Which Pots Are You Using?

[SouthCross]

Those look heavy duty for 3 gallon.

 

[chemphlegm]

Air pots indoors allow fungus gnat to enter at every level of the soil. I thought about using air pots before fabric. It's the easy access for bugs that turned me off to the design.

a plus on the fabric pots is they will not allow fungus gnats in anywhere but the easily controlled top soil.

 

[Flash63]

Way to many access points for gnats with plastic air pots,it's a battle you won't win.

 

[MickFoster]

Air pots indoors allow fungus gnat to enter at every level of the soil. I thought about using air pots before fabric. It's the easy access for bugs that turned me off to the design.

I cover my air-pots with pantyhose and it eliminated the problem.

 

[chemphlegm]

I cover my air-pots with pantyhose and it eliminated the problem.

interesting, pantyhose you say.
I grow in five gallon buckets and thought about doing this and knotting them around the trunks. anyone else do this?
wonder what size I need.....

 

[GroErr]

After trying almost every pot available. 100% the rootball from a fabric pot is unbeatable. It is an amazing different the root you get from fabric pots.

There downside is transplanting from them sucks, to defeat that, I go straight from solo cup to 2 gallon smart pots. Grow 4' plants in 2 gallons of coco and the rootball at the end is solid, I dont get how it doesnt push all the coco out of the pot actually lol

Airpots are also very good, but there cost is just to much. I buy my 2 gallon fabric pots for $1 each and at that price they are disposable, although they are definetely re-useable if you wanted to

If youve only ever used plastic pots, do yourself a favour and try atleast one plant in a fabric pot (peferably HydroFarm brand if possible)

^^ Ditto ^^ Those fabrics grow fantastic root balls. I run mine through the washer and have some that are like 3 years old, still working fine. Cheap, durable/reusable, you can grow big plants in small pots, less medium with same or better results. No downside imo.

 

[MickFoster]

interesting, pantyhose you say.
I grow in five gallon buckets and thought about doing this and knotting them around the trunks. anyone else do this?
wonder what size I need.....

Queen size. Lol.

 

[mr. childs]

a plus on the fabric pots is they will not allow fungus gnats in anywhere but the easily controlled top soil.

i have seen larvae crawling out of the side if my smartpots though, never tried geopots & rootpouches though

 

[TopShelf85]

Straight from cloner to Dixie cup to final destination, 7 gal bucket. I Never transplant from bucket to bucket unless your using soil amendments. My little outfit at 21 day flower, slightly defoliated on indica strains. Bonnie plants soilless bale, slightly sweet end with organics and GH nutes.

 

[Dr. Who]

although it is the unpopular opinion, from my 8 years of using airpots, they have produced more yield with soil than my smartpots. with me moving on to coco now after procrastinating all these years, i can only imagine the yield from a 7 gallon airpot indoors...

I most likely said "any air pot" somewhere above.

That should be clarified. "Any fabric pot" is a better statement. Air pots of the funky looking holes and odd texture.....Do work quite well...
I'm deeply invested in Plant warriors and normal plastic... "I", feel no "need" to change. I yield quite fine! How you feed makes as much difference.

But ya'll can keep your fabric pots......Do what works for you........Good place for that statement....

 

[mr. childs]

I most likely said "any air pot" somewhere above.

That should be clarified. "Any fabric pot" is a better statement. Air pots of the funky looking holes and odd texture.....Do work quite well...
I'm deeply invested in Plant warriors and normal plastic... "I", feel no "need" to change. I yield quite fine! How you feed makes as much difference.

But ya'll can keep your fabric pots......Do what works for you........Good place for that statement....

in my small circle of associates, i have been trying to get them all to use airpots over the years. i had to pull teeth to get them to finally put the orange buckets down and use smartpots, bear in mind i am the second youngest in the group, so i cant possibly know what i am talking about. i figure they are just wiser than i & let me experiment, then reap the benefits of my trials & errors.

 

[mr. childs]

i also wonder how long before smartpot makes a velcro transfer pot like the geopots & rootpouches?

 

[DannyBlaze2]

Fabric pots here. 2 gallon. After seeing the root ball from a 60" plant grown in a fabric pot. I'll never go back to plastic.

You can use 2 gallon pot for a 5 foot plant I've got generic fabric bags 6 of each 5 and 7 gallon I wanna go big!

 

[ISK]

I often use 2L pop bottles..... hempy style

 

[Indacouch]

Green houses I go from cup to 1 gal plastic then into 5gal smarts ....after that I take a razor slice the 5 down the side in a few spots and sink the whole thing into a giant smart pot or my raised bed ......no issues and I get smart pots in bulk for next to nothing where I'm at ......but I also shop at one place and with everything I buy each year ....I have a feeling the store owner still does pretty good hooking me up with 5 gal smarts at around a buck a piece....lol

 

[Budley Doright]

First 2 weeks - 1ltr Air-Pot. Balance of the grow - 9ltr Air-Pots.

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I thought the whole ideal of air pots is no need to up pot?

 

[hotshotisdashit]

First 2 weeks - 1ltr Air-Pot. Balance of the grow - 9ltr Air-Pots.

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Love these...

 

[DannyBlaze2]

I often use 2L pop bottles..... hempy style
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What's size pots are in the 2nd pic? 7 gallon? Look like Fabric?

 

[ISK]

What's size pots are in the 2nd pic? 7 gallon? Look like Fabric?

they are just a 2L pop bottle sitting in a plastic cashew jar (covered in tape to block the light)

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

i guess i'm old school, i start in dixie cups, go to 2.5 qt garden pots, then 5 gallon hempy buckets, then to 10 gallon hempy buckets to flower in. i actually do it more for the room than for the benefits of up potting, i have a limited amount of room and having 6-8 plants in 5 gallon buckets all the time would be highly inconvenient