How many gallons in a 30 lb bag of EWC

[richyrich]

Anybody know how many gallons or cubic feet are in a 30 pound bag of wiggle worm earth worm castings?

Also, need to know how many cups come in a box of Peace of Mind Fruit and Flower.

Thanks.

 

[krizznapp]

well I went out and checked my bag of castings and could only find the weight. So i will go out on a limb here and say 10 gallons maybe 12. But thats just eyeballing it.

 

[richyrich]

Thanks. My wild guess was that it would probably be 1.5 cf or 10 gallons. Anybody else? I am putting my numbers together so I know how many bags and boxes I need of each item.

 

[skunke]

Hey richyrich, if you want to find out the volume of your wormcastings, take a measuring cup and measure how much 15ml of worm castings weight on a scale, then divide 15 ml by the weght and you will get the amount of ml that are present in a gram of worm castings. Then multiply by 13607.7 (weight of wormcastings in the bag in grams) and you got the volume in ml.

 

[richyrich]

Thanks spunke, but I do not have a bag of ewc yet. I need 30 gallons total. I need to know how many bags to buy. I do not want to under or over buy. Anybody else?

 

[Clackamas Coot]

Thanks spunke, but I do not have a bag of ewc yet. I need 30 gallons total. I need to know how many bags to buy. I do not want to under or over buy. Anybody else?

1 cf. = 5 gallons (more or less)

Does that help?

The specific product that you're wanting to use comes in .6 cf. bags so that would be 3 gallons per bag. At least that's the pack size that I've seen around here.

I sure hope that you get a better price on these castings than we do in the Pacific Northwest - it's over $20.00 per bag at the 'grow store' and the mainstream nursery centers won't carry them because of the price, i.e. there are a lot of other options for far, far less money. I'm sure that transportation costs play heavily into the price issues.

HTH

CC

 

[SensimillaWolf]

I remember it being a huge pain in the ass figuring that out. I checked my notebook and in one section it says "39 lbs EWC = 5.8 gal." Get a second opinion, though...

 

[abirdintheair]

1 cubic foot - 7.48 us gallons

 

[Dignan]

We're talking dry US gallons, which makes it:

1 cubic foot = 6.42 US Gallons (dry)

http://www.metric-conversions.org/cgi-bin/util/conversion-chart.cgi?type=4&from=14&to=12

 

[Mr Celsius]

Can you explain the difference between dry and wet gallons? I couldn't imagine that there would be a huge difference.

Mine says 1 cubic foot = 7.48 gallons

My 30lb bag equaled 5 gallons. It was very fine and high grade, so there wasn't air for "filler".

 

[BurnOne]

I used to get 30 pound bags of worm castings. It was about 1 cubic foot. I used a cardboard box that was 12" X 12" X 12".
Burn1

 

[Dignan]

Can you explain the difference between dry and wet gallons? I couldn't imagine that there would be a huge difference.

You'd have to ask the folks who came up with the standard measuring system, but I would imagine the difference between US gallons and US dry gallons is the same as the difference between US fluid ounces and US ounces.

Nursery pots are measure in dry gallons, not wet gallons.

 

[Guest]

1 gallon US dry = 1.16 gallon US liquid

EDIT

32 ounce(1 QUART) [US, liquid] = 0.859 quart [US, dry]

I use them interchangably.

Here is a very handy link that has conversions for all sorts of stuff.

I can't post the link for some reason but go here

on line conversion with a dottt commm after. "on line" is one word



jj

 

[sophisto]

You'd have to ask the folks who came up with the standard measuring system, but I would imagine the difference between US gallons and US dry gallons is the same as the difference between US fluid ounces and US ounces.

Nursery pots are measure in dry gallons, not wet gallons.

Thi is pretty much what I have figured as well.

From one bag of soil, 1.5 cubic ft I get about 10 gallons of soil....Amended and perlited It turns to 15 gallons....Coco and perlite....

 

[TommyTuRips]

1 cf. = 5 gallons (more or less)

Does that help?

The specific product that you're wanting to use comes in .6 cf. bags so that would be 3 gallons per bag. At least that's the pack size that I've seen around here.

I sure hope that you get a better price on these castings than we do in the Pacific Northwest - it's over $20.00 per bag at the 'grow store' and the mainstream nursery centers won't carry them because of the price, i.e. there are a lot of other options for far, far less money. I'm sure that transportation costs play heavily into the price issues.

HTH

CC

I would go with this guy's put input. He's the only person in this that has their own nutrients / amendments sold by Build-a-Soil. You don't know who they are get hip!

 

[TommyTuRips]

I would go with this guy's put input. He's the only person in this that has their own nutrients / amendments sold by Build-a-Soil. You don't know who they are get hip!

Although he may not have when this post went up. But I'm going to run with his information looking for the same answer that the original poster needed.

 

[PlastikeRubba]

I would go with this guy's put input. He's the only person in this that has their own nutrients / amendments sold by Build-a-Soil.

That's why the world sucks. You choose the man who needs a cult of people like you. It's like as ass shitting a turd back into itself.

I can't remember ever rounding 7.48 down to 5 in my line of work and still maintaining an ounce of respect or an avenue to continue my nonsense. That's only a fucking huge margin of error in every other aspect of life but "internet weed guru"

Internet potheads.. Always embrace the bullshit. Always.


BAS is growing more crusty mids than miracle grow. Side by side, their finest earth worm shit did NOTHING but bring in weird ass bugs. Exactly as theorized.

 

[KIS]

Weight is a terrible way to measure or buy compost or EWC because moisture content can vary a ton. Much better to buy it by volume.