A:
Ok, my non-hippy friend, here is an answer that may work for you, as it has for others including myself.
In short, the answer is YES, you can reuse your soilless mix(es) with great success. Now in the long version, I’ll explain when it’s an option and how you stand a better chance of making it work.
Before contemplating reusing your soilless mix, make sure you have some experience with growing, especially if it’s for growing indoors under lights with specialty fertilizers, nutrients, etc. If not done right,
it’s a great way to ruin a crop before it ever gets growing. On the bright side, if you reuse your mix for
younger transplants, it’s not such a loss if you have to start a new batch if you don’t succeed in your first
attempt.
refilling later.
• Add some additional perlite,
• Flush well, very well, in the crop fresh earthworm castings and one
previous; it improves the quality of
cup of dolomite lime per commercial
your harvests anyways
“bale” of mix you used first.
• Remove as much root debris as
• Re-wet with a healthy compost
possible after letting medium dry out tea, adding enzymes and microbes is
for a few days following a prolonged
also recommended
flush period.
• Let the soil “rest” for a few days
• Break up and mix the material. (at average growing temperatures)
This may mean emptying out pots and after re-wetting before transplanting
Do’s:
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Don’ts:
• Reuse mixes that have been watered with an abundance of products
that contain hormones.
• Reuse mixes that have had ANY
applications of strong PGRs that
“halt” vertical growth.
• Reuse mixes where crops have
had insects, root diseases, or serious
issues with over fertilization or deficiencies with fertilizers.
• ONLY reuse mixes where you
know what’s been fed to the crop and
for how long previous-you are carrying over fertilizers, to some extent,
from one crop to the next when you
reuse the soilless mix.
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