Inverted plant
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DaddyPaddy
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That would be amazing to see work! It's always cool to have some sort of fun way of growing your plants instead of the old dirt in a bucket thing. I think you should give it a go and see if it works. I know that plants operate almost entirely off turger-pressure and from the looks of it, it seems tomatoes grow even faster upside-down for this reason. Gravity causes the plant to draw in more nutrients. I have seen one of those upside down tomatoe growers at ACE for about 15 bucks, maybe that would be a good idea to have the roots upside down and set up a timed mister on the top for feeding. You should give it a go if you ever have some extra cash lying around, it would make my month to see that work!
tinyTURTLE
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studies on the international space station have shown that gravity plays a large part in plant growth.
they naturaly want to push against gravity. it seems to me that it might confuse/ stress the plant out to be
growing backwards.
they naturaly want to push against gravity. it seems to me that it might confuse/ stress the plant out to be
growing backwards.
DaddyPaddy
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Don't they grow alot of plants on the space station?
DaddyPaddy
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and I think if the plant is able to get the proper amount of nutrients its not going to be like 'Holy shit I'm upside down! put me back upright!' but I'll try finding some sources to back up what I'm saying before I open my uneducated mouth too much 
DaddyPaddy
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found alot of good sources but this site in particular has alot of good info all around http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/urban/upside-down-gardening.htm
SanibelGreen
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wow that would be crazy, my mom grows tomatoes inverted so I could only wonder.
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Immortal One
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how are you gonna keep the water from dripping out now?
imabeast
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DaddyPaddy
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im thinking a drip or spray system for growing instead of a hydro. drip is cheap enough and you can use rockwool. it will still drip alot but if you put a storage bin underneathe youll be set. you can even run the pump from the storage bin and reuse the water from it. Try it out!
imabeast
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the roots would just clump up in the resivour w/out a medium to grow through.
Instead of using airstones like for a dwc, you could always try this using a homemade fogger system. Then you wouldn't have to worry about water leaking. The only thing you would have to do is have a separate resevoir full of water hooked up to a timer so that the fogger wouldn't run out of water.
imabeast
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that's a great idea....now about those roots clumping up....maybe, if the fogger hose came in from the top, and I used a screen or something for the roots to cling to....would this become a "screen of roots" SCROR
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imabeast
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LOL KITTY, (I stay high) I know this would really prob never work unless I used soil, but it is nice to excersize the minds of all these wonderful people. Then again who knows?I think y'all been smokin' too much. Besides, if you grew it upside wouldn't it get you "low" instead of "high?"
imabeast
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I must be stoned fatfarmer, I dont understand what you mean.roots grow down,soil cooler. But you could just cut holes in 5gal bucket for test run.