Morning Gramps! Thanks for the visit and the kind words. Things are rolling along just the way I had hoped.....plants are all happy and healthy! Starting day 1 of 12/12 on the Nukehead and the Stankberry. They looked real happy to come out of the dark tent after a little over 24 hours of darkness! Fun times Gramps, fun times!!!
I was thinking of trying to find a couple locations for some stealth outdoor auto grows this year. Gonna be tough though!
Hey I appreciate the info.....this is something that Ms Stank and I are very interested in. I am using a shit ton of EWC in my teas as well as in my soil so getting rolling on our own worm farm seems like common sense to me. I will definitely be picking your brain more about this as we progress and I certainly appreciate the start up offer. Just might take you up on it when we are ready. Feel free to post pictures of your set up as well Blew.....we love seeing what other people do with them.I overwinter one worm bin in my basement @ 65-70F. Worms thrive @ 60-80F. If you can't do it in your basement, another option is to get an "underbed" low profile tote and stick it in your tent with pots on top of it. You only need to get into the worm bin every 2-3 weeks. If they have enough moisture (you want to see puddling of .5" on bottom in that size tote) and food they prefer to be left alone. My summer bins are outdoors and temps range from 50-90F. I use fish crates (with lids) and load them with water and enough water and media (soil, leaves, whatever) where I have about a 1-2" water puddling. I feed them 2-3 times a summer (old veggies from the farm) and they do fine. I use the next spring, so I just let them roll through winter (majority of worms die), fill my pots from the bins, restock with old dirt, handful of worms, water, food...repeat...that easy. It's having the container, the starter handful of worms, water, food (coffee, veggie peelings) and letting them do their thing. They actually feed off the bacteria of the decaying matter so having that quietly "rotting" somewhere out of the way is the whole process. No stink or mess. In three (3) months you have black gold.
As I have posted here earlier, we eat a lot of eggs (our own) so I have a old yogurt container (with lid) next to the sink. I put all our coffee grounds (we have three local roasters in a population of 10k...priorities!) and crushed eggs shells in it (with some occasional potato, carrot, cucumber peels) and that gets filled about every 5-7 days. I dump this in the basement bin and it 1) gives them food , 2) grit (egg shells) to digest, 3) moisture (always about a cup of old coffee in there). No fruits, onions, dairy, meat...obvious no nos. Stick to what I do and you are golden.
Looking back at what I wrote and laughed...a 300 word answer instead of "basement is fine. 60-80F".
Obviously I am a big fan....and so are my plants!
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Just keep your bed worm to yourself and everything will be okOk I have heard of Bed Bugs..... But Bed Worms
. I did find two red worms hiding under a pot today, so I put them in my AK-47 soil. They should be happier there than the hard concrete!
Sweet!! My Jedi mind tricks are working!!
