Is beeswax safe to use as sealant for wood

Mooncat

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So I'm planning on making an aeroponics system out of wood and was planning on using beeswax to seal the containers. Would there be any concern about the beeswax? Also, the recipes I'm looking at call for olive oil or mineral oil. Would that be of concern as well? Thanks in advanced.
 
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Mooncat

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Yes I'm thinking the wax will clog the pipes. I just hate plastic and I heard that it has a significant impact on the plants. It's not terribly bad but it does affect it to the point where I got a drinking safe polyurethane garden hose and I hate plastic.
 
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hotrodharley

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My best rooting for cuttings this year? Take the cutting, prepare as usual, dip in Clonex and then In Mykos or Great White. Straight into moistened vermiculite.

Ran side by side with an aerocloner, a hydrocloner, glasses of plain water and the vermiculite method. Screw a cloner anymore .

Moisten the vermiculite if it starts to get lighter in weight with a feeding od micros , bloom and cal mag. Very very weak.

Vermiculite rinses off easily for putting them into hydro or soil.
 
Kingrow1

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Mooncat said:
Yes I'm thinking the wax will clog the pipes. I just hate plastic and I heard that it has a significant impact on the plants. It's not terribly bad but it does affect it to the point where I got a drinking safe polyurethane garden hose and I hate plastic.
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Most plastic is safe for hydro, maybe there are wooden hydro units but mainly i think not a great idea all round.
 
xtsho

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hotrodharley said:
My best rooting for cuttings this year? Take the cutting, prepare as usual, dip in Clonex and then In Mykos or Great White. Straight into moistened vermiculite.

Ran side by side with an aerocloner, a hydrocloner, glasses of plain water and the vermiculite method. Screw a cloner anymore .

Moisten the vermiculite if it starts to get lighter in weight with a feeding od micros , bloom and cal mag. Very very weak.

Vermiculite rinses off easily for putting them into hydro or soil.
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I've cloned in straight perlite. Never thought of vermiculite but probably because I didn't have any. I agree with you regarding cloners. Totally unnecessary and an unneeded hassle. Perlite, vermiculite, coco, and soil work just fine.

To the OP, I would stick with plastic for your project. No need to over complicate things. Get an off the shelf container/tote from Home Depot and call it good. Just my two cents.
 
Mooncat

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hotrodharley said:
My best rooting for cuttings this year? Take the cutting, prepare as usual, dip in Clonex and then In Mykos or Great White. Straight into moistened vermiculite.

Ran side by side with an aerocloner, a hydrocloner, glasses of plain water and the vermiculite method. Screw a cloner anymore .

Moisten the vermiculite if it starts to get lighter in weight with a feeding od micros , bloom and cal mag. Very very weak.

Vermiculite rinses off easily for putting them into hydro or soil.
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Thanks a lot for the help. I'm just learning about cloning so I don't know much at all. What's the advantage over planting a new seed?
 
Roger A. Shrubber

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there is nothing that will seal wood good enough for it to be in constant contact with water, that you would want to expose your plants to.
beeswax is a decent sealant, but not for constant contact. wood is just not a good design.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

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Mooncat said:
Thanks a lot for the help. I'm just learning about cloning so I don't know much at all. What's the advantage over planting a new seed?
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well, for starters, you don't have to pay for a clone, or take the chance that the gov will get lucky and snag them out of the mail.
then, they'll be consistent, they'll all be happy in the same conditions, with the same feed, and have a nice even canopy with little training.
you also know pretty closely how long they're going to take to get done, after a couple of runs. you can tune your room to those plants, give them more humidity or lower temps if needed, and not worry about it being bad for another strain growing right next to it
 
hotrodharley

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
well, for starters, you don't have to pay for a clone, or take the chance that the gov will get lucky and snag them out of the mail.
then, they'll be consistent, they'll all be happy in the same conditions, with the same feed, and have a nice even canopy with little training.
you also know pretty closely how long they're going to take to get done, after a couple of runs. you can tune your room to those plants, give them more humidity or lower temps if needed, and not worry about it being bad for another strain growing right next to it
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Clones rock if you have a good pheno. Root the cuttings, veg them and flower predictably. Same harvest time.

When I buy seeds I buy regulars and pop half. Out of that half at least one should be a good female. Once sex proven clone the hell out of her. Then you get any number of plants out of just a few seeds.
 
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