Growing Up-Side-Down.. What do you think?

[Elephunk]

I'm just playing with ideas really, but what if you tried growing up-side-down? I've seen those tomato systems that have a soil box up top with the light on the bottom and the plant grows downward. I wonder how cannabis would do using this same method. I don't think you'd have to worry about snapping branches. Maybe the nutrients would have an easier time flowing to the bud sites too?

I dunno, like I said I was just playing with ideas on different grow techniques. I just think this might be cool to experiment with just to see.


Also, for soil growers... Has anyone thought of putting an air stone in their pots to give the roots more oxygen? Or maybe coil some air tubing with a bunch of holes around the inside of the pot/bucket. That way the soil in the pot always has lots of oxygen.

What do you think IC?

 

[GMT]

A really silly idea. Followed by one that is even sillier.
try them both and do a thread for us.

 

[Guest]

Growing upside down would be too mutch work but i really like the airstone idea.

 

[rastagrass]

wow elephunk you have way too much time and pot on your hands!

 

[FRANKENBLUNT420]

Growing upside down would be too mutch work but i really like the airstone idea.

trust me, just use alotta perilite. thats an unecessary power draw, and thats all its gonna be.

-growing upside down? nah, not for the cannabis plant, but hey i agree. do a thread and let us know whats up. . . . .or down

 

[NorCal]

growing upside down?

 

[Elephunk]

whoa, someone brought this thread back.

I tried searching on another forum where I had originally seen a grow done upside down. Just 1 plant and a 400w HPS. Couldn't find it unfortunately, but it was a pretty cool grow.

Maybe one of these days I'll build something so I can play around with this idea just to have some fun. I love growing weed and I wouldn't mind experimenting with different grow styles. Everyone always seems so quick to say "no, that won't work."
Until you've tried, how can you know? I'm all about having your serious grow and getting that crop in. But I still want to enjoy my hobby and try to be a little creative.

edit:
Norcal- How is that thing going for you? First time using one of those(forget what it's called) or have you used it previously? I've been curious to see how well those babies produce.

 

[floppyfundanglr]

I think anyone knockin someones stoner ideas is a ****in asshole. Most people here forget there stoner moments and these ideas arent that bad. Atleast no on likes GMT anyways seems to get trouble where ever he goes. I think it would be pretty sick to have a hanging pot garden.

peace

 

[Haps]

THe air tubing pumped into the soil did not yield observable resullts when I tried it using a pair of clones three years ago. There was no increase in growth or health in the clone getting the extra air. Some other implimentation might do better, but I wrote it off as a waste of my time after the experiment.
H

 

[Liam]

Bloody hell people.

It's been done a million freaking times, long story short, its not worth the effort.

Case closed.

 

[GMT]

Atleast no on likes GMT anyways seems to get trouble where ever he goes. peace

Lol, examples?

To me, turning a pot of dirt upsidedown is asking for the dirt to fall out. To me putting air pressure into soil is asking for a bubling Geza (sp) in the grow room. To me putting a bubling geza in the grow room and turning it upside down is asking for a mess in the grow room. Just seemed a silly idea.

 

[Poodo]

I have grown bannana pepper upsidedown in a five gallon bucket. It made the peppers really solid. I don't know how you would protect your lights from the water. i cut a small hole in the bottom of the bucket and slid the plant in when it was small and made room for the stem to expand.You can hang the bucket from the handle.

 

[canpow]

Just one thing, the air stone is used to put oxygene in the water!! The movement that is cause at the surface make the oxygen penetrate de water! Thats why you put an air stone in the water.... Without water you **** up your motor and just do circulation of air.

Many years of fish tanks...

Just for common knowledge

Cheers

 

[MostHigh]

Growing MJ upside is the bomb...too much work? Hellz...it was one of the easier to manage grows I've done here.
Frig'n naysayers are so dopey. I gather, had they been standing there decades ago when indoor agriculture was first tossed around, no doubt they'd have rained negative vibes all over the peeps that had a vision and went about seeing it happen.
Use PVC tubing, in the 4''-6'' range. Mine were 36'' long. No matter the media (hydro aside), once the roots are established, there is none to very little loss of media, as in, no spillage. Watering is as easy as pouring right on down the upended bottom, which is now the top of the container....its like bottom feeding from the top eh....
Anyway...it most certainly can be done, saves tons of space...and due to the plant being LST'd when it flips itself and begins growing on a 180 bend...its a healthy plant with much more room to grow when it gets flipped.

I so wish I had kept those pics.

 

[MostHigh]

Here's a horizontal version...

 

[GMT]

This is a site dedicated to growing. It is full of pictures of grows. Not one is upside down, don't you guys think that there is a reason for that?

 

[MostHigh]

This place isn't all that high on breaking new ground.

 

[tenfeetofganja]

alot of negativity... one thing i have learned is that the cannabis plant can take instrumental stress and still perform amazingly (also depenedant on strains)

after watching these collesium omega growns that utilize a sog drip system while rotating plants has risen thought...

i have been working on a vertical drip system from pvc that encourages downward growth while utilizing the wall space, creating more room for plants to thrive... i will be using 2x600s with air cooled tube and dropping them right down the middle...

theres all sorts of signs telling me it wont work,,, but what else am i to do with my time, shoot jacks?

if notthing else ill ruin 40 plants and kill a good quarter year.. but who knows. we may be stepping into a whole field that has been yet to be utilizied because most people in this business are under the terms "if it works, dont change it"

however i always look at something and say "it may work, but how can it work...better "

if it were not for individuals who thought beyond their time, we would still be molesting plants with our hands and peeling off all the cannabis resin/skin particles and rolling it into lumps of "tainted" hash..

and we would probably still be smoking out of hollowed out rocks...

once i get a camera (last one ripped off in a robbery, thank you inter-city living ) i will be doing a full detailed thread, unless the idea doesnt work and im wasting my time,.,,

irie meditatations. keep progression strong.
[=712 crew=]
og mikey randolff

 

[yeknomssa]

i remember back when that omega setup first came out. all the articles i read about it said that the time the plants spent sideways and upside down helped strengthen the main stem of the plant (plus the way the omega system works, all your plants get equal light and grow evenly).

that being said, i don't think that it'd be that hard to grow 100% upside down. the key word in my mind is aeroponics. no soil to worry about, no large amounts of water upside down to deal with.

however, in the end, i don't think that there have been many grows done this way.
i call for a test!!

 

[herbie5000]

i don't know if i understand your idea but i heard that mj can't photosynthesize properly through the bottom side of the leaf.