It takes 3 small worms 3-4 months to recondition a 5gal bucket of soil which is how long it takes to grow so swapping soils with your very own worm farm is easy!

when the soil is ready use a strainer to remove ALL the worms from the soil before using it again for a grow. Toss out any extra worms and return the 3 smallest to the old soil.

i like to keep the worms in my pots/cups, root massage.

very cool, is that all you have to do?

what's the unconditioned soil? from the last grow? are the worms just conditioning it or is there food in there for 'em?

I've got a worm farm too but I can't get 'em to eat as much as they're rumoured to.

First off, yes there is enough food from the roots of the old plant to keep them busy and recondition the soil, you could add some food stuffs but that will create smells. Second I'd stop leaving worms in your plants eventually they will turn the whole bucket into a giant ball of poop, the nitrates will kill any plant, so never leave them in the soil your growing with, they do breed you know...and fast. Plink, you could try different worms, the ones you have may not be big eaters.

Do you have any advice on methods to remove worms from soil you're growing in? They've been in there for quite a while, I suspect we'll get a lot of them if we can get them out.

Yeah there would be enough with roots hey.

I've been growing my plants directly in a worm farm for >6 months and the plants are fine, not enough nitrates imo. They make top soil, but slowly.

I've never used worm farming for weed, but with sunflowers I've noticed a good three foot difference when planted next to plants with no worm dirt. I always just fed them old plant matter and then mix the dirt with the native soil, can always get new worms from the back yard just about any summer night.

worms fuck them self! you only need one worm to make more...

My bad! I didn't know that.. thanks for the heads up. I thought since they were hermaphrodites that they didn't need a mate.