Aeroponics - Plant growing from the future :)
By hellcord
@hellcord (673)
Romania
April 22, 2009 5:02am CST
Recently, after starting to grow some plants for the first time in my life, I did a bunch of searches on the Internet, about how it is done. Being a man and not wanting to invest 20 years in learning plant care, I turned to a guy's favourite solution to life's problems:
DIY agriculture systems :D
And that's how I came across: Aeroponics.
Link here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroponics
Plants without earth! Faster than Hydroponics, MUCH faster than growing in soil, cheaper, easier, less water, less nutrients, less everything, and NO need for insecticides, herbicides and other nasty chemicals! Perfect for guys, perfect to fina a common hobby with the wife / girlfriend / mother and other gardeners and plant lovers in your life :D
The most basic DIY system starts from 25 bucks, and all you need is an aeroponics Fogger, like this one
http://www.futuregarden.com/cgi-bin/shop/70-1048.html
Have you tried it yet ? Do you know people who grow like this ? Do you lady growers think this is a good project to start with your man-of-the-house ?
Let's bring more plants into our life, become more self sufficient and grow our own stuff, with Aeroponics 
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@zigzagbuddha (4601)
• United States
23 Apr 09
Well, if you live in an apartment, without any garden plot to call your own, or if you are traveling in a space ship to some other galaxy, then all that kind of stuff is useful.
But when you've got acres of fertile earth at your disposal, with unlimited fresh air and the sun's rays overhead, it doesn't seem all that important. However, I am one of those 'survivalists', so if I ever ended up having to live underground while the planet cleansed and rebalanced itself, this would be useful to know, hehehe.
The most important thing to physical life is air. Next in importance is water. Probably light and love fits in there somewhere. I'm not certain about any thing else.
I have a HUGE elephant-eared philodendron, interplanted with heart-leafed philodendron sitting beside my desk. It is planted in nutrient dense soil that I made my self... I don't know if I would be too interested in giving all that up!
@hellcord (673)
• Romania
23 Apr 09
aaah, but look here
http://www.thegrowspot.com/know/f2/living-art-what-you-can-do-54232.html
if you grow in aeroponics, you can do fantastic things to the r00ts of yo beloved plant :D
like, you can model them into a shape, with no ill effects to the plant, or if you grow ginseng, you can harvest just one of several roots of a single plant, without killing it, which is impossible and unheard of in soil.
or you can grow tiny condiments and salads and when you take them out for consumption, they're already sterile, clean and healthy, no bugs no nothing, just good wholesome f00d waiting for ya :D
but i can see how the high tech ways of today and tomorrow are missing some of the slow growing experience and the bonding of old-school soil growing. as i said, it's a quicker method, probably more appealing for men, urban dwellers, DIY enthusiasts, techie geeks and so on, not old school veteran gardeners :D
But very good to know if, as you said, the fckups of our governments and corporations one day forces us underground :)
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@zigzagbuddha (4601)
• United States
24 Apr 09
Well, there is something a bit off-putting when I find a fat worm in my salad bowl, hahahaha! But 'high tech' does not necessarily make something better. Granted, finding a better way is infinitely rewarding, but I can not imagine life without the immense satisfaction of recycling my kitchen scraps and yard clippings into rich loamy soil. I don't even care if some of it gets under my fingernails. I love this planet and everything about it!
Great website by the way! I especially loved the 'two legged' tree that creats an arch over the pathway, the 'teardrop tree' that looks so much like a candelabra, and the 'living bench' tree!
