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morbiddoctor
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Registered: 07/05/09
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Insect frass amendment
#21882603 - 07/01/15 11:41 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yesterday I cleaned my mealworm and superworm containers. It was being neglected and started to stink, usually it's done once a week. I had to sift the worms and beetles from the frass and substrate. This left me with about a gallon of frass, molt, baby worms, and grain mites. The grain mites were the real problem. To curb the spread of them and make sure the waste could be disposed of, the whole lot was frozen. Probably killed a couple thousand babies :/ but I have my breeders still.
SO I have seen mention of people using frass for fertilizer elsewhere. Does anyone know anything about this? I'd like to feed the waste to a shaggy mane project in place of cow poo and the like.
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CactInsane
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No clue man, but I know its a shitty job cleaning up mites. My buddy says they come from dirty potatoes?
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morbiddoctor
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Re: Insect frass amendment [Re: CactInsane]
#21882993 - 07/01/15 01:55 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Dirty potatoes maybe. Grain mites prefer a certain humidity and the veggies I feed my bugs raises the RH in their area, making it suitable for mites. The mites aren't detrimental to the colony or my other projects. It is gross when a trillion mites are in one place and look like a moving dirt ball.
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morbiddoctor
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Bump. I know frass has been talked about in the cannabis section as a an amendment, I suspect that it is a suitable substrate for other things. Oysters will eat anything. If no one has any firsthand information, I guess I will pioneer the subject and inoculate vigorous p. ostreatus mycelium onto the the mealworm frass.
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ALX8721


Registered: 03/06/19
Posts: 38
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I know this is an old thread but i could not find much here regarding frass (mainly organic cricket frass), recently I've came across a few people who have and are using frass in agar, grain prep, and even as a supplement in substrate for cubes and have seen a difference in terms of vigor, fruit size, and overall healthy flushes. Has anyone conducted a write up of using frass in a grow here? TIA!!!
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Duckmang
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Re: Insect frass amendment [Re: ALX8721]
#26588140 - 04/09/20 06:43 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I don't know about cubes but I've been contemplating trying frass in a cordyceps grow.
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