How to keep my super soil for next season

YellowSeeds

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Please tell me the best way for keeping my super soil healthy and perfect for next season. My super soil is from mr. Cannuck a well reputable grower, it consists of pro-mix hp, worm castings, gaia green 4-4-4 and 2-8-4 with some mykos. I only fed my plants with ph 6.5 - 7.5 rain water, no nutrients at all. Now i want to keep this soil for next season, what’s the best way to do it? Please help.
 

HandyGringo

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Based on what I've heard, you put it on a tarp, re-amend it with Gaia green and worm castings and a few weeks before you plan on using it again, mix it well and water it a little so it can come back to life.
 

MissinThe90’sStrains

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I keep mine in totes, but I’ve drilled several holes in the totes and covered those holes with some breathable paper/micropore tape. This allows the soil to “breathe” and stay aerobic. Depending on what organic goodies are in your soil, and if it’s a living soil, it can go anaerobic and the ph will drop, and it can get stinky and sour.
 

7CardBud

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I used to put a tarp down, put four buckets on top and then a rest a box screen on those. I would dump the rootballs onto it with lime, granular fertilizer, compost, wormcastings...etc and then force it all through by hand. If it looked dense I would toss in some more perlite.
That reamended mix went into contactor bags with holes. Then stored on pallets overwinter.
 

HydoDan

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I re-amend the soil before storage, then fill the pots, topdress, and water the soil when I germinate my next seeds. This gives it about three weeks to 'cook' before transplanting.
 

YellowSeeds

Active Member
I re-amend the soil before storage, then fill the pots, topdress, and water the soil when I germinate my next seeds. This gives it about three weeks to 'cook' before transplanting.
Excuse my french and i live in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with very cold winter, i just harvested and my soil are in their 5 gal. pots (4 of them). They will pass about 7 months in my shed. If i understand i should re-amend it with worm casting with some gaia green 4-4-4 plus the 2-8-4 and no mykos yet. But before doing that, should i put my four 5 gal. pots together in one big container like a trash can and stored them for the winter’s months. Then in April or May re-amend it again with worm casting and gaia green with some mykos when putting my new seeds after putting my soil back in the four 5 gal. pots. Am i missing something? Thanks for time and patience, i really appreciate. Pierre
 
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