[wrath420]

As long as the roots have oxygen they can be completely underwater and not have any root rot it’s all about the amount of oxygen in the water you’re growing in no oxygen = root rot,

[jmystro]

Water temperature and O2 levels. High water temps and a lack of oxygen cause Pythium.

[Havaniceday]

This reminded me of an incredible story from the ’90s, my friends dad was an OG, he got to the point that he set up a floating garden inna creek with each plant in a large innertube, i dont know about details as to what was holding the soil in there, but i do know, that one year he got the grow going, then fucked of to Thaïland for two months and came back to harvest loads of bud.

RIP Yves Gélinas❤

[Droid77]

I had something like this set up for a grow .. used 5 gallon bucket inside if a child’s around the belly inner tube I believe they were pigs and unicorns …lol.. the pots fit in such a way that only about the bottom 3 inches sat in the water and it was like a sip bucket but using my back yard pond and all it’s fish water nutrients. It worked amazing……until it didn’t… I had some amazing plants that floated in their tubes and they were anchored to the shore with para line and 18″ lawn nails. They took off and grew super fast. This was in July when it was super hot and these plants thrived in the heat, I am guessing mainly because of unlimited water supply rich with nutes .. did I mention they thrived? ( Any one who has half a brain so about 10% more than me can see where this is going)…. Where was I? Oh ya …thriving .. as in amazing growth… The flowers came in like you wouldn’t believe and because they were afloat they moved around in the breeze so all sides got sun and they really put on weight…. Like a lot of weight…. Some would even say top heavy…. Well actually basic physics would say top heavy as one day they were incredible, and the next morning after a very very mild storm the three very healthy, thriving, top heavy girls decided to go head over bucket and take a drink. It was in week 6 of flower. I didn’t go out and check ( as I didn’t even feed them, they were legit fed by the pond, did I mention thriving?) until about 1 or 2 in the afternoon .. all I saw was 3 neon colored para chord anchors that were going out into the water… The plants had all tipped, and then I would imagine stayed on their sides enough time to gain a lot of water and weight and then go all the way over… They were all in the bottom of my pond. When I first saw it there were 2 inertubes on the grass (never found out about the third) and thought someone stole my plants. I was mad AF for about 15 minutes when I saw something red and white in the pond…. As in my firehouse subs bucket and a white bucket. Looking a little closer toward the further edge the black bucket could be seen as well. All 3 of them rein acted jacks role from the Titanic and went to the bottom of the murky waters. They had been there long enough that they were all dead. I didn’t know anything about extractions or any way to salvage so they were all completely wasted. I had never felt disappointed like that over plants before in my life. I was truly heart broken that day.

A few days later there was a small fish laying on the shore of the pond, a little sun fish, maybe 4-5 inches long. We joked about it being too high and needing to check out what was “above the water man” and then later on whether or not the fish had made a fish version of refer madness to scare all the fish in “school” straight…..lmao 🤣

[marizema]

Nice! It’s crazy the shit we did back then. Wouldn’t change it for the world. It was fun af! I did end up with a little ptsd from the helicopters and all but thankfully that’s gone now lol.

[Havaniceday]

You realy got me laughing there, i think when Yves did it the water was very low for most of the summer, anyway, i did not see the setup, but i like to romantisize a little with that one, maybe he had stakes going down in the mud… anyways, that concept is very old, the city of Teotihacan thrived on floating gardens in a lake that probably got killed by the shiddiz itself …and some large river in Asia has floating islands made of reeds that are the growing substrate at the same time, or maybe that was south america… amazing human tricks.

[marizema]

We talked about doing that but tying them to the bay and cypress trees was more camouflaged for the eye in the sky. Lol