DR.Earth organic soil recycle...?

[BiGrEd1011]

hey guys I'm new to organic growing but I purchased the regular Dr. Earth with bat Guano, fish bone, etc, Has anyone recycled this soil before? I also purchased their "pot of gold" bag because it's enriched with Aloe! And I heard of Aloe making plants explode with growth.....excited!!

 

[Southerner]

I think you'd be fine using it but make sure to not overload it with amendments the first go around as it probably has about 4-5 weeks of nutrients already available in it. From what I have seen it is probably one of the better bagged soils available to the broadest range of people. A.K.A - you can get the stuff at walmart and is better than miracle grow

 

[BiGrEd1011]

I think you'd be fine using it but make sure to not overload it with amendments the first go around as it probably has about 4-5 weeks of nutrients already available in it. From what I have seen it is probably one of the better bagged soils available to the broadest range of people. A.K.A - you can get the stuff at walmart and is better than miracle grow

Thank you very much! Yeah I have some right now! The Northern lights im growing in it....is great! Handles the nutes good also... Im feeding full strength nutes and im on week 2 of flower. So when I harvest do i just need to pull the plants out of the soil and churn it pretty good and make sure its clean and usable for the plants after? Thanks for your response! Also you gotta love the price of the stuff to! $11 a 1.5cu bag! Plus it has EVERYTHING we need to grow great medicine!

 

[BiGrEd1011]

also will flush my last week...to kind of help get the excess nutes out of the soil. How many times you think i can re use? I was probably only going to use the same soil 2 times then replace since its so cheap.

 

[greasemonkeymann]

Thank you very much! Yeah I have some right now! The Northern lights im growing in it....is great! Handles the nutes good also... Im feeding full strength nutes and im on week 2 of flower. So when I harvest do i just need to pull the plants out of the soil and churn it pretty good and make sure its clean and usable for the plants after? Thanks for your response! Also you gotta love the price of the stuff to! $11 a 1.5cu bag! Plus it has EVERYTHING we need to grow great medicine!

no man you wanna do NOTHING to the soil itself, you want to cut the base of the plant and leave the whole rootball, and soilweb intact.

also will flush my last week....

do NOT flush.
ever.
and soil can be re-used forever, just amend with fresh humus and worm castings, and every two runs reamend with dry meal nutirents

 

[BiGrEd1011]

no man you wanna do NOTHING to the soil itself, you want to cut the base of the plant and leave the whole rootball, and soilweb intact.

do NOT flush.
ever.
and soil can be re-used forever, just amend with fresh humus and worm castings, and every two runs reamend with dry meal nutirents

so do i remove the roots and stem of the old plant?

 

[greasemonkeymann]

so do i remove the roots and stem of the old plant?

absolutely not, well, I wouldn't anyways, all the roots are FULL of nutrients already, and the soilweb is already established.
oh and aloe is awesome, but it certainly doesn't make any growth explode, at least not in my experience
think of the soil as a giant cob-web full of strands, those are your microbe buddies that assimilate/breakdown/cycle your amendments so your plant can use them.
if they are destroyed/disrupted it hinders your soil

 

[BiGrEd1011]

absolutely not, well, I wouldn't anyways, all the roots are FULL of nutrients already, and the soilweb is already established.
oh and aloe is awesome, but it certainly doesn't make any growth explode, at least not in my experience
think of the soil as a giant cob-web full of strands, those are your microbe buddies that assimilate/breakdown/cycle your amendments so your plant can use them.
if they are destroyed/disrupted it hinders your soil

So when I harvest a plant....(i grow autos) I leave the dead plant roots in the soil?

 

[greasemonkeymann]

So when I harvest a plant....(i grow autos) I leave the dead plant roots in the soil?

yes that is correct

 

[BiGrEd1011]

yes that is correct

SWEET! Ill chock down the stems and leave the roots! Thanks!

 

[BiGrEd1011]

yes that is correct

I love this soil by the way.....plus its only $11 a bag. (1.5cu) My fucking dog ate threw my bag of aloe. Lmao. the compost must be really good lol.

 

[greasemonkeymann]

I love this soil by the way.....plus its only $11 a bag. (1.5cu) My fucking dog ate threw my bag of aloe. Lmao. the compost must be really good lol.

you really should ponder growing an aloe plant man, they are eaaaaasy as hell to grow, and if you get an established plant, it'll outgrow your needs typically, assuming your climate is conducive to it
bigass aloe at most garden stores are cheap too, like 15 bucks or less

 

[BiGrEd1011]

you really should ponder growing an aloe plant man, they are eaaaaasy as hell to grow, and if you get an established plant, it'll outgrow your needs typically, assuming your climate is conducive to it
bigass aloe at most garden stores are cheap too, like 15 bucks or less

Will have to get some! since the dog broke into the bag in the driveway I used it for my vegitable and fruit garden.

 

[Yodaweed]

hey guys I'm new to organic growing but I purchased the regular Dr. Earth with bat Guano, fish bone, etc, Has anyone recycled this soil before? I also purchased their "pot of gold" bag because it's enriched with Aloe! And I heard of Aloe making plants explode with growth.....excited!!

I'm using this soil right now to grow my veggies in, its really nice dirt , really expensive though I just grabbed it because I wasn't gonna use my cannabis mix on my tomatoes.

 

[BiGrEd1011]

I'm using this soil right now to grow my veggies in, its really nice dirt , really expensive though I just grabbed it because I wasn't gonna use my cannabis mix on my tomatoes.

Im growing with just the regular dr earths. $11 a bag which is cheap in my opinion! Plus now that I know I can atleast recycle it 2-3 times im happy with that lol.