fabric plastic sides vs fabric

Doing a 50 gal bed was going to do wood but fabric seems to be the goto and if i sip wood wouldnt work

Do i make it fabric ?
Do i make it fabric with plastic side like roots beds u all use
Can just line it with pond liner around the top n leave 2inch from bottom n base

Thwy say they do it to help water etc. Marketing or trust them?

I'm converting from 18gal SIPs to 1x 65gal fabric pot.

Don't think you need/want the pond liner, but im sure it won't hurt much. The main advantages of a fabric pot, are the wicking ability of the fabric (both to hold and wick moisture as necessary), the air pruning of the roots, more surface area of your soil being oxygenated... all of which would be negated by blocking the sides with a non permeable plastic between the soil and the fabric.

With that said though, you'd just be turning a fabric pot, into a non rigid plastic pot in essence, so I dont think it would harm your system any if you did decide to line the inside with a pond liner before filling with soil.

I should be setting up my 65 gal over the next couple of weeks as my bio char finishes charging and such... ill let ya know what I think then after seeing how watering goes if you haven't already set your system up as well. Either way, let me know how it goesa

BluntMoniker said:

I'm converting from 18gal SIPs to 1x 65gal fabric pot.

Don't think you need/want the pond liner, but im sure it won't hurt much. The main advantages of a fabric pot, are the wicking ability of the fabric (both to hold and wick moisture as necessary), the air pruning of the roots, more surface area of your soil being oxygenated... all of which would be negated by blocking the sides with a non permeable plastic between the soil and the fabric.

With that said though, you'd just be turning a fabric pot, into a non rigid plastic pot in essence, so I dont think it would harm your system any if you did decide to line the inside with a pond liner before filling with soil.

I should be setting up my 65 gal over the next couple of weeks as my bio char finishes charging and such... ill let ya know what I think then after seeing how watering goes if you haven't already set your system up as well. Either way, let me know how it goesa

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Thats awsome as hell man. U doing a diary.
I wana see lol.
Im the same buying charged biochar sat in worm shit.
But 2 wks as eaiting for me amendments still.

So al be in a 50gal doin 8 plants.
Siskaberry .watermellon and straw lemonaid. Barneys supplied em.

What u gona grow?
What lights u rockin on em
Coots too? Any changes ?

Interesting as hell man
Il go fabric just this i guess is marketing?
Emulating nature with new fabric pot technology
Containers made specifically for living soil?
You betcha!
Our Living Soil Pots and Beds are designed like our regular fabric containers but we’ve added our new and innovative MoistureLock™ technology!
Regular pots and beds are made of a breathable nonwoven fabric that allows for excellent air pruning and drainage that can create an interesting problem when used with living soils. Soil in fabric containers dries quickly, from the bottom and the sides. This is generally great for fertigation and other types of growing. However, it is not how soil dries in nature, and the whole point of living soil is to let nature happen, well… naturally.




MoistureLock™ is here to help your microbiology thrive
MoistureLock™ is a strip of BPA-free waterproof fabric sewn to the inside of the container that provides many benefits.

• Directs water downward. This helps to avoid dry pockets in the soil.
• Promotes even moisture throughout the soil. Regular fabric pots dry from the sides. MoistureLock™ prevents that, simulating the way soil dries in nature. This helps the microbiology thrive.
• Less water usage! There is less surface area for water to escape the container, which means less water usage (lower labor) and lower humidity indoors.
• Aeration and air pruning comes from the strip of breathable fabric towards the bottom of the container.

I have one of these beds with the blusoak. Can’t wait to set it up. I like the moisture lock idea. Many times in smaller fabrics I see the outer edge dry extra fast. Especially in my basement at35 rh this time of year

I'm finding that my 7gals sitting in a 2x4 are really effected by the air flow at the inlet port. The one closest to it will be bone dry in the plastic tub it sits in where the other 2 still have standing water. The cloth pot is really wicking and inducing that humidity to go into the air.

This is an interesting angle for sure and I could swear I've seen people post that they wrap like the top 1/3 or 2/3 of a cloth pot with saran wrap to achieve the same type of effect. I had considered it given this current experience I'm having; Normally I've used the 7gals in a big open room where there wasn't such a direct air flow directly across them and this time it's very noticeable how this impacts humidity control and watering/feeeding.