Wattzzup
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That kind of sounds like a challenge
EWC as your medium
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Wattzzup
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We’re about to find out. Dropped the seed a few minutes ago. Update in a couple days IF it pokes its head through. I did a very light water and poked a hole for the seed.
kovidkough
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how much perlite are you aiming for is 50/50 to much? perhaps it will be semi DTW
Wattzzup
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I didn’t feel like changing the thread title but it’s 100% EWC
kovidkough
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I'd suggest one with at minimum 25% aswell so you don't end up with sludge but hey its all for experience
Wattzzup
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I’m doing one in 100% EWC and will work my way down if this doesn’t work.
kovidkough
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I imagine it will compact over time but who knows , plants grow in some crazy environments
Wattzzup
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We’re about to find out
myke
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Theres no air,you need something.We’re about to find out
PNW 38
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Every time I throw a handful of dried, bagged, from the store lentils into my worm bin, I get a forest of lentil sprouts. They're prob 5-10 years old. Chop up and stir in a potato, and I get a few potato sprouts. About half of the time I up pot with my EWC, I get 1-5 cucumber sprouts growing thru the mulch layer a week or so later. I haven't fed cucs to the worms for probably a year. But they don't sprout in the worm bin.
I've thought about trying straight EWC to germ some old sweet tooth #3 f2 seeds. 0/30ish so far, trying several combos of trickery to get them sprouted. Nothing to lose at this point.
Seems like maybe a good way to sprout to me.
May have missed it, but are you using bagged or homemade castings?
I have all sorts of things sprout up in my bins and some grow some pretty nice little root systems in there even without any light present. One of these days I'm going to try and grow out an avocado seed that throws a taproot out. I bought some hulled hemp seeds from the store that were close dated not too long ago and ended up dumping about a half cup that I didn't eat before they expired. Opened the lid one morning and had tons of hemp sprouts in the bins.
I find the homemade ewc that I have would be a soupy mess as @hillbill just said. I just threw a handful of some pretty dense ewc on top of a pot without any aeration/soil mixed in and it was pure muck on the first watering up top. I look forward to seeing your experience though and wish you the best with the grows.
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green_machine_two9er
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Should be soon??. Or I was thinking to give yourself a chance why not speout in root cube and transplant into your ewc mix after you get a small root system?
Wattzzup
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That is what I will do if it doesn’t break soil soon.
Wattzzup
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Ok update
I didn’t want to post until it broke ground. But step one complete. Had a little issue. Either I buried too deep or it was too wet. I dug a little on day 3 and found it had a small taproot. Pulled it out and saturated the soil, then replanted.
can anyone tell me what these white things are? I assume some kind of egg? They started popping up like day 2. Or are the castings just drying that color?
I didn’t want to post until it broke ground. But step one complete. Had a little issue. Either I buried too deep or it was too wet. I dug a little on day 3 and found it had a small taproot. Pulled it out and saturated the soil, then replanted.
can anyone tell me what these white things are? I assume some kind of egg? They started popping up like day 2. Or are the castings just drying that color?
green_machine_two9er
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Weird it almost looks like some kind of fungal growth? beneficial or not? I assume it’s fine. It’s weird being different sizes and shapes. Eggs would be uniform. And it doesn’t look like any eggs that I’ve seen before?
Wattzzup
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I’m not sure what they are. That’s why after I posted it, I did an edit and added maybe it’s dried castings? They seem to just turn a lighter shade of brown
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