pure oxygen pumped to roots??? any good?

I have an endless supply of medical o2 and i made a tube to go from the regulator and i cut a bunch of holes in it. would it be anygood for the plants if i put the tube down into the dirt dirrectly into the rootball and pumped 100% oxygen directly into the dirt? or would it just hurt my plants?

jordisgarden said:

I have an endless supply of medical o2 and i made a tube to go from the regulator and i cut a bunch of holes in it. would it be anygood for the plants if i put the tube down into the dirt dirrectly into the rootball and pumped 100% oxygen directly into the dirt? or would it just hurt my plants?

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Maybe not a bad idea to try in a DWC set up, but I don't really see it going over well in soil. But hey, never know until you try, right?

You sure wouldent think it would hurt it and I believe it would thrive because roots need o2 to grow...but i wouldent take my word for it, it would be an awesome experiment though im curious of what the results would be. My guess is that i does very well.

thaats what i was thinking is that the way the plant recieves o2 is through the roots right? so you put stuff like perlite and vermaculite and all that in soil to keep it airy, and you also airate your lawn right? so maybe i should try it

im gonna do it to one of my plants, i just had 52 sprout within the past 3 days so its no biggie if i kill one. anyone ever grown, white ice, g13xhaze, violator kush, skunkx haze? i bough em all femenized. barneys rules they had them to me in 4 days and they all sprouted in a 2 or 3 day period.

jordisgarden said:

thaats what i was thinking is that the way the plant recieves o2 is through the roots right? so you put stuff like perlite and vermaculite and all that in soil to keep it airy, and you also airate your lawn right? so maybe i should try it

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Isn't there such a thing as too much oxygen though? I thought the ideal was about 30% aeration in your soil, so maybe running a line into the soil will just dry it out, and dry out the roots with it. I don't know, I'm just playing devils advocate here. But hey, if you have the extra plant, why not try it right?

yeah. im sure id need a drip system to make sure the plants roots stayed wet . i made a homeade hydro bubble type grow where i took a square styrophome container about 1 by 1 by 1 and i cut a hole in the cover and made the cover just large enough to float on the water inside the container. i put just the plants roots no dirt into perlite and set it in the water. the styrofoam insert floated the plant so just the bottom holes touched the water. i then pumped strait o2 into the water andd the oxygenated bubbles fed the plants roots. it had really healthy white wgite roots growing into the bubbling water but i got scared and trans planted it to dirt again. it stopped growing ever since. but when i first put it in the water, oh man it grew 2 times as fast as dirt. at the time i didnt realize i would need to add ferts to the water otherwise the plant would have gotten no food. so the plant would have died anyway. now 2 months later its still the same size. maybe 2 inches taller.
here it is.
but now i have fox farm stuff to feed it so i may try it again
this time im gonna add ferts to the water.