Best use of worm castings?

[UrbanHillbilly]

We went to a gardening festival yesterday (Baker Creek Seed Company Tulip Festival, with a distinct shortage of tulips) and one of the vendors gave us some sample bags of fresh worm castings on our way out at the end of the day. I only have a couple of plants in the tent at the moment, so what's the best use of a few ounces? I was thinking maybe a tea, but anyone have any other suggestions?

 

[Amarok]

any other suggestions?

Maybe hang on to it for use in a side-by-side comparison on effectiveness?

 

[UrbanHillbilly]

Maybe hang on to it for use in a side-by-side comparison on effectiveness?

You mean, like try it on one plant, but my regular nutes on another? Yeah I could do that next time around. Right now the two plants are very different, one a fast growing auto and the other a photoperiod. Next round I'll have two or three photos.

 

[Amarok]

You mean, like try it on one plant, but my regular nutes on another?

Or as an additive to your regular nutes, as opposed to a standalone, or whatever you come up with. It's for fun, and if you learn something, bonus.

If you really want to evaluate two possibilities, the best way is by using clones from the same plant. You want as many variables as possible in common, so any differences are more likely to be the result of the variable you are evaluating(medium, nutes, temps, light hours, etc).

 

[SecretSquirrel]

Yea I would think tea it’s where my brain is at with it.

 

[webeblzr]

A 30# bag, goes into my medium I mix up, in the basement.
But if I only had a small amount, tea, for me for sure.
You can still do a comparisons evaluation, IMHO, some plants gets water, others get the EWC juice.
I'm trying to activate my small portion of the EWC I harvested from my worm bins, as I want to see I can crack the cocoons, for baby red wrigglers to grow and thrive.
There is a good read in here about various sellers of EWC, some are true, some are hype advertising.