I'm with you Donald, both on soaking and on the casual attitude towards disinfecting. Here in FL where we have every bug and fungus there is, I figure as soon as the plant gets outside again, and especially if it is going to sit on the ground it's infected again anyway. I hose my pots off, scrub them if they have algae growing on the outsides (which happens a lot here) just for appearances, and carry on planting.
Only for orchids do I take any precautions, - a scrub/soak with Clorox Cleanup, soap and bleach combo - as the plants are especially susceptible to fungal infection. But again, my orchids grow outdoors, so there's no preventing fungal infection without major fungicide preventative spraying anyway.
