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how many pots can you fill with a bale of Sunshine or Promix?
- Thread starter EuroToker
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Here's a pdf that tells you how many pots of various sizes you can fill from a bale of promix
http://www.premierhort.com/eProMix/Horticulture/Products/pdf/eProPottingGuide.pdf
http://www.premierhort.com/eProMix/Horticulture/Products/pdf/eProPottingGuide.pdf
G
Green Supreme
LOL how big is a pot to you? Peace GS
G
Green Supreme
Ahh small huh, never woulda guessed. Suppose its different for everyone.Think its 50-1gallons and 25 2 gallons etc. Peace GS
darksith
Member
If you fill them loosely and fill the soil upto 1.5" you should be ok, but I'll bet your 2 pots short. Let me know, see how accurate my bet is.
What do you call a bale? the 2.8 cu ft loose fill bag? the 3.8 cu ft compressed bale? Both? (in their descriptions above, only 1 uses the word bale)
The only thing I can get around here is the 3.8 cu ft compressed bale.
I was wondering why the 3.8 cu ft compressed bale yields so many more pots in the above chart. It's because it expands to a minimum of 7 cu ft loose.
That's a lot more material than I expected lol
No problem.
The pdf is directly from their website.
The image I created from an edited screenshot of the pdf.
JeanTonerre
Member
most of the time it will be write on the label the number of liter, so under your pot, your are supposed to have the number of liter of your pot.... so, here you go... if you got pot of 2 liter, and have 100 liters of promix, so you got 50 pot
darksith
Member
I don't compress my soil at all, I leave about 2" of pot at the top and you must break up the soil into its normal form, all little balls must be broken up. I don' pack them at all, super fluffy let the water pack the soil.
EuroToker
Member
the hieght is 12 inches in the 3 gallon grow bags, i did the calculations and figured out that about 9.5 inches up the side is 3 gallons, managed to get 13 per bale doing it like that
fuck me though, having to haul 8 bales into an apartment building and then haul them uncompressed out afterwards...
time to start considering hydro again
fuck me though, having to haul 8 bales into an apartment building and then haul them uncompressed out afterwards...
time to start considering hydro again
Speedzombie2000
New member
Man you can't get a straight answer for that question... But the answer is That usually compressed doubles when you fluff it up, So about fifty gallons or so
What messed me up onetime and it took a couple of grows to figure it out. I live in Canada and I had black plastic pots from Canada and the U.S. which I didn't know at first. Canada uses the metric or imperial measure the U.S. a I gal US is about 2.79L, a Canadian Imp gal equals 4.54L.
I was measuring with a 1gal US pot but filling a 5gal Cdn plastic pots. I was always short but yet carefully measured.
It took a while for me to figure that out.
I was measuring with a 1gal US pot but filling a 5gal Cdn plastic pots. I was always short but yet carefully measured.
It took a while for me to figure that out.
