Oh yes, thanks tons! - it's a
great help to know I'm going in the right direction, plus your many pointers -- and those resources you linked there look like a great read-in too
I checked on the bin this morning and the stink is now subsiding completely and NO more dead worms
or runoff in the runoff tray. YAY!
Also, I'm now baking my stash of egg shells so I can grind them easily (no idea where I picked that up lol) and add some to the bin - as to amounts, I'm figuring, sprinkle a handful? Do I just topdress?
The temps in my cellar are around +8°C - that's a bit under 50°F, so a bit cold for them to be active... I think I'll move them into the apartment tonight.
From what I saw, there are probably like 20-30 worms left in there. So my idea is to go easy on them and just leave the bin alone for a week or so before beginning to add more food and allowing them to repopulate. Maybe I'll just add a bit of mycorrhizae that have appeared in my hopefully-to-be-no-till soil.
View attachment 3551105 btw. I posted this in another forum ( I haven't ever seen mycos appear on relatively "naked" soil surface like this outdoors, always only under thick mulch - which makes sense - so I was in doubt whether this is a good thing) and was chided for leaving stuff on my soil (and warned Bad Things Will Happen if I don't remove those leaves lol).
As I'm currently a bit insecure of the extent to which I can simply transfer what I do outside to my indoor closet, I quickly fled back to the Organics forum and don't think I'll be going "out there" again until I really know what I'm doing
You see, my
original plan was to help my friend multiply her worm population to an extent that I can have a handful and start my own -- to get good EWC for my no-till (snicker snicker!).
I'm currently on my 2nd closet grow (scrogging Northern Lights #5 x Haze) and using my intuition (gathered from growing veggies outdoors on the one hand and reading around extensively in the Organics forum on the other
). I'm using recycled soil from my first grow, and although I didn't add any of the more exotic stuff I've read of in the recipes being posted, the way the girls are doing it seems the soil's ok - whether I get a backlash for my carelessness later on is yet to be seen
Here's how they look right now (day 36 of veg)
View attachment 3551120 Yes, 2 plants in there for ridiculous reasons - something I won't be doing again haha
Cheers!