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Monday, September 05, 2011

Over a week has passed since I moistened the matrix. Let’s see what has transpired. Literally.

Here’s the matrix, tipped out on a white plastic shopping bag on a cabinet next to a well-lit window.

I am about half-way through teasing material away from the cone.

So far I’ve discovered about half-a-dozen worms, but no eggs.

This matrix was rife with eggs just ten days ago.

Here’s a close-up of worms; these worms are too large to have hatched in the last ten days; they must be stragglers that I missed when I harvested.

Hmmm! Maybe the eggs are hatched, and the baby worms are too small for me to see today. It would be very easy to miss 3-mm long wormlet, even in this bright light.

AN EGG!

And a great big juicy one at that.

To it’s right is the tip of my McDonald’s Sundae teaspoon.

Then in the middle of the cone I find what’s left of the apple core I’d tossed in last week, clustered with about two dozen healthy worms – although nowhere ear as big as the monsters I transferred a week ago.

Note to self: Must eat an apple today and toss the core in the milk carton.

Once the material is spooned-over, I tip the plastic sheet to one side, then the other, uncovering the odd worm in the process.

“Into the margarine tub with you!”

Next: Progress

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