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Geez, that looks like WORK...HARD WORK! But you can't argue with the Castings...they are beautiful 🪱

@PlantObsessed

2 жыл бұрын

If I had a garden claw it would have been easier. Next time I'll get one handy before.

I use a plastic cultivator tool to break up and pull down castings. I found when I used a stick to push castings down, then it compacted and was stuck in the middle of my Hungry bin, but when I used a really large spatula around the edges I was able to break it up better from the top so material would drop down in the bag. (I have 2 CFT’s, the Plastic Hungry Bin and the Vermibag lil mammoth, sorry if I confused you, lol). With the vermibag, I let the material dry out above the hatch and don’t force it down immediately after harvesting (unless it naturally falls) because the hatch fabric keeps in more moisture and the body of the bag is more breathable, so waiting a bit actually helps finish the castings and dry them more than when damp castings fall into the hatch area (and then stay wet or muddy).

@PlantObsessed

2 жыл бұрын

I do need to get some tools upstairs for the bag. Thanks for the tips.

Great update with the bag system. 😎

@PlantObsessed

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Loved the video!! Big muddy thumbs up!! So cool to see how you harvest this and the rig you have set up to facilitate the tray sliding back & forth. Pretty amazing how they took care of the massive feeding in a month & very impressive that they get another 2 gallons of food scraps!! Hopefully this comment goes through, I tried to suggesting meatballs on your worm bin experiment request video a couple times but I think YT didn’t like that😂 great video!!🪱🪱🪱

@PlantObsessed

2 жыл бұрын

Weird. My held comment sections is only available on my computer not my phone. I'll see if it is there.

I miss Blue! Though I love my ANCs too. They plow through the food and bedding.

@PlantObsessed

2 жыл бұрын

You won't have to miss him for long. That is tomorrow. 😇

@ontherocksinthesoilmichael6739

2 жыл бұрын

@@PlantObsessed thank you!

The bag systems look quite physically challenging. I don’t think I could get down underneath like that. Going with a bin with a zipped lid was a great idea for containing your escapees, though. You wouldn’t want those ANC’s on your dining room floor!

@PlantObsessed

2 жыл бұрын

This this system I'm sitting on a step stool. The urban worm bag I was laying on the ground on my back. Those are only old videos.

Awesome huge feeding 👍🏻 ...and a nice hefty portion of bedding. I hear ya on the stinky cabbage - the bin I just fed earlier today had a pungent, cabbagy aroma to it that I could sense even before removing its covers :)

@PlantObsessed

2 жыл бұрын

Yikes that is stinky. Good thing it is not fruit fly season yet.

I have my ANC in a UWB and it’s going great but lord getting a harvest is hard. I feel like I’m playing Twister on the ground! But they are thriving and getting so big & fat!

@PlantObsessed

2 жыл бұрын

Yes that was what I didn't like about the UWB. I was upside down laying on the floor. Lol there are old videos of this.

Who is going to push that thing into the front room? LOL

@PlantObsessed

2 жыл бұрын

Nope not it.

I have no issues with the Mini , Minimist or Micro I have but that Li'l Mammoth has been an issue . It is always dry . Just harvested a couple of days ago after 6 weeks and it was dry and hard at first then crumbled and a bunch just came out almost easy . It was all dry and had quite a bit of unprocessed bedding . I did get about 85% castings , mostly dry. I have to have my cousin or husband reset it for me . Now I wish I had went with the Max like I started to do . Is it because we have to keep the Li'l Mammoth inside with warm conditions due to the ANC's being in yours and mine? The others are in a more drafty , cooler room .

@PlantObsessed

2 жыл бұрын

The bag systems are more of a struggle with moisture in the winter for sure. In the last 2 videos I added a gallon of water each time. I'm probably going to regret not doing it this week.

@marlenen6130

2 жыл бұрын

You could add a layer of fabric wax to the top 5-7 inches of the bag to decrease moisture loss? I got some fabric wax to improve water repellent for some work pants from Fjallraven, and they use lots of similar types of fabric in clothes as the vermibag. I guess a thin layer of water proofing spray would work too, just don’t go over board or it it will get too wet in the summer.

Good video. In my Lil Mammoth with the 10 pounds of red wigglers in it I can actually harvest a 5 gallon and 1/2 a 5 gallon bucket of castings if I havest every 2 months. I really feel that your Lil Mammoth needs to be a touch wetter. Especially being that yours is full of 10 pounds of ANC. I have 10 pounds of ANC in a VermiBag Max and the wetter it is the more finished the castings are after 2 months. All that is really left after sifting with a 1/4 inch sifter is pieces of coffee k cup filters. Have you seen the Moisture Barriers that VermiBag makes now? I got 1 for each of mine. 2 Max and 1 Lil Mammoth. I think that the total price with shipping for all 3 was $43 They are really nice and do thier job well. Much better then bubble wrap because I was getting baby worms stuck inside the bubble wrap. That is the reason that I got the moisture barriers.

@PlantObsessed

2 жыл бұрын

Are those moisture marries the ones that you can add water too or are they just a cover. I did add about a gallon off.camera. I don't always see the texture when I am working on the bin.

@brucesnyder939

2 жыл бұрын

@@PlantObsessed VermiBag Moisture Barriers I know you are probably on your phone and the auto correct was wrong again lol. They are just a black cover that has corners with a slit in them so the cover will fit no matter how empty or full the VermiBag is. It comes up the side a little so the worms can not crawl up the sides. I am really impressed with it.

@brucesnyder939

2 жыл бұрын

@@PlantObsessed I tend to keep my indoor VermiBags more damp the whole way down to the harvest panel because I found that somewhere right above that is where the eggs hatch because that gives them right around the month since they have been laid. I found this out because in my African VermiBag Max I had little tiny baby worms in the finished castings. So when hatched them babies are finishing off what thier parents did not up above them. I am talking 100s of baby Africans so they can go through some stuff.

💪😊!

@PlantObsessed

2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou