I have been thinking of getting some airpots, then I thought about making some, using weed control fabric. I could sew them up on the sewing machine. Is it worth the effort?

Search for Airpots or Superoot pots here

Thank you Dennis, most helpful! Off to search just now.

Interesting concept.

If you make your own pots out of the fiber material alone, get the best toughest landscape fabric that you can find. Also look on eBay for cheap reusable fiber grocery bags to use as pots.

For me, with being new to figs and fruit trees, I am also experimenting with several air-pot designs too. Mostly using some kind of mesh container that I line with landscape fabric. I will try to post pics later. But it will take several months to evaluate and decide if my experiments yielded any benefits.


CliffH

I've seen commercial fig orchards in Japan that grow all their trees in milk crates.

Each milk crate with a tree pruned to be tall and within the confines of it's milk crate all the way to the top.

They would probably be the cheapest/most easily available "airpot".

Looking forward to seeing your designs Cliff.

I like the milk crate idea. Mind you the ones here aren't very big. I wondered about the bags that farmers get fertiser in. The one tonne bags would be too big but they do smaller sizes, they have lifting loops at the corners.

http://www.bulk-pack.ltd.uk/Vented%20Bags.htm

Sorry for the delayed posting of pics. We've been trying to help some family in Denham Springs, that got flooded out, as much as we can. We bought a pickup truck's load worth of used furniture and beds to temporarily get them started.

So, here are my pics. Please remember these are experiments to see the benefits of air pruning. I have never tried anything like these pots (or grow-bags) before. I have no results to post. All are recent re-pots and up-pots.

The first pic is of my one suggestion for using the reusable grocery bags. The ones like you could buy at Wal-Mart. But I bought mine off eBay for less than a buck a bag. There are several videos on-line for using these in gardening. For fig trees this would definitely be only for a season or two.

The rest are items that I found at .99 cent stores, dollar stores, etc (my wife loves these places). Basically anything that is the size I want. Then I line them, if the holes are large enough to need it, with landscapers fabric. Items cost from .20 cent to a buck a piece.

I also get square 5 gallon bucket from a local donut franchise for .50 each. I have several design trials of these going too, including a SWP/SIP design.

I will say that all the trees put into the bags, and then kept in a shallow water tray, have exploded in growth.

BTW - That third, rear, strange looking fig in the little green pots is actually a small papaya tree. My young daughter and I are experimenting/playing with growing papayas, mangoes, and various citrus from seeds.


-chh

These make great air pots.  I bought some at the dollar store. I haven't planted in them yet but they will be used!