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Have you thought about the soil bags sitting outside before you buy them and the critters being introduced even before you get them.
I reuse mine and if my monitor sticky has a few bugs I bake the soil before the next grow, let it cool, reintroduce good microbes and stuff and ready for the next round.
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Morning Kittens 
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Slept in a bit, feeling a tad better .
Hope everyone has has a great day.
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Dude! That's very Easily fixable!
When I re-amend in a tote, I'm essentially composting. In addition to all the ingredients I'm re-amending with I add some organic chicken laying mash to add a little heat and feed the microbes. There are no bugs in my fully cooked media. They're not going to survive the temperatures plain and simple. That's why I have my own worm bin going. When I finish cooking my media I have no beneficial insects whatsoever, so I add some worm castings to the mix when I'm ready to pot up. This adds back all my beneficial insects!
And you don't really need to maintain your own worm bin. It is the best though. You can use a high quality worm castings that you purchase. For this purpose no big box store worm castings will suffice. They really don't have any beneficial insects. You will definitely have to source your castings very carefully. You really need to do that anyway to make sure you're not putting Heavy metals and the sort into your grow. You need to find a worm farmer that uses organic methods. A worm farmer that uses these methods that will have beneficial insects in their vermiculture to aid in making the worm castings. The bad insects, such as the notorious gnats, don't stand a chance of surviving much in a healthy environment with the beneficial insects being the dominant ones.
Now like with everything in a organic program, you're going to want to make sure that you first isolate any living type additions, outside what you produce, you might add to your media.................... Most notably compost and worm castings. I dumped them into a small tote and just look at what will come out after a week to two weeks. During that time, any larva should have hatched and made itself present so that you can see what you have.
At least it's easily fixable that you can reuse your media no matter where it comes from.
I have tons of compost mites and rove beetles currently living in my worm bed! There are no gnats whatsoever!
In this last big order from BAS, I did order a bag of Colorado worm castings, it's a company close to them that Jeremy knows how the guy raises his worms and makes his vermicompost. The guy does feed his worms quality ingredients and also raises them properly. So they should be quite a bit more full of quality ready to use ingredients than what you would buy in the big box stores. More nutritionally dense so to speak. What I'm going to do with this is to a side by side, probably in the 4x4 tent, and compare my worm castings to theirs and to see if I can see any difference. Now I don't use any food scraps in this particular worm bin. I'm just me and I don't have much food scraps. I have commercially bought worm food, but it's a small percentage of the feed. It's easily made with sprouted seeds, but it's just convenient. A very large part of their feed comes from my girls! When I do Defoliation, it gets chopped up and fed to the worms or combined with something else also. They have also been getting fed the material that is left over from making
J, fermented fruit juice. They also get the totally used up material from my dry ice shake and the subsequent decarb and infuse cycles. I usually mix that material with some of the bulk material from the J. As a matter of fact that's what I'm doing this morning after I feed my girls.I'm hoping that I could see a difference between the two vermicompost/worm castings during this next run! My estimate or hopeless is that my vermicompost/worm castings will be more nutritionally dense.
Good morning bud. Glad to hear you're starting to feel better... So that means New Year's party right???Morning Kittens
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Been down the pizza wormhole for hours today. PizzaForum.com. Like growing, there are no absolutes with dough. My brain is sore...Got the oven and stand put together today and will start making some dough later this week. Wanna do neo Neapolitan style pies, so will have to make my own path.
There is a bakery named Roscoli's (check it out on YouTube) in Rome and their pizza al taglio is beyond amazing. Want to get the taste of their crust, but in the Neapolitan style with a little more crunch. Basically between NY and Neapolitan. That flavor of the Roscioli's....been craving it all day....
What's neapolitan pizza? Vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry?
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