Worm Tubes

jHands

jHands

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Hey ladies and gents. Currently running a coot style mix in 4x8 indoor beds. They’re 12 inches deep. I’ve got one cycle on each, and decided to add worms recently. Picked them up from the guy I get my castings from locally. Got to shooting the sh_t, and he recommended adding worm tubes to all 4 corners of the bed. 6 inch PVC crossdrilled with many holes, then submerged to bottom of bed. Fill the tube with food scraps. Worms come in and eat the food, and spread fresh castings around the bed. Has anyone done this with cannabis? Can’t find much info about it. Worth it? Or better to just do a bin and run teas once in a while as standard?
 
jHands said:
Nobody has any experience or input with this?
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I run worm bins, but also grow in a large indoor pot (about 4 feet in diameter) with worms in it. It's impossible not to introduce worms into your grow if you use your own castings. There are only red wigglers in my bins, but in my pot I have 3 or 4 species... I also introduced deeper borrowing regular garden worms (eastern Canada), and dew worms from our outside garden as well. I also put in some bait worms I bought from Canadian Tire LOL, which I assume are likely European night crawlers.

I don't do anything special to keep them alive and fed. As my cover crop dies, they eat the stuff on top along with the hay and alfalfa mulch I add later. The deeper borrowing species eat the roots of the old plants from before. Sometimes I do throw some coffee grounds or something else for a treat to the top surface of the soil that falls into the mulch. The worms like that. I feel as long as things are recycling quickly, all is going well.

One tip I can offer is to use a thick mulch that keeps the top soil surface at least a bit moist at all times. Red wiggles, fungi, nor bacteria will eat dried out crap at the surface, and once the top dries out completely it will take some time for bacteria and such to awake again at that zone. Aim for stability rather than major swings in hydration.
 
majjy_rane said:
that's huge, man. do you think this works also on a smaller scale like 5 gal fabric pots?
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Well you might get a few red wrigglers in there, but they probably wouldn't be very happy. Fabric small pots especially tend to dry out too quickly to establish the biological life needed IMO. A bigger pot will have less surface area of fabric to the volume of soil. Even a 10 gallon wouldn't be ideal, but it's more than twice as better than a 5 gallon.
 
Northwood said:
Well you might get a few red wrigglers in there, but they probably wouldn't be very happy. Fabric small pots especially tend to dry out too quickly to establish the biological life needed IMO. A bigger pot will have less surface area of fabric to the volume of soil. Even a 10 gallon wouldn't be ideal, but it's more than twice as better than a 5 gallon.
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i understand was just thinking of if it's somehow possible to "just let the worms do the feeding" and don't have to worry about it or in other words just how far you can go low-maintenance on a small or medium indoor setup
 
Adding some fresh ewc into your containers regularly will do essentially the same thing. I know my worms are happier in their bin than in a pot under hot lights. The worms still do the feeding; many still make it into the soil that goes into the pots. These daze I just dump an entire tray of fresh worm castings along with whatever worms are present into a bin full of recycled soil. Mix and repeat. Can be used as is or amended with npk & mineral inputs and allowed to cook for 30 days.
 
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