How to Maximize Worm Population Growth

Gardens of New England
7 Jan 202212:19

Summary

TLDRこのビデオでは、温血動物の繁殖を最適化するための方法について議論します。しかし、ワームが成熟するまでの自然な成長プロセスは速くすることはできません。代わりに、ワームの繁殖環境を最適化し、健康な成体が増えることで、コロニーの成長を促すことができます。湿度、温度、ベッドディング、pH値、および微生物とのバランスが重要な要素です。また、新しいワームベッドの作成には、既存の健全な生態系を移転することが有効です。

Takeaways

  • 📈 蚯蚓的繁殖增长是一个自然过程,无法通过人为干预加速它们的成熟周期。
  • 🕓 蚯蚓从交配到产生幼虫大约需要27天,幼虫达到繁殖成熟则需要40至60天。
  • 🌱 优化蚯蚓箱内的条件是促进蚯蚓生长和繁殖的关键,这包括保持适宜的湿度和温度。
  • 💧 蚯蚓需要大约80%的湿度水平来通过皮肤呼吸,过低的湿度会导致它们结团以避免干燥。
  • 🌡️ 蚯蚓能够忍受的温度范围是32至95华氏度,但最舒适的温度区间是50至70度。
  • 🧊 在极端高温下,可以使用冰袋来调节蚯蚓箱的温度,保持蚯蚓的舒适。
  • 🍂 使用树叶作为蚯蚓箱的床料,因为它们是清洁、可再生的资源,并且自然吸引微生物。
  • 🔢 蚯蚓箱的pH值应控制在5至9之间,过高或过低的pH值都会影响蚯蚓的健康。
  • 🥚 通过添加鸡蛋壳可以中和蚯蚓箱中过高的酸性,帮助维持适宜的pH值。
  • 🌿 蚯蚓箱中应保持较高的碳氮比,通常为50:1,以确保蚯蚓的健康和繁殖。
  • 🌳 蚯蚓箱是一个生态系统,需要多样化的生物和适宜的环境来支持蚯蚓的生长和繁殖。

Q & A

  • 蚯蚓的成長にはどのくらいの時間がかかりますか?

    -蚯蚓の成長には約27日間で交尾から赤ちゃん蚯蚓が生まれ、さらに40〜60日後に成熟して繁殖できるようになります。

  • 蚯蚓の繁殖に最適な湿度はどれくらいですか?

    -蚯蚓は約80%の湿度レベルが必要です。彼らは皮膚を通して呼吸するため、適切な湿度がないと健康に問題が生じます。

  • 蚯蚓が耐えられる温度範囲は何ですか?

    -蚯蚓は32〜95°F(0〜35°C)の温度範囲で耐えられますが、50〜70°F(10〜21°C)が最も快適です。

  • 蚯蚓が繁殖するのに必要な条件は何ですか?

    -蚯蚓が繁殖するには適切な湿度、温度、飼料、およびpH値が必要です。さらに、彼らが生きる環境であるウームベッドの健康な生態系も重要です。

  • 新しいウームベッドを始める際に何が重要ですか?

    -新しいウームベッドを始める際には、湿度、温度、飼料、およびpH値の最適な条件を設定することが重要です。また、葉や木片などの清潔で再生可能な資材を使用することも大切です。

  • 蚯蚓が赤ちゃんを産むまでにどれくらいの時間が必要ですか?

    -蚯蚓が交尾してから赤ちゃんを産むまでには約27日がかかります。

  • 蚯蚓の繁殖サイクルを早める特定の食物はありますか?

    -蚯蚓の成長サイクルを早める特定の食物はありません。彼らは自然な成長プロセスを経て成熟する必要があります。

  • 蚯蚓が健康で繁殖するのに必要なpH値の範囲は何ですか?

    -蚯蚓が健康で繁殖するには、pH値が5以上9以下であることが重要です。

  • 蚯蚓ベッドの湿度を管理するために何をすることができますか?

    -蚯蚓ベッドの湿度を管理するためには、適切な量の水を噴霧して保湿し、必要に応じて氷袋を使用して温度を下げることもできます。

  • 蚯蚓が喜ぶ飼料の種類は何ですか?

    -蚯蚓は葉っぱや木片などの褐色の材料が好きで、果物スクラップなどの緑色の材料よりも50:1の比率で提供することが望ましいです。

  • 蚯蚓ベッドの環境を最適化するために何ができますか?

    -蚯蚓ベッドの環境を最適化するためには、湿度、温度、飼料、pH値、および褐色材料と緑色材料のバランスを調整することが重要です。

Outlines

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🌱 ワームファーミングの基礎知識

この段落では、ワームの繁殖に最適な条件を整える方法について説明しています。重要なのは、成長プロセスを早める特定の食べ物や方法は存在しないという現実的な期待値を設定することです。成長には時間がかかります。また、繁殖に必要な時間についても触れており、約27日間で子が生まれ、さらに40〜60日間で成熟するまでです。ワームファーマーは、環境を最適化して子が成長し、繁殖できるようにすることが大切です。

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🌡 ワームの繁殖に必要な環境条件

ワームの繁殖に必要な基本的な6つの条件について説明しています。湿度は約80%必要で、皮膚を通して呼吸するためです。温度は32〜95°Fの範囲で耐えられますが、50〜70°Fが最適とされています。また、極端な高温対策としてアイスパックを使った方法や、木片を用いた環境のバッファリングについても紹介されています。ベッド材として葉を使用し、pH値の管理も重要です。

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🍃 環境最適化のための具体的な方法

この段落では、環境を最適化するための具体的な方法が提案されています。湿度と温度の管理、木片の使用、pH値の調整、および有机物と窒素のバランスについて触れています。特に、有机物と窒素の比率を50:1とすることで健康的なワーム集団を持つことができます。また、活発な生態系を持つことが重要で、新しいファーム作成の際には既存の生態系を移すことで迅速な発展が可能になる点も強調されています。

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Keywords

💡蚯蚓

蚯蚓はこのビデオの中心となる生き物で、堆肥や環境を改善する重要な役割を果たします。ビデオでは、蚯蚓の成長サイクルを最適化するための方法について説明しており、蚯蚓が繁殖成熟に至るまでの時間は人間の妊娠期間と同様、特定の食物や栄養補給によって短縮されることはありません。

💡繁殖

繁殖はビデオの主題の一つで、蚯蚓が成熟し繁殖可能な状態に達するまでのプロセスを説明しています。ビデオでは、蚯蚓の繁殖に必要な時間と、それを早める特定の食物や条件は存在しないことについて触れています。

💡湿度

湿度は蚯蚓の生存に不可欠な条件の一つであり、彼らは約80%の湿度レベルを必要とします。ビデオでは、湿度が低すぎると蚯蚓が水分を失ぎ死亡するリスクがあると説明しており、適切な湿度を保つ方法についても議論しています。

💡温度

蚯蚓は32°Fから95°Fの間で生きることができますが、極端な温度では不快になります。ビデオでは、蚯蚓が最も快適に感じる温度帯は50°Fから70°Fであり、高温や寒さに対する対策についても言及しています。

💡葉の敷き詰め

葉の敷き詰めは蚯蚓のベッドとして使用される材料で、自然な環境で蚯蚓が葉の下に暮らす習性から選ばれています。ビデオでは、葉の敷き詰めが微細菌を誘致し、蚯蚓の生活環境を整える上で重要な役割を果たすと説明しています。

💡pH値

pH値は堆肥システムの酸性レベルを示し、蚯蚓が耐性を持つpH範囲は5から9です。ビデオでは、果物スクラップの添加により酸性化し、エッグシェルを用いて中和する方法について触れています。

💡食料

蚯蚓の食料は彼らの健康と繁殖に影響を与えるため、ビデオでは蚯蚓が食べるべきものと避けるべきもののバランスについて議論しています。特に、食物の種類と添加方法が蚯蚓の成長にどのように影響するかについて説明されています。

💡堆肥

堆肥は蚯蚓が生活する環境を形成するプロセスで、ビデオでは蚯蚓と微生物が協力して有机物を分解し、栄養豊富な堆肥を作り上げる様子が語られています。堆肥は蚯蚓ファーミングの重要な要素であり、環境最適化のための条件の一つです。

💡生态系统

ビデオでは蚯蚓ファーミングが持続可能な生態系であることが強調されており、蚯蚓、微生物、および他の有機物を含む多様な生物が共存する環境を作り上げる方法が探求されています。健全な生態系は蚯蚓の繁殖と健康を促進する上で欠かせない要素です。

💡碳素と窒素の比率

碳素と窒素の比率は堆肥のバランスを示し、蚯蚓ファーミングにおいては50:1の比率が望ましいとされています。ビデオでは、この比率が蚯蚓の健康と繁殖にどのように影響するかについて説明しており、適切な比率を保つ方法も提案されています。

💡新たに分ける

ビデオでは、既存の健全な蚯蚓群体から新しい容器に蚯蚓を移し分ける方法について説明しています。これは蚯蚓群体を拡大し、新しい蚯蚓ファームを始める際に役立つ技術であり、既存の生態系を維持しながら新しい環境を確立する方法です。

Highlights

農民としてできることはなく、蚯蚓の成長プロセスを加速することはできない。

蚯蚓は繁殖成熟までに一定の時間を要する。

蚯蚓の成長サイクルを加速させる特定の食べ物や方法は存在しない。

蚯蚓の繁殖には約27日間、若虫が成熟までさらに40~60日間かかる。

蚯蚓ファーマーとして、繁殖環境を最適化することはできる。

蚯蚓の繁殖を促進するために、健康な成虫の数を最大化することが重要。

蚯蚓は健康であれば5年間生き、より多くの子孫を残す。

最初の数ヶ月は成長が遅くなるが、その後は急速に増殖する。

蚯蚓を郵送する際には、食い物のスクラップは入れない。

蚯蚓ファーマーは、微生物の生態系をサポートする環境を作り出す必要がある。

新しい容器に蚯蚓の塊や有机物を移動することで、新しい生態系を迅速に形成できる。

蚯蚓の繁殖環境を最適化するための基本的な6つの要素。

湿度は蚯蚓が呼吸するために必要な約80%の水準を維持する。

温度は32~95華氏度で耐えられるが、50~70度が最適。

高温対策としてアイスパックを使用し、蚯蚓箱の温度を管理する。

木片を使用することで、蚯蚓が熱中症にかからないようにする。

ベッドディングには葉を使う。葉は清潔で再生可能で、微生物を引き寄せる。

pHは5から9の間で耐えられるが、果物スクラップを加えると酸性になる。

エッグシェルを加えることで、酸性を中和しpHを調整する。

蚯蚓箱は炭素(褐色材料)を多く持たせ、窒素(緑材料)を少なく保つ。

蚯蚓箱は微生物を含む多様な生物の生態系でなければならない。

Transcripts

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in this video we're going to talk about

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things that you can do to optimize the

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conditions for warm population growth

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before we do that however i want to set

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some realistic expectations there is

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nothing i can do as a farmer to

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accelerate the developmental process

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worms have to go through before they

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reach reproductive maturity it's just

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like human beings it takes nine months

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for a vaccinated human egg to turn into

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a fully developed baby it doesn't matter

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what you feed the mother it doesn't

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matter if you give him high vitamins

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probiotics whatever it is

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you're not gonna get that woman to

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deliver a full-grown baby in five months

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it's just not happening so with your

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worms is the same thing so don't worry

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so much about there being a specific

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thing that you can do a specific food

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that you can give them that's gonna

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accelerate their growth cycle they're

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going to take the same amount of time

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roughly however what you can do is to

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optimize the conditions inside of your

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worm bins so the worms that are being

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born get to adulthood they are able to

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thrive within your system and that's

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what's going to generate more worms it

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takes about 27 days from mating until

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you have baby worms it's usually about

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2-3 worms per egg

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and then it takes another 40 to 60 days

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before

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juveniles reach reproductive maturity

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what can you do as a warm farmer

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to get more and more adult worms ready

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and able to reproduce and to make sure

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that their offsprings are going to grow

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up to adulthood because the more adults

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you have the faster your colony is going

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to grow and that's what you want to do

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you want to maximize the number of

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healthy adult worms

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so that you can get more worms worms can

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live up to five years so if you have a

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healthy being

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they're going to reproduce a lot faster

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that that being is going to be able to

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hold them so you're going to have enough

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worms to start new bands eventually but

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the first few months things are going to

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be a little bit slow they're not going

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to be concerned about oh my god we need

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to make babies

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that's not going to happen until they're

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fully

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acclimated and they they have all the

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conditions they need in order to start

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reproducing and creating new life

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so be patient at the beginning but once

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you get going this is the good news

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you're gonna have a thriving ecological

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system inside of your worm bin and it's

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going to be a lot easier to start new

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colonies and this is why when you first

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get 1 000 worms in the mail there is not

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a lot of life there is not a lot of

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microorganisms going in that space

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because people that are selling the

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worms they are not going to put food

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scraps in there because that will turn

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into a pretty awful situation very

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quickly

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so they try to keep it very neutral and

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it takes several weeks once you start

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feeding your worms for that biological

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life to start to

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come into place for the microorganisms

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to start

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reproducing because the worms are

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essentially eating the microorganisms so

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you need an ecosystem to support your

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worms

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and this is the thing once you have

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enough worms in your system

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then instead of just hand picking a

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thousand worms and starting from scratch

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what you're gonna do is you're going to

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get clumps

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of the worms the bedding the compost and

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the worm casting everything there is in

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one worm being you're going to start

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dividing it and the bigger the amount of

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that material that you

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place in a new container when you

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betting

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the quicker things are going to go why

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because you're not just moving

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individuals at that point at that point

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you're moving an entire ecosystem

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and that's where i want you to realize

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that when you first start your worms you

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got them in the mail they are

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individuals and it's your job as a

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farmer to add the elements the

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conditions to create an vibrant

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ecosystem and that's what we're going to

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talk about today things that you can do

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to create the conditions for that

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ecosystem to start to thrive because

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that's what's going to make your worm

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being resilient that's going to make

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your worms happier and that's what's

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going to guarantee population growth

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to you

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however what i want you to think about

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when you're thinking about

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population growth of your worms is about

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exponential growth because exponential

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growth is a pattern that biological

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entities that organisms living organisms

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follow in their life cycles the way to

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maximize warm population is to optimize

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the environmental conditions that will

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support

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the natural reproductive cycle of your

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worms when it comes to different things

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that you can do to optimize the

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conditions within your warm band there

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is basic six things that you have to

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look for

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number one is humidity worms need

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approximately eighty percent humidity

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level in order to breathe they don't

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have lungs like you and i so they

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actually breathe through their skin so

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in order for them to be able to exchange

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oxygen from their environment they need

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eighty percent humidity level that means

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it's not dripping in there but it's

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pretty pretty wet when you're setting up

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a new warm bin humidity is going to be

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low so you have to spray make sure

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you're not pouring water in there but

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you're spraying with a bottle making

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sure things are moist if you see that

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your worms start crawling around through

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your box that means the humidity is good

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because they feel comfortable if your

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worms kind of clump and they stay in a

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clump there is either not enough food or

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the humidity level is so low that they

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are afraid of drying out because if they

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dry out then they die the second thing

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they you have to think about is

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temperature so temperature worms can

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tolerate temperatures in between 32 and

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95 fahrenheit degrees however if you put

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them in those extremes they are not

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going to be happy usually in my

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experience worms are very comfortable

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in between 50 and 70 degrees so if

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outside is in the low 30s or even down

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in the 20s if you have them in the

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basement they're probably going to be in

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a comfortable

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spot right there so make sure you're

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paying attention to temperature based on

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where you live if you live in a hot

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climate like california

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be careful with the heat waves because

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that can really add a lot of stress to

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your worm bin and i can really cook them

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here's a quick trick

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if you are in california and you have

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your worms outdoors or in a situation

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where you don't have ac available to

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them and the temperature gets really

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high

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something that i used to do when i was

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living there i i put a plastic bag and

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kind of a space around kind of shape uh

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create a little square and then i drop

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an ice pack right in there and then i

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close the bag so worms don't crawl

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inside of your plastic bag and then the

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ice pack is gonna keep your warm bin

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temperature a little bit lower and i

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would do that every day before going to

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work and then in the afternoon when i

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came back home i would change the ice

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pack because that's when the temperature

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was going above 90 degrees it was really

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hot i wanted to make sure my worms were

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nice and cool so you can actually do

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that is an easy way to regulate

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temperature another thing that i works

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really well for me is because i have

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essentially two plastic bins one in case

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inside of the other and the one in the

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bottom has wood chips if things get

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really hot in the upper bean worms

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always have the choice to just go down

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and go into the wood chips but what that

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does is also adds another layer of

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buffer a whole different environment

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which is wood chips

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and the worms usually go up and down and

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they like to hang on the wood chips

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especially if it gets really hot they're

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going to about find comfort in the wood

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chips the wood chips are also getting a

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lot of the excess

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liquids that drip from your composting

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system from the warm beans so that also

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gets really

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kind of mellow in there the wood chips

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soak in a lot of the excess humidity so

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they retain it so it's a nice

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comfortable space and your warm band

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also doesn't have any issues with smells

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of or others because the wood chips are

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essentially more carbon material and

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also the spacing between wood chips adds

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air circulation which is great to

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prevent anaerobic bacteria which is what

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would potentially cause problems in your

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worm bed the next thing that i want you

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to think about is bedding

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i use leaves for my bedding for

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different reasons number one there are a

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clean renewable resources there is a lot

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of them at the end of the fall

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and worms really like it when you think

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about where worms would naturally be in

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the wild what's called the leaf litter

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under the tree canopy so worms naturally

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tend to gravitate towards leaves because

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they have air spacing they

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attract a lot of microorganisms they

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produce a lot of food for microorganisms

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and then the worms get drawn to that

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the next thing you want to think about

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when you're thinking about worms is ph

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so that is the acidity level inside of

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your composting system when it comes to

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acidity worms can tolerate in between

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usually

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nothing lower than five and nothing

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higher than nine and if you're adding

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fruit scraps to your bin they can turn

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more acidic the way i deal with that i'm

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creating different sections within my

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bucket so one section may get high in

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acidity i add a lot of egg shells to

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neutralize that acidity and bring it

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down and then i make sure there is

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enough room in the bank where the

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acidity whereas there is no food scraps

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so the worms have places to go if things

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start getting really tight in there

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and please check out my other video on

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bokashi and how i use bokashi to feed my

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worms because that's something that i've

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been doing for the last few years and it

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really helps me accelerate the

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decomposition process inside of my worm

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bin and it also helps a lot with the

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excess fluids that a lot of food scraps

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have so stay tuned for that you want

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your warm bin to have more carbon more

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brown material than green material or

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green waste so think about it in the

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same terms you will do with a composting

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bin and your composting bin your warm

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material is usually the vast majority

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and then you add your food scraps and

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that turns into what's called the high

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nitrogen green material your worms

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usually feel happier when that ratio is

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50 to 1. so the more brown material the

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more leaves you add to your composting

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system

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the

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healthier warm population you're likely

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to have the warm band is an ecosystem

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for the worm being to be really

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effective as a composting vermiculture

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system you want to have an active

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ecosystem with a wide range of organisms

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and different areas for those organisms

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to thrive so once you have the first

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being going that is going strong and

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then you have a lot of worm castings

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then creating new bins is going to be a

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lot faster because you're working with a

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full ecosystem you essentially transfer

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an ecosystem giving them more food

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giving them more space to multiply and

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also in the comments please tell me what

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are all the questions that you may have

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that you would want me to address and

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let me know things that you're doing in

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your composting system that you see that

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are working for you that i'm not

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so

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