Corn Cob Food Lure Check In. Cocoons for Sale Too!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 มิ.ย. 2024
- Hi! In the previous video we set up 2 worm bins for horizontal migration using corn in the cob as the food zone lure. Let’s see how it worked at 72 hours! FYI we also talked about how newspaper can help you manage your bins 😎
Additionally the 2 bins are drying down at different speeds. Let’s see what we can do to make both these bins dry down more quickly so the casting can be harvested and the bedding refreshed.
Here’s the link to the corn cob migration set up:
3 Ways Using Newspaper on Top of A Worm Bin Helps You Manage Your Bins - Plus Bonus BREEDER BIN TIP
• 3 Ways Using Newspaper...
Thanks for watching!
Yours in the dirt,
Jayne
Hi Jayne and cameraman, WOW! That's not a worm ball, that's a thick carpet of worms. They obviously like the corn. It will be interesting to see what happens when they get to the cob. Have fun, Mark : )
Hey Mark. You’re right - a carpet of worms is a better description 😝. Doesn’t sound catchy though 😂. We need to come up with a good phrase for this worm phenomenon 👍🪱😎
Hi Jayne! (and cameraman)I thought they'd love those corn cobs. That second bin is insane!!!
I know, right?! 😍. I wonder how long it’ll take them to eat the cobs 🤷♂️🪱
Hi Jayne,
Whoa! It's a 🪱 Worm-plosion!
Beautiful Castings ❤
❤Peggy❤
I hope you are getting some of the rain 🌧, but not too much.
Hi Peggy! The worms wasted no time moving in on the corn cobs 😎.
We got over 10” in that rain storm. 😳. Not kidding. Major rain. We needed it though and it’s already absorbed and excess mostly drained away into the canals. It’ll help the pasture grass come back! Did you get a lot of rain too? 🪱
Good morning fellow worm farmer from Jesus and me!
What size mesh are you using to sIft these castings?
So glad to hear about the corn cobs as I have been wondering if they would be good in the bins. WOW ! The answer is a resounding YES ! ! !
Thanks once again for sharing what you are learning so we can learn along with you.
Hi Vicki! How have you been? I used my standard sifting set up of the 1/8” mesh sifter over the 1/12” mesh sifter. 👍
The worms certainly seem to love the corn on the cob! Let’s see how they do once the corn is gone and it’s only the cob left 😎. Thanks for watching 🪱
Hey Jayne!
Tbh, unless you deep fried and then coated them in salt, I don't think it could ever be a problem for worms.😅 Wrapping the corn cobs in paper towel or the like would be enough the microbes will eat that oily stuff before the worms even bother getting to it. ;)
I've got some expired bits of (rather oily) tofu and fish cake, I'll try it on my worms and tell you how they feel about it. (I'm pretty confident they'll love it ;))
Cheers!
I’d love to hear how that experiment goes! Staying away from oily substances is worm canon … but I’ve already found canon isn’t always true 🙄.
No one is suggesting dousing a bin in vegetable oil but a little here and there might not be an issue, especially in mature bin ecosystems with plenty of space for the worms to act in their own good time as you say 🪱👍😎
Looking good Jayne - Kerry
Hi Kerry! Your worms or the corn on the cob bin? 😂👍🪱
I would love for you to do a how to raise the cocoons and tiny baby worms
Hi Margaret! Welcome! I have a couple of older videos where I talk about this 😊. Please give them a watch and ask any questions you have 👍. I plan on making a new video on cocoons and wisps soon, addressing some of the challenges worm wranglers have with these little guys. Here’s the links:
How to Start a Cocoon Bin
th-cam.com/video/7sxtK8CS9NQ/w-d-xo.html
Worm Lifecycle in a Bin Management System
th-cam.com/video/FY4zrWSCOiw/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for watching and suggesting a topic of interest 🪱🪱
@@RockinWorms Margaret thank you for asking that questions and Jane thank you for the links to your videos. I probably have 2 5 gallons size bucket full of cocoons plus several trays hoping to raise wisps.
@@user-pj7jt4tb1r Hi Roberta! Welcome to my worm channel! When those wisps get a little bigger you can feed them radishes, leaves, pods and all 😍.
The radish pods are dry now and I have to collect them - a new exciting thing for me to try!
What kind of worms are you raising? 🪱🪱
@@RockinWorms thanks for the suggestion I have a lot of radish seeds and leaves. I do have a problem getting the cocoons to hatch. Any suggestions. mine are inside bins
@@user-pj7jt4tb1r Cocoons hatch when they hatch. We can’t control it but we can give them the best environment to encourage cocoon development and hatching. That environment includes very moist bedding (moist, not drippy wet), warm bedding (75F minimum and closer to 80F), and if you can, a few nanny worms (any hatched worm works to stimulate the bedding and let the wisps know it’s safe to hatch). Of all of these things, the warmer bedding will have the most positive effect.
Let us know how it goes! 😎👍🪱
Hi Jayne, I just watched your cocoon video that a viewer asked for below. I'm making pre-compost because I sifted my outside huge compost / vermicompost bins to take out the cocoons. I've never seen so many wisps! Could you please send me information so I may purchase red wiggler cocoons from you? Yours in the dirt! Jennifer
Hey there Jenn! I have a website you can visit to purchase red wiggler cocoons:
rockinworms.com/products
Thanks for asking! I hope to see an order from you soon 💕🪱
@@RockinWorms I managed to find you via google and order before I saw your message! I'm preparing bedding now, perhaps they can arrive *around* July 11 or 12. Would that be OK? I have watched your channel since you had two videos, and I have enjoyed every single one.
@@jenn1ferschonberger Hi! I see your order - thank you very much! I can absolutely arrange to ship closer to your preferred date. It’s a benefit of going with a small seller 😎🤩👍. We can talk offline and hammer out the timing - we have to factor in shipping time as best we can after all 😊. I’ll reach out to you this weekend, ok? 🪱
Please do gemsquash
One cooked
One raw and one frozen
Hi Llewellyn! Welcome! I can do an experiment with squash from my garden. It won’t be the gem variety but I think the results would be the same 👍
Give me a tiller time to figure out how I want to set it up and we’ll give it a go! 🤩🪱
Hi Jayne. Enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing. Will a raw corn cob be as effective as the cooked ones. Just asking. Thanks.
Hi Bobby! I’m glad you enjoyed it 😍. Like the worm are enjoying the corn on the cob! 🤣.
Thiamin’s the first time I’m feeding corn on the cob to my worms. I am interested myself to see how long it takes them to eat the cobs - the corn will go quick I bet.
Generally speaking cooked foods and frozen foods go much faster than raw foods. I expect that holds true for corn as well. Cooking and/or freezing foods breaks the cell walls. This allows biota to get inside faster and start breaking the food down into smaller particles. The magic of composting!! 👍🪱😎
There are European night crawler worms for sale ?
Hi! Welcome! I’m only shipping cocoons right now due to the heat. I have one species - eisenia, which includes the subspecies fetida (red wigglers) and hortensia (euros). There’s the andrei subspecies too. I can not reliably tell one subspecies from the other for selling purposes. Only DNA testing can tell for sure and that kills the specific worm and doesn’t tell you what the next worm is! So to be on the safe side I call all my worms red wigglers. I do not have any other species, no blues, no ANCs. 🪱