MidwesternGro
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The cops won't find any stems or leaves in my garbage because my little buddies munch on it and make fertilizer for me.
Keeping that evidence under control with a worm bin!
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Sincerely420
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Can you give a little more of a detailed post for the RIU folk bro?
Like:
-What Material you started with and how you made the bin?
-What material do you feed the worm in the bin?
How long before they get thru a stem?
Any pest probs or smell egregious smell ever come with about while using the bin?
I think that's all for now lol. I'm sure I'll have 21 more for you here sooner than later!
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Like:
-What Material you started with and how you made the bin?
-What material do you feed the worm in the bin?
How long before they get thru a stem?
Any pest probs or smell egregious smell ever come with about while using the bin?
I think that's all for now lol. I'm sure I'll have 21 more for you here sooner than later!
Subscribed! So please keep this thread update! Shouts to ya SomeBeech for telling me about it
ricky1lung
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Awe man that looks gross.... lol
As long as it works though.
Personally I throw them in the garden and work them in with the tiller. Done and gone in a few mins.
As long as it works though.
Personally I throw them in the garden and work them in with the tiller. Done and gone in a few mins.
Dreadhippy
Active Member
I also throw mine in my worm bin and it is gone in a few days or so, the worms can eat more than half their body weight a day in decaying organic material, here's my setup.
buy 1 pound red wriggler worms (I ordered offline about 30 bucks)
my worms primarily eat shredded junkmail, I just remove plastic window off envelope and run it through my shredder, then dump in the worm bin, they convert this into very nice worm castings. all my kitchen scraps except meat/dairy goes into my worm bin.
worm bins do not smell, if they do then there is a problem. I keep mine in my kitchen and there is zero smell from it even after 6 years, this is a compost pile though so there will be other small insects in your worm bin, this is fine and they stay in the bin. having a fresh source of living soil to ammend my grow is amazing. there are several good sites that explain the whole process in detail just search redworm composting. don't buy into a worm hotel, just use a plastic tote
cheers
buy 1 pound red wriggler worms (I ordered offline about 30 bucks)
my worms primarily eat shredded junkmail, I just remove plastic window off envelope and run it through my shredder, then dump in the worm bin, they convert this into very nice worm castings. all my kitchen scraps except meat/dairy goes into my worm bin.
worm bins do not smell, if they do then there is a problem. I keep mine in my kitchen and there is zero smell from it even after 6 years, this is a compost pile though so there will be other small insects in your worm bin, this is fine and they stay in the bin. having a fresh source of living soil to ammend my grow is amazing. there are several good sites that explain the whole process in detail just search redworm composting. don't buy into a worm hotel, just use a plastic tote
cheers
Dreadhippy
Active Member
it looks like your worms are getting too much heat/humidity, this could be happening because your keeping the lid on the tote? you should shred a bunch of newspaper and fill up the rest of the tote so the newspaper just rests on top then leave the lid off. when you see the worms crawling on the sides like that then they are trying to escape the environment, the newspaper will maintain the temp better and slowly be eaten as it becomes bedding. also a small light over the top of the bin will keep the worms from escaping if it becomes problematic.
Sincerely420
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Got any pics of yours bro? Or you wanna post a tutorial here in indoor lol?!