pots + beds = ?

[softyellowlight]

Has anyone done a TLO perpetual grow where pots (in my case, air pots are what I have lying around and seem pretty nice) are used to separate and move plants during vegetation and sexing -- and then sunk into the soil so the roots can grow into for the duration of flowering?

It seems like a neat thing I could try simply by mixing the perlite-filled humidity tray I have into a soil instead of simply being an inert base. Then grow and amend both, planting a cover crop of clover in the shallow bed, moving the plants around and watering by hand to start off and to allow all of the clover to come up. Once the clover is up, it should keep the roots from growing down from the air pots into the soil. Then, once I want to sink the pots, I till the clover in that area and sink the pot all the way down and leave it there until harvest is done.

But is it intelligent? Will the plants behave strangely because the top of their root system is in a pot and the bottom in a shared bed? Is it silly to try to hybridize pots and beds? For reference, my current garden uses compost, organic amendments, and sometimes fertilizer salts. I want to move to no-till and bokashi to feed, I think.

Cheers!

 

[heady blunts]

i dont' really understand the part with the perlite.

but i can tell you that if you take an airpot and put it on a bed of nice soil the roots will grow out of the bottom of the container into the ground.

you can do this with regular nursury pots too by cutting off the bottom.

just make sure there is good soil to soil contact from the bottom of the pot to the ground. you don't even have to really sink it.

 

[softyellowlight]

If you look at my thread, you can see I have a humidity tray full of perlite that I water if I ever want to bump the humidity. I'd simply be leaving the perlite there and mixing compost etc. into it to turn it into a shallow bed. Thanks for the advice!

 

[h.h.]

Prepare your holes and insert a plastic pot. Plant your clover .Do a chop and drop.Throw in some worms, then pull the pots out a couple days before planting. Make sure there's no stink, then insert cut off pots.
Water individually for a couple days gradually switching over to alternating between pot and bed.

 

[softyellowlight]

How would you set up Blumats in a garden like that? Watering twice a day by hand was too much ball and chain for me.