pressure cooking soil (juice)

[Planet Budtron]

this is something i actually tried and had seen with my very own eyes but i want to know from another persons perspective?
=get some good or used soil your choice place in a mason jar with lots of water more then needed, put lid on fairly tight place in presure cooker, cook for 45 mins, let it cool for how ever long you'd like couple hours or even a few days = strain out the soil and use that water for your plants.
(the pressure cooker kills all the bad stuff leaving eveything in the jar sterial AKA clean)
so how elese could this be good for the plant?

[slowthestone]

Personally...I'd rather just flush the soil with a 25-30% strength shot of H2O2.

No cooking, no lifting, no filtering...no nothing.

[Planet Budtron]

H2O2 would that be peroxide and water? i have used that method B4 but i like to go the extra foot just to make me happy..i would think by going that extra distance will very much give you different results..the cleaner the better! but you can also add the peroxide to the water in the jars as well B4 you pressure cook them?

[stinkyattic]

So do you sterilize your soil before use too? Is your growroom a cleanroom with air scrubbers, no bugs, no dirt on the floor?
If you have any bacteria at all, anywhere, including on your hands when you touch the plants, they will just multiply.
And killing off beneficial organisms in the soil can actually harm your plants and make them less able to uptake nutrients.

[likemclever]

If you wanted to go that route wouldnâ??t it just be easier to boil it in a pot on the stove.

Like stink said, I think it would kill all the good stuff too. I canâ??t even imagine what really hot mud smells like.

Sounds like a tremendous amount of effort for questionable results.

[harris7]

boiling the soil would not do the same thing. Water at sea level will not go to temperatures above 100 Celsius unless it is put under pressure. So 100 degrees will not kill the bacteria and really wont do anything. You use a pressure cooker which allows the pressure to get really high, which in turn keeps the water in liquid form at very high temperatures. This will kill the bacteria it is acutely the same principal behind autoclaves which are what sterilizes surgical equipment. This would also kill all beneficial bacteria and I don’t know if it is a good idea. What I did was buy some really good soil with lots of micro organisms and mixed it with other soils. My theory is that they will just multiply and spread through the soil.