You can also take a regular plastic pot and add your own holes to it which will create the same basic idea as a fabric pot… but will allow you to be able to clean them easier and they will last longer I believe… if you look up the thread in the past which I’ve posted or several others have posted … but either way if you have the opportunity to grab plastic pots at a cheaper rate then what you can afford the fabric pots …which kind of are a pain in the butt to clean … I would suggest you go with that … but that’s just me…
@peachfuzz, yeah I agree w/ you on price, smart pots are little pricey, I looked on amazon and found some off name brands that were cheaper thx to some of the posters here. The thing I like about them is they allow more air and drainage and being brand new to this, that may help me from over watering etc… May have to water a little more often though but that’s ok
I have used the smart pots for my current grow and they are great. You get good aeration, drainage and root growth. It is almost impossible to over-water due to the good drainage.
One thing about transplanting in these pots is that if they have a long time in a smaller pot and then are transferred to a larger pot, you could pull some of the roots out as they grow into the fabric and they could get attached a little. I usually do not transplant, I put the seedling in the final pot even in regular pots. . I know, the down side is that they take longer to establish as the roots grow underneath before the top takes off. That is a fact that I accept, it will be a little longer in veg.
I have decided that if I do plan to transplant for some reason, I will start in a regular pot and then transplant into a fabric pot for the finish. Just my take on it. Welcome any comments. Jerry
Don’t get me wrong , I love fabric pots , I just don’t have a second washer machine for cleaning them and the wife would kill me if I even thought I would take them and throw them in her washer LOL…
The only problem I have with them is that they’re just so hard to clean…
@TxGrowman, thank you for that info, which is very very solid info for me as I have been wondering how to transplant from fabric pot to fabric pot. Generally speaking, I’m thinking this progression: seedling into biodegradable jiffy pot, then into 5 gal fabric pot,…, thinking the jiffy pot could be a 1 gallon and I would just put it right into soil as the pot breaks down?, You think that sounds like a plan?
Ya I used to… still have the pots… but now I run dwc and rdwc hydro… but I ran soil for 7 years and used the pots that I altered the hole time… I loved them…
Those biodegradable pots that you’re talking about never really break down the way they’re supposed to and I find them to be a hindrance To Your Roots only allowing out the thin and wispy Roots never letting the big monster Roots get through and causing your plant to look rootbound…
@Hawkeye_diesel, I was looking at a product called super starter propagation kit. It was like $60, has 7 inch dome, heating mat, 18 inch t5 light and little sample of clones to get seedlings off or do some cloning. Any thoughts or experience with these kits?
I thought of gettin one like that. I would read the reviews on it, Amazon has a few like what you described. I just went with a dome because I just put it in the tent with the others an keeps it pretry war and humid.
@Hawkeye_diesel, thx for the info… Reviews seemed all favorable just wondering if the t5 which I believe is 17 watts?, is strong enough. Could by a separate light and kit which may work better? Or just put in my tent like you mentioned as well, but it would be under a 900 watt LED?
