Worm dirt?

[420 Warrior]

I know worm castings are full of nutrients and are 100% organic so wouldn't it be feasible to keep a large worm bed and use the dirt from it to use as furtilizer for Cannabis plants?

Couldn't you just as well put live worms in the pots your growing your plants in? It seems to me this would be super beneficial to plants as the worms themselves would not only produce natural nutes but would keep the soil airated as well...or is this a bad idea for some reason?

 

[MassMedMan]

It's a good idea if your cans are organic. Not if yer running synthetics though. Back when I used to run LOS and no til I would put worms directly into my cans. Back in the day when I made videos for YouTube I had one showing it. They crawl right in....

And to your first question,, homade worm farms produce ewc that people use. That's not uncommon...

 

[bobrown14]

OP look up "No-till"

Its a method of growing. IF you run your containers long enough and keep adding in food for the worms eventually the container will be mostly EWC. That doesn't mean that all the organic nutrients are gone or somehow disappear from the soil, they do not.

What folks are doing with fertilizer is side-stepping the process the worms and microbes do in the soil which is making the nutrients soluble for plants to up-take.
Adding in soluble nutrients via fertilizer is just another way to get to the same place.

For me no-till is less work long term and more cost effective and better for our environment.

 

[420 Warrior]

Thanks brother, I'm not really growing anymore but one day I may get back into it again and if/when I do I'll be wanting to go 100% organic

I was just thinking about how much money could be saved on nutes by using worms as little free nute producers.

Back when I was growing, experimenting was part of the appeal to me

 

[Emilya Green]

During the warm months I maintain a worm farm for both gardening and fishing needs. Many of these critters make it into my compost bin and quite often I will find that a few of them have made it into my final containers. it always delights me to know that my living soil is able to support larger beneficial life too.
It might also surprise you that many cannabis farmers bring in colonies of ladybugs to live in their gardens, and when I get my greenhouses going I will be doing this too. There are many natural organic things that you can do to enhance your garden and get away from the need to use commercial products just to grow a weed.

 

[420 Warrior]

Thanks for the input guys, I love the idea of growing in a way that nature intended

 

[bobrown14]

Thats how I do it. I've been making vermi-compost since the 70s. Its the key ingredient to my soil mix.

I'm very particular about what I put into my compost bins.

Composting is a science. We are just getting started with it as a way to cut down on adding unnecessary inputs to our landfills. I read somewhere that 30% of what we put in landfills can be composted into soil. Food for thought.