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Pot-In-Pot Idea - Why wouldn't this work?
- Thread starter marx2k
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I'm using the double pot method everyday and it's great for Earl Grey and Darjeeling.
Grat3fulh3ad is spot on, double potting is useless and breaking up the rootbal is beneficial.
Transplanting is a reality of getting the most out of your pot plants, plain and simple.
Tranplant or training stress is hyped and overstated, only pot growing sites ever see these as a debatable theory.
A healthy plant, with a proper tranplanting cycle will react to a slight stress with a positive response.
Plus if you are an organic growers having divisions with holes inside the pots will not alow the michorizae fungus to be beneficial and it must have access to the whole soil mass without any barriers, although mike fibers are very thin and transparent they're IMHO the corner stone of a good grow along with alot of other things.
As far as being handicapped and having trouble with transplanting a excellent way around that is to SOG, many small plants that need only be transplanted once then flowered right away in a pot of no more than 1 gallon is a perfect solution.
It means only 1 transplant and although #'s are up it easier to move 3 small plants than 1 big one.
I've double potted before and it's overrated, the results where similar than my plain old transplanting method, the key though is to catch them before the roots start really accumulating in the bottom of the container, I've been told that I transpplant too early because I don't always get the all the soil out along with the rootball.
This never struck me as important, even if there was more room for roots to grow into the taproot is the definitive factor in how a plants react to a transplant.
Peace
Suby
Transplanting is a reality of getting the most out of your pot plants, plain and simple.
Tranplant or training stress is hyped and overstated, only pot growing sites ever see these as a debatable theory.
A healthy plant, with a proper tranplanting cycle will react to a slight stress with a positive response.
Plus if you are an organic growers having divisions with holes inside the pots will not alow the michorizae fungus to be beneficial and it must have access to the whole soil mass without any barriers, although mike fibers are very thin and transparent they're IMHO the corner stone of a good grow along with alot of other things.
As far as being handicapped and having trouble with transplanting a excellent way around that is to SOG, many small plants that need only be transplanted once then flowered right away in a pot of no more than 1 gallon is a perfect solution.
It means only 1 transplant and although #'s are up it easier to move 3 small plants than 1 big one.
I've double potted before and it's overrated, the results where similar than my plain old transplanting method, the key though is to catch them before the roots start really accumulating in the bottom of the container, I've been told that I transpplant too early because I don't always get the all the soil out along with the rootball.
This never struck me as important, even if there was more room for roots to grow into the taproot is the definitive factor in how a plants react to a transplant.
Peace
Suby
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fatboyOGOF
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marx,what size pot were you thinking of ending up with? it sounds like with your idea, the first pot would be at belly level if not higher. add 2 - 4 feet for the plant. i don't see it being realistic but it would make for some good pictures.
i did BoGs double pot twice. when i work with the girls, i'm high. i'd go to move a plant and i would pic up the top pot instead of the bottom and i'd rip the roots a bit. during the second grow i realized i would always absent mindedly do this at least a few times per grow. i stopped double potting. i do believe it works but i just repot now. unless you are a complete fuck up, repotting doesn't cause much stress at all. gently pull it out, gently place in new pot, cover with soil and add water. big whoop!
i did BoGs double pot twice. when i work with the girls, i'm high. i'd go to move a plant and i would pic up the top pot instead of the bottom and i'd rip the roots a bit. during the second grow i realized i would always absent mindedly do this at least a few times per grow. i stopped double potting. i do believe it works but i just repot now. unless you are a complete fuck up, repotting doesn't cause much stress at all. gently pull it out, gently place in new pot, cover with soil and add water. big whoop!
G
Guest
Double potting was probably invented by a caveman 10,000 years ago but the genius growers of today love to take credit for the silliest things lol.Hell some even make up a name for an already known technique,Soma and "rodelization" come to mind haha.He said he got the idea for making his feminized seeds from a friend,must've been my uncle Pepe Rodel haha.Sorry I have to laugh considering dutch passion was "rodelizing" long before Soma invented it lol.
fatboyOGOF said:
Well, usually I end up in 5 gallon pots. But I start out with a cutting in a jiffy pot. Typically I go through jiffy pot -> half gallon -> 2 gallon -> 4 gallon -> 5 gallon.
My repotting method seems to be a little stresfful if *I* was a plant. When the soil is dry, I squeeze on all sides (never use ceramic pots), turn upside down, tap the bottom and it slides out (Along with about an inch or 2 of dry topsoil all over my pants, feet, carpet, cat...)
It gets a little messy, so I was really just trying to come up with an idea to not have to do this for every plant one grows (which can be a LOT)
G
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I have double bagged not potted for years now. I start in a 1 gallon bag and three weeks into veg I put them in a either 3 or five gallon bag depending on room and strain that I'm producing at the time. It can start to be very crowded depending on if I bush them out or sky high them as I called it(letting them grow a little taller) due to the trememdous side branches and HUGE COLAS.
I did try once planting a one gallon in a five gallon to make it easier to transplant but the roots shot through the holes on the 1 gallon bag and ripped when trying to re bag it (duh but that's how we learn.
I never see the same results and or yield if I don't double bag.
There is some pics of two strains right now both only flowering for four weeks with 4 weeks left on pure indica (great white shark) and 6 weeks left on indica/sativa (sour diesel). One pic is of the stalk on a indica it's hard to tell in pic but it's the diameter of a quarter. I grow big that's just me though. Good Luck
I did try once planting a one gallon in a five gallon to make it easier to transplant but the roots shot through the holes on the 1 gallon bag and ripped when trying to re bag it (duh but that's how we learn.
I never see the same results and or yield if I don't double bag.
There is some pics of two strains right now both only flowering for four weeks with 4 weeks left on pure indica (great white shark) and 6 weeks left on indica/sativa (sour diesel). One pic is of the stalk on a indica it's hard to tell in pic but it's the diameter of a quarter. I grow big that's just me though. Good Luck
