Hello!
I am finishing my first grow.
Not much gardening experience otheewise.
Just chopped my first trunk in a 7gal fabric pot.
Why do I do with the soil and roots / trunk?
What are other options others than trash it.
Should I keep fabirc pots as wash them thoroughly too decontaminate for any bacteria.
Aside from homegrown, I can’t I imagine what commercial soil growers would do with all the finished soil and roots a harvests.
Do they compost? Recycle any of the root fibres?
Thanks !
I like to compost my roots into my next batch of soil, keep one growing and 1 composting.
I literally wash my grow bags in the washer with vinegar 3 times, then dry on the lowest heat possible
It really depends what sort of soil grower you want to be. If the container is sufficiently large (15+ gal), you can plant your new plant in the same pot and leave the first stump there to decompose. If you have a healthy soil web (fungus, microbes, worms, decomposer insects, etc), the roots will decompose over a few weeks/months and will eventually pull out with little effort.
For smaller pots, I would try to amend and/or compost the used soil like sct2020 mentioned.