20 gallon pot or 20 gallon garbage can?

Waiakeauka

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Which would you use for your outdoor grow, 20 gallon pots or 20 gallon garbage can? The pot is wider and the garbage can is deeper. Which one would you choose?
 

madcatter

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Partially depends on the strain... plant will bush out to size of root ball so wider the pot bushier the plant.... all things being equal...
 

bobbyhopefeild

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Partially depends on the strain... plant will bush out to size of root ball so wider the pot bushier the plant.... all things being equal...

thats not true, a wide pot does not equal a wide plant, the shape of the plant depends on strain not how roots grow unless you mean when a plant gets rootbound and grows upwards not outwards, which is it being rootbound, a plant rootbound in a wide but not tall pot will still grow upwards regardless
 

MistaKris

Active Member
why not go with 30 + gallon grow bags you can find them at your local nursery for around 2 dollars they kind of look like a black trash bag...
 

tropical

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I've heard it is better to dig wider holes than deeper. Either will work fine, but I'd go with the wider option.
 

Waiakeauka

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The 20 gallon cost $6.40 and the 20 gallon garbage can cost $11.94. I should also add that the plastic on the garbage can is a thinner then the pots and the pots will last longer then the garbage cans.
 

tropical

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A lot of people don't dig holes more than 2 feet deep. I've heard of plants in 3 feet wide holes one year and the next year the same genetics were used in 4 ft wide holes and the grower got nearly double the yield. IMO wider is better. I've heard that the wider the circumference of the root system, the bushier the plant will get. They say that the plant will grow outwards toward the root tips, therefore the wider the roots, the bushier the plant. I think this logic can pretty easily carry over to containers. Go with the wider of the 20 gallon option.
 

Dr. Greenhorn

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LMFAO! :clap: are you serious dude? ....so what if the dude dug 3 ft deep holes then the next season he dug 4ft deep holes? same smell, no?
 

Waiakeauka

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A lot of people don't dig holes more than 2 feet deep. I've heard of plants in 3 feet wide holes one year and the next year the same genetics were used in 4 ft wide holes and the grower got nearly double the yield. IMO wider is better. I've heard that the wider the circumference of the root system, the bushier the plant will get. They say that the plant will grow outwards toward the root tips, therefore the wider the roots, the bushier the plant. I think this logic can pretty easily carry over to containers. Go with the wider of the 20 gallon option.
Thanks for the infomation! I will go ahead and get the pots since wider is better and best of all it's cheaper and more durable.
 

tropical

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Uhhhm not really. The guy wants a definitive answer to this question so I thought I'd try to give him one lol, from a couple of grows I saw. In the end either will work, but he wants a definitive answer, so I gave him the most definitive answer I could muster up lol.
 
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