Post by Jay Blair on Feb 21, 2008 0:29:27 GMT -5
Awhile back I had a couple mother in law tongue plants that dropped off a shelf in my worm area / green house.
As I had other things to do, I just emergency planted them in a couple of bns that I had harvested all the worms from but had not yet sifted for trash and coccoons.
In the past I have light watered first harvest castings and separated hatchlings for up to a month.
These two bins however I ignored for about 2 months other than slight watering for the MIL spears I had chaos cure stuck in the bins.
This morning I took the time to separate and pot the MIL tongues for potential sales in my nursury and noticed that in two months each of the two bins also yielded about a pound each of banded breeders.
I had not noticed this before as when I used bins as plant intensive care units for near dead plants, I plugged them in active bins, not first harvet casting bins.
Now I'm wondering exactly how the plant are benifitting the worms.
Non aquatic plant life draws in cO2 and expel O2 through their folliage and only draw in water and nutrients through the roots.
So f anything those bins of first harvest castings should be reduced nutritiant value and the worms not matured to banded maturity equal to the slurry fed bins IMO.
This is going to be one to further research for me.
As I had other things to do, I just emergency planted them in a couple of bns that I had harvested all the worms from but had not yet sifted for trash and coccoons.
In the past I have light watered first harvest castings and separated hatchlings for up to a month.
These two bins however I ignored for about 2 months other than slight watering for the MIL spears I had chaos cure stuck in the bins.
This morning I took the time to separate and pot the MIL tongues for potential sales in my nursury and noticed that in two months each of the two bins also yielded about a pound each of banded breeders.
I had not noticed this before as when I used bins as plant intensive care units for near dead plants, I plugged them in active bins, not first harvet casting bins.
Now I'm wondering exactly how the plant are benifitting the worms.
Non aquatic plant life draws in cO2 and expel O2 through their folliage and only draw in water and nutrients through the roots.
So f anything those bins of first harvest castings should be reduced nutritiant value and the worms not matured to banded maturity equal to the slurry fed bins IMO.
This is going to be one to further research for me.
