anyone growing in 3gal. fabric bags ?

PadawanWarrior

PadawanWarrior

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hotrodharley said:
I’ll let you know in about 5 weeks. I have an experiment going. 9 plants in 3 gallon bags vegged about a month and thrown into the flower tent. So far it requires more frequent watering as expected but they seem to use the feeds more quickly.
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Ya I'd be watering everyday with my low Rh. I went back to plastic so it wouldn't be a daily thing. I really liked em though if it wasn't so dry here.
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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PadawanWarrior said:
Ya I'd be watering everyday with my low Rh. I went back to plastic so it wouldn't be a daily thing. I really liked em though if it wasn't so dry here.
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I have grown in 3,5,7,10 & 20 gallon bags. I definitely prefer over plastic. Trying this because I see people with very large plants in very small containers. I haul all water. 100 miles round trip in Interior Alaska. Anything saving water is a consideration. Or utilizing it better.
 
morugawelder

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hotrodharley said:
I’ll let you know in about 5 weeks. I have an experiment going. 9 plants in 3 gallon bags vegged about a month and thrown into the flower tent. So far it requires more frequent watering as expected but they seem to use the feeds more quickly.
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how often you watering them ? , whats your perlite to soil ratio ,? I usually go 1/3 perlite , but if the 3 gal. dry quicker , maybe I should back off a little on the perlite . In plastic I watered every 2 days even in 5 gal.
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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morugawelder said:
how often you watering them ? , whats your perlite to soil ratio ,? I usually go 1/3 perlite , but if the 3 gal. dry quicker , maybe I should back off a little on the perlite . In plastic I watered every 2 days even in 5 gal.
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Back off on the perlite. I watered twice a week until about week 5. I’m retired so frequent work on them is easy for me. I add perlite to my Pro Mix but next run in the smaller bags will not have any additional.
 
Obepawn

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hotrodharley said:
I’ll let you know in about 5 weeks. I have an experiment going. 9 plants in 3 gallon bags vegged about a month and thrown into the flower tent. So far it requires more frequent watering as expected but they seem to use the feeds more quickly.
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Water wise, I start out watering about every 6-days and by Late flower about every 3-days. I use the lift the pot method and I don’t let it dry out because I grow organic.
 
Obepawn

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morugawelder said:
how often you watering them ? , whats your perlite to soil ratio ,? I usually go 1/3 perlite , but if the 3 gal. dry quicker , maybe I should back off a little on the perlite . In plastic I watered every 2 days even in 5 gal.
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I use the Rev’s soil mix: equal parts organic potting soil/ coco/ewc or compost/perlite. Thinking about switching out coco with peat.
 
nevergoodenuf

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Indoor or outdoor/soil or coco? I'm indoor and in coco and have moved down to 2g. The advantage of the cloth pots in coco is feeding more often, plus better o2 into the root zone. 6-9 per 2g is easily possible.
 
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Apalchen

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Hmm are those big numbers in coco is that with mulitple waterings per day? I water once a day and ran 3 gallon pots for last year or so and I average a lil over 3 zips per plant with 9 plants per 4x4. I went down to 6 per 4x4 one run and hit a lil over 5 per plant. It was roughly the same yield for the area. My bottom buds definitely were better with them more spread out and surprised me on the scales as I didn't think they looked any bigger than normal.

But if you guys are hitting that many per 3 gallon I'm doing something wrong. What is your spacing like on plants, like how many do you think per 4x4?
 
nevergoodenuf

nevergoodenuf

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In mid flower I am up to 3 waterings per day. It really depends on strain and plant size, sometimes I use 4 per 3x3 up to 9 per 3x3. I also have 2 per 2x4 ( canopy is more like 3x5) those should be in the 8 plus range. Grams per square foot change more from strain differences than from plant numbers.
 
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metic

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Apalchen said:
Hmm are those big numbers in coco is that with mulitple waterings per day? I water once a day and ran 3 gallon pots for last year or so and I average a lil over 3 zips per plant with 9 plants per 4x4. I went down to 6 per 4x4 one run and hit a lil over 5 per plant. It was roughly the same yield for the area. My bottom buds definitely were better with them more spread out and surprised me on the scales as I didn't think they looked any bigger than normal.

But if you guys are hitting that many per 3 gallon I'm doing something wrong. What is your spacing like on plants, like how many do you think per 4x4?
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Sorry forgot to add that was with 4 plants per 4x4 under 400 w of vero29 cobs, was a beaster girl the 3 next to it managed 3 zips/ 10 zips/ and 3 zips
 
radiant Rudy

radiant Rudy

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Nellyitis said:
hey man, i was using 3gal fabric pots, plants were out growing them.. getting 3-4 oz per plant. i now use 4 gal that i sourced.
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ya thats about where i was with 3 gals. I have a great looking plant in a 3gal right now (pic, day 33) just because i wasnt sure what seed it was and didnt want to possibly use the flowering space unwisely. So far i bet i'd harvest, as you said, about 3-4 from her.

I mostly use 7s and 10's now. With a good yielding strain I get 10z from a 7 gal.

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Southside112

Southside112

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I average around 3 ounces when I run 3 gal fabric pots That's with a 5 week veg. In a 3x3 4 plants per run. got some cannaventure ghost og in one now. Got 600w timber cobs in my tent. Front left is the ghost in the 3 gal pot Screenshot_20190630-093335_Photos.jpg
 
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