Can I bury my plants pot in the ground without and negative affects?
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Dislexicmidget2021
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Well,there could be things in your ground soil which are very unbeneficial for your plant,namely parasites and bugs.Just make sure you dig out the hole to see if there may be any nests of bugs and such lurking around that spot.And I advise filling it up with a bit of bag soil before placing your container soil into the ground,and make sure to till in some perlite because natural ground soil can be dense and give you root growth problems.
Dislexicmidget2021
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Till in the perlite if hard ground soil is an issue
For some types of pots you can. There are compostable ones that you will see a lot of vegetable starts from places like lowes or home depot in. those work just fine. Also, I am pretty sure that smart pots claim that you can with them, as long as the pot is buried. This way it stops air pruning and the roots just continue to grow outward. But I have never seen it happen before. And you can just cut a hole in the bottom and roots will eventually go down through the hole but not out the side obviously.
hey guys I am in same boat, I picked up a ten Blue Dream Clones a week ago and I transplanted them into 5 gal pots today and drilled about 20 holes around the base of the pot and buried them all in 2 foot holes with about 6 inches of loose 707 soil underneath. The natural dirt where I grow is pretty good for growing so I am not concerned with that. However my question is Does anyone think the plant will grow to its full potential? It is essentially like im using the 5 gal pot as a netpot for mother earth right? LOL the drill holes are almost a half inch so there is plenty of room to GROW...any thoughts would be appreciated.
Natural Gas
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I really like this type of grow...That is a 5 gallon bucket buried in dirt...That said; my style is 5 gallon, preferably white, bucket or pot with at least four one inch diameter drain holes (the larger the diameter the better) drilled at bottom. If your bucket is black or colored you will need to insulate with pine straw or hay because of solar heat build-up...I amend (till in) a four foot by four foot square about six inches deep with one cubic foot bag Mushroom Compost (Home Depot about $4/bag) and four tablespoons "Osmokote" fert applied evenly on top and tilled in. I live in the Carolinas and have clay soil...Read the "Osmokote" instructions; do not simply sprinkle and leave "Osmokote" on top of amended area...Bury bucket/pot 4-5 inches deep...Starting soil in bucket, for me, is composed of; one third by volume FF Lite Warrior mixed two thirds by volume with FF Ocean Forrest...No additional nutes needed just add water to the bucket and amended area.
Burying two feet is too deep IMHO...Roots for MJ and most plants w/o a tap root is 2-4 inches...If surrounding soil is loose enough the roots will grow upward to compensate and plant will reach its potential..My plant's roots will often reach beyond the amended area at the end of the season and be less than two inches deep...Pull some weeds to see what I am talkin' 'bout with regard to planting depth...FWIW
Thanks for the heads up....I will dig wider holes and fill my holes a bit more with soil. Most people were telling me to take it out of the pot and go straight in the ground but I feel like keeping them in a pot give me advantages: A. One less transplant. B. It gets hot hear so water doesn't dry as quick. C. If need be I can still move them.
Natural Gas
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There are a lot of folks here with more opinion than experience...Hell I may be one of them...The method I described worked for me for years...I discovered it by accident when roots grew through the drain holes of a bucket left sitting on the ground unattended during a grow...This plant, MJ, is amazing; the damn thing grows like a weed (g)...Unfortunately I live in the city now and my grows are indoor and a lot more complicated...No less fun, just more complicated...FWIW