Cooking Soil

I wanna have organic pot, but hydro is seeming more apeeling everyday.


But what if I baked my soil in the oven? would that kill all the bugs? I would bake the soil, than mix up a super soil with it. super soil with bugs in it = 1/4-1/2 oz yeailds, and that anit worth it. so the bugs gotta go one way or another[/QUOTE]


Im starting to feel the same wayTo properly "cook" soil you have to bake it at 180°f for 30 minutes,not going over 200° you'll cook off beneficial bac.This should get rid of any harmful critters.GOOD LUCK! !

Cooking will work, but it will smell pretty bad. Another method is to sun bake it in the summer. I usually start seeds in a sterilized medium, then after a month I transplant outside directly into the garden. When I do buy potting soil I often mix it with a few cups of Diatomaceous Earth.

why cook in the oven? you can ""compost" it and the pile of soil will heat up enough to kill any pathogens and bugs

My soil has bugs in it, and i need to get rid of them before i put my plants in it. how do i compost the soil? it is in bags in the sun.

Originally Posted by medical/420

My soil has bugs in it, and i need to get rid of them before i put my plants in it. how do i compost the soil? it is in bags in the sun.

yeah that would be probably good just laying out in the sun. compost piles normally get up past 140-150 degress temperatures that hot will kill bugs and bad/ unbenefitial organisms also weed seeds. compost can get too hot tho and start to kill the benefitial bacteria.

oven is good if you're doing small grows, or have a very large oven
i do small grows and baking the soil works very well
there are other ways but baking can be very simple and effective

Originally Posted by growone

oven is good if you're doing small grows, or have a very large oven
i do small grows and baking the soil works very well
there are other ways but baking can be very simple and effective

i have a small/normal size oven, but Iam only doing a few plants, so i only need to cook 2 bags

take a tarp lay it out and spread your soil out in a thin layer let set in sun few days you will be good to go.I am getting ready to do this with my worm bid and compost pile ,and compost piles have plenty of bugs not sure where you got that one at? most composts don't hit a high enough temp to kill off any larvae and or insects.