Do this all in a tray you can collect the stuff that falls out of the pot when packing it.
Make your mix, and wet it enough so it can pack into a ball in your hand but still crumbles.
Dump this in loosely and pack in DOWN and then RAKE some UP THE SIDES. REPEAT.
This way you get a solid mass in the middle, and the walls fill with media and you don’t end up with air pockets everywhere.
I’ve never packed an air-pot without spillout but it’s never a problem (use a tray!)
I hear this is also a great thing to do; but I’ve never had a problem with either loosing media out the sides after potting OR getting insects… even though I know my aquarium gets flies every month they don’t show up in my air-pots.
When i do find flying pests I toss this onto my soil and let it get biblical:
Now another thing I should mention is I add YUCCA as a continous wetting agent to all my nutrient solutions going into my air-pots. Even if i fuck up and they almost dry out the water still finds it’s way back in due to the yucca (i assume, cause it ran off like a fucker before until I started using it continuously )
I get it in liquid form from my local to work hydro place.
In the concentrate I get it, which I assume would be the same if you mixed it from powder based on the suppliers suggestions: .5ml/Litre and it’s the last thing I add ← not sure if this is correct but no problems so far.
I only PH after the mix is done. anytime I measured before i’d need to adjust after anyways. IF i’m using my RDWC, i’ll take several readings over the course of an hour after refilling to make the adjustments… for the ΩPot (above) I’ve done NO READINGS.
Part of this is because i am confident with my PH after doing so many hydro runs with the same stuff over and over… and the other part is because I NEED TO REPLACE MY PH METER WHICH FINALLY DIED AFTER OVER-USE
Seriously though I’m not worried as the roots have a MEGA BUFFER with the 5.6 gallons of media it’s growing in
I cannot find a supplier for Yucca powder here in Italy.Even Amazon doesn’t have It.So,can I use Aloe or other things as organic wetting agent? @Pigeonman