Why the holes in the tubes if they are pulled after a couple of days? what is the worm population difference between the j-su and the vermicompost? Or the difference between the the composts in general?
Bruv, with JS we put the starter material in totally soaked & because of the density & immediate actinomycetes bonding, yes you're right, you can pull the pipes the next day ..... but like Bec said, other farm priorities got in the way of that ..... and on that group of farms, the job the following day may have been 200-300km away. The reactor sits on a pallet, allowing air in at base. That soaked material gains heat very quickly, creating air convection from bottom to top ..... and if unsure because of other tasks, the pipe holes at least allow SOME air flow ..... not 100% necessary, but a feel-good touch. Worms are not added until the thermophilic phase is complete ..... for me, that's a month ..... instead of 40 reactors at once, I choose to make 1 per month & making the new ones triggers the ol' brain cells to add worms to the last one. So the 1st month of my reactors is completely microbiology ..... and there is the 1st difference to a worm farm : a thermophilic phase & a nil worm period. The 2nd difference is that I add just a handful of 4 composting worm varieties to reactors that are 1-2 cubic metres. So worms per square inch definitely differs to my worm farms. The 3rd difference is I run worm farms @ 50% moisture & JS reactors @ 70% moisture ..... that higher moisture content maintains fluid pathways for the micro critters & hence ensures micro processing is greater than vermi processing. The 4th difference is air flow. JS reactors created to spec are able to gain more air flow than many worm farm designs. The final major processing difference is time. Worm farms can process quicker. We purposefully leave JS reactors down with a 12-14 month aim to maturity, meaning that it's the reproductive parts of micro critters that we harvest, with less emphasis on the living micro critters like in a worm farm.
@@ploughboy6356 Many Many thanks for that reply. I am looking at initiating the extra air venting system into my vermicomosting. I aim to keep the beds at around 70% H2O, and add around 4000 per 1 Cu/mtr. I do thermophilic and static, and trialing bokashi for vermi inputs to see which is more effective, ease and time to produce, biology levels (microscopy), and worm preference. I have followed the J-Su system for a while, but this provides some detail that was always lacking. I do see the protists, fungi and nematode numbers drop significantly over time. But keen to see if the bacteria still provide a super start up once applied. And trialing another process which is yet to be confirmed. Cheers, Thanks again
@@666bruv I've heard good reports re the recipe you've described (typically from SFW loyalists). It's fine to aim for protists & if you follow a JS under a scope monthly across the 12 months, you'll find that it has everything that other aerobic composts do at comparable times. The reason the JS is my favourite of the 9 composting methods that we use is : 1) maturity - the fact I'm spreading reproductive parts rather than live microbes allows me to apply at greater spray pressures using JS extract & ensures that the balance I saw under the scope pre-application, is the balance I'm applying. And 2) the clincher for me - the maturity levels of JS allow me to treat the microbes as a secondary benefit, while I focus on delivering the humates, the enzymes, the metabolites, the chemcial signals that you only get from mature composts.
@@ploughboy6356 right on. I'm a SFW lab tech. And those aims you mention, are what I have been taking notice of for those application reasons, similar to what nutrisoil talk of.
Why the holes in the tubes if they are pulled after a couple of days?
what is the worm population difference between the j-su and the vermicompost? Or the difference between the the composts in general?
Bruv, with JS we put the starter material in totally soaked & because of the density & immediate actinomycetes bonding, yes you're right, you can pull the pipes the next day ..... but like Bec said, other farm priorities got in the way of that ..... and on that group of farms, the job the following day may have been 200-300km away.
The reactor sits on a pallet, allowing air in at base. That soaked material gains heat very quickly, creating air convection from bottom to top ..... and if unsure because of other tasks, the pipe holes at least allow SOME air flow ..... not 100% necessary, but a feel-good touch.
Worms are not added until the thermophilic phase is complete ..... for me, that's a month ..... instead of 40 reactors at once, I choose to make 1 per month & making the new ones triggers the ol' brain cells to add worms to the last one. So the 1st month of my reactors is completely microbiology ..... and there is the 1st difference to a worm farm : a thermophilic phase & a nil worm period.
The 2nd difference is that I add just a handful of 4 composting worm varieties to reactors that are 1-2 cubic metres. So worms per square inch definitely differs to my worm farms.
The 3rd difference is I run worm farms @ 50% moisture & JS reactors @ 70% moisture ..... that higher moisture content maintains fluid pathways for the micro critters & hence ensures micro processing is greater than vermi processing.
The 4th difference is air flow. JS reactors created to spec are able to gain more air flow than many worm farm designs.
The final major processing difference is time. Worm farms can process quicker. We purposefully leave JS reactors down with a 12-14 month aim to maturity, meaning that it's the reproductive parts of micro critters that we harvest, with less emphasis on the living micro critters like in a worm farm.
@@ploughboy6356 Many Many thanks for that reply.
I am looking at initiating the extra air venting system into my vermicomosting.
I aim to keep the beds at around 70% H2O, and add around 4000 per 1 Cu/mtr.
I do thermophilic and static, and trialing bokashi for vermi inputs to see which is more effective, ease and time to produce, biology levels (microscopy), and worm preference.
I have followed the J-Su system for a while, but this provides some detail that was always lacking.
I do see the protists, fungi and nematode numbers drop significantly over time. But keen to see if the bacteria still provide a super start up once applied.
And trialing another process which is yet to be confirmed.
Cheers, Thanks again
@@666bruv I've heard good reports re the recipe you've described (typically from SFW loyalists). It's fine to aim for protists & if you follow a JS under a scope monthly across the 12 months, you'll find that it has everything that other aerobic composts do at comparable times.
The reason the JS is my favourite of the 9 composting methods that we use is : 1) maturity - the fact I'm spreading reproductive parts rather than live microbes allows me to apply at greater spray pressures using JS extract & ensures that the balance I saw under the scope pre-application, is the balance I'm applying. And 2) the clincher for me - the maturity levels of JS allow me to treat the microbes as a secondary benefit, while I focus on delivering the humates, the enzymes, the metabolites, the chemcial signals that you only get from mature composts.
@@ploughboy6356 right on. I'm a SFW lab tech. And those aims you mention, are what I have been taking notice of for those application reasons, similar to what nutrisoil talk of.