Pot size

[ziggestardust]

I just put My hydroponics system on ice due to serveral setbacks. Now I will instead try my luck with soil, this means replanting of my bloom room.

The room is 167cm * 78 cm. I am aiming for a perpetual grow with weekly harvests, this means I need 8 rows of plants in bloom (pots 20cm wide). To fit 4 plants in each column they have to be downsized to 19cm.

The veg time will off also be one week and one week of cloning.

Enough background info, over to the questions:
What pot size should I aim for at the last week of flowering, how often should I repot and how much do I need to increment pot size each time?

What about stacking pots?

Peace

Sorry for any typos, using my iPhone and it sucks ass

 

[ziggestardust]

So I was looking at my local grow shop at their different pots. They had 6.5l (20cm • 20cm • 23cm), 3.5l (15cm • 15cm • 20cm) and 0.7l (9cm • 9cm • 10cm). The smallest pot I was thinking would be perfect for veg. The largest pot would only allow me to fit 21 plants (16 accounting for two plants each week) plants meaning I can only harvest two plants each week. If the 3.5l pots would suffice I'd go with them, allowing me to harvest four plants each week.

What do the pros say?

 

[strass]

Go as big as you can. And how much soil you are willing to fuck around with.

 

[Biatchzxz]

Yeah depends on how long you wanna veg for etc i start from beer cups into 1 gal pots then from there ill transplant into there final pots which would be 3 gal smart pots or 5gal smart pots. But with the smart pots. Using 3 gal smart Pots is perfect. I never get any root bound issues. Since the roots prune themselves in the pots. So maybe think abot doing that. But I guess the bigger the better thjng is def good but 5gal would def be the Max for me. I rarely use the 5gal smart pots even though I have a bunch of brand new ones that I never used. Just figured I won't need more than the 3gal ones. And ever had an issue yet. Also can fit a few more plants using the 3gals. The 5gal aren't that much bigger anyway. For me it's just about not using so much soil. But thinking of putting a strawberry diesel in a 5gal since its one of my favs in the garden. So gotta give her more love Lol

 

[ziggestardust]

As I Said, I Will veg one week, clone one (maybe two depending on how well the root riot cubes work). I was thinking of tailoring my own air pruning pots from landscaping fabric, that will allow me to make them 19x19x35. Lets me to fit 4 plants per row but still have 11l/3gal pots.

Do you transplant to the final pot just before 12/12?

I'm also going all organic to save a bit on our environment, hope it reflects in the taste of the nug

 

[Biatchzxz]

Yes absolutely. After they are in the 1 gals for a while and such. And when I think they are big enough to be flowered I will transplant them into there final 3gal pots. Ill let them get used to that and grow roots in that for like a week roughy. Then ill put em in for 12/12. You don't really want to transplant into final pots and then throw then into flowering. Let them settle into there new pots first for a few days-week and then toss em in to flower. Cause they will probably stretch a lot more if you put I'm right after transplant. So just give em some time to settle in and establish roots first in there final home

Hope that helps you a little and give you a basic idea

 

[ziggestardust]

Yes absolutely. After they are in the 1 gals for a while and such. And when I think they are big enough to be flowered I will transplant them into there final 3gal pots. Ill let them get used to that and grow roots in that for like a week roughy. Then ill put em in for 12/12. You don't really want to transplant into final pots and then throw then into flowering. Let them settle into there new pots first for a few days-week and then toss em in to flower. Cause they will probably stretch a lot more if you put I'm right after transplant. So just give em some time to settle in and establish roots first in there final home

Hope that helps you a little and give you a basic idea

I appreciate your kindness and knowledge Then I might just transplant them straight into their final home after cloning right? Since I will veg them for only a week. Are there an drawbacks with that?

 

[FunTimesIndeed]

Check out some of the no-till gigantic beds. I know the posters Durdy and Jerry both have good pics of it. You can treat it like a big field that always flowers. For example, provided the bed is very large, you would drop in one clone a week until the oldest plant is ready to chop. After you harvest that plant, dig out the stump so that the new plant has space for the rootball and drop in another pre-vegged plant.

You could even bang out your own custom sized bed with some old pallets and landscaping fabric. Pair that up with some blumats and worm castings and you'll never look back.

 

[ziggestardust]

It is something like that I will try to establish. Not sure of the gigantic field idea in my room though. It's a walk in closet so there'd be very hard to reach the inner corners of the room. With separate containers I can just pull out some of the plants closest to the door to be able to walk into the closet and have better reach. It will be very crowded in there, lol. I could even have another grow above the first one, was even looking at some upside-down grows. Apparently tomato plants grew twice as big that way

 

[FunTimesIndeed]

I hear that. I'm running with 3 gallon sub-irrigated planters. 6 of 'em under a 400 watter. Peat, compost, lava rock for a base with some Espoma Garden-Tone, EWC, crab meal, a mix of rock dusts and minerals, and some neem and kelp meals. The rig I described in the post above is my dream setup. Just as soon as i get the castings ready...

Stop through the Organic section bro.

That upside down stuff is fun for tomatoes, but it won't happen with ganj.

 

[Biatchzxz]

Yeah def none of that upside that stuff. Trust me if was good for our stuff. It would of been done and documented already right . For tomatoes ysah. But no no for our ladies.


Yeah you could just toss the clone in the final pot veg for a week and your good to go.

 

[FunTimesIndeed]

That's about how I treat my 3 gallons. Rep slap.

 

[ziggestardust]

I'm going to order those tropf blumat, they seem really good and not so pricey either. I have loads of myco, trico, home brewn LA bacteria and stuff in my soil. Only organic stuff, it's real fun and I hate spoiling our Mother Earth with chemicals. I even e-mailed my bat guano supplier and made sure the bats aren't exploited in any way. He told me that it comes from a tropical area and only the natives have access to the caves, haha

 

[FunTimesIndeed]

Rock on. There are tons of plants waiting for you to use 'em too. Seriously, poke around the o.s. a little...I think you would love it over there.

 

[Benjamin Check]

I even e-mailed my bat guano supplier and made sure the bats aren't exploited in any way. He told me that it comes from a tropical area and only the natives have access to the caves, haha

Would one of these tribes be the Wachutu? Shekaka.....