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Perlite reusable?
    #7651730 - 11/18/07 05:34 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I've checked around for this question..Is it reusable.....I mean I might of had a tiny contam problem, but it'sbeen like 100% dry for around....5 months nowish....Is it okay? do spores die over an amount of time in dryness?


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Re: Perlite reusable? [Re: jape]
    #7651740 - 11/18/07 05:37 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Ive heard you can wash it with a diluter peroxide solution and bake it in the oven. Never done it, but makes sense.


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Re: Perlite reusable? [Re: jape]
    #7651749 - 11/18/07 05:38 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Yes you can reuse it. Might add a little h2o2 to kill off contam's if you think there might of been any. Spores want hurt a thing.


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Re: Perlite reusable? [Re: KaptKid]
    #7651761 - 11/18/07 05:40 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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Re: Perlite reusable? [Re: Shroom4u]
    #7651796 - 11/18/07 05:48 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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Ive heard you can wash it with a diluter peroxide solution and bake it in the oven. Never done it, but makes sense.




Ya do that like 350 for a hour or two just watch it don't burn or just do a few jars of it in your PC. There is a tek around here for re-using verm not trying to sound like a ass but try the search probably find it around a million times.


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Re: Perlite reusable? [Re: MYSTIQUE]
    #7651957 - 11/18/07 06:24 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

It's cheap as hell but if you want to reuse it just bake it in the oven, with a previous soak in bleach or peroxide if you want to.

I don't know if it can burn though. It's a rock, can you burn rock? Oh, and it gets very hot so careful handling it


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Re: Perlite reusable? [Re: Nibin]
    #7652601 - 11/18/07 08:44 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

well, salt is a rock and you can't burn salt, well, in the kitchen to my knowledge

and believe me, at culinary school, i tried

yah, rinse and bake


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Re: Perlite reusable? [Re: Nibin]
    #7652687 - 11/18/07 09:07 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Wow, I've used the same bag of perlite for ~4 grows and I didn't have to do any "fancy"(lulz) sterilizations. You could probably just load up a few jars and PC it along with your other stuff.

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It's cheap as hell but if you want to reuse it just bake it in the oven, with a previous soak in bleach or peroxide if you want to.

I don't know if it can burn though. It's a rock, can you burn rock? Oh, and it gets very hot so careful handling it




Salts are pretty reactant favored. Meaning that they will require lots of heat to decompose. I think I recall that the dH of
NaCl ----> Na+ + Cl-
is ~890kJ/mol. It would take 2x the Heat produced by the detonation of Nitroglycerin to react Salt.
So no, it won't ruin the perlite.


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Re: Perlite reusable? [Re: Pooter]
    #7652700 - 11/18/07 09:10 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

You don't need to "wash" it. At 350F, nothing survives.

Also, perlite is volcanic glass, you can't "burn it", it will only melt. But that's over 800f, and if you have an oven like that... god damn.


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Re: Perlite reusable? [Re: zathan]
    #7653478 - 11/19/07 03:48 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I wash mine with bleach coz it leaves it nice and white like it was when I bought it. Obvioulsly you don't need to but if it is a bit gungy I don't like the look of it


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Re: Perlite reusable? [Re: Nibin]
    #7653653 - 11/19/07 06:56 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Peroxide wont really kill anything. I have just rinsed the crap out of my perlite, im on my 3rd use sofar.

Im going to be putting fresh stuff in soon though as its getting a bit gruby, bits of verm and stuff in there.


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