radicaldank42
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Look up electro culture. Just adding ectric current to you're soil
Vermicomposters Unite! Official Worm Farmers Thread
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radicaldank42
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Electro culture is various techniques that uses electricity and mmagnetism to promote plat t growth. And studies on it are quite interesting. Look it up its been around for yeeears for a long time
hyroot
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cooking egg shells or not cooking.. What's your preference? I have a vermicomposting study in PDF form. Its from Penn state and Dr. Clive edwards. They say its better to not cook them. Cooking egg shells leaches out minerals and the residue will draw unwanted pests. Yolk residue contains nitrogen as well.
radicaldank42
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hmm that's interesting. so what do you do with them just crush them upo and lay them in their?
also what other objects should be placed in their? for potassium nitrogen and phosphorous?
also what other objects should be placed in their? for potassium nitrogen and phosphorous?
hyroot
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I guess crush / pulverize them into a powder with a mortar and pestle and add them. I usually have cooked them. Now I'm wondering....
you can add nutes as well. I've buried a little crab meal, neem meal, kelp meal, rock dust. Then veggie scraps and oats are full of all minerals as well.
hyroot
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vinegar is a disinfectant... So it would kill microbes. I'm talking about adding cooked or uncooked egg shells to worm bin.
radicaldank42
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what about bat shit and bird shit from sunleaves?
also can you add certain kinds of fish?
hyroot
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yeah that could work. I don't use any animal anything except crab meal..
radicaldank42
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well I mean its not lkike fresh its just like an bone meal. how much woulkd you add?
hyroot
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1-2 tablespoons. I don't use guano, manure, bone meal, fish for several reasons. Imo not using those produces better tasting and smoother flavor / smoke and much more of a pungent / sweeter smell..
radicaldank42
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what do you mean elaborate?
radicaldank42
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what about mucrohizea and other beneficial bacteria?
radicaldank42
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and also with the leachate they say if you heavily aerate it in a tea" itll render it safe. opinion?
Schwagstock
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FANTASTIC words of wisdom hyroot, I too have found the same. I do however use fish (very minimally) and bone meal (also minimally) Talking 2 tbsp in 40 gallon soil mix, but I have found myself that these ingredients are so easy to overdo it, and when overdone your herb is pretty much terrible, itll taste organic alright...like swamp bud haha. Biggest problem is the slow release/breakdown all of those elements have causing it to be very difficult to dial in perfectly when using large amounts. Very glad to see people pointing out how bad guano farming is on the environment and the pathogens it carries. I have also found when using guano the bud comes out smelling guanoish in the ash itself, and many with compromised immune systems tend to cough alot more and/or get very sick from the herb itself.
Note to anyone using guano, please always be careful with it ensure you dont inhale it, and the fans dont blow it all over your buds, thats one way to get a great lung infection...
hyroot
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imo guano and fish make the smoke more harsh too. With fish meal or what ever I don't like the texture sort of speak of the smoke. The flavor is a little more bland. Like when I had cheeseberry it smelled and tasted like gouda cheese with a hint of fruit. Then with vegan mix or crab meal instead it smelled and tasted like a strawberry jelly donut. Stank up my place so much more. Cheese berry was a male oldschool master kush x female raspberry cough. Good cbd pheno that still got you pretty stoned. Somehow some got to frenchy and tc through a friend. They loved it. I almost regret letting it go. Its almost impossible to get that again. That master no longer exists.. Unless I get some hindu kush and cross it with itself then cross with raspberry cough again.
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Schwagstock
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Its very interesting the major differences you can get from a small amount of change when it comes to look color and flavor..blows my mind. Cheese berry sounds fantastic to tell ya the truth, though I havent ever heard of her. Its tough to let the great ones go when ya have to, knowing in the back of your mind you will want it back again in however many years but may not be able to snag her back.
jbooley
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I just got done making my first worm bin. I don't have the worms yet. I am going to a friends farm and he has a huge pile of shit that has been composting for a few years. There are millions of worms in it. I'm not sure if they are red wigglers,but if they are in the pile they must be good ones. I'm using coco coir and the shit compost from the pile to start the bin. I'm going to put them in the bin and then shine a light on them until they all go down in the bedding. I will then cover with newspaper and cardboard for 2 weeks and then feed scrapes and some azomite. I was watching a youtube video about worms and the guy said to add hair and toenails to the bin. Here is the video on the worm farm it is a very good video to watch on EWC.
It there is anything more to start it please let me know.
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hyroot
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that cheese berry was my own cross. There is another cheese berry out there. My friend kept and still calls it huckleberry lol.