do i have to change the soil after harvest ?

[potenza]

hello folks
do i have to change the soil after every harvest ? do i need to use new soil for growing every new plant ?
or how many times can i use same soil ?
thanks

 

[del66666]

change it or you will end up with crap

 

[BCtrippin]

Just buy new soil, you will have less problems.

After a while the PH gets all out of whack, and the dead roots cant be left behind.

Some people will filter and treat there soil between grows and reuse it but its a lot of fucking work and you need places to store large amounts of soil for several months.

 

[DopeToke]

I would always change your compost everytime. Ive heard ways to reuse it such as baking it in the oven first but that sounds silly and way to extreme to me.

 

[BCtrippin]

I would always change your compost everytime. Ive heard ways to reuse it such as baking it in the oven first but that sounds silly and way to extreme to me.

that is absolutely ridiculous, whos gonna bake 50-100 gallons of soil. Even a small grower, who would bake it....


Whoever told you that was way tooo baked.

 

[Top 44]

hello folks
do i have to change the soil after every harvest ? do i need to use new soil for growing every new plant ?
or how many times can i use same soil ?
thanks

Toss the old soil, don't reuse it.

 

[FLoJo]

if you did want to reuse it you could get a large spinning composter and throw your fruit peels and put whatever additives you wanted into it.. throw in some worms and turn it once a day and eventually all the roots and matter in there would be composted into good soil.. but again this take months and may or may not be worth the hassle..

im no soil grower but i know my grandmother used to do this with her plants and had several large composters and it took a lot of time

 

[BCtrippin]

Yeah, pretty much, you need large areas outdoors for the soil to settle, add whatever you want to add to make it useable, and it still need several months to settle, and you gotta go out and turn the soil a lot. It could work on a large scale grow op, like a farm, but for small indoor grows its definitely not worth it.

Also just to be clear, Only organic growers who are using actual soil should even try to resuse it. If your using a mostly pete-moss mediums like Pro-mix then this should in no way ever be attempted, just throw it away, neutral soilless dirt mediums get acidic over time and break down.

 

[potenza]

thanks my friends.

 

[smppro]

Here ya go give this s read

The re-use of our soil
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=35452