Plant Based Developers

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Ongoing journal of experiments with plant-based photographic developers created using household ingredients and plant extracts.

Experiment 1 - October ‘25





40g Trader Joe’s $5 flower bouquet extract boiled with 400 ml water for 30 mins
mixed with 5g vitamin c and 20g washing soda
total 400 ml solution, arista edu 400 b&w film
drop test confirmed 45 mins of dev time
film came out too dense - possible overdevelopment
possible error in drop test or maybe solution wasn’t optimum temperature ~25 C