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Old 03-23-2010, 10:38 PM
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Oasis cubes are from synthetic material and (obviously) said by the manufacturer to not be reusable or compostable.
Ya, I forgot that oasis is supposed to be a type of foam, that wouldn't decompose in a compost pile.

As far as perlite, unless they are small tiny plants that the entire root system comes out when you pull it up, leaving nothing behind, good luck cleaning it. I also have no idea how you are supposes to rinse the root systems out of rockwool. Unless you shred it up into tiny pieces, but even then you'll never be able to completely separate the rockwool from the roots. Just not worth the time and effort to me to even try. Oasis and rockwool have the same type of structure, and if you were able to wash/rinse the roots out of roockwool, you should be able to do the same with oasis.
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