I invented this .. you can have it if you want.

Not trying to be a dick but this would seem like it has a high learning curve but also a constant risk of creating infections etc in the area. If you had only 1 mature plant and put 8 of these on separate established sites, you may end up losing half the plant or worse?.

Flowki said:

Not trying to be a dick but this would seem like it has a high learning curve but also a constant risk of creating infections etc in the area. If you had only 1 mature plant and put 8 of these on separate established sites, you may end up losing half the plant or worse?.

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not true, infact all hydroponics systems would be in the same fate it was.

plus any hydroponics system has a high learning curve, so that's crap too.

I always thought air layering has potential with growing cannabis. The fact that you can have one large mother plant, or many, with a bunch of branches air layering taller clones is interesting. It would be beneficial to those who have plant count limits and want to abide by them, effective air layering could speed up the turn around time between crops. The day the flowering clones are harvested the air layers could be removed and take their place. You could have a bunch of 1'+ tall clones that only need a week or two of veg (possibly less) before they go into the flowering phase. I have never successfully completed an air layer clone, but I have only tried it three times over the years.

wompaa said:

not true, infact all hydroponics systems would be in the same fate it was.

plus any hydroponics system has a high learning curve, so that's crap too.

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I'm not a stranger to the likes of grafting so I understand the errors or danger with such practices.

This is a great idea, I am not disputing that, but you to easily brush aside things like added moisture in the area within a small enclosed environment. Where people with a dialled climate control could negate this, those with ought ''might'' struggle allot and end up losing weeks worth of veg time or worse.

It isn't ''crap'' to see the potential negatives of this simply because ''hydro has a high learning curve too''. In fact, the more tricky your individual practices are, the more risk something will go wrong. Once again I am not shitting on this idea, but it should be done with extreme caution in an already dialled in set-up. I'm just trying to warn newbies is all, this isn't something to take lightly.

Farmer.J said:

I always thought air layering has potential with growing cannabis. The fact that you can have one large mother plant, or many, with a bunch of branches air layering taller clones is interesting. It would be beneficial to those who have plant count limits and want to abide by them, effective air layering could speed up the turn around time between crops. The day the flowering clones are harvested the air layers could be removed and take their place. You could have a bunch of 1'+ tall clones that only need a week or two of veg (possibly less) before they go into the flowering phase. I have never successfully completed an air layer clone, but I have only tried it three times over the years.

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That may be a very good thing for scrog growers, for anybody with low pot count they would need a lot more true veg time.

They should of used a different tree for the YouTube video.
Fig trees are one of the easiest to root,they clone themselves just by laying a limb on the ground.
It will root itself down within a week .
STR8

Farmer.J said:

I always thought air layering has potential with growing cannabis. The fact that you can have one large mother plant, or many, with a bunch of branches air layering taller clones is interesting. It would be beneficial to those who have plant count limits and want to abide by them, effective air layering could speed up the turn around time between crops. The day the flowering clones are harvested the air layers could be removed and take their place. You could have a bunch of 1'+ tall clones that only need a week or two of veg (possibly less) before they go into the flowering phase. I have never successfully completed an air layer clone, but I have only tried it three times over the years.

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exactly, you should try it with my invention, the parts are cheap on ebay.



You said you had no success ? what went wrong ?

Flowki said:

That may be a very good thing for scrog growers, for anybody with low pot count they would need a lot more true veg time.

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There's many many plus signs for this way no doubt, it will benefit others a lot more than it would some others so there's a market for it.




Was even thinking of testing one through the whole grow and never taking it off, the flowering stem would get a new root ball ..... would this mean that that cola could take more food ? i don't quite understand how root food uptake works.

you could directly feed separate cola stems right ?

i bought this 2" air pump, was thinking of incorporating it into the ball itself somehow.





and this mini 2" water pump to circulate the water .. so no tubes just a ball








mini solar panels .. plenty of light to feed them .... only thing with a self contained ball would be to top the water up every few days or so.

Or you could make a box for water/feed to sit on the soil with tubes to the ball

wompaa said:

There's many many plus signs for this way no doubt, it will benefit others a lot more than it would some others so there's a market for it.




Was even thinking of testing one through the whole grow and never taking it off, the flowering stem would get a new root ball ..... would this mean that that cola could take more food ? i don't quite understand how root food uptake works.

you could directly feed separate cola stems right ?

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I would be extremely cautious doing this during flower, the added moisture will rise into the canopy and could create rot around the area. Also the longer the device is left on, the more I would imagine bad things could grow on or near it.

In terms of it increasing flower production, I guess that's possible so long as the roots were already established before flower. Pure speculation but if you done this at the start of flower too much energy would be wasted putting out roots (if they can even do that during flower?). All in all, I think it would be more logical to use a bigger pot giving similar or more root system and is easier to feed/maintain. It would be a very interesting experiment though.

One thing to watch out for. I read a lot about people who experimented with air stones in the bottom or buried half way in pots, theory being ''more air to the root zone''. I have never yet seen a person finish and draw a conclusion to that experiment. I don't like to assume but I tend to think the plants died and they didn't report back. Unless it was a overwhelming success (jack and the bean stalk style) and is now a well kept secret ;p.