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This organic cannabis matter is drying, before I feed it to the worms (spread the love!)
The liquid that collects from a spigot on my worm farm is very powerful stuff, and I usually pour mine
back into the worm farm, but not until I've used a little in watering my plants. My ratios are about ½ cup
of worm juice per gallon of reverse osmosis water, and I don't do that every time I water. My worm juice
is very high in PPM/TDS and this is likely due to the fact that I routinely add a little greensand and ground
oyster shells to my worm food; these both also help to buffer the pH as well. The excellent minerals in the
greensand are quickly broken down and accessed, due to all the living organic activity in the proximity.
This is my theory at any rate, because I know that supernatural levels of microbial life tend to require sur-
prisingly high amounts of calcium and nitrogen. The microlife will actually steal this from the plant roots
if supply is limited.
We will discuss earthworm castings and compost teas later in this topic. The liquid that collects from
these kinds of worm farms (which comes out of a spigot at the base) is actually called leachate or leachate
worm tea, but it should not be confused with an organic TLO tea. I have also found it beneficial to aerate
all my worm food with small nugget sized perlite, and I leave the spigot at the bottom open, with a small
catch tray underneath. This encourages more airflow, and it is always good to be extra concerned with air-
flow when you are spawning huge populations of microlife. In your TLO containers, if air is hard to find,
the living soil mix can and will take air from the roots; and this is never a good thing. Always be thinking
of how to supply better aeration to any living medium, be it your earthworm food/castings, or your con-
tainers full of living TLO soil mix.
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