Growing in buckets....

ramblerpimp209 said:

oh, crap. 50 bucks sucks.
Just avoid miracle grow. Go to your local garden shop and ask for a good soil and mix it with perlite even if it already has perlite in it. mix like 3:1 you cannot over do it. Drainage is super important and perlite helps the soil dry and the oxygen flow. You will water a little more frequently than without perlite tho.

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ramblerpimp209 said:

Soil to the top. Let the roots have as much downward grow as the container allows. I transplant only once directly into these behemoths. If I first transplant into a 2 gallon bucket then transplant into the big 10 gallon, the root ball does not grow throughout the container. It stays in a 2 gallon-ish ball shape and the plants don't do as well. If I go directly from a 4" pot into the big 10 gallon, the roots disperse along the container much better.

The depth of the 10 gallon container is only about 1" from being as deep as a 5 gallon bucket.

By the way, in a container you can start your outdoor grow earlier by starting indoors in late January indoors under light. Even floros!! Then move outside when the days are long enough and you have a huge growth "head start!" BONUS

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