Looking to catagorize my grow setup looking for help.

Hello,
I have this weird grow setup and i don't know if there is a name for it or not. I am using 3 gallon pots. Filled with
soil (the one with the fish on it, most popular one made by happy frog i believe). 400 watt HPS/MH bulb to light up the plants. This is indoor by the way. I currently have 3 plants in there now they are on a 2 x 2 propagation tray. I fill the water in the propagation tray to about 3 inches above the bottom of the pots. And I keep the water oxygenated with air stones and a commercial air pump. My friend says i should patent it. I'm not sure how you would catagorize the way i am growing them. Thanks for reading this and possibly posting.

How are the plants looking dude?

Interesting sort of soil / DWC / flood n not drain crossover eh???



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Just sounds like you are using the wrong medium for a DWC setup... 3 inches above bottom of the pots? Sound like potential root rot... The water is oxygenated but the soil will hold that water... Sounds like a problem waiting to happen

So you have soil in pots in a tray with water in it? I don't get why you think this is a special way of doing anything? You're just watering from the bottom rather than the top.

Definitely patent it.... Lol

There's water permanently in the tray being aerated though . . .

I wonder how they are looking?? Be interested to see if there was enough dissolved O2 in the water to keep them alive whilst drowning . . . .

WeedFreak78 said:

So you have soil in pots in a tray with water in it? I don't get why you think this is a special way of doing anything? You're just watering from the bottom rather than the top.

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Semper.Fi said:

There's water permanently in the tray being aerated though . . .

I wonder how they are looking?? Be interested to see if there was enough dissolved O2 in the water to keep them alive whilst drowning . . . .




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What the OP is doing nothing new. The lower roots in a root ball can sit submerged in water without issue, even non-aerated water. As long as the top 1/4-1/3 can dry out, it'll get all the O2 it needs. I have outdoor plants in trays that i keep filled with water and they get filled when it rains and stay full for days after..no air, they are fine. I'm not saying don't do it, just it's nothing special.

Can't argue with that bro . . . . good info . . . .

WeedFreak78 said:

What the OP is doing nothing new. The lower roots in a root ball can sit submerged in water without issue, even non-aerated water. As long as the top 1/4-1/3 can dry out, it'll get all the O2 it needs. I have outdoor plants in trays that i keep filled with water and they get filled when it rains and stay full for days after..no air, they are fine. I'm not saying don't do it, just it's nothing special.

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Nature does this naturally in some specific areas. Nature has grown plants in every way imaginable. The best I've found though is just simple good old fashion ways with modern structures/vibrations and sequences that are now rare in nature or non existent.

Too late .. I already patented it . Snooze you lose