What do you do with your soil?

Hey all @ RIU learned tons here. My one question is what do all the soil growers out there do with their used soil. To provide you with as much info as possible I will b using Subcool's supersoil to grow his infamous JTR. I plan on using 3 gallon pots with 1/2 supersoil 1/2 base soil.

I just don't know if I can reuse the soil, how many times, do I need to do anything to soil before reuse? And if I cannot reuse it, what do I do with it?

bigbo420 said:

Hey all @ RIU learned tons here. My one question is what do all the soil growers out there do with their used soil. To provide you with as much info as possible I will b using Subcool's supersoil to grow his infamous JTR. I plan on using 3 gallon pots with 1/2 supersoil 1/2 base soil.

I just don't know if I can reuse the soil, how many times, do I need to do anything to soil before reuse? And if I cannot reuse it, what do I do with it?

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I reuse mine. On my third go round with the first batch.

For reuse, you just add more of what got depleted, re cook and reuse. Simple

For me, it actually works better the second time around over the fresh mix.

Wet

During my pitiful attempts at soil I would just dump it into my yards normal vegetable garden and till it in. I never got the grasp of growing in soil as I started in hydro and went back to what works. I can grow a damn good vegetable garden outside but I can't grow shit in soil indoors other than starts that end out outside in the garden.

garden and rubbish bin. try not to re-use same medium.

if you have a well balanced organic soil it should "technically" get better with time as the beneficial bacteria colonys should grow

i flush it out and add some of what i think it needs. (sand, moss...depends on what i will use it for, i grow more than pot.) put it in a deep pan add water till its got a few inches above the soil and bake it on high till the water boils out and the medium is just moist. let cool and its good to go. i dont pick out the root ball, i just break it up and mix it in.

nah watever you do, dont cook or boil soil, it will kill beneficial bacteria. IMO hydro's the way indoor

zem said:

nah watever you do, dont cook or boil soil, it will kill beneficial bacteria. IMO hydro's the way indoor

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also kills anything that may harm your plants, pests, eggs, fungi.....

mr.mike said:

also kills anything that may harm your plants, pests, eggs, fungi.....

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dude if your boiling the soil, your basically killing it, making it "dead" soil. you will need hydro ferts from there and if you're going to use hydro ferts in dead soil, might as well get a hydro medium. i'm only trying to make sense.

i reuse 1/3 to half and the rest goes in the garden.

I usually take it over to my parents' home. They use it as a top soil.

just adding some compost or worm casting tea will repopulate the soil. I use the microwave for sterilizing recycled soil. I only recycle the perlite though. The soil part I dump into the garden or composter.

zem said:

dude if your boiling the soil, your basically killing it, making it "dead" soil. you will need hydro ferts from there and if you're going to use hydro ferts in dead soil, might as well get a hydro medium. i'm only trying to make sense.

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that is true, to a point... i should have added that all water i use in all of my plants is from 1 of my many fishtanks and that adds tons of awesome bacteria to the soil and its 99% of my nitrogen throughout my grows. i mix any fert that may be needed with that. i my opinion i would rather a clean "dead" medium to rebuild with than a used medium with any chance of pests. thats just how i do it though and ive never had any issues.

I use it for my vegatable garden

Idea. I put it ontop of plastic, then cover wit plastic, use camp stakes to keep it closed. Use my ir thermometer I use to look for heat leaks on my grow room to measure soil temp. Let it bake outside under sun til ots 130 degrees for a couple of days. Then make my super soil again about 15% weaker than original batch depending on how hot it was after grow. Add some myco madness, or whichever humboldts granular myco is. Water it let sit for a few weeks. Tumble it, add some molasses solution and let sit for another week and ready to go.

Do your mixing on the plastic or one of those cheap kiddie pools from K Mart. Then use the $10 30gallon trash cans from HD to keep it in. Leave them in the sun to cook (the 130* part), then move in the shade or so when you re amend and add the mycos.

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As stated, cover with dark covered plastic or tarp. That will increase the temps to bake out the soil. Some vegetable gardeners do that to their garden pads to bake kill any weed seeds prior to planting.

Thanks Harry! Good thinking. + rep.

I replenish mine (fox farm ocean forest) with foxfarm's "big bloom" -- but you can reuse it a lot! farmer's jubilee their land every 7 years (biblical knowledge).

, i just usually get rid of the soil when its harvest time, next crop will be perlite and clay balls