can you freeze your potting soil????????

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:confused: :confused: hello everyone!!! was just blazing and got to thinking.... oh no.. lol... i was wandering if you could freeze your potting soil for like 2-3 months and kill any eggs,bugs and any of that sort.... any ideas????????? i mean like put bag and all in the deep freeze...
 
i've read that you can bake your soil for a little while to kill eggs and bugs. im sure it doesn't smell like cake while cookin but i guess it would work
 
heavy metal, that is...lol.. no, but like isnt there iron in the soil????? i saw a thing on the news awhile back and there was green beans sparking in the microwave... they said it was from the iron....
 
i nuked it no sparks and i was useing a custom mix from crappy wallmart, now i got good quality soil that i dont thnk i need to nuke. i just store it in a rubbermaid seal up with some contractors tarp and ducttape and put top on its convient for transplanting inside to as limits mess and makes a sandbox effect.
 
yea it seems like ever grow that i use soil from walmart i get nats,nats,nats... did the microwave kill everything you think????
 
it defintly helped control them i would say but i think some must of survived or maybe stronger shelled insects did cause i saw a beetle or two in walmart soil when lights turned on once or twice. but i think the soil i transplanted from like the rootbound plant i didnt nuke so maybe they came from that hard to say.
 
Microwaving soil = bad idea. Oven it to fully dry it out then add moisture back in is different. I've read a research some little girl did back in the day that drew attention to the media and FDA.

This girl did a science experiment using a microwave. 2 pea plants and water. Her question was "will I see a difference in growth using regular water or water that has been microwaved and cooled to room temperature.

well she did exactly that and what she found shocked me. The plant that was watered with microwaved water died within a week while the control which was watered with regular water that hasn't been microwaved is doing fine. This is years ago that I've read it.

I have nats also and i use FFOF. It's not your soil that is giving you the nats, its your growing space. Buy some sticky traps. I use both yellow and blue. I put them towards the middle right above the plants canopy.

I try and do very little with the soil I have as I do not want to kill off any beneficial bacterias and enzymes. Freezing, microwaving, baking will do just that. Yes you might get rid of harmful stuff, but at the same time you will lose beneficial things as well. I think the negatives out weighs the positive for me on this one.

Leave your soil alone unless you picked it up from the back yard. Buy quality soil so you don't have to worry about fungus n nasties. I buy FFOF locally here for 14 a bag, for what it is that isn't bad. Being that I consume my flowers, I'll pay that extra buck to get something I know works. I don't want to mess with the 5$ bags of potting soil.

Walmart soil can get contaminated because of how they store it. keeping bags of soil outdoors will do just that, f it up. Every soil bag has ventilation holes to take care of built up humidity so mold can't grow. By using these holes, bugs can get in as well. I store my soil in rubber maid containers and stir it up every so often.

radiation... can't be good? microwave vibrates water molecules till they vibrate so fast that they generate heat. too fast and it'll explode (vaporize) in which it'll start to steam. All this is done by microwave radiation... I personally try to steer clear from using a microwave.
 
thanks for that info... i wish i could get some ff anything... where i live no one carries it.. i would have to go to dallas or little rock.. i could get it online but it cost to much to ship...
 
idk where he got his info from but i just googled soil sterilization and this horticulture specialist says nuked is fine for soil sterilization. heres a link.
hxxp://www.colostate.edu/Depts/CoopExt/4DMG/Soil/sterile.htm
 
I'm not getting my information from any where, rather this is information I have experience. Now using my common sense. If microwaving water and watering a plant killed it. I'll be damn if Ima microwave my soil and grow my mj in it and smoke.

14$ for soil that is great works and i dont have to worry about that and my health.

or 5$ and the worry about that microwave thing I learned back in grade school.

i rather pay 14$ than live with a question and wondering "hmm... why did that water killed the plant after being microwaved" "I wonder if this is ok when I do it to soil"

another note: musta got some really f'd up soil if your going to throw it in the microwave. Imagine the smell... o00o0o weee someone baking mud pies?

knock yourself out, im not basing on scientific ** or anything, just on the bare fact, if microwaving water does that, then it shouldn't be good for soil. I'm smoking this ****, if its a plant just to have around which i don't consume in any way. than by all means. nuke the ****.
hXXp://www.rense.com/general70/microwaved.htm XX = tt
 
microwaving water dpletes it of O2..that is why the bean plant died....microwaved dirt will not hurt you, but if you have bugs or some other reason for wanting to microwave/bake your soil, i would buy new soil
 

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