Shoutout to the one tiny super fast white worm in the middle box. I picture him wearing a little red helmet zipping past the big slow worms while he makes motor bike sounds.
if these Chambers was connected with small holes 1)we can see what they prefer to eat first where they like to stay and make eggs (the holes in the front of the camera) 2) it could be nice to see also moisture and temp in each Chamber ... and 3) other idea add a Chamber #4 with fruit and vegetables ... nice work !
I can't believe I just did it for a SECOND TIME!!! LOL! Utterly relaxing! What are those super-fast little white worms, does anybody know? Are they what are called 'pot worms'? I'd love to see a follow-up of the worm populations afterwards (assuming a similar amount, size, age were added in the first place) ... which worms increased most in size? ... which seemed the healthiest? ... which increased in number? ... which laid lots of cocoons? etc
Not that surprised that it was the cardboard that took the longest to start getting the level down - it's one of those things that the worms need the help of the other digesters to come to grips with. Cool video!
The one thing I noticed early on was that the worms in #1 were breeding a lot more than the worms in #2 and #3. Cardboard and paper are obviously so devoid of nutrients that the worms are only interested in saving themselves rather than increasing the population. Also, it took the worms in #2 and #3 a very long time before they could begin to eat the material, having to wait until it was utterly soggy before they could use it for food.
You've a great point, here! When I was a young child, I used to play with Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars in the mud for HOURS and I definitely remember purposely eating dirt. I bet there is some primal understanding of the "nutrient" value of the soil. Or kids are just kinda goofy...either way.
Not needed. Surrounding areas should already have natural decomposers. Introducing non native earthworms has negative longterm effects on native fauna. They are known to damage the natural nutrient cycles of forests which can eventually lead to decline of native fauna and increase of invasive nonnative species. Additionally they are pretty much impossible to remove once introduced.
@@se7en518 Oh noo im so offended, here's your reward of being a complete bitch. The reason I'm being a bitch is that this guy was imo being rude to the person who's just trying to educate. Also, I guess that makes you a complete genius to know what other people on the internet really fully mean about their words. Congratulations.
I mean if you think of worms as if they're the digestive system for plants then it's pure nutrients that they create from dead food and not really shit.
The cardboard seemed harder to digest, like tough meat. It's like it had to be decomposed by something or heavily soften by water first and then, after 14-15 days, the worms began to be able to process it faster. But even after 3 months, some pieces seem disgusting for them. :)
I think it would have been interesting to count and weigh each bin of worms at the beginning and end of your 100 days to see the difference the raw materials had on the worms growth/reproduction.
This is fabulous! Thank you. I am new to vermiculture, I purchased 1000 worms and put them in a bedding of peat moss and feed them food I grind from bird seed, chicken mash, and alfalfa pellets. (they seem to love it) I cover with paper and cardboard and keep their bins on shelving near my kitchen. My red wigglers will live inside the house until the temperatures rise a little and this food does not smell. I have so many baby worms I've added and set up 4 new tubs and moved (gently) 1/2 of the original tubs into them. I didn't realize they could live on mainly paper and cardboard! This gives me handy options when I travel. I can stack paper and cardboard for them to enjoy. Again, thank you for this video,
Thanks for replying re my q about why ice. My bin stays so moist that I’ve never had to think about more moisture, but that may be why my friend’s bin failed....
It's interesting how active the worms become when they feel moisture on the surface. It's a beautiful process! I love it. Thanks for sharing. I wonder how much impact (negative) chemical fertilizers and insecticides have on the worms. This has been a very big problem across the world.
#arundas. Fertilizers don't kill earthworms, but do pollute their food. Whereas fungicides, insecticides, herbicides, all murder homes that earthworms built over centuries. Imagine Bayer having to pay to rebuild what they destroyed.
love to see my friends working.....I will never till the garden again....hate to even stick a fork in it ,but I gotta. Leaves, grass , wood chips, and manure are my main medium.......interesting to see what they are doing with the paper and cardboard...it takes longer, but it too gets digested....living soil
indigestible? it's just paper.. which is easily 'digestible' by them... there are carbs and such in paper and you can live on it too lol.. take some time for your gut biology to get good at it tho... got lots of stories in the 'Family Bible' my family has about stuff like that even... eating their leather straps and a paper boiled into a slurry with an old sock tossed in for some flavor n grit
Wow takes them so long to eat the cardboard. This video was actually helpful in seeing how they actually go through the stuff you give them over a span of 3 and a half months.
that made me laugh because the first block was eating some extravagant dinner and the one in the third block had mideval european black bread that was stale.
Wow, fantastic! Mesmerised! We can learn so much from this display. I'd have to watch at least 3 more times, concentrating on 1 chamber only each time but I made some quite obvious observations. Ch1, the most natural, seemed to stall at around day 60ish and go quite acidic, white pot worms were clearly visible in the top 1 to 2 inches, and worm activity dropped a lot. This seemed to recover about day 65 onwards. Note the worms did not frequent the bottom 2ish inches for a long time, probably till around day 92ish. I wonder if the castings neutralised and became less toxic to them? Ch 2 and 3, the castings don't look too nourishing for the garden though the worms always visited the bottom and didn't seem uncomfortable down there at any time. Would be interesting to see the end product. Tip out the contents, remove any unprocessed bedding/feed and worms, see what quantity of castings we have. The next level would be to have those samples Lab tested for nutrients/toxins (from ink or paper bleaching). Fascinating! Thank you so much for doing this. Take care, Poo
It looks like the bottom of chamber 1 was saturated with water, which would explain both the worm's unwillingness to go down there and the acidity. It is likely that the ice was added equally to each chamber, but the decomposition of the leaves progressed much more quickly than the paper or cardboard while also containing more water to begin with. Since decomposition produces/releases water, CO2, and dissolved organic matter, including organic acids, this would explain why chamber 1 progressed the way it did as well as the behavior of the worms. You can see the water level is about half full at day 40, but by day 92, despite a recent application of ice, the worms are probing the bottom. On day 92 you can clearly see that the top food has been thoroughly decomposed but the lower quality leaves in the bottom half of the chamber are still relatively intact. Preserved by immersion and lack of adjacent high quality (green) leaves. The lack of green leaf application is probably both the cause of worm exploration and the enabler, as the declining rate of decomposition without them present allows the chamber to become unsaturated.
Interesting 🧐 It is such a juxtaposition between boring v fascinating. If you asked someone to sit and watch worms devour materials for so long they would think you were nut’s but once they watched a few minutes they would be hooked 😂 Great video, well done on your editing too, transitions not noticeable between cuts. 👍🏼👌🏽
I had noticed how the liquid in each chamber was collecting and getting deeper but I intentionally pushed it further & further to see how they'd react. I expected them to hate it but I think the exact opposite is what happened. They seemed to really enjoy it - despite it being fairly deep. I think the worms are far more resilient and tough than we give them credit for. Thanks for watching!
In can not believe I watched this TWICE. New to worms and this was very interesting. The compartments appear to be about 4 inches square or so and the contents of number one look more like soil than the others, but it will be fun to see the final results. I'm moving on to some of the other videos in the links. Thank you so much for your hard and patient work getting this together.
It looked like as soon as the worms realized they weren't getting any organic material they started chowing down on water logged paper lol. It did take a much longer time to break down than the leaves, but they eventually started picking up the pace.
@@chewee2k they are moving up to not die! He keeps adding ice on the first tank when the worms are already running for their lifes when half the tank is already full and he keeps doing it.
The first one made the nicest looking castings, but it is not truly all carbon as green leaves are actually a source of nitrogen, so it is the only one that had the proper amount of C:N for vermicomposting. It goes to show though that worms can survive on damp carbon alone.
Awesome video and great idea. Would've loved to see the leaves less shredded or the cardboard more shredded so that particle size would be more similar. It seems they eat all three but particle sizes of leaf litter is so much smaller that it's hard to say for certain the eating of that happens quicker. The smaller the individual peice size the better the worms eat it is my initial thought.
I will be watching this again. Interesting amount of helpers in the leaves vs paper and cardboard over time. I wonder if the results would be the same with African Night Crawler.
My populations of African and European nightcrawlers are still somewhat small. Perhaps once their numbers increase I can use them too in an upcoming time-lapse.
I keep reading that red wigglers like to feed only on the top layer, that they don’t burrow deeper... As well as that they like the dark so you need to keep the light out of you want them to feed... guess this disproves both of those! :)
Amazing experiment indeed.... appreciate blogger intent to make us aware about environment and how do worm works for us. More hard the organic material , more the time needed to break it down. You see worm too have preference what to eat first and fast and I see overall typical 50% conversion efficiency by volume by theses worm. Thanks for sharing!
This is a great experiment. I would be interested to see a similar run with the same natural organics, the large cardboard, and then a mixture (either blended or layered) to see how much more efficient the process can be with a more complete microbiome. They obviously had a hard time with the large & thick paper but maybe they'd get more of a sugar rush from the natural leaves that they'd eat through the tough stuff faster too.
Both bin 2&3 seem to have a layer of processed fibres that seem to be stay even with each other with a mild variation throughout the composting. I'm also seeing what appears to be little white juvenile worms in bin 1 and not so much in the other bins.
I guess they need water/humidity, smaller pieces, and some organic material like foodscraps as well because they also break down the paper by keeping things moist. The paper should also be submerged in water first to start it off wet. Thanks for showing this to see the huge difference
Just curious, did you count the number of worms per container before and after? it would also be interesting if you could somehow mark the original worms and see how many of them have survived the entire 100 days.
The bin is still actively composting. I just reloaded it with shredded versions of each type of material. See more about it here. ruclips.net/video/4DXPpptiWAU/видео.html ...so, we don't have any "after" info (yet). But in the "before" making-of video it is shows how many worms were used. No measurements - just a couple clips showing them. I invite you to check out that video too; the link to it is in the description. Thanks for watching!
They generally don’t, given that the worms are able to eat any anaerobic bacteria before they start to fester bc those are the ones that create the bad smells. Also, a lot of folks cover the top of their bins with a sheet of newspaper/layer of carbon to prevent flies and such from coming in.
@Costa, H.T. You can most definitely put meat and dairy in a worm bin, just don't overdo it and yes it will stink a bit but the worms will love it. Citric acid is a pretty big NO though, a little is fine, it will disperse but too much citric acid will kill your worms.
Tengo un enlace en mi descripción y también en el comentario fijado. Para tu comodidad, lo incluyo aquí también. ¡Gracias por mirar! 3 chamber acrylic; includes 3 thermometers - amzn.to/2JBU9yj
It's interesting, 1 is top working, probably because that's where all the fresh leaves are. However 2 and 3 are bottom working, which is (I'm guessing) due to the fungus and bacteria that live at the wet bottom areas having a chance to break down the nearly pure cellulose of paper products. Also, I think two and three could have used a bit less water then one. I'm thinking that if you measured by weight rather then volume there would be far less material in 2 & 3. As such with the regular watering it really looks like 2 & 3 got much more waterlogged than 1.
Great observations. I think you are correct. I really felt like I was going overboard with all the water. It was clear that the water level had risen quite high and I worried that it would swamp & drown the worms. It did just the opposite. The worms loved the standing water on the bottom.. and I think it helped greatly with the helping them consume all that material. Thanks for watching!
I was wondering the same thing? Looked like chamber 1 was best for composting but looked like 3 was super full of worms like they were reproducing faster?
This was fascinating! I'd love to have seen the temperature fluctuations in each compartment. It highlights the importance of moisture in this process and it was amazing to see how the activity increased when moisture was added. I'm curious to know if the overall populations were the same in the end ? I ask because there appeared to be more in #3 but I suspect that was just distribution. Were the egg shells for acidity regulation or do worms have high calcium needs? Thank you SO much for sharing this.
The 3-chamber container came with 3 thermometers but I elected to not include them in this video. Perhaps in some future video I can use them to give us a view of the temps in the container. It is true that eggshell can be used to regulate pH levels in a worm bin... but my main reason for adding it is to provide them with grit for digestion. I do not know how many worms I ended up with yet since I have not yet emptied the container. If you're interested in seeing how many worms it started with, then they can be seen in my "making of" video. I invite you to watch it here: ruclips.net/video/bdwnErqMUO8/видео.html Thank you for watching!
thank you for this video i wish that in the end of the video you tell as which bed material make more vermicomposting and which one make the worm multiply faster thank you
This wasn't a very scientific test - it was mainly for everyone's viewing pleasure. If you'd like to get a sense of how things looked in the bin in the beginning compared to how they looked at the finish then I invite you to watch the video of the emptying of the container; it can be seen here: ruclips.net/video/vS8inrQOfkA/видео.html The build of the bin and the release of the worms was captured on video too & can be seen here: ruclips.net/video/bdwnErqMUO8/видео.html Thank you for watching!
@@A-V thank you for replaying me i had stat to watch your video today and i start from the first video and iam coming up you had made a nice stuff here thank you for sharing it with us
I noticed when the water was added in the leaves bin the worms did not stay in the bottom. On lawns when it rains is when I see many worms coming from the dirt. I think in the other bins the water was absorbed so the worms were able to be safe from drowning.
it seems to me that finer materials works best. Probably easier for the worms to munch on rotting leaves than hard paper/cardboard. However it may be a different story if the paper and cardboard were more finely ground-up and maybe pre-soaked in water to help the decomposing process.
I did not weigh anything.. but you can see how many worms were used by watching the setup video here: 2-Year Vermi- anniversary & Setup of 3-Chamber Carbon-only Time-lapse - vermicomposting ruclips.net/video/bdwnErqMUO8/видео.html Thank you for watching!
If you had asked me back then who was going to win, I would have told you it was anybody's game. By day 30 everything had changed. That was the day the worms of bin #3 developed teamwork.
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Shoutout to the one tiny super fast white worm in the middle box. I picture him wearing a little red helmet zipping past the big slow worms while he makes motor bike sounds.
if these Chambers was connected with small holes 1)we can see what they prefer to eat first where they like to stay and make eggs (the holes in the front of the camera) 2) it could be nice to see also moisture and temp in each Chamber ... and 3) other idea add a Chamber #4 with fruit and vegetables ... nice work !
In the first few seconds, that's what I thought this was going to be. Kinda disappointing.
Yeah free choice let see it
RUclips: watch these worms
Me: eww.
Also me: watches 40 mins
lol you didn't watch the entire video. You just want likes :)
you can adjust play back speed to 2 to make it go faster
@@cm8291 That's what I did, but I did watch it all. Not sure why I did though..
What is "ewww" with worms?
Have you never gone fishing? Oo..
Also, why do so many young people type in paragraphs rather than actual sentences?
that's nature itself, no wrong getting attracted.
I can't believe I just watched 100 days of vermicomposting. But I have zero regrets.
I can't believe I just did it for a SECOND TIME!!! LOL! Utterly relaxing! What are those super-fast little white worms, does anybody know? Are they what are called 'pot worms'? I'd love to see a follow-up of the worm populations afterwards (assuming a similar amount, size, age were added in the first place) ... which worms increased most in size? ... which seemed the healthiest? ... which increased in number? ... which laid lots of cocoons? etc
"No Regerts" (like that one tattoo)
Me: *Minding my own business*
RUclips recommendations: Watch worms eat shit at incredible hihg speed
me right now lol
yea... why am i watching this...
was watching a minecraft video, and youtube recomended this... not sure if I can sleep today...
you too eh?
Listening to Tool While i watch this is actually quite relaxing.
Not that surprised that it was the cardboard that took the longest to start getting the level down - it's one of those things that the worms need the help of the other digesters to come to grips with. Cool video!
The one thing I noticed early on was that the worms in #1 were breeding a lot more than the worms in #2 and #3. Cardboard and paper are obviously so devoid of nutrients that the worms are only interested in saving themselves rather than increasing the population. Also, it took the worms in #2 and #3 a very long time before they could begin to eat the material, having to wait until it was utterly soggy before they could use it for food.
The structure was also a significant factor, the worms in number 3 clearly were having a much easier time than the worms in number 2.
You can even tell in the coloration in the near-finished product!
This video is the perfect example of an aptly named video and does exactly what it says. No fluff, isn't misleading. Thank you.
The population looks like it got much bigger along with most worms getting big. Awesome video.
The left-hand bin just looks so clean and nice. Leaves becoming dirt. I wanna plant flowers in it.
thats not dirt.. thats the shit the worms leave behind
TheOfficialMcWaka
Aka enriched organic material
TheOfficialMcWaka dumb comment please try again
@@TheOfficialMcWaka That's what good garden soil basically is. Shit the worms left behind.
yes
I was today years old when I realized those "mud pies" I was making when I was little was really 98% worm poop. Cool video!
"today years old"..
Counting is difficult for some.:D
@@OriginalPuro it's a meme reference.
You've a great point, here! When I was a young child, I used to play with Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars in the mud for HOURS and I definitely remember purposely eating dirt. I bet there is some primal understanding of the "nutrient" value of the soil. Or kids are just kinda goofy...either way.
Puro ok boomer
I like to think that worms just poop dirt, so it's not really nasty
Now take them to the landfills everywhere. They have their diplomas
Not needed. Surrounding areas should already have natural decomposers. Introducing non native earthworms has negative longterm effects on native fauna. They are known to damage the natural nutrient cycles of forests which can eventually lead to decline of native fauna and increase of invasive nonnative species. Additionally they are pretty much impossible to remove once introduced.
@@nico.salcedo they don't actually have diplomas Nick. This was a joke. Love to see people who let things fly right over their heads.
@@kongstrong1938 Yes, we can totally tell if you were fully joking or not. At least their comment was educational.
@@zeri7835 If you have the brain of a 1 year old you probably cant tell. otherwhise you can.
@@se7en518 Oh noo im so offended, here's your reward of being a complete bitch. The reason I'm being a bitch is that this guy was imo being rude to the person who's just trying to educate. Also, I guess that makes you a complete genius to know what other people on the internet really fully mean about their words. Congratulations.
The look on Steves face when he realized he was eating Franks poop the whole time was priceless.
best comment hahahahaha
The help
Did you see Tim? He was so grossed out to realize Jennifer was peeing where he ate
Meanwhile Karen seeking the manger..... Frank watching her, wondering why she looking for a manager in their own home.
My favorite to watch is chamber 3 and all the worm super highways. Also the suddenly increase of activity every time ice is added is amusing.
Sooooo Earth is just a big ball of water and worm sh*t...nice
depends. sometimes it's mushrooms and bacteria slime, too. plus lots of silicon.
I mean if you think of worms as if they're the digestive system for plants then it's pure nutrients that they create from dead food and not really shit.
It's poop of all the micro life in the soil. Poop is great, poop is life. :)
When you squeeze the liquid out of fresh worm sh*t you get some of the best natural fertilizer there is.
@Snails40 doesn't understand a smartass joke
The cardboard seemed harder to digest, like tough meat. It's like it had to be decomposed by something or heavily soften by water first and then, after 14-15 days, the worms began to be able to process it faster. But even after 3 months, some pieces seem disgusting for them. :)
Thanks for taking the time to create this. Very interesting to be able to see the process time-lapsed.
Great experiment. Should be shown to all grade school kids on the environmental impact of waste. 👍👍👍
Cool. It would be interesting to know each of their weights before and after.
I think it would have been interesting to count and weigh each bin of worms at the beginning and end of your 100 days to see the difference the raw materials had on the worms growth/reproduction.
You get a different perspective without music. I didn't think the cardboard would ever breakdown
it took a lot. it would have been easier if it was shredded to smaller pieces.
Woah, spoilers!
This is fabulous! Thank you. I am new to vermiculture, I purchased 1000 worms and put them in a bedding of peat moss and feed them food I grind from bird seed, chicken mash, and alfalfa pellets. (they seem to love it) I cover with paper and cardboard and keep their bins on shelving near my kitchen. My red wigglers will live inside the house until the temperatures rise a little and this food does not smell. I have so many baby worms I've added and set up 4 new tubs and moved (gently) 1/2 of the original tubs into them. I didn't realize they could live on mainly paper and cardboard! This gives me handy options when I travel. I can stack paper and cardboard for them to enjoy. Again, thank you for this video,
Friend: "Why don't you wanna hang out?"
Me: "It's complicated..."
I'm sorry, I'm just really busy tonight lol
I really just spent 40 mins watching worms
Me too
No fast forwarded. This really could have been a timelaps
Edit: faster timelaps*
you could always watch worms kill each other with bazookas, grenade, airstrikes and giant concrete donkeys if this isn't your kind of worms
@@98kazer Yo that reminds me of the worms video game. I feel old now lol
The spice must flow
Aboslutely enthralling. Idk why RUclips suggested this, but somehow they knew I'd watch the entire thing
Worms are a blessing to earth.
thanks on so many levels for going to the effort of creating and publishing.
please consider getting some bait dye, and dyeing one of the worms in each bin. It would be fun to track it, and also see if its growing over time
I'm quite sure at least one other time a similar suggestion has been made. Interesting idea... Thanks for watching!
Thanks for replying re my q about why ice. My bin stays so moist that I’ve never had to think about more moisture, but that may be why my friend’s bin failed....
I loved watching the water get them all riled up
It's interesting how active the worms become when they feel moisture on the surface. It's a beautiful process! I love it. Thanks for sharing. I wonder how much impact (negative) chemical fertilizers and insecticides have on the worms. This has been a very big problem across the world.
I noticed that the moisture really stirred them up a bit too.
@@bigpete4227 I read that worms breathe through skin. Maybe there is a hint in that.
#arundas. Fertilizers don't kill earthworms, but do pollute their food.
Whereas fungicides, insecticides, herbicides, all murder homes that earthworms built over centuries.
Imagine Bayer having to pay to rebuild what they destroyed.
i already respected the role worms play in the environment but now im really glad we have them lol just look at 'em go
Ya its quite nice to see. I wasn't sure how it was going to end kinda surprised.
it's super fun watching this on 2x speed, they're just like NYOOOOM all around the bins!
love to see my friends working.....I will never till the garden again....hate to even stick a fork in it ,but I gotta.
Leaves, grass , wood chips, and manure are my main medium.......interesting to see what they are doing with the paper and cardboard...it takes longer, but it too gets digested....living soil
Who would win: Bin full of indigestible fiber or 1000 long squirmy bois
But you do eat fiber that is indigestible as well. Unless you carni then I guess all good here.
@@CyanideOwl I have not performed this experiment but I bet the worms would get more out of my poop than I got from what I used to make it.
indigestible? it's just paper.. which is easily 'digestible' by them... there are carbs and such in paper and you can live on it too lol.. take some time for your gut biology to get good at it tho... got lots of stories in the 'Family Bible' my family has about stuff like that even... eating their leather straps and a paper boiled into a slurry with an old sock tossed in for some flavor n grit
Wow takes them so long to eat the cardboard. This video was actually helpful in seeing how they actually go through the stuff you give them over a span of 3 and a half months.
The worms on the far right are like...."How the F--K are we going to eat these bricks? And who the F--K put concrete in here?"
The container on the far right has paper in it, not bricks and concrete?
Sounds like someone needs to stop doing drugs.
Sounds like a couple others need to learn how to realize a joke.
that made me laugh because the first block was eating some extravagant dinner and the one in the third block had mideval european black bread that was stale.
Ok, i just watched a 40 min long video with worms in a container eating for 100 days. And i loved it😂Fascinating stuff 😁
Thank you for watching!
Wow, fantastic! Mesmerised! We can learn so much from this display. I'd have to watch at least 3 more times, concentrating on 1 chamber only each time but I made some quite obvious observations. Ch1, the most natural, seemed to stall at around day 60ish and go quite acidic, white pot worms were clearly visible in the top 1 to 2 inches, and worm activity dropped a lot. This seemed to recover about day 65 onwards. Note the worms did not frequent the bottom 2ish inches for a long time, probably till around day 92ish. I wonder if the castings neutralised and became less toxic to them? Ch 2 and 3, the castings don't look too nourishing for the garden though the worms always visited the bottom and didn't seem uncomfortable down there at any time. Would be interesting to see the end product. Tip out the contents, remove any unprocessed bedding/feed and worms, see what quantity of castings we have. The next level would be to have those samples Lab tested for nutrients/toxins (from ink or paper bleaching). Fascinating! Thank you so much for doing this. Take care, Poo
It looks like the bottom of chamber 1 was saturated with water, which would explain both the worm's unwillingness to go down there and the acidity. It is likely that the ice was added equally to each chamber, but the decomposition of the leaves progressed much more quickly than the paper or cardboard while also containing more water to begin with. Since decomposition produces/releases water, CO2, and dissolved organic matter, including organic acids, this would explain why chamber 1 progressed the way it did as well as the behavior of the worms. You can see the water level is about half full at day 40, but by day 92, despite a recent application of ice, the worms are probing the bottom. On day 92 you can clearly see that the top food has been thoroughly decomposed but the lower quality leaves in the bottom half of the chamber are still relatively intact. Preserved by immersion and lack of adjacent high quality (green) leaves. The lack of green leaf application is probably both the cause of worm exploration and the enabler, as the declining rate of decomposition without them present allows the chamber to become unsaturated.
Oh, I thought the little white worms were new babies 😶
Interesting 🧐 It is such a juxtaposition between boring v fascinating.
If you asked someone to sit and watch worms devour materials for so long they would think you were nut’s but once they watched a few minutes they would be hooked 😂
Great video, well done on your editing too, transitions not noticeable between cuts. 👍🏼👌🏽
Thank god for 2x speed in RUclips. Also looks like your chamber lack drainage. Poor things were in a swimming pool towards the end.
I had noticed how the liquid in each chamber was collecting and getting deeper but I intentionally pushed it further & further to see how they'd react. I expected them to hate it but I think the exact opposite is what happened. They seemed to really enjoy it - despite it being fairly deep. I think the worms are far more resilient and tough than we give them credit for. Thanks for watching!
@@A-V oh, very interesting! That was my first video of yours, so I should have watched more before commenting, I get what you were doing now!
In can not believe I watched this TWICE. New to worms and this was very interesting. The compartments appear to be about 4 inches square or so and the contents of number one look more like soil than the others, but it will be fun to see the final results. I'm moving on to some of the other videos in the links. Thank you so much for your hard and patient work getting this together.
Thanks for watching - twice! The next thing to try is to watch it at 0.5x speed :)
that moisture buildup is insane!
Who thought worms can be so interesting... Nice video
It looked like as soon as the worms realized they weren't getting any organic material they started chowing down on water logged paper lol. It did take a much longer time to break down than the leaves, but they eventually started picking up the pace.
Did not expect to find that so amazing! Great work!
Thank you for watching!
I love how they go crazy when you add ice .
Seems like they move up for the water.
@@chewee2k they are moving up to not die! He keeps adding ice on the first tank when the worms are already running for their lifes when half the tank is already full and he keeps doing it.
Wow, I didnt know worms sped up the composting process so much! That kind of progress would take six months or more without them.
5:45 the worm top middle yellow cardboard took the pieces in like an arm 🤣 so cool!!!
The first one made the nicest looking castings, but it is not truly all carbon as green leaves are actually a source of nitrogen, so it is the only one that had the proper amount of C:N for vermicomposting. It goes to show though that worms can survive on damp carbon alone.
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Me after 10 pm realizing I just spent 39 min watching worms for 100 days. I need a life.
Organic matter provides a very good living environment for earthworms😄amazing video
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Awesome video and great idea. Would've loved to see the leaves less shredded or the cardboard more shredded so that particle size would be more similar. It seems they eat all three but particle sizes of leaf litter is so much smaller that it's hard to say for certain the eating of that happens quicker. The smaller the individual peice size the better the worms eat it is my initial thought.
wow...they are so active !
I will be watching this again. Interesting amount of helpers in the leaves vs paper and cardboard over time. I wonder if the results would be the same with African Night Crawler.
My populations of African and European nightcrawlers are still somewhat small. Perhaps once their numbers increase I can use them too in an upcoming time-lapse.
I keep reading that red wigglers like to feed only on the top layer, that they don’t burrow deeper...
As well as that they like the dark so you need to keep the light out of you want them to feed...
guess this disproves both of those! :)
13:13 Spider bro says Hi in tank #1
the real mvp
@@AM-ng5ph no not the mvp because he disappeared as fast as he appeared. And it wasn't because he was a magician 🤨
Amazing experiment indeed.... appreciate blogger intent to make us aware about environment and how do worm works for us. More hard the organic material , more the time needed to break it down. You see worm too have preference what to eat first and fast and I see overall typical 50% conversion efficiency by volume by theses worm. Thanks for sharing!
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This is a great experiment. I would be interested to see a similar run with the same natural organics, the large cardboard, and then a mixture (either blended or layered) to see how much more efficient the process can be with a more complete microbiome. They obviously had a hard time with the large & thick paper but maybe they'd get more of a sugar rush from the natural leaves that they'd eat through the tough stuff faster too.
Fascinating!
This comment section taught me so much I didn't know about worms.
Fishing season is right around the corner. The bait and tackle shops thank you in advance. ;D
This was awesome to watch. Going to watch it again.
i am on my 12th time watching this. every time i brake out the popcorn
That was FANTASTIC!!!
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Best episode of FRIENDS I've ever seen
Both bin 2&3 seem to have a layer of processed fibres that seem to be stay even with each other with a mild variation throughout the composting.
I'm also seeing what appears to be little white juvenile worms in bin 1 and not so much in the other bins.
I love how the Ice keeps getting bigger.
I guess they need water/humidity, smaller pieces, and some organic material like foodscraps as well because they also break down the paper by keeping things moist. The paper should also be submerged in water first to start it off wet. Thanks for showing this to see the huge difference
Thanks for watching!
Listening to ultra instinct while watching this was an interesting experience.
i noticed the worm dragging the bit into the hole! i thought that was pretty awesome
Just curious, did you count the number of worms per container before and after? it would also be interesting if you could somehow mark the original worms and see how many of them have survived the entire 100 days.
The bin is still actively composting. I just reloaded it with shredded versions of each type of material. See more about it here. ruclips.net/video/4DXPpptiWAU/видео.html ...so, we don't have any "after" info (yet). But in the "before" making-of video it is shows how many worms were used. No measurements - just a couple clips showing them. I invite you to check out that video too; the link to it is in the description. Thanks for watching!
These worms work 24/7!!!
Oddly statisfying to watch, thank you for making it!
Watching this gave me weird crawling chills...
Amazing video. That took a lot of time and patience, thanks for sharing!
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Zero speaking, awesome!
I got a question, does it give off any odors? And if it does, are they different odor for each bin?
Generally speaking.. worm bins do not have an odor. Just a clean earthy smell. Thank you for watching!
That was a great question.
Smell like dirt
They generally don’t, given that the worms are able to eat any anaerobic bacteria before they start to fester bc those are the ones that create the bad smells. Also, a lot of folks cover the top of their bins with a sheet of newspaper/layer of carbon to prevent flies and such from coming in.
@Costa, H.T. You can most definitely put meat and dairy in a worm bin, just don't overdo it and yes it will stink a bit but the worms will love it. Citric acid is a pretty big NO though, a little is fine, it will disperse but too much citric acid will kill your worms.
RUclips needed this.
This would have been interesting as a livestream
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Tengo un enlace en mi descripción y también en el comentario fijado. Para tu comodidad, lo incluyo aquí también. ¡Gracias por mirar!
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It's interesting, 1 is top working, probably because that's where all the fresh leaves are. However 2 and 3 are bottom working, which is (I'm guessing) due to the fungus and bacteria that live at the wet bottom areas having a chance to break down the nearly pure cellulose of paper products.
Also, I think two and three could have used a bit less water then one. I'm thinking that if you measured by weight rather then volume there would be far less material in 2 & 3. As such with the regular watering it really looks like 2 & 3 got much more waterlogged than 1.
Great observations. I think you are correct. I really felt like I was going overboard with all the water. It was clear that the water level had risen quite high and I worried that it would swamp & drown the worms. It did just the opposite. The worms loved the standing water on the bottom.. and I think it helped greatly with the helping them consume all that material. Thanks for watching!
Late to the game, fascinating stuff, thank you. I would love to see a mix of edibles done the same way.
Which chamber produced the most worms? Thanks for the great videos!
I was wondering the same thing? Looked like chamber 1 was best for composting but looked like 3 was super full of worms like they were reproducing faster?
Idk how I ended up watching this but I'm not complaining
I highly recommend turning on X2 speed when watching this lol.
Good call
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Absolutely AMAZING!
This was fascinating! I'd love to have seen the temperature fluctuations in each compartment. It highlights the importance of moisture in this process and it was amazing to see how the activity increased when moisture was added. I'm curious to know if the overall populations were the same in the end ? I ask because there appeared to be more in #3 but I suspect that was just distribution. Were the egg shells for acidity regulation or do worms have high calcium needs? Thank you SO much for sharing this.
The 3-chamber container came with 3 thermometers but I elected to not include them in this video. Perhaps in some future video I can use them to give us a view of the temps in the container.
It is true that eggshell can be used to regulate pH levels in a worm bin... but my main reason for adding it is to provide them with grit for digestion.
I do not know how many worms I ended up with yet since I have not yet emptied the container. If you're interested in seeing how many worms it started with, then they can be seen in my "making of" video. I invite you to watch it here: ruclips.net/video/bdwnErqMUO8/видео.html
Thank you for watching!
thank you for this video
i wish that in the end of the video you tell as which bed material make more vermicomposting and which one make the worm multiply faster
thank you
This wasn't a very scientific test - it was mainly for everyone's viewing pleasure. If you'd like to get a sense of how things looked in the bin in the beginning compared to how they looked at the finish then I invite you to watch the video of the emptying of the container; it can be seen here: ruclips.net/video/vS8inrQOfkA/видео.html The build of the bin and the release of the worms was captured on video too & can be seen here: ruclips.net/video/bdwnErqMUO8/видео.html Thank you for watching!
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thank you for replaying me
i had stat to watch your video today and i start from the first video and iam coming up
you had made a nice stuff here thank you for sharing it with us
Young Worm: dad how did you meet mom?
Dad Worm: I met your mom on the most beautiful pile of shit.
mom and dad are both hermaphrodites
@@vincentwu2848 you are also politically correct.
Dad how you met my dad?
@@thirtyonefifty3133 thats just correct, nothing political in it...
You know this could solve our trash problem, and we can use the worms for fishing
Awesome video! Subscribed! I was wondering when you were going to be posting again. Glad to see new content!
I noticed when the water was added in the leaves bin the worms did not stay in the bottom. On lawns when it rains is when I see many worms coming from the dirt. I think in the other bins the water was absorbed so the worms were able to be safe from drowning.
Well, I stopped everything I was doing....🍃
Is it just me; or did your worms multiply dramatically over the 100 days? Might be interesting to get a before and after weight of the worms.
Good question. I am not really sure. Thanks for watching!
to me i see leaves is the better choice of bedding material
it seems to me that finer materials works best. Probably easier for the worms to munch on rotting leaves than hard paper/cardboard. However it may be a different story if the paper and cardboard were more finely ground-up and maybe pre-soaked in water to help the decomposing process.
Time well spent.
How many worms did the experiment start and what is the weight of each type of evry bedding material
I did not weigh anything.. but you can see how many worms were used by watching the setup video here: 2-Year Vermi- anniversary & Setup of 3-Chamber Carbon-only Time-lapse - vermicomposting ruclips.net/video/bdwnErqMUO8/видео.html Thank you for watching!
Is it my imagination or does the ice seem to stimulate more movement? Outstanding video. Thank for sharing.
Yeah - it definitely gets them movin'. Thanks for watching!
RUclips: look at these worms
Me: no thanks
Me after 40 minutes: I can't believe I saw the whole video
If you had asked me back then who was going to win, I would have told you it was anybody's game. By day 30 everything had changed. That was the day the worms of bin #3 developed teamwork.
mind blown! great job!