Final pot size for my 3x3 tent?

What should my final pot size be for best results?

  • 3 Gallon plastic

    Votes: 27 37.5%

  • 5 Gallon plastic

    Votes: 24 33.3%

  • 7 gallon fabric

    Votes: 21 29.2%
  • Total voters
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XipXipXoom

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jemstone said:
The roots don't get as burly thick but they still get thick. I got holes in mine you could push a bb through from the roots. The benefit is the plants has hundreds times more micro-tipped roots giving more surface area available for nutrient uptake. When done just turn inside out let dry, shake off and wash at the laundromat with a front loading machine.

In my experience if you typically use a 5 gallon plastic pot a 3 gallon cloth pot is equivalent.
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Interesting. Any experience with burying airpots vs smartpots? I recently read a post where someone said they put soil into the toe of an old sock as a mini smartpot to get seedlings started before burying it in perlite hempy buckets.
 
jemstone

jemstone

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@XipXipXoom

Haven't tried burying the airpots but do prefer them for mama's. Although I do put the airpot in a cloth-pot because I do not like how all the water comes out of only a few top holes of the airpot. I'm sure the airpots bury just fine.The hydro net pots work fine as well.

The worst thing you can do to any plant is disturb it's root zone. Anyway you can minimize this the better. Keeping it bound up confined in plastic walls is just as bad.
 
coreywebster

coreywebster

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XipXipXoom said:
Interesting. Any experience with burying airpots vs smartpots? I recently read a post where someone said they put soil into the toe of an old sock as a mini smartpot to get seedlings started before burying it in perlite hempy buckets.
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The sock makes sense, anything that allows the roots to air prune is accomplishing the same thing.
I think burying would do the opposite but nothing to stop you burying them once the root zone has fully developed, they will just stop air pruning once buried but that shouldn't matter, still have a thousand single strand roots going outward into the soil rather than a circling like with a non air pruned system.
 
Cobbyist

Cobbyist

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drewby said:
No I have bigger lights above ,just not on right now,, my fluorescents are full spectrum T8 bulbs ,I have 2, 400 watt MH with bulbs for flower or veg,flower bulbs is full spectrum 58,000 lumens and has the red and blue ,I run them in flower ,I just got a little 300 watt LED from a neighbor a mars hydro other week ,I added it and it is on with the fluorescent,but first time I have used a led,,I like the fluorescent,they do great in veg & seem to be a more compact growth,which does great in the room,my room has 9 foot ceiling ,but is only about 36 inches wide,,14 foot long,as they get bigger i will turn more lights on them as i spread them out ,am almost ready for few to leave and give me some much needed space,,will snap a picture of my overheads,just put new ballast in them booth ,new caps,and brand new bulbs,so they are just itching,to be on,I used the house ac system tied a 8 inch insulated duct and cut a vent hole,and made a self opening and closing vent so no smell back into the house,,,Have tried few different ways of having room set with the lights up but I think this does about the best for my limited space little heat in veg and flower the ac system helps a bunch,I have more vertical than I have width but have flowered 5 in 10 gallon containers in there,and my first run I had 16 in there but they were in 1 1/2 gallon pots ,but most I ever took down was between 5-6 ounces dry for 1 plant in 5 gallon bucket ,it was pushing the 6 ft mark for height,had a stalk bigger than the lid for a 1 gallon gatorade bottle ,I try hard to make them more healthy than big but sativa's grow like heck,i do a bunch of fimming and super cropping or bend and tie them to keep them and others close in height
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Very nice setup Drewby, it looks like you did a very good job with the space you have to work with. I'm wishing I went with a larger tent...I like having room to work with just in case things get a little out of hand.

Another interesting note, the 3 gallon plastic pot actually had longer wet/dry cycles than the 5 gallon fabric pots. The fabrics were using well over twice as much water a feeding and were still dry a day before their plastic potted sister.. who has changed homes and is now living with a new family.
 
PrometheanLeaf

PrometheanLeaf

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reggie1387 said:
Sorry to bring up a old thread but I’m doing some research. I’m bout to start in my 3x3. 70/30 coco/perlite. And not sure if I should grow in 3,5,7gal fabric pots. How did you find the 7gal pots? To big? Not enough room? Perfect?
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My 3x3 final pot choices, I go up a size when using plastics.

7-9 plants = .5g/1g fabric pots
5-6 plants = 1g/2g fabric pots
4 plants = 2g/3g fabric pots
3 plants = 3g/5g fabric pots
2 plants = 5g/7g fabric pots
1 plant = 7g/10g fabric pot
 
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RStone77

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I would use 3g fabric, 5g fabric would be the largest I would ever use. Anything larger and you're just compensating for something LOL
 
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Apalchen

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I have run 1,2,and 3 gallon pots with coco and perlite in a 3x3. The 1 gallons are a pain but I used when pheno hunting and needed to pack in plants. The 2’s is what I’m using right now I have 4 in one tent and 5 in the other and I honestly still can’t tell which one is gonna yield better the tent with 4 plants has bigger colas forming but the tent with 5 not far behind but has a few more colas. I’ve run 4 plants in 3 gallon in there but it get a little crowded, and did better when cut back to 3 pots and just spread em out with a net. I think the 2 gallon are better in a 3x3 as they seem to dry faster so I can water more often. In my opinion the more you can water in coco the better they do as long as your getting some dry back between waterings.

Also I don’t recommend 5 gallons for coco unless your growing big trees. I’ve done it in my old 4x8 tent but feel I do better with medium to medium small size plants.
 
Jimdamick

Jimdamick

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Cobbyist said:
Hey guys, been a long time lurker. Now Ive finally got my first indoor grow going (about 3rd altogether) and looking forward to sharing info with eachother.

So I have a 3X3 (to be exact 3'3"x3'3") grow tent with 400W (wall watts) of Vero 29 COB led's from Timber and ill supplement lighting at the bottoms of the plants in flower with about 150W of CFL's. This is for 4 plants that I will be training by mainlining and ill be using Pro-Mix medium. I will also be using AN's line of nutrients.

I was planning on either going with 5 gallon regular plastic pots or 7 gallon fabric pots and I'm wondering if I'm going over-kill on the pot sizes?

Thanks for any input
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The general rule of thumb is that for each month of growth you will need 1 gallon, so for a 3 month pot plant all you really need are 3 gallon pots.
They are easier to water, take up less area and work.
I always used 3 gallon pots when I grew soil, and grew some monsters.
Much easier.
Good luck with whatever you choose.
 
Jimdamick

Jimdamick

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Cobbyist said:
This is for 4 plants that I will be training by mainlining
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Have you ever mainlined before?
It's not that easy, slows growth bigtime and with 4 plants in a tent your size it will become a pain in the ass.
If you really want to try it (don't) just do a couple, and you'll see what I mean.
Good luck
 
Chef420

Chef420

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PrometheanLeaf said:
My 3x3 final pot choices, I go up a size when using plastics.

7-9 plants = .5g/1g fabric pots
5-6 plants = 1g/2g fabric pots
4 plants = 2g/3g fabric pots
3 plants = 3g/5g fabric pots
2 plants = 5g/7g fabric pots
1 plant = 7g/10g fabric pot
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I have a 3x3 and i follow this.
 
CwHall

CwHall

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reggie1387 said:
Sorry to bring up a old thread but I’m doing some research. I’m bout to start in my 3x3. 70/30 coco/perlite. And not sure if I should grow in 3,5,7gal fabric pots. How did you find the 7gal pots? To big? Not enough room? Perfect?
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no worries man i found my pots at home depot honestly
 
Alien88

Alien88

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Cobbyist said:
Hey guys, been a long time lurker. Now Ive finally got my first indoor grow going (about 3rd altogether) and looking forward to sharing info with eachother.

So I have a 3X3 (to be exact 3'3"x3'3") grow tent with 400W (wall watts) of Vero 29 COB led's from Timber and ill supplement lighting at the bottoms of the plants in flower with about 150W of CFL's. This is for 4 plants that I will be training by mainlining and ill be using Pro-Mix medium. I will also be using AN's line of nutrients.

I was planning on either going with 5 gallon regular plastic pots or 7 gallon fabric pots and I'm wondering if I'm going over-kill on the pot sizes?

Thanks for any input
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I use 7 gallon pots in my 3x3 with a semi living soil. Next run I plan on putting a 3x3 fabric raised bed in the tent and the same in my 2x4.
 
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