can you grow in SAND??

[le' rukkus]

so yesterday i was snowboarding n met this chill dude n long story short he grows n makes butters etc. but he was tellin me that he doesnt all his plants in a Sand medium, beach sand store bought whatever. he didnt seem like a liar but then again who can really tell? hahah anyways i jus thought that idea was crazy but could be dope if true, anyone know about growin in sand?

 

[SickSadLittleWorld]

The aeration is very poor when wet, I don't think the roots would receive enough oxygen. Perlite is close enough to sand...you can grow in that.

 

[le' rukkus]

ya thats what i thought, cus i was like "ohh ya you mean perlite?" but he said "nah , sometimes I go to longbeach n dig up some sand".i duno.. probably met a fibber? lol.

 

[allovher]

weird thing to lie about

 

[Coolvibes]

they grow most of the uks potatoes in egypt in the sand i no its not weed but as spuds have a complex root structure i should imagine its possible

 

[le' rukkus]

weird thing to lie about

my thoughts exactly, cus he knew his shit pretty well, maybe i gota look into this more...

 

[greensister]

Hmm. Yea. Hes full of shit. If it were true, then perlite would be sand.

 

[veggiegardener]

If he is using nutrient solutions at every watering, I can see how it could work.

Sand is a neutral medium that provides little or no nutrients.

He must add everything his plants need.

It's basically a hydroponic system.

Sand drains easily. Really TOO easily unless he is recovering the nutrient rich fluids. It does compact, but in my experience it doesn't restrict drainage.

 

[KaleoXxX]

i read something a while back about sand box hydroponics or something like that

id say hes legit

 

[simpsonsampson420]

to use sand you would have to use some sort of v-drip system or something like that...

in which case the water/nute solution used to feed with would have ample dissolved oxygen in it to allow the roots to grow....

so yea... sand would work...

its not ideal as it is heavier when completely soaked... but is a drip system where there would be time for it to dry out do to absorbtion by the roots and its not completely saturated at all the time it would work just fine...

 

[cannatari]

DuPont was able to prove that you can grow a garden in the desert, they said all you need is water. Growing in sand will work but I fail to see any big advantage to doing so. Maybe it helps to keep the plant from falling over as it would anchor itself pretty well in sand but what a mess! Dunno.

 

[mygirls]

to use sand you would have to use some sort of v-drip system or something like that...

in which case the water/nute solution used to feed with would have ample dissolved oxygen in it to allow the roots to grow....

so yea... sand would work...

its not ideal as it is heavier when completely soaked... but is a drip system where there would be time for it to dry out do to absorbtion by the roots and its not completely saturated at all the time it would work just fine...

very true you need something in the pot to hold the hutes in. it all going to run out fast and dry out very fast. you would have to hit them quit a bit with sum heavy nutes i wouldtend to think. but now iif you do a layer of soil sand soil sand. that wouldwork out great also.thisis howmy back yard is sanddirt sand dirt. grow some bigass plants.

 

[mygirls]

DuPont was able to prove that you can grow a garden in the desert, they said all you need is water. Growing in sand will work but I fail to see any big advantage to doing so. Maybe it helps to keep the plant from falling over as it would anchor itself pretty well in sand but what a mess! Dunno.

lots and lots of water. and a few times a day watering. marijuana is just a weed and can actully grow anywhere.

 

[le' rukkus]

ya iasked him about nutes n he said he uses alot for his sand setup, mentioned somethin about flooding the roots on a specific schedule.

i thought there would be too many salts in the sand but from this thread it seems possible to grow in, maybe not necessary but jus a way of doin things.

got his number cus he seemed like a homie as well have hydro hookups.. if i see his setup ill post some pics..

 

[mygirls]

ya iasked him about nutes n he said he uses alot for his sand setup, mentioned somethin about flooding the roots on a specific schedule.

i thought there would be too many salts in the sand but from this thread it seems possible to grow in, maybe not necessary but jus a way of doin things.

got his number cus he seemed like a homie as well have hydro hookups.. if i see his setup ill post some pics..

with the kind of drainage he was getting there was no chance of salt build up, nowif it waz in soil and he did that chances are a whole hell of a lot greater.

 

[le' rukkus]

sweeeet. thanks
i mite have to try out this whole sand thing myself..

 

[mygirls]

sweeeet. thanks
i mite have to try out this whole sand thing myself..

i remember when i was a teen ager i used to through my seeds in the corner of out driveway. it was all gravel in the corner. one day i got out of the truck and walked around the front ofitjust to walk into about a 3 1/2 foot plant. never new it was there so it never gotwater, ya it was a skimpy looking plant but itstill grew like a weed without water.

 

[oakgrowth1]

Sand is technically a size not a type.
For example sand could be wood, rock, metal, plastic or anything really of a particular size.

 

[Coolvibes]

beat yo too it sorry back at work but i used none lime sand filled a propergater with a inch of water then my 2inch pots with clay balls unti they were same height as water then dropped into water so the clay balls had 10 mil of water over them then i filled with sand planted a clone with good root structure into the sand the top part of the sand is dryish so for a week now or so now roots are out of controled i just watered with half strenth food trouble is water needs pumping round or changing so as i only have 6 out of 100 clones survive i planted into 5 l pot and put on 24/0 only thing my work hours prevent me opening hatch to see how it is o well sorry yes will work and can see why the soils of afganistan desert crops do so well
take care everyone will update grow diary when have time

kind regards
coolvibes

 

[salt123]

Did anyone try this? My friend uses this system https://www.facebook.com/ECSPlanters and she swears by it. Says that sand is the way to go and the roots are actually much better. I was wondering what your sand results were.