Help ASAP!! Pot sizes

So i'm in a 5x5x6.5 tent I have 1 1000 watter air cooled hood and the temps average about 74-85
I just ordered not too long ago 6 20 gallon 20"w by 14"h smart pots and now am not quite sure about how it will turn out after doing some looking around of pot sizes in threads but theres not much about 20 gals.
I was planning on trying a SCROG along with topping and pruning and such, hoping for nice filled wide medium hight plants. So I don't know if 20 gallons is too big or what.. I really don't to have to veg for suuper long or anything and want to stay legal with not having lots of plants but want to fill up the whole room also. So please your advice/ inputs/thoughts/anything would be amazing and hopefully soon so maybe I could change the order for some more efficent pots.

6 - 20 gallon pots seems pretty huge to me for that size tent.

I imagine you could fill the tent with a scrog with just 2 of those bad boys if you veg long enough.

Btw, if you are doing scrog or topping or lst, you'll want to veg for a while.

Basically pot size depends on how big of a plant you want and how long you want to veg.

To give you an example... I was debating six 3 or 5 gallon pots for my 4x8 tent with 4x600w.

I went with 3 gal air pots. Many would say I should use 5 gal, but I want a short veg with some nice medium sized regular plants.

Yeah after my looking around I decided that 20 gal is way to big.. So I changed the order to 10 gallon bags, how do you think thoes will do ? Or should I go smaller, what would the average veg time be for 10 gallon or smaller?

Also i'm alittle confused on the pot size= veg time thing, wouldn't you want the biggest pots no matter what? You would have the extra soil if you want to go a long veg but couldn't you still have a 10 gallon pot but grow a plant thats the same size as one in a 5 gallon pot? Or does it take longer for it to do it's whole thing in a big pot?

Its all about the light cycle. Indoors you play god and control the light hours. Pot size has nothing to do with it.

That's what I was thinking^ I wasn't thinking that pot size was a big deal indoor beside fitting them in the tent and trying to get some that are wider than tall so they grow more bush than tall.

To get more bush then tall just top the plant a few times

pot sizes are linked to plant size

u want to do a 1 plant full tent scrog it is possible
10 gallon planter is all u will need

1 gallon of soil is 1 month of grow (good soil)
10 gallon soil bag will hold 1 and 1/2 gallons of water before it leaks out ( i use 7 gallon for mine i avg 4-10 oz per plant auto flowers)

Obviously you're talking Organic grow^^. So your saying 10 gals is good for 10 months basically. Not nessasary with soil unless for some reason you reuse it.

I run 7.5 gal coco and do reuse it a few times at least. Because Coco is a neutral base with 0 nutrients. I use the Canna line so the riz used in final phaze brakes down the root system. Its just simple, cut out main root ball from previous plant and plant new clone right in the hole. I know a guy that has used the same coco filled pots over and over for 2 years!!

I use four 7 gallon sized fabric pots per 1000 watt light. Going any bigger in size than that just means the soil/medium staying wet a lot longer in between waterings which isnt advisable. Also having too much wet medium in an enclosed space will make it more humid which you want to avoid.

Very true^^ its a good thing to damn near dry completely out once in awhile.

In a perfect world its best to do light feeds 3 times a day but unless your automated. Who has time for that.

Well my 10 gallons are one their way idk if I can send them back or want to take the time to, is there any reason why they would stop me from getting a good grow? Maybe try 4 of them with 2 plants in each one? Or use less soil in each pot?

Greentreesplease12 said:

Well my 10 gallons are one their way idk if I can send them back or want to take the time to, is there any reason why they would stop me from getting a good grow? Maybe try 4 of them with 2 plants in each one? Or use less soil in each pot?

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u should only plant one per planter .........rem what u see above ground double that for what is going underground

u are growing photos i assume ....this means u can grow the plant out for how long u want then (allowing the roots to fatten up and tendril out giving u a fat stalk ) then when u flip to flowering the plant will double in size from the stretch then pre flowering and flowering

this 10 gallon pot done on a 2 and half month grow should fill a 4x4 tent for 5x5 u might need 4 months .....using a scrog method
10 gallon going natural (no trimming no training ) u are looking at a 3x3 plant at least might go 4x4 by the time it is done stretching

Well I won't be growing them that big, I was aiming for 6 plants to fill out the whole 5x5 with an even canopy of tops( usings scrog training and topping and stuff) at this point I think I'm going to try a little bit of experimenting, im going to reconstruct 4 of the 10 gallons and make them 5 or 7's and then try 2 in a 10 gallon and see how it goes, cause I have a feeling that if i'm not growing them to be monsters then there should be enough space for 2 in a 10 gal, i heard around 5gal of soil is good for 1 plant. and that 2 plants could potentially increase yeild if given proper nutes.

Greentreesplease12 said:

Well I won't be growing them that big, I was aiming for 6 plants to fill out the whole 5x5 with an even canopy of tops( usings scrog training and topping and stuff) at this point I think I'm going to try a little bit of experimenting, im going to reconstruct 4 of the 10 gallons and make them 5 or 7's and then try 2 in a 10 gallon and see how it goes, cause I have a feeling that if i'm not growing them to be monsters then there should be enough space for 2 in a 10 gal, i heard around 5gal of soil is good for 1 plant. and that 2 plants could potentially increase yeild if given proper nutes.

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u better rethink that
i thought the point was to make 1 plant fill your area using a scrog

1 never mix 2 plants in one planter unless they are designed for that (some plants are designed like that one roots are shallow other goes deep...never seen weed plants like that tho) .......2nd if u plant 2 in the same planter odds are the plants will chock out (the root balls will try to go into the center the 2 root balls will fight for room and chock out ) rem soil bags are air prune so the edges of the bags dry out about 1/2 inch in on the sides so the roots are not going that way they are going for the center where the water is

5x5 at best u can do 4 plants that is 2.5x2.5 square feet for the plant( 7 gallon bags) .........if u try 6 u are going to needs smaller bags like 3 gallons

u need to think about the footprint they take up when they bush out for flowering ......6 plants in 7 or 5 or 10 gallon planters your going to need to do alot of training and trimming to make it fit ......and u need to account for different strains if u are doing different kinds ........some grow taller (so u need to have the light higher for that one plant )