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root force multiplier, does work good for thatlittle pagoda, very cute
Bliss I use 30 gallon pots indoors you need to step up to the big ones for outside. think 65 gallon or bigger. Hell go with a 200. There were some on craigs list the other day for 20 bucks. Your yealds would be more in line with outdoor growing. Hell I got a couple 65's I could loan you for the season. I did this once. I put one in the pot and ripped one out and planted it with out the pot. Went from 3 gallon to 25 gallon smart pots. This is antidotial but the one that I ripped out of the pot seamed to root out a bit quicker. The roots grew right through the lower part of the smaller pot but seamed to not root the upper portion so well. My advice unless there are a lot of roots growing through your bag just peel it off and transplant. Most plants won't even hiccupim doin it to one of my outdoor plants, im using square root aeration containers and i read somewhere that they arnt supposed to be transplanted instead they are supposed to be doubled potted so im givin it a shot, i went from a 3 gallon into a 30
Bliss I use 30 gallon pots indoors you need to step up to the big ones for outside. think 65 gallon or bigger. Hell go with a 200. There were some on craigs list the other day for 20 bucks. Your yealds would be more in line with outdoor growing. Hell I got a couple 65's I could loan you for the season. I did this once. I put one in the pot and ripped one out and planted it with out the pot. Went from 3 gallon to 25 gallon smart pots. This is antidotial but the one that I ripped out of the pot seamed to root out a bit quicker. The roots grew right through the lower part of the smaller pot but seamed to not root the upper portion so well. My advice unless there are a lot of roots growing through your bag just peel it off and transplant. Most plants won't even hiccup
yo tex they have smary's that the side is held together with velcro so its easy to transplant they are the transplantable smart potsThey would still air prune at the outter edge of each pot but I don't kniw if after you totally enclose them in soil again if the roots take off to the next airpot and then air prune again at the outter skin of the next one.....
I'll know before long in a side by side
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..
Tex
They would still air prune at the outter edge of each pot but I don't kniw if after you totally enclose them in soil again if the roots take off to the next airpot and then air prune again at the outter skin of the next one.....
I'll know before long in a side by side
I dont think Smart pots would be the best think for this, I would say a cheaper fabric pot, if not one made to bio-degrade
The Smart pot fabric takes a while to break down under most conditions. so yet again I would look for a cheaper fabric pot that is made for one season.
With no air to prune the roots I would assume so.
Good luck TK, I've been reading a bunch of uni studies on smart pots. Very Sure I will be switching to them for 100% of my pots when I get the money. Please keep us posted on this :0
Chobble
I don't see how smart pots- especially ones designed to break down- are less expensive/ more desirable than a good plastic airpruning style pot? I've seen some good ones, some that even unfold for no hassle potting up.
I have not seen those >.< I have only seen ones that you cut off and throw away. Smart pots last many seasons not just one though and they're a little more "eco friendly" then plastic. They have also been proven to be more breathable and produce better root systems then plastic nursery bags. This was all in tomato plants but the point is still the point.
Another thing they found is that you can do almost all organic material in the fabric one (Cutting back on perlite). Just food for thought.
Chobble
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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