# What is a "bubbler".

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 6, 2000, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bubbler/44275 "2000-12-06T06:53:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bubbler/44275/41 "2000-12-08T11:34:13Z")

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Ah, yes. “Western Mass isn’t really Mass at all.” Hey, that never gets old; and it’s so true too! 🙂

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**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bubbler/44275/42 "2000-12-08T21:23:47Z")

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> \*Originally posted by nineiron \*  
> \*\*Ah, yes. “Western Mass isn’t really Mass at all.” Hey, that never gets old; and it’s so true too! 🙂 \*\*

😃

I was right though, wasn’t I?

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**Author:** ![malden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@malden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malden)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bubbler/44275/43 "2000-12-08T21:41:24Z")

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Yes, **Flymaster** , it _was_ the PPP! Glad you’ve heard of it. I got a shirt there in the mid-eighties and wore it until it was about ready to crumble to dust. I got another a few years ago but I came at the wrong time of year and their stock was pretty well picked over. I’m way overdue for a Danny’s Dog & a new shirt, so I guess I’ll go there next time I’m in New England. And I’ll use the bubbler while I’m at it.

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**Author:** ![Stockwell\_Day](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@Stockwell\_Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stockwell_Day)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bubbler/44275/44 "2000-12-09T07:50:37Z")

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Hi everyone.

There is another use for the word bubbler.  
In horticulture we sometimes place plants  
into those big plastic buckets, cut a hole in the  
lid and place a net shaped like a pot into the hole.  
The plant (already mature) is placed into this  
contraption so that the roots are all sticking through  
the net and into the bucket. Inside the bucket  
we put the nutrient solution and water and an airstone  
connected to a pump which bubble the water/nutes  
all over the roots of the plant. This way the  
plant get mucho oxygen to its roots, they like that.  
Plants grow like crazy in these things. We call them  
bubblers.

take care

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**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bubbler/44275/45 "2000-12-09T20:49:13Z")

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Welcome to the SDMB Stockwell 🙂

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**Author:** ![Stockwell\_Day](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@Stockwell\_Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stockwell_Day)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2000, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bubbler/44275/46 "2000-12-10T00:21:11Z")

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Thank you kindly! 🙂

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