Going to introduce worms

Roger A. Shrubber

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Worms will eat any organic matter that they can for waste that is what makes them so usefully in a compost bin if the roots are their best source of food they certainly can and do eat them . end of the day it's a good vs bad weight up and my comment was about allowing the worm population to get out of control and to that point and to show there are certainly ways of adding the good without the potential risks.
you have an appropriate avatar....you're not going to get anywhere trying to convince anyone that a handful of earthworms are going to wreak havoc on a potted plants roots. because it's silly. any very small amount of nutrients a worm may consume will be more than repaid by the benefits from their shitting it back out in a form easier for the plants to consume, with many more beneficial bacteria in it than it had before.
any "damage" they may do to a plants root (which i think is none, anyway) would be more than repaid from the increased aeration
 

MJCanada

Well-Known Member
Need to correct something here.

Worms do not eat organic matter that we can see with the naked eye. They eat both bacteria and fungi byproducts (the bacteria and fungi pass through their body while they do it too, so technically they are eating the fungi and bacteria but they aren't really as they come out the other end living).

Worms cannot harm plant roots. They can't "bite" pieces off, and they can't rip the roots by passing by them.

The typical fishing nightcrawler is essentially useless in helping to break down organic matter for plants. There is 1 type worm that has "nightcrawler" in it's name that technically can do this, but the "fishing worms" generally aren't this species.

Don't waste your money on putting fishing worms in your pots. Really, unless you are no till gardening and have really large pots(doing cover crops and the chop'n'drop method for them) it's not really going to do anything for you at all.

If you want to get educated, read up on the following things:
- Soil food web
- vermicomposing
- No Till gardening

Those topics don't have to be specific to cannabis cultivation. These are things used in industrial agriculture and there are TONS of good quality sources out there that give you actual science, not the broscience you seem to be getting on this thread.

Good luck! Keep growing!
 

LtlWilli

Active Member
I was thinking along the same lines...We don't see other plants "suffering" from an influx of worms---they LIKE it, it would seem.
 

john wishmyer

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you have an appropriate avatar....you're not going to get anywhere trying to convince anyone that a handful of earthworms are going to wreak havoc on a potted plants roots. because it's silly. any very small amount of nutrients a worm may consume will be more than repaid by the benefits from their shitting it back out in a form easier for the plants to consume, with many more beneficial bacteria in it than it had before.
any "damage" they may do to a plants root (which i think is none, anyway) would be more than repaid from the increased aeration
dont think i stated that earthworms cause any sort of harm to the rizosphere. Actually stated the opposite..
 
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