OhSoGreen... I read that you have your own worm bin. I was thinking about putting 3-4 worms to soil for each plant, but having a bin is a good idea too. I have soem questions, do you just use soil for their home or add some other things? My other question would be about your bin design and how you gather the worm poops? Any info on this would be much appreciated

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Mv400..... The answers to all your questions are on worms can be found on this site : http://urbanext.illinois.edu/worms/
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If you place worms in each pot, they usually crawl out and die on the floor. They don't like the frequent waterings / feedings Mary gets.
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If you are growing outside in the ground, adding a handful of worms to each planting hole along with some organic goodies like well aged compost, alfalfa meal, composted cow manunure, rabbit manure or bat guano is a win / win situation.
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thanks for the input

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The explanation about worm castings is invaluable. Always avoided it because of that whole debate of less vs more. LESS=assholes, bullies (intellectual and physical) ignorance. MORE= educators, friends, love. You would be under the "educator" tag. Again thanks for that bit about the worm castings.

I also have avoided most manures for feer of pharma poisoning. If the water tables are full of it because we and the cows and the chickens vacuate it then I do not really want it in my herb. I don't know if people consider that fact when making their teas but they certainly should.

Something I have always wondered was if companies such as earth juice or Blue Mountain source their manures from organic farms. If someone could provide feedback on that it would be appreciated.

Something I learned from my days working at a commercial greenhouse (mostly annuals/perennials- the stuff people buy every year for their yards) was that cheap (quality not price) BLOODMEAL CAN BE EXCEPTIONALLY TOXIC.

do you mean that it carries specific toxins or just that it is/can be exceptionally hot due to high concentrations of N?

a scoop of compost that is nice worm and active helps too

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Originally Posted by zoutekoffie
i dont have direct sunlight becouse of the clouds

Excellent thread!

Just got about half way through then jumped to the end. I noticed while reading that almost all questions/answers are related to growing regular strains. But I am more interested in Auto-flowering strains and wonder how this all applies to them. The thing with AFs is that they have almost no veg stage. So basically, a good organic soil mix (considering 30%Perlite, 30% Peat Moss, 40% Compost) would take them all the way into flowering (2-3 weeks) before starting with tea feedings, and then only high P and K. Would that be OK?

Hey, I live by the sea too. And I have considered using SEAWEED as tea or directly in the soil mix. But I heard that not all seaweed is good for this. Can you name any species or post pics. Also, I want to know how to make seaweed juice.

Anybody?

Well I just use maxicrop, but I have heard of people harvesting kelp (seaweed). You have to wash it very thoroughly because it's full of salts from the water. After it is washed you need to let it dry and crush it up into a powder. I'm sure if you search around a little more you will find someone that has directions.

Hey OhSoGreen i just am stopping by to say this is a great thread

i have a question if you have time, how would you apply the guano teas in conjunction with say a liquid organic line? (such as bmo or earth juice.they're the only ones i can think of quick here) you don't use alot of liquid bottled products personally i found out by reading the first few posts, but what do you think would be a good feeding to follow? every week watering and every 2 weeks feeding is my thoughts. switch between the teas and bottled organics for feedings. what do you think?

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