Air in aeroponics...

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Hi.

Doing some aeroponics for culinary herbs indoors, and found in publications there is mention of need for oxygen to flow around the roots together with the fertilizing nutrients on fine mist.

Seems to me that all 'experts' in aeroponics focus in root oxygenation from air flow and simply ignore/forget the nitrogen action.

 

----> Isn't nitrogen to the roots more important than the oxygen for the plant growth success ?

 

That is what fertilization is all about... I think.

 

 

[John Cuthber]

Very few plants can use nitrogen gas as a nitrogen source for growth.

[Externet]

Thanks, John.

That explains it.

Another typical, typical distortion by the nasty habit of naming things in short form.

The 'nitrogen' in fertilizers is then, not nitrogen, but ammonium nitrate. Got it.