I should give up on the idea.

if it makes you feel any better, i have done the same thing, with JADAM as well as with beermaking and a whole bunch of other applications (sourdough, most notably) and absentmindedly used tap water, and everything was fine. When I make my bokashi starter, which sounds a lot like what you did (I use rice washing water and molasses during the process), and this has happened, it still worked just fine. I'd not worry about it too much. I'd be really surprised if it had any bad effect.

In the future, you could consider diluting it part at a time, as I believe it can stay at the pre-diluting stage for a while without an issue. Maybe do 5 gallons at a time, if that's all you have the bucket space for.

to add, I don't think undiluted JMS would be dangerous, but I don't think it would have any great effects for your plants either. if you really were worried about getting rid of it safely, it might heat up a compost pile nicely, which molasses can do.

Tap water is probably fine once diluted that much, the chlorine concentration becomes pretty negligible. Tereza is right that it tends not to cause issues in practice. If you want an easy workaround going forward, leaving a large open container of tap water out overnight before mixing usually does the job, or you can collect rainwater for the dilution step even if your initial batch uses tap.

From my recollection, to be utilized as a soil drench the solution should be diluted anywhere from 1:10 to 1:20. Foliar spraying has all sorts of further dilution recommendations but what I have read is that dilution of SOME SORT is recommended.

In the grand scheme of things, I don't think the tap water will be the end of the world when used for dilution water. I would encourage you to think about ways to either store/vent a larger amount of dilution tap water when you next brew a JADAM solution or look into a way to capture rainwater if possible.

I'm currently working on a compost tea system that involves a whole bunch of 5 gallon buckets. I'm hoping to work on rainwater capture into a large IBC tote to pull from but thats in the future. For now, I'm filling buckets from the tap and letting them sit for a day or so.

Thanks for all the responses.

This is my first time trying this JMS idea.

As a follow-up question, I would like to ask: does it really work?

I use JMS alot....you really don't need the molasses, and yeast...and unless somethi g changed Cho Youngsang recommends against it.  But hey..whatever work for ya.
I do 4 gal.of water, a shovel full of forest humus 15 grams of sea salt ...four or five potatoes amd let it rock.  I use 5 gallon paint strainer bags..
I dilute the 4 gallons in 40 gallons of water...no worries.  And honestly, unless your water is like public pool water it won't jack up the biology too much.

I don't have access to forest floor stuff. I use manure instead.
I only use one potato - but it's a big russet.
I don't use yeast anymore, I have read that it creates the wrong kind of bacteria.
These days, I mostly use the JMS on my lawn.
I live in Denver. It is always dry, and now we are the middle of another drought. Lawns have suffered. I am hoping this JMS will help with my many brown spots, and barren spots.

It should...my yard is a jungle now...and I have started letting the grass grow up taller amd cutting it much taller...more leaf for photosynthesis, more root for water penetration, etc.. about the only green yard around here.