Smart pots or air pots?

[Lil Czr]

I've been using milk crates lined with nylon screen for years. Works fantastic and lasts forever. Easy to clean and disinfect between grows. I guess you'd call them air pots.

 

[twentyeight.threefive]

I've been using milk crates lined with nylon screen for years. Works fantastic and lasts forever. Easy to clean and disinfect between grows. I guess you'd call them air pots.

No I definitely wouldn't call that an Air-Pot.

 

[Millo]

The main difference between original air pots and the knockoffs is that the first couple of rows in the original do not have holes in them to allow watering without it coming out the sides.

You're right. That's awesome if you don't plan on doing LST. Otherwise, flip them over and use those holes to tie the branches

 

[Millo]

I also usually run 3g. I bought the yellow 2.2g Air-Pot. They say they are the equivalent of a 3 gallon pot. Between the massive root system they created and the slightly smaller size I wish I had the 3.6g ones.

From my last run with the 2.2g Air-Pot.

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Man I wish my roots looked so sexy

 

[MickFoster]

You're right. That's awesome if you don't plan on doing LST. Otherwise, flip them over and use those holes to tie the branches

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[Millo]

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Very smart, I'll steal it

 

[myke]

I've been using milk crates lined with nylon screen for years. Works fantastic and lasts forever. Easy to clean and disinfect between grows. I guess you'd call them air pots.

Ha ,funny back in the day milk crates and garbage bags did the trick.Too suspicious buying pots in the middle of winter.

 

[Star Dog]

I've got copy air pots with the top holes blank, the main difference i see between original and copies is the hole arrangement starting of small and getting bigger lower down, on my decent copies the holes are the same size top to bottom with the top two rows blank.

I've a 3rd lot i got last year for a project and they're crap, the holes are too small and they have a flattened/rounded end which prevents air pruning and tends to turn the roots back into the pot, if you compare the two it's self explanatory.

The copies in that link are very poor by comparison to the regular ones.