Can I re-use my soil?

Giggles

A little but I just read that

Compost is self ph buffering, you do not need to adjust your water/nutrient ph - the compost will do it for you. You'll cause more harm than good by using acidic ph up and down acids which kill the soil micro fauna.

Is this true?

videoman

I can only guess where you read that, honestly.
(The person starting this, is using R/O water by the way)

PH is complicated, there are various aspects to it, the water, your nutes all effect the ph. Do you know if your nutes raise or lower your ph?

Do you use actually domolite lime? This is good to use.

What is your ph out of the faucet, vs after you add your nutes?

If all this sounds confusing......GOOD!
Let's simplify it for you:

Before we do, let me assure you that if your PH is too far one way or the other, you will lock out certain nutes, here is a chart explaining that, it includes both hydro and soil:
phnutrcombo3.jpg

You can see here that the acceptable range is very small, 6.3 to 6.8 in soil.

Rather than PHing your water, than again after you add your nutes, and.....you still don't know how your soil will effect the PH, so the proper way is to take a sample of your runoff after you've fed your babies. This way you are getting a true measurement of everything involved.

You can see in the chart how being off just a little bit will lock out specific nutes, and I'll bet you, PH being out of whack is the cause of most deficiency's during a grow.

I certainly hope this helps you.
~Peace~

Giggles

Video I didn't want to make it obvious but you hit the nail on the head. I know how you cringe at the name..lol

My water is fine, my Ph is fine I just couldn't believe he posted it, someone did bust him on the RO thing. His reply look at my plants and I never Ph, I felt like saying look at my plants and I do Ph but I didn't feel like getting into it plus it's a huge waste of time. So I didn't get into it, I just said I misread his post.

Oh yeah my nutes lower my Ph, but I have runoff water that is fine...I got my system down

videoman

I've been up working on the site since 4am, but you my friend have made me laugh! Thanks, I needed that.

tokecrazy

Hello my friends,This reusing soil go's back to when the pilgram came here.And about 40 years for me.My grandmother lived and died on the same little farm in tenn.She was the one I learn from.Videoman said the farmer dont strip off the soil and add new.Thats right.Come spring time all of us kids and adults would go to the cow barn and load the piles of cow pattys that were cleaned out of the stalls all year long and on to a wagon pulled by the four legged tractor{mule}and we would speard it over the field.Us little kids that couldnt swing a pitch-fork would have walk the rows pick up the pattys and crumble them up.You best wash your hands before supper monm would check your hands.Then the 4-legged tractor would plow under the soil.about 6 weeks before planting.This put back what was use by the crops the year before.Yes there was a winter with snow.She would grow field corn to feed the cows 4 -of them and the chickens and the pigs got some too.We would have to top the corn in midsummer,that would be fed to the cows,along with there corn and hay.Which came from the feilds.The cows ate good and produced more organic fertilizer for the crops.The cows were feeded the pole beans stalks,potatoes vine,anything that was grown in the garden. So yes you can reuse your soil,but you will have restore the nutrs back to it. The large farmer rotate the crops every couple of years.rotating corn,wheat,barly.Then plant soy beans for a year.Soy beans is the only plant that can be harvest to sell that puts back NITROGEN back in the soil and cuts down on chemical fertilizer they would have to use.This is why soy beans and there products cost more.With all that said think about it,you grow in hydroton meduin and the plants get there food from what you add to the water.Soil is like that too.Well after the soil is used up you put compost in it and let it cook and then plant and the plant grow big.Back to the Hippe days YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. Hope this puts a little light on things. PEACE

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To add to this Toke: For the home gardener. Any legume will add nitrogen to the soil. Peas, beans, soya, lima beans, they all add nitrogen. If you till in the stalks etc you will add more.

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