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Since talking with Sherry about these and finding that many of you winter your brug's in them, I gotta know exactly what they are.
Are they the "Bubbling buckets" with a soiless growing medium and an air tube that bubbles up the nutrient via a venturi style air/nute tube? Can anyone show me a link or a schematic of 1? I may already have 1 or atleast the makings of 1. What is the nutrient used or is it merely water? Is it just for cuttings or entire plants?
I'm going to take a bunch of brug cuttings asap and try rooting them in a very simple and effective aeroponic like containor. All it is is a rubbermade containor filled about 1/2 way full of water with a long airstone or wand in the water. Connect the airstone to a aquarium air pump and it creates a mist when the bubbles break the surface of the water. Take the lid of the containor and drill several holes in it and put your cuttings in the holes with the plants above the water level. When everything is right, you can pull off the lid and see the cuttings have been "misted" via the bubbles. It works like the aerocloner's that use mini misters or sprinkler's inside that do the same thing the bubbles do in this system. It keeps the oxygen level very high and doesn't waterlog the cuttings, you must keep the water temp. around 75F. too BTW.
I did this a couple years ago w/ a huge coleus and some other plants and had roots hanging down in 2 weeks. I had hairs and bumps in less than 1 week on some of the cuts.
I quit doing it that way since I began planning ahead more and used Oasis cubes or soil so trnsplanting them into pots was much easier. It is an very effective system and can be modified in endless ways with excellent results. I think I may try to do some Brugs this way if I have room this week. I'm not sure if my wife will go for it as we are so out of room already.
Anyhow, would you folks please clue me in on your bubbler's? I gotta know now;)
Thanks, JD
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