Reading your question, it's hard for me to believe that you aren't being a smart ass maybe you're just high right now), but just in case you really are totally clueless about converting nutrition to energy...
Let me try to explain it another way. The reason why we told to properly chew our food (instead of gulping it down) is because properly masticated food is easier to digest. The easier it is to digest, the easier it is to convert to energy.
In HPA, the nutrients are being delivered to the roots in their most bioavailable form, which means the roots can ingest more of them.
I am having a hard time staying civil, but I will try...that is. I guess maybe I was trying to be civil but wanted to be a smart ass, when I was calling you on something I see no proof of coming from someone with an obvious chip on their shoulder or something to prove...well think of me as from Missouri...SHOW ME.
I was serious, explain why since you seem to be representing yourself as an expert, why HPA is better than DWC or Aeroponics or just simple Ebb and Flow as a hydroponics delivery system for water and nutrients...I am not seeing how vapor is gonna be more or less efficient at having the nutrients sitting on the outside of the root membrane (since mist condenses to liquid on the roots anyway, thereby coating them the same as if they had been dipped in water, no matter what the delivery system). Or are you saying the vapor once condensed will somehow hold more available oxygen, maybe more than the root system needs so you can supercharge the system with oxygen?
Seeing supposition without proof...and please don't represent the buds you harvested as anything special my friend unless you grew them in complete darkness....see now I am getting mean. I am far from perfect and far from an expert, but I am trying to do my due diligence and learn about the plant I love...so let me continue.
The thing is I do understand (more or less) the energy conversion system in plants and their requirements for their to be available oxygen (only possible improvement HPA has which I really don't see, hence the question) to the root system to convert that to the basic building blocks that are carried through the Xylem to the meristem and outer structures to increase leaf, stalk or bud size (specifically in cannabis). And the "energy", basic sugars are carried downward to other area's of the plant through the Phloem.
But we aren't talking about circulation, we are talking about transport and specifically through the cell membrane on the roots right?....Why does HPA provide better passive transport like diffusion or osmosis or does it somehow force the plant into more active transports like pinocytosis or phagocytosis?
So I was asking a serious question, perhaps a loaded one that I already knew the answer to....but am willing to be enlightened as I am far from an expert and just love growing pot.
BTW the bioavailability of the nutrient isn't changed by the delivery system unless you are claiming the vibrations to be ripping the salts apart, more than being suspended in water does anyway. Hydro versus Organic have different suppliers for their bioavailable nutes (ones that will pass the cell membrane on the feeder roots) but the transport through the cell wall is the same and molecule size has more to do with it for the passive transports. Now maybe more oxygen will aid in the active transport systems on the feeder roots but you haven't shown me to any degree of satisfaction by either the fruits of your labor (wasn't impressed by the sample photos) or real science, the why...why do you think your system delivers?
BTW look up OBXgardener, you aren't the first here to have tried that delivery system, and I trust him and he switched to the simplicity of Hempy as far as I know over that and he used long tubes so his roots could dangle like you are suggesting, everything.
Back to lurking now, will watch and be entertained and hope you do well, these boards are more about not being jerks to one another and about learning and good vibes...hope you can lower your tone a bit and maybe you can learn something here, some real nice grows here and maybe, just maybe we will learn something from you...is how this is suppose to work.
And the truth is I am high most of the time, I manage my pain with pot only and sometimes my mood is aided by it. (Sometimes not, like now...)
... but it is my advice that you master this, then move on to another style of growing and another...can never be sure this method is worth the effort until you try other stuff and the knowledge you will gain along the way will be worth the effort.
It's ph buffering is a rough fight for soil, definitely a hydro nute.
and subscribed, if you are this excited about this method, least I can do is watch..
