can you re-use soil?

can u re use soil that has previously had plants in?

You could but if it was say some nutrient enriched soil like fox farm then most of the nutes is probably used already.

You can re-use your soil but your going to need to make teas and everything to replace the soil's natural nutrients...

Jou said:

You could but if it was say some nutrient enriched soil like fox farm then most of the nutes is probably used already.

You can re-use your soil but your going to need to make teas and everything to replace the soil's natural nutrients...

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what about germinated seeds?they dont need any nutes do they??wud it be just like using compost from the diy stores?

You can reuse soil. I would advise baking the soil get rid of anything left behind. Just one of the "rules of thumb" i was taught.

compost that shit. and add kelp and fish emulsion, also a little bit of earth worms...forget fox farms make your own.

The suggested advice, not mine is to toss old soil. Look it up. Something about toxic buildup from the ferts.

I agree if you don't already have a compost bin build one and start to compost old dirt then reuse and I guess if you flushed well before harvest it would be good to start seeds in...if your growing organic you don't have to woorie about salt build up like with the chemicals...like I said if you flushed it really good.....

I've heard of operations that had large trough's of dirt (Sunshine #4) that they would just plug a small plant into and use the dirt for two or three cycles. At harvest, they would just pull the plant right up out of this trough by the trunk and then plug another plant into its slot.

Personally, I've had plants that were vegging fail so I just pulled them out and after a while decided to reuse the soil. I was using 20 gallon tubs filled with Sunshine and didn't want to loose what had been practically unused dirt. Well, the plants turned out ok and really produced (like they always do for me ) but I got this really strange fungus growing in them. It was large, neon yellow banana shaped growths started poking out from the surface of the soil. Hmmmmm, but, on the whole, I toss the dirt after each grow. I plan on experimenting with adding it to my lawn to help fill in some holes out there next spring.

brendon420 said:

compost that shit. and add kelp and fish emulsion, also a little bit of earth worms...forget fox farms make your own.

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hey brendon!!! Your not Growingpassion 420 under a different alias are you?

If you flushed before harvest like you should have, the build up left during that. Re flush. Use it in a 50:50 to new soil.

Or if you are a "Sally" buy new soil.

^^^what he said.^^^ everyone i know that uses soil, re-uses soil. pick some zyme product and you can clean it up a bit more. you can also use something like earth nectar/earth ambrosia to re-establish your bennies.

BigBudBalls said:

If you flushed before harvest like you should have, the build up left during that. Re flush. Use it in a 50:50 to new soil.

Or if you are a "Sally" buy new soil.

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whats a sally??

I used my soil 4 times, now its time to get some new stuff

I dont know if my soil was pre nuted.. i dun think so.... just had some bat guano in there and other crap..

Peace

you can reuse you'r soil for as long as you like

add compost or add any organic matter to it , throw in some worms, give it a drink of molasses to add the trace elements and get the micro-organisms working and happy,do this every year and you will end up with dirt that will far out perform any bought soils.

then you just need to water with fish emulsion and seasol good organic ferts...

Everyone is talking about nutes and whatnot but what about maybe a disease or maybe bugs??sure it might not have shown up on the last grow but what if? fix the problem before it strikes?

beanz240 said:

Everyone is talking about nutes and whatnot but what about maybe a disease or maybe bugs??sure it might not have shown up on the last grow but what if? fix the problem before it strikes?

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both these are not a problem if you are treating your soil properly,
if the environment in the soil is healthy and you do the right things to keep it that way then you don't have to worry about what if's .

so if you do the right thing by you'r soil it will serve you well for the rest of you'r life.

you don't see big gardens getting ripped up every couple of years.
the gardeners manage and replenish the soil environment to keep it healthy and sustainable

Ok i see where you are comming from i guess im just over thinking it