Aeroponic model 4Z0 Stoner Experiment #1745183

Wow, good stuff @trojangrower ! I'm sold, just position the drain to the side perhaps? Looks like I'll be copying you shortly, haha, I was going to do both top feed and aero but now I may just turn the top feed into the spray nozzle supply line and nix the trickle top feed. Those results are crazy!

 

Maybe theres a way to change drain holes or positions automatically so the roots don't get used to flowing one way? Lol probably not

 

Or maybe if the drain was on the side you could just rotate the net pots a little bit each week or whatever to roll the roots into a ball like noodles on a fork, so the tips weren't so long and trying to go down the drain?

 

Like the net pot would have a root frame coming down from it like a fork in a plate of noodles and you could just trwirl the roots about the root frame, shit, you could even pump water through the root frame so you were hitting roots from outside and also inside

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Lol the root frame might as well be already invented as your aero apparatus haha pretty much same thing I guess

 

No plants atm, waiting on my pump adapters, soon though maybe if they come today I can start piecing together

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I can veg the shit outta some MJ, but still working on consistency in flower. They some fickle bitches haha

 

If the copper scrubber isnt successful there is an alternative that will solve the problem but it will involve modding the system.
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I put myself in a corner, not having supplemental nutrients.

Here’s what I’ve been doing -

Scrape 2” or so from top soil in the pots, add fresh soil, water, with very little run off.

I’m hoping this supplies enough nutrients to keep the plants going until harvest.

This is the first time I’ve had leaves turn yellow. I know I have to be starving them for some nutrients, but they keep going, so I’m okay with finishing this run as is.

 

Why not put an entire screen over the top of your drain? Like the size of the bucket, that would allow no roots at all form around your drain and plenty of water flow in the bottom


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Take it a few steps further
cut sections out of the bottom of the bucket, (like a mag or spoked wheel) or use a holesaw to cut out some fairly big circles. Place a disc of black polypropylene weed barrier over the cut outs inside the base of the bucket. Hot glue short, 2"-3" sections of pvc tube to the bottom of the bucket to act as legs or standoffs. Fit the drain into a seperate container, a large diameter plant pot saucer should work for a 5 gal bucket.. Stand the bucket with its short legs on the saucer. Aim for at least a 1" air gap between the base of the bucket and the top lip of the drain container.
Water will drain freely from the bucket through the polyprop weed barrier and drop into the drain container. Any roots that try to grow through the barrier will encounter an invisible dry air barrier and be air pruned. They`ll never reach the drain. The air below the barrier must be dry, not humid, to work. You cant suspend the barrier inside the bucket above the drain fitting because the air below it will be humid. .

 

If you have a normal plant pot an inch off the ground the roots wont venture out the bottom very far before they are air pruned.

 

Im talking about something like this link im sharing, cut off the lip and flip it upside down, cut a notch to fit over your drain, boom no roots in the bottom and easy water flow to your drain

5 Gallon 400 Micron EZ-Strainer Insert For 5 gallon Bucket or 5 Gal Pail


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What's up @trojangrower just stopping in to add some music

 

75um, 200 mesh would be better Roots can push through the smallest of gaps and expand again once they are through.