airpot bed

Nizza

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yeah its a garland 2x2 tray, the one in the pic. 3 airpots screwed together sits directly on the tray. for runoff, its handwatered so i dont water too much at one time. i wait till its dry under the mulch and give about 4-5L. i havent gotten any runoff yet.

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its like coco, ewc, perlite, some hydroton, lava stones, lava stone sand, basaltic sand, pumice, wheatbran, manure, guano, activated carbon, zeolite and zeolite sand and even some tiny clay shards. and yeah the idea is to not to leech nutrients with runoff.
Maybe you could use a square tray or something just like you used as the base of the pot and just drill holes in it and wrap the pots around it. I'm sure there's a way you could create your own base. It would probably need to be pretty sturdy for all that weight though. Wire shelf 2x2 or something lol

Looking good man I'm enjoying this!!
 

crimsonecho

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I am on a learning curve with air pots right now but I have to say I really like them. Your idea of using your own resources is great. I also grow in coco but completely different way so for my purposes this would mean a disaster. You maybe did it intentionaly, but original airpots have first two upper rows of cones uncut to prevent water spilling and the cones are much longer than yours. They are not edged as yours so the roots grow out of them and then get prunned by the air. They are also $ because made out of foodgrade plastic. You might have got ripped off or you just wanted to save few bucks. Anyway good job on recovery of the plant.
no these are knock-off airpots but still they are food grade. where i live i cant get original airpots but knock-offs are available and they still work well.

Maybe you could use a square tray or something just like you used as the base of the pot and just drill holes in it and wrap the pots around it. I'm sure there's a way you could create your own base. It would probably need to be pretty sturdy for all that weight though. Wire shelf 2x2 or something lol

Looking good man I'm enjoying this!!
yeah i am enjoying this too and you are right maybe something like that with wire shelf and carbon fiber screen and shit could work haha but all in all i dont really see problems regarding air exchange from the bottom atm. so i am more inclined to say this works well as it is.
 

zeem

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no these are knock-off airpots but still they are food grade...
Interesting... I thought they were upside down. I did not know air-pot clones exist. Is there a link to those?

I'm thinking of making a raised bed with 3 or 4 connected together, for outdoor. Thank you for sharing your ideas.

I have a question for air-pot farmers... When filling air-pot, do you make any effort to press some medium into the depressions on the wall, or do you just fill and let the coco's own weight (and subsequent watering) to provide the density of medium that you seek; letting things fall and settle where they may, without any preoccupation with the depressions along the wall? Or maybe something in between? Thank you.
 

crimsonecho

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Interesting... I thought they were upside down. I did not know air-pot clones exist. Is there a link to those?

I'm thinking of making a raised bed with 3 or 4 connected together, for outdoor. Thank you for sharing your ideas.

I have a question for air-pot farmers... When filling air-pot, do you make any effort to press some medium into the depressions on the wall, or do you just fill and let the coco's own weight (and subsequent watering) to provide the density of medium that you seek; letting things fall and settle where they may, without any preoccupation with the depressions along the wall? Or maybe something in between? Thank you.
i am not in us so in this case link wouldnt provide any benefits to you :)

also the way i do it i just fill with medium without any effort to compress or fill the pockets in the walls.

one more thing i must add for outdoors, i am not sure but this shape it has with my setup may be due to its screws pressing up inside the walls of the tray at the bottom. so if you do it outside without a tray or some sort of frame to help keep this square shape the chances are it may not. i just put this together inside the tray so i am not sure how well this would hold up without one but if you already have airpots give it a try and post it up please. i am curious.
 
Interesting... I thought they were upside down. I did not know air-pot clones exist. Is there a link to those?

I'm thinking of making a raised bed with 3 or 4 connected together, for outdoor. Thank you for sharing your ideas.

I have a question for air-pot farmers... When filling air-pot, do you make any effort to press some medium into the depressions on the wall, or do you just fill and let the coco's own weight (and subsequent watering) to provide the density of medium that you seek; letting things fall and settle where they may, without any preoccupation with the depressions along the wall? Or maybe something in between? Thank you.
Airpot have instruction video on their website how to fill them properly and they really pack the medium tight inside to fill all of the cones. It has its meaning, because when the cones are not filled, roots are not growing outside of them and not getting pruned. I really do not like their way, because there is actually no need to pack coco. I always look for coarse and fibrous coco and I never ever press coco into the pot, water do it better than I can ever do. It means obstracles with filling the airpots correctly. I wrap them into the plastic folie to prevent any particles to fall out of the cones and then take handfull of coco, throw it inside and gently mix it to the sides, than another part of coco and mix to the sides without any force to the bottom of the pot or medium already presented in the pot. It takes like 6 times or more depends how much I take in my hands untill the pot is full. If it is the 1L air pot, I just wrap it, fill it to the top, cover with my hand and shake. The goal is to see your medium in open cones without any influence to your mediums draining ability IMo. And at the end all of the open cones should be filled with the roots, thats my idea of properly sized airpot. Talking about coco. That makes me thinking about what kind of advantages can this pot bring to outdoor raised bed. I believe that some pots have been invented to specific style of growing, they can work somehow in other style as well but without any actual benefit they have been done for. I mean, you can get same or better results with just klassic raised bed made out of wood or stone or whatever without hassle or spending money for something you will later trash. But the idea is nice thats true.
 

zeem

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Apologies if mentioned somewhere already; I tried to find it. :-)

what is this cultivar/strain?

It looks to me like a similar morphology to one that was made a classic after decades of imagery in popular culture.
Excepting wide leaf silhouettes that we would think of as Indica.
 

crimsonecho

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Well, it's one of the nicest structures I've seen. Can't wait to see it at harvest. I top, tell myslef I'll train, never do and it's just what it is.
thanks man i cant wait to see it at harvest either. i wonder how it will look then i rarely have a beautiful plant past second half of flower, mostly yellow af haha

with a mother tent and limited flower space all i can do is just train and train for months so i am lucky on that end.
 

shpongler

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This girl looks mighty fine.
Hopefully i'll get similar results after being out of growing for a while.
Picking it up as we speak.

This works great as great motivation!
thanks for the effort to keep this thread updated :)
 

crimsonecho

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This girl looks mighty fine.
Hopefully i'll get similar results after being out of growing for a while.
Picking it up as we speak.

This works great as great motivation!
thanks for the effort to keep this thread updated :)
i’m sure you will man keep a journal so we can watch how it goes :)
 
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