Okay, so my new shipment of worms arrived today, and they are definitely Red Wigglers! 🥳 I used some of my precompost (even though it didn’t heat up as much as I had hoped) and mixed it with coco coir to make the bedding. After adding the worms to the bin, I realized I had completely forgotten to moisten the bedding first 🤦‍♀️ So I ended up pouring water into the bin and mixing/fluffing everything together afterward. Now I’m going to leave them alone to settle in and rest until Sunday before offering them any food. 🤪

I made a new batch of precompost yesterday with 3 parts cardboard 2 parts coffee and 2 parts caltera compost with 1 part mixed veg slurry start temp was 20celcius now it's at35celcius 68farenheit to 95farenheit so happy going in right direction

I've seen a couple different ideas about breeder bin feeding and I'm wondering what you do, what you've tried or your guesses as to which would be best. Type 1: Just normal feeding in trenches with fruits and veggies, adding in some worm chow and possibly veggie powder. Type 2: Only worm chow Type 3: Top feeding. Fruits and veggies are blended into paste and fed in two lines across the top of the bin lengthwise, splitting the top into thirds. The theory on type 3 is that first of all worms love that stuff and come across other worms more often as the wriggle around, under and through so they breed more often. No placing ads in Tinder needed. It's also really easy to see when you need to feed again. Type 2 has a theory that due to the added calorie count, it makes the worms bigger - making bigger cocoons - if not this batch, then the next at least. What are your thoughts? I'm about to have 4 bins with about 500 worms in each and I'd like to make them as cocoon profitable as possible! :)

So I have noticed some confusion, chaos, obfuscation, intermingling, interchanging, conflation, ambiguity, muddle and general discombobulation of the use of the term "grow out bin." What does it mean to you? Is it just a nursery bin? A bin to grow worms to maturity? A bin to fatten up worms? A bin to create castings? OR can it be used for other things? Or D: All of the above? or E: something totally different? I have breeder bins, nursery bins (but I'm not sure if I should just leave them in there until they mature or if I should combine several of them) and I'm not sure how many other classifications I need. I have two main goals. 1) breed the clew to as large as I can and 2) produce castings. I know my breeder bins will (seemingly slowly) produce castings but at their current pace it would be a while before I had any. Should I use my 50 gallon tote, put all the nurseries in there once they're juveniles? I could do a kind of wedge system and then grab breeders/castings out as needed. What are YOU doing? What would make most sense for me in your opinion? Maybe this question will help us all figure out our bin systems. And...