[Hawk518]

I’m an outdoor grower living in VA.  Finished my first grow a couple months ago.  It went reasonably well for a complete newbie.  Lots of issues, but learned a lot and had a total blast doing it.  Basically, I loved trying to grow these plants!  Had hoped to buy an indoor setup and give it a shot, but injured my back and will have to wait until the outdoor season for my next grow.

 

Last season, I didn’t start to germinate until the end of April.  Had a few MAJOR issues because the weather got cold and rainy before I could harvest.  I’d like to do it Right this time.  

 

Questions:  

1. What do I need to do Now, so that I’m totally ready to grow outside again?   

2. When should I start germinating my seeds?  I’ll keep them inside until they’re ready to be transplanted to 1 gallon grow pots.  

3. I have about 20 gallons of used Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil from last season.  Ended up having spider mites at the very end of the grow.  Can this dirt be reused for another outdoor grow or is it totally contaminated from the mites?

4. IF I can reuse this soil, exactly what needs to be done to prep it?  

 

I figure I have about 3 months to get everything ready for my next outdoor grow.  

 

Any / all advice is Greatly appreciated!!

 

[2scoops]

I`d be getting getting them germed sometime in March and planting out after last frost prolly in May sometime. 

 

Soil needs 2 or 3 drenches of neem oil and water solution to rid it of any nasties, done over a week to 10 days. After that ideally you could well do with soaking it 3 to 4ml per ltr of calmag overnight afterwards at ph 6,.5 Soil may then need some slow release pellets adding and mixing in along with 25% perlite when you finished first two process. They do sell some nice slow release pellets now as well but also look at adding worm castings. Adding these typo feeds needs doing early maybe a month or two so its already started to break down and become available as food for your plants and that takes time. A handful or so of cattle feed or rabbit feed pellets added should also help out. You shouldn't need to add any more ferts for quite sometime if you do this. 

 

Look at growing autos if you wanna be crop before and beat the winter frost