pickle jars

so i use old pickle jars to store my water fert in but even after i wash them out it still stinks like dill.... do you think that the acidity of the juice after i washed it out would hurt my plants?.. or do you think because it stinks like dill would my plants be affected in anyway?

I dought it. Just leave the jar outside to air out if ur that conserned

I thought I was the only one who used them...+REP

To get the funk out, get some newspaper, crumple it, and stuff it in there. Repeat every 3-4 days, tossing the old stuff & replacing with fresh newspaper until the funk is removed, usually 10-14 days.
Excepting jars used for benevolent purposes, "Let there be Funk on Earth, and let it begin with me."

i know this isn't the same thing but i once used an emptied simply lemonade bottle to store water to evaporate the chlorine and i swear some acidity leached off because i had the most nasty ph issues i've ever seen. had to transplant the plants. my container was plastic so that might have something to do with it, but there was still a faint lemonade smell. i would be careful if they still smell like pickle.

baking soda...i use empty liquor bottles

whats wrong with plastic water bottles?

Hudsonvalley82 said:

I thought I was the only one who used them...+REP

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Nope. You're not alone.

The plastic does absorb some of whatever's in it, then it goes back into the water. Don't re-use plastic. Glass is non-porous, that's why it's the bomb for curing/ recycling/ etc etc etc.

i clean my pickles jars with a bleach solution the cap is the hardest part to get the smell out of, about 15% bleach let it sit smell will be gone.

Carne Seca said:

Nope. You're not alone.

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so what do you guys use them for? the water fert is what the OP said ....

I store humic acid and tea concentrates, wide mouth makes for easy tea pouring. (Pouring into the pickle jar more specifically)

i store large buds in mine

If some of you want to be amazed about jars ... when I have a bumper crop I will sometimes use one-gallon jars that are not only older than almost all of you are but are even older than I am. In the 50's my mother owned a beauty salon and she purchased permanent wave solution in one-gallon jars ... and I still have several of them .. so I sometimes cure in jars that are roughly 60 years old.

Hell .. I have belts, ties and even socks that are older than many members here. Right now I am wearing a pair of heavy wool socks I purchased in the early 70's.

God how I feel old at times!

But to be at least a bit topical ... if a jar or container has an odor sometimes it can be gotten rid of by leaving the open jar, and lid if it has an odor too, out in bright sunlight for several days. I am unsure if it is just the light rays that kill off whatever is producing the odor or the combination of that and the 'pours' of the glass expanding from the heat of the sun so they release trapped odors and fresh non-odorous air takes it's place, but it has worked for me with a few different odoriferous containers.

i use 5 gl buckets for years that still reek of jalopenos and they all affected ph until i scrubbed with baking soda

i had some spaghetti sauce jars i was using for curing and i thought i got the smell out but the other day i smelled the empty jars and sure enough they smell like sauce...i got a new cure jar though heres a pic...i call him "Gary The Ganja Gnome"