Um, no. What will happen is that all the air will just create a crack from which to escape. Anyone who thinks the result will be different simply lacks the ability to comprehend the physical world around them. Rockwool is designed to provide maximum root aeration and solution exposure. Weather it's hand watered, drip watered or ebb and flow it is far superior to soil. What we have here is a few stoner's pulling a half baked idea out of their ass. Get a clue, air stones in soil will not work. If it did, why would anyone bother with hydroponics? Duh.
But like I said, if you insist on being a horse's ass, have at it - I look forward to your write up on how awesome your idea worked. Thumbs up bro!!!!!!
Dude, why are you fucking with RW when you could have aeroponic fogging going down??
I did get my best commercial yields in hydro I do admit, but the buds were lacking at the connoisuer level.. I think its just impossible to provide everything a plant might want without a healthy microbial infrastructure, but I admit I never went for the gimmicky lines of fertilizers, just DNF (still overpriced) and some experiments..
When I went to soil (organically enriched mixes of various forest & meadow dirts with no bias against chems) I found a whole new richness to the genetics I'd grown all along.. I do admit that I pick up on subtle/possibly imaginary aspects of flavour and smell, but I'm always the first person to detect odours and odd flavours etc.. Perhaps its because I've been distilling for so long, and those senses are critical to producing a quality product..
Don't worry.. The RW does get the job done.. For a first grow its fine.. But when you get some experience you'll find that RW can get pretty fucking disgusting, and infact doesn't aerate anywhere near as effectively as the hydro-guy touted unless you have your watering scedule pegged..
If you want a simple hydro setup use hydroton in a drip setup.. Things stay alot cleaner
See, alot of us have been around the block..
Anyone who thinks the result will be different simply lacks the ability to comprehend the physical world around them.
I'm working on that.. I got my physics degree, thought I was close at one time, but this newer unparticle theory is turning some shit upside down..