Wait I thought we were trying to grow trees........Lmao. I suppose I stand corrected.
I have never seen those!!! Thanks for the link! Those would be much much better than double potting "smart" pots.If ya check these pots out its easy to see you can use a net or fabric pot of some sort and simply plant the pot to upsize.
Fwiw, I played around with smartpots in a bucket like that and seemed like the fabric would be too waterlogged. I think one of the main benefits to air-pruning with chow is faster evaporation/wicking.If I was gonna run a coco/hydroton chow mix, and place my girls in 5 gallon buckets, would these root trapper bags work better as an inner liner, as opposed to doing a second 5 gallon bucket with holes drilled in the bottom?
Fwiw, I played around with smartpots in a bucket like that and seemed like the fabric would be too waterlogged. I think one of the main benefits to air-pruning with chow is faster evaporation/wicking.
i have done this but by examining the root mass after harvesting i don not think i would do it again, i was told but a professor in one of my botany classes to go around the outside of the rootball on the edge of the smart pot and drive the shovel in around and along the edge of ur smartpot then peel it down like peeling a banana. i tend to do this when root mass has dried out a bit so the mass stays together then after tp i water the hell out of them with soluble kelp and dyna grow silica amendment so as to reduce shock, ive also used house and gardens root excelurator for a week after tp, so as to boost root production. i have put a smartpot in another smartpot but then you have 2 smartpots in use as opposed to one, as i run perpetually this is a bad idea because 2x's increases overhead cost and thus reduces profit margiin. dont get me wrong it will work just not sure of the benefits. i should also mention since i switched to air pots i will never go back to smarties!! i run smarts up to the final tp then they go in the big airpots and i freekin love em!! twice the plant out of half the soil.Does anybody have experience double potting or up potting in Smart Pots?
I want to go from a 1 or 3 gallon Smart Pot to a 5 or 7 gallon Smart Pot without trying to remove the smaller Smart pot from the rootmass. I just want to transplant the entire pot into the next size up...
I've seen my brutha Coloradro do it I think but not sure of the success..
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i have done this but by examining the root mass after harvesting i don not think i would do it again, i was told but a professor in one of my botany classes to go around the outside of the rootball on the edge of the smart pot and drive the shovel in around and along the edge of ur smartpot then peel it down like peeling a banana. i tend to do this when root mass has dried out a bit so the mass stays together then after tp i water the hell out of them with soluble kelp and dyna grow silica amendment so as to reduce shock, ive also used house and gardens root excelurator for a week after tp, so as to boost root production. i have put a smartpot in another smartpot but then you have 2 smartpots in use as opposed to one, as i run perpetually this is a bad idea because 2x's increases overhead cost and thus reduces profit margiin. dont get me wrong it will work just not sure of the benefits. i should also mention since i switched to air pots i will never go back to smarties!! i run smarts up to the final tp then they go in the big airpots and i freekin love em!! twice the plant out of half the soil.
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