Air Pots = Best pot for soil

smokebros

smokebros

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If you are growing in soil I highly suggest people check out airpots from their local hydroshop. They allow the roots to be air pruned and the plants grow bigger because of that. I water my plants every other day because the airpots don't hold as much moisture. They are virtually impossible to overwater, and if you add geohumus to your soil that will help you retain more moisture (if desired).




They make small sizes too. This is a .8 gallon and a 2.0 gallon with chocolope clones that are 12-12 after 1 week of veg (for shits and giggles)
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Notice how well those plants are doing?
You can buy a 7 gallon airpot if you wanna do a tree. One thing for certain is once you try them you wont go back to normal pots.
 
RawBudzski

RawBudzski

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Have airpots that are made completely of cloth that the roots can go through, I also have the classic home made airpots out of the 5gals. Love them & I do notice a difference in vigor
 
Corbat420

Corbat420

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RawBudzski said:
Have airpots that are made completely of cloth that the roots can go through, I also have the classic home made airpots out of the 5gals. Love them & I do notice a difference in vigor
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<3 +rep for growing the same ghetto way i do. i homemade fabric pots because im so cheap. drilling out the 5G buckets to make teh homemade air pots wasn't bad... but MAN it was totaly worth it.

i've seen a vast improvement in growth, and its much harder to over water.....
 
xgiovanni03x

xgiovanni03x

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Ive seen a video where Smart pots Lost to Air pots. I wanted to get Air pots 2 but smart pots are cheaper. but both are great for soil, hard pot can get you root bound and mess up ur yield.
 
smokebros

smokebros

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smokebros said:
Because airpots are the best :wink:
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[video=youtube;iOf-39YS_GU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOf-39YS_GU&feature=player_embedded[/video]

This is a video someone posted earlier today on a different thread, it demonstrates the benefits of airpots.
 
LeonJer

LeonJer

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I've ordered Airpots for my first grow Smokebros, Im going to be growing in soil, and whilst doing my research into my growroom, its seems that they are gathering a bit of a following from our 'sort' of people aswell as from 'normal' green-fingered types. . The science all makes sense.
I've ordered the 10L size pots, not too sure what that is in the US gallon standard. The pots are manufactured in Scotland from recycled plastic.
You know a product is good when people try and copy it. I seen a video a while back from a US company ripping the idea of. The quality looked no where near as good, infact the video was getting loads of negative comments.
Mine should be down anyday now....
 
smokebros

smokebros

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LeonJer said:
I've ordered Airpots for my first grow Smokebros, Im going to be growing in soil, and whilst doing my research into my growroom, its seems that they are gathering a bit of a following from our 'sort' of people aswell as from 'normal' green-fingered types. . The science all makes sense.
I've ordered the 10L size pots, not too sure what that is in the US gallon standard. The pots are manufactured in Scotland from recycled plastic.
You know a product is good when people try and copy it. I seen a video a while back from a US company ripping the idea of. The quality looked no where near as good, infact the video was getting loads of negative comments.
Mine should be down anyday now....
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That's awesome man. Airpots are definitely where it's at. They do indeed create a great root zone. Check out my journal in my signature if you wanna see airpots in action.
 
mak

mak

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how much did you get yours for?i saw a 5pack for like 100-120$ and some change,i bought some chocolope clones that were in the smaller super roots air pots .8 gal..i will be reusing them for new clones.. but damn the big ones seem expensssive...
 
smokebros

smokebros

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mak said:
how much did you get yours for?i saw a 5pack for like 100-120$ and some change,i bought some chocolope clones that were in the smaller super roots air pots .8 gal..i will be reusing them for new clones.. but damn the big ones seem expensssive...
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I use 3.4 gallon airpots, they cost about 8$ a piece.
 
LeonJer

LeonJer

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Same as me then,
1 US gallon = 3.78541178 litres, I'm pretty sure I ordered 6 x 10 Litre pots for for my DR150 mkII tent, should be good right?


According to Xpedia this is the price I paid in GBP converted into USD :
3.85 GBP = 6.00 USD,
Exchange rate: 1.558361
Rate valid as of: 2/10/2011
They are manufactured in the UK though, so thats why its cheaper. Makes a change though guys, usually its the other way, and we pay through the nose!!!!
Heres a tutorial for you Dwezelitsame:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pafzxbfb30g

Peace. :-)
 
PetFlora

PetFlora

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Go to their website and look for country then distributors. I found one in Florida that has a nice discount while they last. Just got my order Friday. I repotted one plant from a net pot where roots were sticking through. The plant did not suffer in any way and has grown several inches in just 2 days.

Most importantly, I think you can grow a better root system in a 3G AP, than in a 5 G regular pot.
 
sso

sso

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havent seen them around here, just on the internet, but in my big pots, i drilled a few holes in each.

hehe, did it long ago, before i heard about airpots so i dont have any comparison, but the plants seem to be doing very fine in them.
just made sense to open the soil to more air. (plus i got much more shitty soil back then, had to compensate somehow)
 
Red1966

Red1966

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I've used the Rootbuilder pots, 3 gallon. When I culled the males, the root balls were all very fine roots through out the pot except for a couple of slightly larger roots at the very bottem. Just got some Airpots, 1 L and 2 gallon, will use them next grow.
 
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