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| Author: | TCLynx [ Sep 22nd, '09, 22:43 ] |
| Post subject: | Keeping your media alive out of the system |
I've lately had to do some renovations in my system due to termite damage. I had to empty an 8' by almost 3' by 1 foot deep grow bed so I could pull it out and replace it. I piled the gravel/shells on a ground cloth and even planted one big plant from the grow bed in the mound. I hooked up a micro sprinkler to my irrigation system to spray over the mound a few times a day. I can't say how viable the bacteria colonies stayed in that mound of gravel with very little food to process for two weeks but the papaya stayed alive. I fear that most of my worms from that mound of gravel probably escaped into the ground under the pile. I definitely recommend storing the gravel this way over sitting in buckets and containers with standing water. I've found that leaving gravel in water for more than a day tends to make for nasty anaerobic gravel. If you must put it in containers rather than on a ground cloth, then plant pots with drain holes would be better than non draining buckets. |
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| Author: | steem [ Sep 25th, '09, 09:50 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Keeping your media alive out of the system |
You'd be surprised - I still had worms in a growbed after about six weeks without water! Media was perlite though, so it would hold a bit more moisture I guess. |
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