pot size

[ganjafarmer]

are ten inch pots ok to use when growing from seed to harvest? the reason i ask is my plants seem very small. i normally use 15 inch pots and they have never takin so long to develop. i recentley read you can go as small as 6 inch.

[420 HELI]

Damn, "pots" is certainly not an easy topic to find search engine threads on.

 

The size of your pot depends entirely upon how large you intend to grow the plants... bigger plants need bigger pots... if the pot is not big enough the plant will become rootbound.

Perhaps your plants are becoming rootbound in the smaller pots which is retarding growth.

 

:peace:

[Closet Grower]

Idealy you want the root zone to be as big as the plant . I read somewhere also , 1 gallon per foot of plant .

[Radic]

greetnz

plants are a bit like ice burgz

2/3 of the surface area is underground

Plants don’t have containers in Nature, so they grow larger when conditions are right. When we put plants in little pots, we restrict how big they can get.

1

How wide the container is controls how big the plant gets,

2

the depth controls the height of the plant.

Now, knowing that, we want to use wide, shallow containers if we want plants to form into small bushes in tight grow spaces

or

deep wide if we want big tall plants

in unrestricted grow spaces

 

choise the right size pots for your grow space and grow style

 

irey guidance

[ganjafarmer]

Thanks for your advice. I will probley waite it out this time and see how it works out if it doesent ill go back to the 15 inch pots because thats whats allways worked best for me. i am also using expert gardener potting soil feeds for 9 months i belive this is a problem and will probley go with fox farms next time if i can get my hands on some but this soil has worked in the past and is what i use if i cant get any good stuff.