What do you do with your soil?

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 it..

I would never reuse any part of my mediums... why take the chance. Medium is dirt-cheap (sorry) and what we produce is so expensive, I don't see the point of being penny wise and dollar foolish, just my opinion....

When I'm done with my soil, pith or moss I just do some land fill on my property somewhere a few hundred yards from the house.

dig a shallow grave in your back yard and bury the soil and root ball.

i use pro-mix HP so it doesnt have any nutrients in it, its just "dead" medium from my understanding, should i reuse it or no? im not gonna go thru the trouble of baking my soil to reuse it, i have too much soil for that.

Hum215 said:

I would never reuse any part of my mediums... why take the chance. Medium is dirt-cheap (sorry) and what we produce is so expensive, I don't see the point of being penny wise and dollar foolish, just my opinion....

When I'm done with my soil, pith or moss I just do some land fill on my property somewhere a few hundred yards from the house.

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and i dont see any sence in re buying soil every grow.. every other grow is fine..

Fox Farm and other quality organic soils certainly are not cheap. Some others (like Pro-Mix) really aren't actually soils at all, they are entirely soil-less mediums based on sphagnum or coir.

Soil can be recycled indoors and reused indoors. Depending on what kinds of fertilizers/amendments are being used, some can provide nutrition over long periods of time. Bone meal, greensand, and rock phosphate for instance are capable of fertilizing for years. You can basically recook or compost/vermicompost with your used soil. You amend it with more slow release nutrients, maybe add in some red worms and organic matter, keep things moist and very well aerated and wait 30-60 days. Proper aeration is key, and the earthworms can help with this tremendously. If things are not aerated properly then anaerobic conditions will result and anaerobic microbes will proliferate; the mix will start to smell like sewage- it then cannot be used.

ya im just sticking with my pro-mix lol.. nothing in it so i can control it myself, then i suppose i can flush it and reuse it aswell but i havent done it yet becuz i have had a spider mite problem that ive almost got completely rid of now so i didnt want to reuse any of that medium incase there was any eggs in it etc.