Quote Originally Posted by CanGroIt
Ok so the single biggest reason of wanting to try this is the mere fact that it can take 2-3 days between watering/feeding. I am doing this in an attempt to water/nute more often. I know that the moisture naturally dries when the plant roots absorb the moisture. With this pump pumping air into the soil, it should dry faster and allow me to water/nute more often.
Have you thought of using more perlite in the soil? When 'blow-drying' the medium, there is a fine line between drying the medium, and killing the roots. Likely best not to cross that line.
Rusty Trichome Reviewed by Rusty Trichome on . O2 Injections to Roots...... So I have an extra aquarium bubbler air pump. Decided to run tubing into the bottom of a couple pots to inject some O2 directly into the soil. I've been wanting to try this for a while and decided to go ahead. I set the timer to run for 15 min every hour of light. On 18/6 right now. My thoughts on this are that roots love to be in an oxygen rich environment so by directly injecting O2 into the soil, it should promote growth. I'm going to keep an extra eye on them to see if it does make a Rating: 5