Aeroponics The Mystery Mist?

Aeroponics is the misting of plant roots and was developed in the last century.

It has been a proven and refined method used by scientists around the world, including our very own NASA. Successful research has and is being conducted around the globe. With the advanced studies of Aeroponics, plants get their required daily nutrients avoiding any contact with soil or even pests. Using an aeroponics system will make your plants grow up to 60% faster.

Thats why the science of Aeroponics will be the method of supplying scientists in space stations with fresh food. Also being considered for very large scale farming operations in areas of weak or malnourished soil areas. As the population increases, the concern for our water and soil supplies will continue to grow. The opportunity to grow fresh vegetables outside of the soil, indoors and outdoors, is becoming not only an advantage, but a fun necessity.

We have learned much about this method of growing, all the benefits of Aeroponics are still being untapped. Some believe that Aeroponics will soon be the most commonly used growing technique.  

Cloning with Aeroponics
Many plants which previously were considered very difficult, or next to impossible, to propagate from cuttings can now be

cloned simply from a single stem cutting. Aeroponics has blown past hydroponics as means for sterile propagation of many

plant species. Nothing compares to aeroponics, any grower could now clone plants.

Plants could be cloned and grown by thousands. Cloning became easier because the aeroponic apparatus helps with faster and

cleaner root development through a very nutrient rich, highly oxygenated, and moist environment which roots love.

So you may ask what happens during cloning? Well regardless if it’s done through nature or in a hydroponics garden, any portion

of a plant that has a stem and a few leaves is detached from the main plant. In nature this happens by wind, diseases and even

pests. In a hydroponic garden the plant is cut manually by you the gardener. You can do this to develop many new plants with the

same genetics as the “mother plant”. The stem or clone is an important growth point in a plant and can be around 5-8 inches in length.

A key thing to remember is that even if you provide the cloned plant with the perfect conditions inside your hydroponic system, it might

still not survive. Sometimes clones simply don’t make it into standalone plants and that’s why you will need to have larger amounts of

cuttings to produce results.