Air pot container

[new gardener 1052]

Good evening all is anyone using a air pot container and are they any good?
I was thinking of buying one and giving it a go

Ng.

[ioan]

Good evening all is anyone using a air pot container and are they any good?
I was thinking of buying one and giving it a go

Ng.

Hi
I would also like to try this method when l get round to it, l know some of the dwarfe fruit tree suppliers
use them for restricting growth,
.kind regards
ioan

[veggiechicken]

Here's a thread about them http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ots_62127.html

[starloc]

The airpots are very good for citrus, root pruning pots give a much happier plant for any tree

Roots in a pot should never circle, if they do they will always circle ,

So when roots get to the edge of a pot they hit the wall, the mini funnels on the sides direct the roots out,, as they get to the hole in the end they die die to air contact, and then grow shoots fromover the roots behind, forming a multi branched root....and it all repeats itself
It means that inside the pot you have thousands more roots and less areas that water and nutrition is not being pulled from due to higher root density, giving much less chance of root rot, less expense on fertilisers and a plant only needs a smaller pot,

when you plant the pot into a new pot or the floor every root is pointing the right direction and fills the pot quickly again preventing root rot and planting shock is almost non existent due to no messing with the roots at all before planting

I do something similar on small cuttings, by lifting the root ball out of the pot every day and pinching any root end off that I can see,so every day I get more and more branching of the roots giving a very strong root system

They do really need watering, by lowering them into a bucket of water, but this is a better way of watering anyway as it helps prevent salt build up in pots, deep watering and then drying out is better in pots than `a bit here and there` watering is anyway

I dont care what way up I put the pots, as I lower them into a bucket, but I try to put holes at the bottom to increase air flow underneath

[Bonsai Si]

Question, are aquatic/pond baskets cheaper than air pots?

[Starling]

Root Pruners

I've used them reasonably extensively over the years, and have tried a few different brands. They do what they say they're going to do, but they do have some downsides. For example, soil mixes tend to dry out them, and soil-less mixes really tend to dry out in them. However, you don't have to worry about perching or overwatering with root pruning pots, which are the two biggest causes of plant death when growing in containers.

They are also expensive. However, a couple of years ago I managed to find a cheap source for them from a chinese vendor, and the quality is very good.

Most of my trees get planted in the ground, I use air pruning pots filled with a soil free mix of pearlite, coir, vermiculite, and peat moss for rearing small seedlings. The only mature (ish) tree I have in an air pruner right now is a green sapote.

[Greenleaves]

Early start for you Starling......maybe you had nightmares about the Australian cricket team?

[Starling]

Early start for you Starling......maybe you had nightmares about the Australian cricket team?

Yeeep, up at five. Got two big trenches to dig and horse poop to scoop. I'm procrastinating. It's 8 degrees here right now, which to me as a Queenslander, is bloody freezing.

If you're trying to get my goat, you're barking up the wrong tree. Any butchering of the green & golds by the poms in the ashes or any other series will be welcomed by me with open arms so long as Michael Clark is steering the ship! I can't stand him, and the worse he performs as captain, the more schadenfreude I feel.

Honestly I haven't been much into the cricket for a long time. Not the same as the Warne/ Haden days, it's become perniciously boring over the years.No characters in the game anymore. Sometimes I'll tune in to a 1 dayer, because at least the overs don't tend to look like this:

0
o
1
0
0
0

Scoreboard looks like computer code half the time.

Surely, I think, life is too short. There's not enough beer in the world to make that run rate interesting!

Give me a game of rugby league any day.

Go Cowboys!

starling

[Starling]

The airpots are very good for citrus, root pruning pots give a much happier plant for any tree

Roots in a pot should never circle, if they do they will always circle ,

So when roots get to the edge of a pot they hit the wall, the mini funnels on the sides direct the roots out,, as they get to the hole in the end they die die to air contact, and then grow shoots fromover the roots behind, forming a multi branched root....and it all repeats itself
It means that inside the pot you have thousands more roots and less areas that water and nutrition is not being pulled from due to higher root density, giving much less chance of root rot, less expense on fertilisers and a plant only needs a smaller pot,

when you plant the pot into a new pot or the floor every root is pointing the right direction and fills the pot quickly again preventing root rot and planting shock is almost non existent due to no messing with the roots at all before planting

I do something similar on small cuttings, by lifting the root ball out of the pot every day and pinching any root end off that I can see,so every day I get more and more branching of the roots giving a very strong root system

They do really need watering, by lowering them into a bucket of water, but this is a better way of watering anyway as it helps prevent salt build up in pots, deep watering and then drying out is better in pots than `a bit here and there` watering is anyway

I dont care what way up I put the pots, as I lower them into a bucket, but I try to put holes at the bottom to increase air flow underneath

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I visited your blog--that geometric dome you built is awesome! Do you have plans? I would love to try and have a go building one myself.