AirPots ..new technology plant pots

I have been working at a hydro store for about 5 years and i can honestly say i've sold little to none of those pots, i'm not talking the product down it is a good product but it seems that people are more partial to geo-pots or smart-pots only for the fact because of root bounding is not an issue with them. first time I saw one i thought it was a little garbage can.
 
the idea behind them is very interesting and i don't doubt they work well. i just don't know how practical they are for an indoor grow. watering seems like it would be messy. i suppose one could just place the air pot inside a bucket while they water but it's still more work especially with multiple plants. seeing evergreens being grown in pots is enough for me to believe they work, though. those are some pretty big claims about farmers cutting grow times in half and i would LOVE to give it a whirl. i have found them as cheap as 3 bucks for a 4 inch. i notice in all the air pot grows they are using pots that are far smaller than what would be considered adequate for a normal pot, so one might even be able to fit more plants in the same space.
 
Total Head said:
the idea behind them is very interesting and i don't doubt they work well. i just don't know how practical they are for an indoor grow. watering seems like it would be messy. i suppose one could just place the air pot inside a bucket while they water but it's still more work especially with multiple plants. seeing evergreens being grown in pots is enough for me to believe they work, though. those are some pretty big claims about farmers cutting grow times in half
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It is a little messy the first couple of waterings. Obviously... water goes down ;) for the most part. Some water does leak out of the top holes. After a few waterings, the holes get clogged with a perlite chunk, or large bit of whatever is in the soil mix. You might have to do the Dutch boy thang with your finger in a dyke... but its not as bad as some people imagine it being.

I dont know about growing twice as much plant, faster and whatnot.. Maybe with some other plant. It aint working that way for me with 2 different strains of weed, passion flower, wrapper leaf tobacco, ghost peppers, and kenaf. YMMV

I love them and wont use any other type of pot, period.

I even tried making "smart pots" [I happen to have a serger] they sucked ass on all the regular garden plants I tried growing in them.
 
i seen someone using pipes as pots by taping a bag to the bottom so u can still have alot of soil for them to root to and cram more plants in great for sog and single cola i think when i get these pipes im simply gunna punch alot of small holes in the side of them to increase air intake to the roots, any thoughts on this ?
 
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Mr Moores the air pots are fantastic, they'll increase your yield by 25%. If you want to make your own check out post #7 in the Grow Lab thread linked at the bottom of this post. If you go the DIY root I'll help you with construction on my thread, if needed.

My buckets are easier to care for than the Air Pots:

- clean watering, no spill
- because of the second cover bucket the outer root ball is kept moist until it's time to kill the root tips. (less watering)

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Wow. that link you posted has some incredible information had to stop reading when i got near the bottom otherwise my brain was gunna need defragmenting so much to take in. And thxs for the help mint idea with your airpots get a patent on them mate :D wot about net pots lined with the weed block, is it essential to have the hard and the soft membranes? could you use 2 membranes with equal composition?
Again many thanks, over the moon with wot youv taught me
 
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"is it essential to have the hard and the soft membranes? could you use 2 membranes with equal composition?"

Do you mean the bucket with the holes in it for as the second membrane? The landscaping fabric the first? If so:

The landscape fabric is for both holding the pro mix inside the bucket and root constriction - trapping and choking off the root so it swells with sugar between the choke and tap root. Choking the root gives the same effect as killing the tip - the sugar build up causes secondary lateral roots to bud off the sugar filled root. The larger shorter root can pump more nutes and water to the tap.

There are fabric containers called Smart Pots that do very well, the root ball dries quicker because of the fabric. This will change the feeding requirements - a smaller percentage of water is evaporated through the leaves since some is evaporating through the cloth wall. This will cause more rapid watering and the nutrient concentration must be reduced or you will have a build up of nutrients in the root ball and nute burn your plants.

The pictorial for building the root pruning buckets is in post #163, page 17. The thread is in an ebook that can be downloaded from the academy link. I'll have the info organized by chapter and cross referenced with tags by the end of the week.


Post 163, page 17 >>> https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/360125-new-growers-needed-grow-lab-17.html

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gunna try my own make up using some non coloured thin fabric and net pots [i think u get the idea], probably wont work as well as yours or have the re-usability BUT im usualy good with this sort of shit, just thought rite now... i could just put the fabric in the wash after each grow! these seem abit closer to being smart pots than air pots, wot u think hobbes ?
 
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I think they'll work well, more watering so be careful of your nutes. If you want to keep the water in until it's time to kill the root tips you could hold plastic to the sides of your pots with tape or bungee cords.

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I just started using the reusable cloth walmart grocery bags. They seem to b workin good for me now. I dont have another grow to compare with since ive used these from the begining but it seemed like they were pretty close to smart pot material so i figured what the hell. I'll give it a go at only 50 cent a bag
 
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They'll work great Scoodles, just brush off the root tips with your hands when they grow through the sides. You could wrap them in plastic as well, to reduce root ball evaporation.

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so when using these air pots can you use a smaller pot than you would normally use? all the grows i see seem to have giant trees in tiny pots.
 
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