I don't see any problems with it. You could only host a small population without additional feeding, but with a compost based mix, there should be plenty for them to munch on.
You could be right, I nothing little about what you're specifically using. I would have thought both would elicit the same hormonal response in the plant, but maybe not.
But there’s no one tried and tested method that's true for all right? Like this would all be experimenting as each strain has different genetics and different genes are suppressed or expressed under different conditions.