I am growing on my sunny balcony in the swiss alps where space and hieght are a problem.Igrew this year just as an experiment in 13L\3.5gall pots and didnt start till mid june so was not expecting huge plants with no feeding at all untill budding and was surprised how well they did.They are now 110cm43" and budding well which is about as tall as i want them (they cant be seen this high)
I have read that as a rule the bigger the pot the bigger the plant(6-10gall\23-37L recomended and that bending can reduce hieght .
The plan is this ,please bear with me.(all calcs are aprox)
Ihave a16.5L\4.5gall pot with a rim dia of 35cm\14".
a 4L\1gall pot
and a 1L\.25gall pot.
I plan to cut the bottoms out of each pot and glue them together with strong epoxy resin then silicon to make water tight ,then glue a tray(the kind you sit your pots )with holes drilled infor drainage,then turn the whole thing upside down
Try to imagine a cone 60cm\24" tall with a volume of 21.5L\5.7gall,Iam guessing that a pot this tall based on the fact that most pots have a rim 1.5 times that of the base would hold nearlly 3 times the volume of the cone but same hieght giving the roots 60cm\24" to grow down and out with more and more space as the plant gets bigger instead of less and less as with normal pots without having massive pots and a third of the soil.This is my 1st question is depth more important or overall volume?
I also plan to drill a series of holes in the two bottom pots lined with fine mesh(like pipe screens)to stop soil falling out i am thinking that this will help aireate the root as the shape and surface area of the top may keep the siol to wet these holes can be taped up or more drilled as needed, I can check this with a moisture meter.
then i will drill some holes around the top and bottom rimms and cover half the cone top to bottom with green plastic coated 2cm wire mesh using plastic cable ties and train the plant(clone) to grow down towards the base then back up it can grow 12"\30cm above the top of the cone without being seen tying branches as they develop (kinda like a scrog),wI am growing on my sunny balcony in the swiss alps where space and hieght are a problem.Igrew this year just as an experiment in 13L\3.5gall pots and didnt start till mid june so was not expecting huge plants with no feeding at all untill budding and was surprised how well they did.They are now 110cm43" and budding well which is about as tall as i want them (they cant be seen this high)
I have read that as a rule the bigger the pot the bigger the plant(6-10gall\23-37L recomended and that bending can reduce hieght .
The plan is this ,please bear with me.(all calcs are aprox)
Ihave a16.5L\4.5gall pot with a rim dia of 35cm\14".
a 4L\1gall pot
and a 1L\.25gall pot.
I plan to cut the bottoms out of each pot and glue them together with strong epoxy resin then silicon to make water tight ,then glue a tray(the kind you sit your pots )with holes drilled infor drainage,then turn the whole thing upside down
Try to imagine a cone 60cm\24" tall with a volume of 21.5L\5.7gall,Iam guessing that a pot this tall based on the fact that most pots have a rim 1.5 times that of the base would hold nearlly 3 times the volume of the cone but same hieght giving the roots 60cm\24" to grow down and out with more and more space as the plant gets bigger instead of less and less as with normal pots without having massive pots and a third of the soil.This is my 1st question is depth more important or overall volume?
I also plan to drill a series of holes in the two bottom pots lined with fine mesh(like pipe screens)to stop soil falling out i am thinking that this will help aireate the root as the shape and surface area of the top may keep the siol to wet these holes can be taped up or more drilled as needed, I can check this with a moisture meter.
then i will drill some holes around the top and bottom rimms and cover half the cone top to bottom with green plastic coated 2cm wire mesh using plastic cable ties and train the plant(clone) to grow down towards the base then back up it can grow 12"\30cm above the top of the cone without being seen tying branches as they develop (kinda like a scrog),which brings me to question no 2 .would this kind of extreme bending affect the plant.
Hope this makes sense,any advice would be helpful. thanx hich brings me to question no 2 .would this kind of extreme bending affect the plant.
Hope this makes sense,any advice would be helpful. thanx
I have read that as a rule the bigger the pot the bigger the plant(6-10gall\23-37L recomended and that bending can reduce hieght .
The plan is this ,please bear with me.(all calcs are aprox)
Ihave a16.5L\4.5gall pot with a rim dia of 35cm\14".
a 4L\1gall pot
and a 1L\.25gall pot.
I plan to cut the bottoms out of each pot and glue them together with strong epoxy resin then silicon to make water tight ,then glue a tray(the kind you sit your pots )with holes drilled infor drainage,then turn the whole thing upside down
Try to imagine a cone 60cm\24" tall with a volume of 21.5L\5.7gall,Iam guessing that a pot this tall based on the fact that most pots have a rim 1.5 times that of the base would hold nearlly 3 times the volume of the cone but same hieght giving the roots 60cm\24" to grow down and out with more and more space as the plant gets bigger instead of less and less as with normal pots without having massive pots and a third of the soil.This is my 1st question is depth more important or overall volume?
I also plan to drill a series of holes in the two bottom pots lined with fine mesh(like pipe screens)to stop soil falling out i am thinking that this will help aireate the root as the shape and surface area of the top may keep the siol to wet these holes can be taped up or more drilled as needed, I can check this with a moisture meter.
then i will drill some holes around the top and bottom rimms and cover half the cone top to bottom with green plastic coated 2cm wire mesh using plastic cable ties and train the plant(clone) to grow down towards the base then back up it can grow 12"\30cm above the top of the cone without being seen tying branches as they develop (kinda like a scrog),wI am growing on my sunny balcony in the swiss alps where space and hieght are a problem.Igrew this year just as an experiment in 13L\3.5gall pots and didnt start till mid june so was not expecting huge plants with no feeding at all untill budding and was surprised how well they did.They are now 110cm43" and budding well which is about as tall as i want them (they cant be seen this high)
I have read that as a rule the bigger the pot the bigger the plant(6-10gall\23-37L recomended and that bending can reduce hieght .
The plan is this ,please bear with me.(all calcs are aprox)
Ihave a16.5L\4.5gall pot with a rim dia of 35cm\14".
a 4L\1gall pot
and a 1L\.25gall pot.
I plan to cut the bottoms out of each pot and glue them together with strong epoxy resin then silicon to make water tight ,then glue a tray(the kind you sit your pots )with holes drilled infor drainage,then turn the whole thing upside down
Try to imagine a cone 60cm\24" tall with a volume of 21.5L\5.7gall,Iam guessing that a pot this tall based on the fact that most pots have a rim 1.5 times that of the base would hold nearlly 3 times the volume of the cone but same hieght giving the roots 60cm\24" to grow down and out with more and more space as the plant gets bigger instead of less and less as with normal pots without having massive pots and a third of the soil.This is my 1st question is depth more important or overall volume?
I also plan to drill a series of holes in the two bottom pots lined with fine mesh(like pipe screens)to stop soil falling out i am thinking that this will help aireate the root as the shape and surface area of the top may keep the siol to wet these holes can be taped up or more drilled as needed, I can check this with a moisture meter.
then i will drill some holes around the top and bottom rimms and cover half the cone top to bottom with green plastic coated 2cm wire mesh using plastic cable ties and train the plant(clone) to grow down towards the base then back up it can grow 12"\30cm above the top of the cone without being seen tying branches as they develop (kinda like a scrog),which brings me to question no 2 .would this kind of extreme bending affect the plant.
Hope this makes sense,any advice would be helpful. thanx hich brings me to question no 2 .would this kind of extreme bending affect the plant.
Hope this makes sense,any advice would be helpful. thanx