3 Ways To Sterilize Your Soil 

Same here, I have a roommate so I just don’t know how I’d explain the fact that I’m baking soil

​@@christiansaravia7865 mud pie😅

They are soo annoying.. I also have a video focused directly on gnats.. so maybe try that one out too for some extra tips :)

I bought Miracle-Gro Indoor Potting Mix that is compost-free, said to possibly help deter fungus gnats.. and it was full of Aphids!!

Dont throw your old soil put in cantainer then put fruits veg peels kitchen .recycling is good

good luck!

If it's fungal or a form of disease then you'd be better of throwing away that compost and starting a afresh. Otherwise, hopefully these tips will help! I have another vid where I show you how to refresh your soil too! Good luck! ❤❤

Do not excess water your plants Give manure feed every two monthly use cinnamon and tumeric with water boil cool and dilute 1:1 ratio with water and put in soil every two weeks.

They don't want us to be independent. They're preparing for beast system. So that they could only choose whom they would allow to grow food

good luck!

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out the video. I'm glad that you enjoyed the tips and delivery. Coming from a fellow creator that means a lot. Thank you man 💪🏾

Have you ever tried hydrogen peroxide? I haven't yet but some is on the way in the post. It apparently helps in the fight against thrips too. But I will be using the boiling water method without a doubt.

@@nothin2656 no I haven't tried that yet. In all fairness, I haven't tried hydrogen peroxide, neem oil or anything like that. I tried some products last year and my pla to reacted badly and I lost a lot. So I try and make my own stuff where I can. If the peroxide works though, please let me know! I'd be definitely willing to give it a try 😊

@@CloudGardenerUK it will be here by the end of the week so I will soon find out. I am so worried about the thrips outbreak and I am desperate to end it. If it goes well I will give every new plant that enters my home a hydrogen peroxide and neem oil treatment as standard. I'm also going to make some self watering moss poles to help my monsteras become one with their poles, but the risk of fungus gnats was worrying me. Your tip of the mosquito bits in the water will hopefully combat that problem before I even encounter it. And your videos have convinced me that it is time to set up my tropical fish tank once again after a decade, so excited about underwater plant life 🥰🌱. Now I have convinced myself it is a good idea, I must get my daughter on board, mother knows best.

@@nothin2656 Omg!! I just set my little cold water tank up.. hopefully it will come out the week of the houseplant tour! It's soo exciting! It's like a whole new world of plants to get! 🤣🤣🤣 Thrips sound super destructive! Just remember to test your solution on one or two leaves first and wait a day or so just incase. You don't want to loose any of your babies! Yeah the mosquito bits works like a charm. A week maximum and the cycle will be broken and you should see a reduction in pests 😊

Please do!

Just like they jacked up the chicken feed which caused the temporary egg shortage until people figured out what was happening.

Probably washed all the fine stuff out of the potting mix or have an unseen fungi problem. But they DID mess with chicken feed in the UK recently because nobody was getting eggs with the laying pellets

@@OffGridInvestor Wow, I thought it was only in America. I guess it was global.

So many diseases in my Garden, and on plants around my neighborhood in the city last year. Also bought Miracle-Gro Indoor Potting Mix that was infested with Aphids. Something is definitely going on.

I'm channeling your mojo into my garden - sorry

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Do you add the hydrogen peroxide during the boiling water or later as a watering or dunk?

Adding hydrogen peroxide to boiling water won't do anything because the heat will break it down into water and oxygen. You want to use hydrogen peroxide when the plant/seed is actually present as hydrogen peroxide breaks down extremely quickly.

I've heard 1 minute to 2.5 minutes for 2.2lbs. And check the temperature to be 180F in the centre with a meat roasting thermometer (you know the probe kind).

@@OffGridInvestor my tines might be longer as I pre saturated the soil, it takes roughly 4mins to boil water in my microwave. I like to keep it at the steam point for 2-4 mins as my own safety to make sure it's fully sterilized, I have had to many gnat problems

@@markfish7705 i would agree with that comment. Discard

Good tip!

DORMANT larvae are in those bags of soil, and to re-activate you only need moisture. This is why soil sterilization doesnt work for fungus gnats, but it will kill ALL the good and bad bacteria in your soil, which isn't good either. Store bought soil need to be dry as a bone for at least 14-21 days or longer, to ensure f. Gnats larvae and their Next Gen are non-viable before adding a drop of water.

Same 🙈 It's my preferred method

Hygiene purposes? You're STERILISING here right? That's what microwaves do, they kill everything

Of course it is covered!

No problem 👍

You're welcome!

180 celsius will do. They sterilize Medical instruments in simular temperature settings.

Fahrenheit. So about 82 °C.

⁠@@melangiumno way it’d this low. 180 degrees Celsius probably.

What are those? Nematodes?

@@nunyabiznes33 i do not know?

@@lindaragsdale1656 oh OK. Doesn't matter what they're called, they still have to go! 😁

@@nunyabiznes33 Yea, i agree.. glad you confirmed my intuition, oh i remember composting tomatoes and they were all over them.. i only noticed it after composting and not turning my compost over.. any info on why tomatoes had worm's eating them?

The microwave and oven will kill anything. Not so sure about his kettle method though. It'll get a lot but I don't feel like it'll do 100%.

There's no sun in England

Yup

Check out my video on fungus gnats.. I offer quite a few solutions, the last one will be the best if you already have an infestation

180 Celsius and 365 Fahrenheit

My gas oven doesn't have anything less than 150 Celsius.

If it was in a sealed container its unlikely for it to be infected with pest eggs, it likely only has worm eggs. I would just use it.

I have heard if you sterilise worm castings they become useless

Of course. Make sure it's well wet otherwise the bark might start smoking.

Doesn’t the nutrients cook out if we cook it?

We can always add fertilizer later. There's no point worrying about nutrients if the soil is so full of nasty microbes and fungi that nothing would grow in it.

Cook in fire without water? Good luck when it catches alight.

As long as the boiling water remains in the bowl/bucket of soil and doesn’t drain out, I believe the minerals should be retained. Not sure about the beneficial microbes though.

2 minutes will do nothing. Unless its microwave.

Centigrade

It's actually probably 180° F. 75° C and above gets rid of most microbes, there's no need to go to 180°C. Other sources also recommended 82-93° C. Higher might do more harm than good.

Fahrenheit. If it was 180°C, that would be over 350°F, and anything above ~200°F will start to release toxins, even with organic soil.

by the steam.

@@DaveSmith-cp5kj makes sense

Seems to kill other bacteria regardless. Here in Australia the biosecurity at customs uses gamma rays for anything wooden you bring in in your passenger baggage. So they're the next step above microwaves on the electromagnetic spectrum.

@@OffGridInvestor I appreciate your reply. Thanks

I purchased a small 9x7 sifter meant for animal trapping, works ok but would recommend something larger if you have a lot of plants

That’s horse 💩 this definitely works yeah it takes out some things like good bacteria but you can easily add those things right back in. This method is something you have to do anyway when you buy a bag of soil from anywhere

@@E.TGropeHome yes it works But! Killing all the microbes is Bad, the microbes eat crap an shit out what your plant likes/wants/needs. That's y after the boiling water you gotta put some microbes back into the soil as I said b4 an then give the soil around 3 weeks minimum b4 you use it. You don't have to believe go do research. Good luck growmie

@@E.TGropeHome hey, do you mind me asking how you could add those? I have worm cast, does that work?

@@Myri114 good question i was thinking the same 🤔

I suppose this is at least good enough for sprouting seeds or rooting cuttings in trays before transferring them to "normal" soil.

How much peroxide to add per liter of water?

@@nunyabiznes33 if 3% hydrogen peroxide then four teaspoon per litre if 7% then two teaspoon per litre

@@mastmolamm5604 thanks a lot! I'll try this next time I sterilize soil

@@nunyabiznes33 you can add 2 teaspoons of baking soda as well per litre

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So glad it helped! 🥰

🤣🤣 glad you enjoyed it mate 👍🏾

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bruh no need to be rude

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I also think that no music would be better. Just a kind suggestion. :)

@Cloud Gardener UK I also found your information very helpful. I am going to try the oven method.