Air Pots.... Anyone seen any yet..??

Not heard of them before Marley.

It looks a very interesting idea, but I'm thinking its more aimed at commercial growers.

I'm just wondering if I could ever keep up with the watering on summer days, fine perhaps if you have lots of pots close together and an irrigation system.

But I dont think most of us garden like that.

Wouldn't mind giving them a try though.

 

Sounds good to me,I have seen pictures of plants in them,but didn't realise the science behind them which seems perfectly feasible.
Can I have mine in terracota colour please lol.

 

I looked at their retail section, and after following many different links, I eventually found some prices. They seem quite expensive to me. Perhaps they are really good, but one of the selling points is "to reduce losses", I wonder how many fewer losses you'd have to have before the product paid for its self.

 

I thought I had come across something like this before
http://www.proptek.com/pages/forestry/trays/index.php?ref=1GAL

I,m not sure either products are suitable for long-term. We already practise root-pruning when we re-pot our shrubs and cut back the roots.

What it will produce is better shrubs in the retailers.

It appears to me that maybe the pots used for water plants might provide some of the same benefits.

Agree about the irrigation concerns

 

Very interesting Marley. But like the others I am not quite sure where it fits in. I bet its difficult getting the plants out of those pots when you want to pot up.

However it does concentrate the mind on what the roots are actually doing in a pot. So often they just wind round in circles.

 

Is the pot only a single journey pot?

i.e. not re-usable because you might have to destroy the pot to get the plant out?

I've seen those pots somewhere this year but for the life of me can't remember where.

 

Ooops! Small attention span! :dh:

I only watched the first video. And two sentences passed through my mind. "Hey! I've seen those somewhere before". and, "They seem like a good idea."

Prices are not too bad for a re-usable product. (I presume you could use plastic cable ties instead of that gun thingymagimmy) £32 for 25 1 litre pots and £55 for 25 5 litre pots.

Anything would be better than roots twirling around and around in conventional pots and resisting with all their might your attempts to get them to untwirl. :lollol: :lollol:

 

I'm not convinced. I think the roots would still go round and round, because if they won't come through the side holes or die off where do the ofshoots go. Not only that but the holes will become closed with all the dead ends of roots, then what?

It's what you beleave in yourself that matters.

Iv'e had trouble with Jiffy 7's with the net stopping roots from coming through.

 

Yes they are selling them on Dobbies website - I have not seen them our local garden centre yet

http://www.dobbies.co.uk/acatalog/air-pot-tender-crop-14l-pot.html

£23 for 3