Found this gem at home depot.

CrocodileStunter

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How do you prepare for reuse?
I have about 3 times as much soil as I use at any time in a grow. So i rotate it all. Every batch of soil gets a little over 4 months rest. After harvest I let the pots st for 2 weeks to dry out a bit. I pull the stump and the big roots that come with it out. all those little roots don't cause problems. they can hardly be found by the time the soils ready to be used again. I stor the soil in these 100 gallon totes I found at walmart. Because that's about how much I have in use at one time. I add in some mycos and a bag of organic tomato pellets that I pick up at the farm store. I think the npk is 4-7-6 on those they are made of bone meal, blood meal, alfalfa, kelp, fish meal, and feather litter. I water it in so that it's all wet but not logged and put the lid on for 4 months. set it and forget it. oh and lol the fertilizer I add has 7% calcium already. I use fish emulsion to bump up the nitrogen and I'll foliar feed kelp and fish emulsion once or twice a week until bout the 3rd week of flower. then kelp until about the 5th week of flower.. No muh budz don't smell like a pond they are the loudest around. smell like blueberry muffins and oranges. Just last week i went to my buddies house and the second I cracked the jar people 20 feet away were commenting that that's the weed they want lol.
 

Olive Drab Green

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I have about 3 times as much soil as I use at any time in a grow. So i rotate it all. Every batch of soil gets a little over 4 months rest. After harvest I let the pots st for 2 weeks to dry out a bit. I pull the stump and the big roots that come with it out. all those little roots don't cause problems. they can hardly be found by the time the soils ready to be used again. I stor the soil in these 100 gallon totes I found at walmart. Because that's about how much I have in use at one time. I add in some mycos and a bag of organic tomato pellets that I pick up at the farm store. I think the npk is 4-7-6 on those they are made of bone meal, blood meal, alfalfa, kelp, fish meal, and feather litter. I water it in so that it's all wet but not logged and put the lid on for 4 months. set it and forget it. oh and lol the fertilizer I add has 7% calcium already. I use fish emulsion to bump up the nitrogen and I'll foliar feed kelp and fish emulsion once or twice a week until bout the 3rd week of flower. then kelp until about the 5th week of flower.. No muh budz don't smell like a pond they are the loudest around. smell like blueberry muffins and oranges. Just last week i went to my buddies house and the second I cracked the jar people 20 feet away were commenting that that's the weed they want lol.
Sounds good. I am probably going to get a large bin to compost my soil, then. I mean, that is composting, isn't it? I'm not even fully sure.
 

dabbindylan

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I dont do tomato pellets i just spray myfish emulsion into supersoil...bone meal,humic,fulvic,snail shell powder,ocean forest ,perlite expanded..clay pebbles..
 

CrocodileStunter

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I dont do tomato pellets i just spray myfish emulsion into supersoil...bone meal,humic,fulvic,snail shell powder,ocean forest ,perlite expanded..clay pebbles..
Yep I'm using the same ocean forest/ perlite mix for somewhere around 5 years now. I find the quality has went through the roof since I started doing as much as possible in house.
 

CrocodileStunter

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I dont need myco either my koi pond produces natrual bacillus and other good microorganisms n carbs
I'd imagine it's about useless at this point but I can't let it go to waste they sold me like a gallon sized bag a couple years ago and I normally toss around a 1/4 cup in and i'll coat the rootball when i plant clones in or transfer from the gallon pots to the 7 gallons I flower in. It's probably not doing to much more than what is already happening though.
 

WeedFreak78

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Makes sense, I've read in a variety of places anything you can use on tomatoes or cactus can be used on cannabis.
I've heard the same thing and don't understand it, never really researched it, tomatoes and succulents have totally different nutritional needs. Or is it tomato food for grow, succulent food for flower?
 

MjAeJdIiK

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I started reusing and amending my soil like 5 years ago. after a year of doing that Spider mites were a thing of the past. Plus I have saved hella money. I used to throw out 500 dollars of fox farm into the garden every couple months. One of the reasons I try to stay out the grow shops I swear they be full of mites.
Dude hydro shops are full of bugs!! I wash every thing I get from a hydro shop before in use it. In mybstate the hydro shoos always have big displays set up with a grow tent all set up with all kinds of plants in them (not cannabis) and you can see they have bugs.... How could they not? All those diff peeps going in and out bringing shit in the shop.... Some guy that has mites in his hone garden goes to the hydro shop and spreads mites there while he touches all the plants.... Shit like that. I order whatever I can online if the s&h isn't too bad. And the hydro shops charge way more just because.
I went in there to grab some nutes a couple weeks ago and they had just got in a huge batch of promix so I asked them how much, fucking $35 for 1 bale!! I'm like you know home depot RIGHT across the street has them for under $14 bucks?? He just looked at me and shrugged lol
 

st0wandgrow

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I grow organic I haven't had to use a single pesticide in years.
Truth! This is the biggest benefit I've found to making an organically amended soil. The microbes from the EWC/compost work synergistically with the plant to heighten its auto immune response.

Pests avoid my plants like the plague now. I used to battle mites and whatnot on the regular when I used synthetic nutrients.
 

Corso312

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Looks like good stuff..anything with cactus on the label is good for bloom on cannabis..low N and high PK.
 
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