Budda_Luva
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do i have a 5 gallon pot or 6,7 the measurments of my pots are 13½in diameter and 14½in in height
5 Gallon pots??
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ChaoticMetal
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Sounds like neither, a 5 gallon pot is the size of a standard taping compound or cement bucket that construction workers use. yous is no bigger than 3 prob 1.5 to 2 gallons.
Budda_Luva
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wtf are u sure man???? i thought these pots were fukkin huge can u give me the measurments of a 5 gallon pots than cuz damn i bet there fukkin huge
Picasso345
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You got a little something like this? That's a five gallon bucket.
Budda_Luva
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might not be as tall but deffinatly wider
One US gallon is 0.133681 cubic feet = 231 cubic inches. Your pot is 1.125' diameter (radius is half that, or 0.5625') and 1.208' tall. The volume of a cylinder is pi (3.141592) times the radius squared, times the height. So your pot volume is pi * (0.5625^2) * 1.208 = 1.201 cubic feet. This is 1.201 / 0.133681 = 8.98 U.S. gallons. You get the same number using cubic inches of course (pi * 6.75^2 * 14.5 = 2075.5 cubic inches = 2075.5 / 231 = 8.98 U.S. gallons).
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Picasso345
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I did the exact same math, got the exact same answer, but didn't believe my result. So a 1 cubic foot box can hold 7.479 gallons? That doesn't seem right.
It's right. A 6.14" per side cube (cube root of 231) holds a gallon, so a 12" per side cube would hold about 8 times as much (2^3). Grab one of those plastic one gallon water jugs from the supermarket and it measures roughly 6" x 6" x 7". For the original poster, you could grow a monster plant in a 9 gallon pot and need a lot of soil mix, water, space, etc. Unless you're doing that it is a lot easier to handle 3-5 gallon pots for an indoor grow.
-Snake
Picasso345
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Yep, you are correct.
Budda_Luva
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yeah on the sticker with the price on it said it hold 1.25 square feet of pottin mix
Budda_Luva
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so how big of a p[lant do u guys think i can grow in my pot right now my plant is currentl 2ft and 1 inch tall its 1m 3 weeks and 2 days old
ChaoticMetal
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Size is up to you, you decide whe3n to put it in 12-12, and they grow 1-3 feet during flowering depending on strain.