Anybody tried Airpots?

[Midzy]

I was looking for some bigger pots for coco grows and I saw these in my local G.shop. http://www.airpotgarden.com/store/index ... ef=welcome


the guy in the shop said they give great results hmm but he would he wants me to spend more cash


what do you guys think of this "air prunning root" thing



oh and here is a vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pafzxbfb30g

[Midzy]

it seems....after a fair bit of googling and reading that I am the last person in web land to "find" these airpots
There are some great pics of healthy looking rootballs and I like the science behind them, so I looked at prices and they are not much more £ then the large normal pots I had my eye on in B and Q

[Boner]

I have a few that I'm using for the first time, the 2 plants I have flowering (was told not to bother while they're vegging) are looking really good.

[Midzy]

I have a few that I'm using for the first time, the 2 plants I have flowering (was told not to bother while they're vegging) are looking really good.

Your trying some Boner? nice one I like the shape off them, the pots I used to use were much narrower at the bottoms but the airpots are the same width all the way down . I also like the way they undo when you want em to. also the extra branching of new hairs in the rootball can only be a good thing, its gotta be better then long feck off roots going round and round the pot.

[Cal X]

Do you need a drip hydro set up with those pots, or can you water by hand?

[Midzy]

Do you need a drip hydro set up with those pots, or can you water by hand?

hand water normally, supose you could set up a drip system but you would have to suspend pots higher then the res and have some sort of drain system? however I would be just hand watering and running to waste

ooops I jus read yer Q again I got it wrong way round (thought you wanted drips), but yeah you can hand water

[Cisco]

I had jus started looking into air pots dude , was chatting bout them over the weekend in Dam , pity I'm not gardening anymore

[Midzy]

I have a few that I'm using for the first time, the 2 plants I have flowering (was told not to bother while they're vegging) are looking really good.

any chance of a quick update to how you find working with them Boner?

I av been thinking that maybe they would be good for vegging I think that a young plant would benefit from a good rootball caused by the airprune thing??? and give her a good start in life. but I have no exp wiv airpots so I maybe dreaming up B. shit. Has the person that told yer not to bother in veg had exp of this? whats your thoughts Boner and do you think they would be easy to undo and repot?

[Boner]

Yeah I was told it was pretty pointless using them for veg as once they start flowering is when the roots explode but I can't see it would hurt using them in veg, I find you have to water them (I water by hand) every other day (on the odd occasion I can get away with an extra day), I cant see any reason why it would be a problem repotting them as they have a screw type thing that opens the whole pot, I wouldn't repot into a differant sort of pot just bigger airpots.

My plants seem to be loving them, the only problem I have is the fact they're round, this restricts me on how many plants I can flower at 1 time but with a bit of an extended veg period I cant see how I wont be getting greater yields out of less pots.

Edit: I used an airpot for the white x sour and 1 for the straggliest of my 2 exodus cheese plants (it got snapped and crushed when something fell on it and I cut most the damage away and just stuck it in to flower), the cheese is fucking amazing, the size and quantity of buds is just unreal, I dont know if thats down to genetics, the pot, the nutes or a combination of everything but if I left it in the regular pot I dont reckon it would of been anywhere near as good (I actually have another cheese flowering in a reg pot so we'll see in a few weeks how well it grows compared to the one in the airpot).

[Midzy]

Yeah I was told it was pretty pointless using them for veg as once they start flowering is when the roots explode but I can't see it would hurt using them in veg, I find you have to water them (I water by hand) every other day (on the odd occasion I can get away with an extra day), I cant see any reason why it would be a problem repotting them as they have a screw type thing that opens the whole pot, I wouldn't repot into a differant sort of pot just bigger airpots.

My plants seem to be loving them, the only problem I have is the fact they're round, this restricts me on how many plants I can flower at 1 time but with a bit of an extended veg period I cant see how I wont be getting greater yields out of less pots.

Edit: I used an airpot for the white x sour and 1 for the straggliest of my 2 exodus cheese plants (it got snapped and crushed when something fell on it and I cut most the damage away and just stuck it in to flower), the cheese is fucking amazing, the size and quantity of buds is just unreal, I dont know if thats down to genetics, the pot, the nutes or a combination of everything but if I left it in the regular pot I dont reckon it would of been anywhere near as good (I actually have another cheese flowering in a reg pot so we'll see in a few weeks how well it grows compared to the one in the airpot).

nice one thanks Boner, I can't wait to try these (I had pretty lame rootballs so far wiv coco BUT I never used rhizotonic ), so I got some 1L airpots and some rhizotonic I am hoping for good rootballs from now on I would put the seedlings (in rockwell cubes) in coco in the 1L airpots and wait till I get a good rootball and then repot into the biggest airpot, and hopefully all the airpruned roots would fill the big pot and then begin airpruning again and totally fill the pots wiv loverly white hungry roots

[weedhog]

I have been using these pots for over 3 years and I love them the plants seem to get bushier and are noticably more branching resulting in heavier yields...Love em'
The only bad thing is you will have to water more often as they dry quicker due to more air circulation around the roots

[Midzy]

I have been using these pots for over 3 years and I love them the plants seem to get bushier and are noticably more branching resulting in heavier yields...Love em'
The only bad thing is you will have to water more often as they dry quicker due to more air circulation around the roots

nice one weedhog how often do you have to water?

anychance of any rootball pics? cheers

[weedhog]

I hand water and water every other day.. some plants have to be watered daily with these pots it just depends on the strain Im growing at the time but can never go more than 2 days

[Cal X]

Is it hard to time out the feeding schedule if you have to have to water that often?

[Midzy]

Is it hard to time out the feeding schedule if you have to have to water that often?

I would not have thought so Cal X, I have always been hydro only so I have never learned the wet dry thing soil growers do, so with coco in airpots I would just hand water once a day and now thanks to you guys I know I could skip a day if I have to