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Encarsia work well for whitefly,needs a few rounds to get rid of them though.They usually come as a program spaced a week apart for 4 weeks.Good luck getting rid of them,little fuckers can cause total devastation
those are worm castings^
Thanks for confirming, like I said that's what I originally thought they were. I was surprised by how much there is, and how big it is. It makes so much sense to me now that they would call these worm castings, they are like molded clay or something. I guess I'm more used to Earth worm compost? I used to raise red wigglers, I would love to do it again here. Sadly I have only found one person with leaf litter worms, and they are 4 hours away and over priced.
@Teddybrae Yeah man it's a good time to get out doors, and I like to get dirty. Human activities generate an over abundance of wasted material, I find great pleasure in taking advantage of that. Every perceived "waste" is a potential future resource, you just have to figure out how to use it. Mother Nature has been doing it for like 4.1 billion years now, essentially she wrote the book.
Where I live those clumps are always next to a hole in the ground. I always heard it was from a crawdad (or krayfish) digging a burrow.The bottom two pictures are of the same thing... they are these "clumps" that are all over the surface of the ground. They are easy to pick up, and stick together fairly well. They feel like they are made from clay. I will powder them and use them sparingly as a mineral powder.
MM I'm sure you already know trichoderma is possibly the easiest thing to capture/cultivate from the wild. Very easy to get a culture going on a petri. It has dark green mass of spores in the center, and a leading edge of white. Anybody who has done any type of mycology work had learned to dread it. It will grow in the same water/molasses mixture as labs, but I sterilize it by boiling first. A small square from a petri has a shit ton of spores.
I have also seen it growing on damp coffee grounds many many times, both here in the tropics or back in the north. It's one of those things that when you see it you recognize it. I have had success growing lots of trichoderma by taking partially dried used coffee grounds, and sealing them up for a few weeks. However this method is certainly not full proof and could potentially grow some nasty stuff... so I can't recommend it.