Hydroton

[sundaytoker]

I just finished flowering my plants and I'm going to reuse my Hydroton balls. Is there anything special I should do to clean them or can I just put my young new plants in and start flowering?

[u.g.u]

1st off dry them completly remove as much root material as possible. Then get some large rubber made tubs 2 of them. Drill holes in the bottom of 1 then fill the other with water and all your rocks. If the roots are dry they will float to the top skim all of them off then add some clearex and h202 to the water. Let it sit a couple of hours then tranfer them to the rubber maid with the holes and your set.

[Zandor]

You can also buy what is called a sweater bag from wally world. They are used to wash sweaters in the laundry and have a small net type look to them. With that you can clean out as much as you can then place them in the bag and run it through the dish washer and run just water through with no soap.

It works like a charm to wash, clean and dry them.

[latewood]

after all that, I soak mine in florakleen overnight