Thanks for this ^ yeah I might throw a few greenbacks their way. Was really looking for really good bulk mycos product but without the other nutrient fizz.
Keffka's Recycling, KOS Blue Thai, Herbies Seeds Apple Betty, Runtz Punch
Thanks for this ^ yeah I might throw a few greenbacks their way. Was really looking for really good bulk mycos product but without the other nutrient fizz.
Wanted to jump in on this one as well
shallow dive… idea of dusting is that with micronized particles a cloud of dust gives more effective coverage than wetting the substance down for foliar spraying. Think insect bomb standard pest fogger uses a wet aerosol mist versus dusting a cloud of tiny dry particles
Also there’s an inherent problem in that micronized particles are typically hydrophobic AF. Obviously I’m referencing dusting from an fungicide or pest management perspective where you were talking about dusting a rootball with mycos
- Thread starter
- #1,283
Awesome info, thank you!
Also, I think it's like 90 days or so for the new hatchlings to reach sexual maturity, but I'll have to dig out my worm books to confirm that.
When I come to that I usually come to think it'll keep things more orderly than a rig I make and therefore more peace in the valley.My brain won’t pull the trigger @Gee64I’ve even convinced my wife it’s a good investment I can use and my youngest wants to worm farm but I still struggle to spend 100$ on bins
Funny though, yesterday it told me I had to order soon because only 2 were left in stock. Tsk tsk Amazon
I have no doubt that is actually happening! Anecdotal it is though.
- Thread starter
- #1,286
When I come to that I usually come to think it'll keep things more orderly than a rig I make and therefore more peace in the valley.
Lol this is actually a great idea. It’s way less mess and stress, and is way faster just to order it. Yes I could build it but that’s just another thing on the to do list that I don’t really need to do. Good logic!
Gee64
Well-Known Member
I'm afraid of my Wife too.
Gee64
Well-Known Member
- Thread starter
- #1,289
So I’ve found that if I justify my purchases above a certain dollar amount, my wife will (often) do the same. It’s a sort of check and balance for me. In my mind, if I can’t persuasively argue why I am making a purchase, I need to think about why I’m making the purchase.
To be fair though, my wife has a presumptive power I don’t. If she decides she’s buying something, that’s it, there will be no discussion
That too!
Balance is achieved in many ways.
I'm frightened of mine! Push her up to a point is ok. Pass that and no one should hear the sound from her mouth. At least I think that's where it comes from! 
Bless her for taking care of me!- Thread starter
- #1,291
Alright, I’m doing it. The kids have shown an interest in growing plants and my youngest wants to worm farm. It makes no sense buying something half the size for 30 bucks less and I’ve already spent this amount on castings from the store. Once the bin arrives I’ll set it up then order a few hundred red wrigglers to get it started.
I’m taking all diet recommendations for the worms from any and all
I’m taking all diet recommendations for the worms from any and all
- Thread starter
- #1,292
Thinking out loud..
So the more shoots a plant has the lower its calcium efficiency is. It would seem that for robust and complex growth, fewer shoots is the way. Need to figure out a way to split the difference between manifolding and natural growth. Perhaps keeping only 8 branches and staying aggressive on the rest of the plant
So the more shoots a plant has the lower its calcium efficiency is. It would seem that for robust and complex growth, fewer shoots is the way. Need to figure out a way to split the difference between manifolding and natural growth. Perhaps keeping only 8 branches and staying aggressive on the rest of the plant
I started out using just my kitchen scraps and found that, because they're mostly water, the yield wasn't that great. Then I started adding some compost along with the scraps and now get a lot more end product.
I'd suggest you run all of your amendments through it as well. Manures are good too if you have access but if the kids are involved I'd pass on that input at least initially.
I run spent flowers, over ripe fruit, comfrey, Nettle, horsetail fern, a weekly dusting of my minerals mix and my meals mix, along with the scraps and cover all of that with a layer of compost.
I've seen most advice is to bury your weekly scraps around the container in a grid pattern but I just dump mine on top, spread them out evenly, dust it with my amendments and cover with compost. Takes minutes. But everything comes out better after being run through the bin.
No smell unless you're doing something wrong like too much food or too wet.
Gee64
Well-Known Member
I find that clones with 8 branches and a main top, which will turn into 4 more branches and an apex cola after stretch, is a pretty sweet Christmas tree-shaped plant that does really well.
Manifolding to 8 tops still leaves room but going once more to 16 is too much. The colas get flimsy. Usually yo cut off at least 2 or 3 that go runty.
10-14 tops is perfect for 10 gallon pots.
I like a manifold of 8 myself, 10 gallons is always enough, the main colas are huge, and trimming is minimal if you delarf early, and it's really easy to manage.
A manifold of 8 tops will grow nicely in a 7 gallon cube cloth pot that fits in a milk crate too, but at 7 gallons theres no room for error or larf.
- Thread starter
- #1,295
That’s actually been stuck in my mind ever since you gave me that Coots podcast. The fact that most food scraps are mostly water.
What are some things worms can’t have, or rather things they shouldn’t? In my mind, if it’s a fruit, vegetable, or plant, it can go in. Animal fats are a no go. Would blood and bone meal be acceptable to give them?
IIRC, citrus and allium (garlic, onions, chives) aren't good for them.
Anything acidic; tomatoes, onions, garlic, that sort of thing should be excluded. Also oils, so no food scraps from dinner that had cooking oils on them.
They do go crazy over melons and such. Also a avacado pits for some reason. Google avocado tech or some such. Some dude puts avacoda shell halves Upside down on the surface of his bin stuffed with some amendments and the worms go nuts, forming dense worm balls in the shells.
Not sure why but crazy.
The dry amendments like blood and bone meal work great. Just not too much blood meal at one time or it'll heat up like a compost pile and your worms will migrate onto your floor where they will dehydrate and die.
Some dairy farmers over here do a similar thing with the cow horns after the cut em off they pack them with a cow shit mixed with some other ingredients then they bury them in an area and dig em up later and remove the dirt .
It all seemed very time consuming but I think they were organic dairy farmers .
It was interesting all the same
- Thread starter
- #1,300
4/5 purple ghost candy are up and 1/5 Blue Thai. 2 of the Blue Thai have stalled it seems so I’m gonna give them a few more days then start rooting around, same for the one PGC. Last grow a few plants took almost a week. Soil must not be warm enough. Next time I’m going 85F instead of 80
(Deleted second shot for privacy)
(Deleted second shot for privacy)