Aerasponics Plant Health

For over 4,000 years Plant Container Technology has not changed!

THE BIGGEST PROBLEM with the typical plant container is oxygenation. The basic idea of the container is to hold soil and water…unfortunately that same design keeps oxygen out. In the field of horticulture, it is well known that roots of all plant species need oxygen for growth, health, and good production. In nature, the essential supply of oxygen comes mainly and freely from soil air. However, in the case of container plants, conditions for oxygenation of root systems are less than ideal.

Plant containers, predominantly of the same functional and simple “crock” design (quadric cylinder), have been used for plant cultivation for over 4,000 years. Because the “crock” design is easy to fabricate, this straightforward model has gone unchanged for centuries. Unfortunately, the idea of confining a static volume of soil sets up a poor condition for aeration, especially in the interior core of the container. Amongst other vessel limitations, aeration is reduced as a direct effect of soil depth predicting that conditions decline as the container size is increased.

Additionally, the cultivated mineral soils used for planting soon become compacted creating large mechanical impedance and poor aeration that inhibit the vitality of roots leading to impaired growth, reduced plant health, and in the case of food producing species, reduced yields.

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