True Living Organics - The Ultimate Guide to Growing All-Natural Marijuana Indoors (2012)

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 surprisingly 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 book. 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 airflow 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 containers full of living TLO soil mix.