Plastic pots or fabric pots?

[Tomonaut]

Like the title suggests, what's the best way of growing. With a black fabric or plastic pot?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Thai_Lights]

Depends how many plants you have. If you have a large garden when you take the soil out of fabrics at the end of harvest you'll be pissed off. My fabrics dry out in 3 days and it works for me. But honestly just get what you want. If you choose fabrics my tipnis to pack the sides of the pot nicely.

 

[Huckster79]

Both! I use a rigid container either an actual store pot drilled out big time w a paddle bit, or a laundry basket or milk crate.... line it with weedblock fabric... breathable as a clothbag but rigid for moving around.

Oh cheap too...

transplants are a dream w the fabric around rootball that you can peal back, you can get them out w little to any root damage.

 

[Tomonaut]

Decided on the fabric pot. Thanks for the info guys.

 

[Wetdog]

You really should get a square plastic pot of the same size as the fabric so you can do a side by side.

My stuff gets moved too much indoors for fabric pots to ever work well for me.

If you have no experience with either, the SxS will show you right quick what works best for you.

 

[Tim Fox]

i like the fabric pots, i have done both, and both worked well,, so i cant down talk the plastic,, one grow i needed square pots to fit all the plants in my space,, the round ones take up more room,, like a puzzle hahaha

 

[ANC]

Fabric pots, no contest even.

 

[GroErr]

Fabric pots, no contest even.

Both work but I agree and would never go back to plastic. Although they can dry out faster that's part of their benefit imo. The air to the roots builds great root balls and that's essentially what we're growing. I like their flexibility in how large a plant you can grow in them, never having to worry about root bound plants. Can be a pain in the ass with large plants but they'll finish and do well even in small containers.

1gal fabrics, door is 36"W, door knob is 37" from the floor:

 

[dubekoms]

Both work but I agree and would never go back to plastic. Although they can dry out faster that's part of their benefit imo. The air to the roots builds great root balls and that's essentially what we're growing. I like their flexibility in how large a plant you can grow in them, never having to worry about root bound plants. Can be a pain in the ass with large plants but they'll finish and do well even in small containers.

1gal fabrics, door is 36"W, door knob is 37" from the floor:
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Impressive,what kind of soil were you using?

 

[GroErr]

Impressive,what kind of soil were you using?

Nothing special, just a triple-mix (top soil, compost, manure) I grab locally mixed with pro-mix. Once they're into flowering I do supplemental feeds if needed but not much, like 400-450 ppm of A&B formula.

I do a lot of strains and some chucking, most of my males flower out in 1gal fabrics. I don't grow for yields so if I'm just pheno hunting a lot of times I never come out of the 1gal's, or go to 2/3 gal's when I need a little more time between waterings.

Really with fabrics the main reason I up-pot is more about stretching out time between watering than anything else.

 

[Buyfrommycity]

Both work but I agree and would never go back to plastic. Although they can dry out faster that's part of their benefit imo. The air to the roots builds great root balls and that's essentially what we're growing. I like their flexibility in how large a plant you can grow in them, never having to worry about root bound plants. Can be a pain in the ass with large plants but they'll finish and do well even in small containers.

1gal fabrics, door is 36"W, door knob is 37" from the floor:
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Damn son. What lights you using? What strain? How long veg? Nice grow!

 

[GroErr]

Damn son. What lights you using? What strain? How long veg? Nice grow!

Hey thanks, I'm all LED's mainly 3590 3500k COBs for flowering and Citizen 1212's 5700k for veg. Those 3 were a last run of a cross I was testing with PPP (Pure Power Plant) and Blueberry. Never worked out, nice yields and decent punch but no flavour so dropped it, they went straight into the hash bin. Working some other crosses and needed the space. They were vegged for 10 days out of a party up in the 1gal's and flipped.

5 gal's work too The one's below are 2x 5gal at day 37 and 4x 5gal's just flipped.