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That seems like a waste of time, I don't see any point in adding pure carbon to the bin. Even if you do, it doesn't need to be innoculated first, the microbes already in the bin will find it. If you are adding biochar to your soil mix, innoculate the charcoal by putting it in a filter bag and soaking it in worm tea. I compost all my kitchen waste by mixing it with shredded newsprint and cardboard before I feed it to the worms. It's balanced and ready to eat when it goes into the worm bin, there is no point in adding additional carbon or additional microbes to the bin that produced them in the first place.

What happens if you don't split them? Do they start having stunted growth?

Good info, thanks for that. I have two questions. Why no chlorinated water, and (2) i have a lot of red cedar compost, how do red wigglers do with a lot of red cedar?

I thoroughly enjoyed this! I also saw another channel use a coffee grinder to grind some and made cornbread. So that might be an option if you dont have a blender---which i dont since i seem to always end up breaking them, lol! Blessings to you and yours!

My red wrigglers are doing better then the candain night crawlers I don't know what to do still learning

Im growing them CNCs outside in Northern Oregon.

I believe red wrigglers are considered superior because they thrive in a larger range of temperatures.

Nice! I've been wqondering about nightcrawlers. I'm getting ready to set up an inside bin just to do some experimenting. Do you keep them inside?

Good job

Do you know what kind of chesnut tree you have?

That’s a great idea! A lot cheaper than buying the air pruning pots. Going to give this a try

There are quite a few differences and you google skills are very lacking if you didn't find a difference. Charcoal is not 100% organic biochar is 100% organic just to start off with a big one. Thats why you see people in the comments stating pellets and the bricks do not work well for biochar. Honestly for how cheap lump 100% organic charcoal is why waste the time making it. I mean if you value your time that little sure but when you can buy a 15-30lb bag for an hours pay why spend 3-4 hours or longer making it. This is where the DIY community is just horrible they never account for their time in the project and time is the most valuable currency we all have.

Thank you, I wanted to know if I could process it in a blender. Got my answer here.

Looks like the soil may be dry. Wet carpet on top instead of cardboard, maybe? Howd they turn out?

Just planted some, this should be interesting

Keep your damn kids out of the video. Nobody wants to see your fucking kids were here for nightcrawlers not your fucking kids. Keep them out of the video.

......what ever happend wirh the canadian nightctawlers?

How do you change the bedding on those euros? Red wigglers are easy cause they like to stay near the top so if you put some hardware cloth and then 3 more inches of bedding they will move up into it. But the euros are deep worms so I'm not so sure how to go about that. Thanks

Thank you, very informative

how much molasses would you put in the bucket with liquid molasses?

Good job....just asking what were u feeding these...I might get some nxt week.thnx

So helpful. Thanks 🪱🌱💚

good info and video!

Great video. I have African Night Crawlers. They're way more productive than wigglers. I started with 300 and they blew up to over 3000 in 13 weeks. They have a shorter cocoon incubation period and they reach adulthood in 4 weeks instead of 6-8 like the wiggler.

Great vid. Thanks g

Good luck with your mushrooms Dave! I have recently learned that the company I purchased my worms from is misleading about what it’s actually selling you! I made a video about it on my new worm-centric channel that you might find interesting ua-cam.com/video/N0-2xGPsj9s/v-deo.html

I have a earth box and was kind of wanting to see the activity like my worm bin. First week of top dressing with some bokashi on one half and worm chow on the other. Started out really good but now the worms don't seem to come and eat the worm chow on top. The mycelium from the bokashi looked really lovely and I guess they went diving? Since they are top dwellers I assumed the worm chow would have been like heaven to them. I honestly don't know what I am doing and was more of a test I suppose. The tomatoes seems to be loving it but the worms not as much as my worms in worm bin

Bin looks very healthy 👌

Very nice, keep up the good job 👏 👍

Very nice and informative video, thanks for sharing

Will have to keep an eye on the progress, be a whole new learning experience.

Charcoal is not Biochar sorry dude, research some more!

Lol, that was my first sifter.

Nice mix you got there Dave, thanks for sharing. Just subscribed 👍 Looking forward to more videos.

Cool sifter!! Love seeing the worm balls!!🪱🪱🪱

I have Euros, African, Reds, and Blues. I have to say that each species has its strengths aside from African. Reds will go even in winter so they get my year-round production award. Blues are hands down the fastest any other time of year. Euros keep up with Reds in months that aren't cold and create great castings. Euros are the superior fishing worm. Africans are supposed to be super at processing just pure carbon, and sure they are, but I would argue they are not that much better than Euros. They die at subtle changes in pH and heat. It's actually work to get them through a winter. Maybe if I lived in Arizona? But they are really limited in value to me here in the north.

I do not even want to attempt to count my worms. Great job trying to do this.

Great idea.... Use double plastic, it keeps it warmer inside due to the air in the middle warming up.

Did you have many eggs in the castings?

Really good video...Subbed

This was some great information. Nice looking bins. 😎

I have to resist starting new worm bins! I have almost reached my limit of how many I can maintain. Almost 😉

Good info.

Thanks for sharing.

I have red wigglers and what I call Earthworms, I guess those are European night crawlers? Looks like you feed them too? I didn’t know I was suppose to feed them! Do you put a lid on them? And looks like you harvest the same way as red wigglers. Interesting. Now if I could figure out the mealworm Situation I’ve put myself in🤦‍♀️

thiink about it for a moment, all that soil that you are going to add to your garden (with the biochar amended) will be living in a enviroment that is very low in oxygen, so adding air to your buckegt of biochar/soil mixture is not a good thing. you want the microbes to be developed in an atmosfier low on oxygen and better prepared to work there. and adding molesses to the mixture is only adding sugar to ferment the mixture where you really want to start a putrification mixture as that will break down quicker and begin to feed your plant roots.... and the worms will like it better as it is easier for them to eat and pass through their bodies......just a thought....

do you feed biochar to your worms?

It isn't food

Bad idea. Don't pyrolisize things thus ending 10,000 year cycle

When I first started worm farming, all my castings went to our edible vegetables and fruits. Now that I produce more castings, we’ve started giving them to shrubs and even a lawn. Next year our goal is to have no supplemental fertilizers or soil amendments (other than our own compost) and go 100% with worm castings for everything.