Does Anyone Reuse their Super Soil?

Buddreams

Buddreams

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I was wondering what every one does with their supper soil after the grow?

Can it be amended, and reused?
 
Unnk

Unnk

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as long as you reammend and dont use chelated salt fertilizer your microherds shouldnt be gone and they should still be able to break down your ammendments especially cause when you add your ammendments your adding more culture
 
Unnk

Unnk

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readmend with more worm castings guano bloodmeal bone meal azomite lime eposom everything except the base soil
 
Buddreams

Buddreams

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with the happy frog bat guano, it has 1.6% humic acid by volume. would i over do it by adding the normal 2 TBS when mixxing the soil the first time?
 
Unnk

Unnk

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nope nope humics are kind of great in slight excess thats why its put in the mix :D get the down to earth humics box order it online
 
Unnk

Unnk

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thats what i was gonna say as well it would help to innoculate with fresh microbes and composting it wouldnt be a bad idea if you have a heap with lots of veggies at your house and what not always for recycle reuse when its worth it
 
Buddreams

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sweet nothing more needs to be said :D Thanks for popping in on my thread~

may the dank be with you sub cool!
 
Magnificient

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If it's really good soil, you should be able to reuse it two or three times with no trouble. To do that, just use a sharp knife to cut out a small part of the old root system making just enough room to plant the new plant. Use caution though, if the last plant had trouble in it or was less than robust, you might want to mix some new soil in with the old. If you do that, then it's usually recommended to replace the top 2 or 3 inches of soil as that's where most of the salts buildup is. I would reuse soil only if replacing it was a problem. Like sub said though, there's a lot of variables to recon with.

Happy growing.
 
naightdogg

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now in my third cycle of recycled soil & starting to show K deficiencies. just started adding kelp to the mix & maybe some greensand soon.
 
randomseed

randomseed

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Been using the same dirt for about 9 months now with no issues.
Seems to be getting better actually. Every third run I cut the minerals in half (azomite, greensand, Lime) just in case.
Also let plants go the last two weeks with no additives or feeds so the plants can drain the soil out decently.
No way Im replacing my soil until I start to see issue which I dont expect to happen for awhile.
My mothly soil conditioning and nute bill is seriously under 40$ and thats for a decent sized garden (32ish), thats using some overpriced stuff at that.
 
SupraSPL

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This soil mix is definitely reusable. But Sub is right there will be some guessing. Organic nutrients break down over time and at different rates. If you depend on consistent results it may be best to experiment with the reused soil on just a few plants to get an idea what to expect and how to amend.

Of course plenty of microbes from the EWC would survive but it would be easy enough to make a batch of aerated compost tea. A 1 gallon batch is plenty and you can make it with $10 of parts from Walmart. Makes sense to use ACT on fresh super soil as well as recycled super soil.

I have been reusing an organic peat based soil mix for over 2 years. I think the roots organic based mix would perform even better.
 
subcool

subcool

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This is my take on this discussion.
Super Soil cost me around 15-20$ per 7 gallon pot and it produces around 6-10 ounces per plant.
I would not risk these results to save a few coins and I am recycling the soil on to mother earth so I am not causing any negative effect with one exception. Weeds seem to love it.
Now there are those with more time and more willingness to study and learn and if you understand inoculation of soil then possibly it could be reused with great results.

Sub
 
Unnk

Unnk

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i don't suggest re using if you don't wanna take the time to make sure your doing it right

re inoculation re amendment in the right amounts

takes a little time before you relies how much your strain uses in the SS then accommodating for it
 
OhioMediGrower

OhioMediGrower

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subcool said:
This is my take on this discussion.
Super Soil cost me around 15-20$ per 7 gallon pot and it produces around 6-10 ounces per plant.
I would not risk these results to save a few coins and I am recycling the soil on to mother earth so I am not causing any negative effect with one exception. Weeds seem to love it.
Now there are those with more time and more willingness to study and learn and if you understand inoculation of soil then possibly it could be reused with great results.

Sub
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i grew dank tomatoes, strawberry's and raspberrys in my old super soil, some of the best fruit and veggies i have ate period!
 
<Grasshopper>

<Grasshopper>

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Really...I was gonna try this this year. I have about 1 large trash can of supersoil. I was gonna drench it with some hygrozyme to help break down any old roots I missed. Did you ammend the supersoil or just go buy a tomato plant and plant it right in there? Really....anyone who has done this let me know how as I was just gonna try it.

Also I made a fresh batch of supersoil 1/3 batch. I used 2.5 tablespoons humic powder instead of 2.5 teaspoons....will this matter much? Also I think I am a little shy on my worm castings also. I may go get some and mix it in there still.

Please let me know...

GH
 
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