What size pots do you use?

I’ve used big and small pots for my indoor grows but I find 10L pots to be just the right size. Curious as to what you guys use and why?

I plant seeds in yogurt cups mostly because my ol lady eats activia daily and they are perfect size to tray a dozen or so at a time. I just slice a few slits in the walls and pop a few holes in the bottom with a blade for aeration.
Then they go into 3 gal pots for veg; slightly larger than your 10L containers. I use cheapo plastic grow bags because they hold moisture well and only cost a few cents each. For flowering I use 10 gal fabric smart pots; they drain off easily which works well with my Blumat system. They would hold like 38 liters of soil. Big roots big fruits...

Depends on veg time.
Have used 350mm pots and currently using 250mm and 200mm

VILEPLUME said:

I’ve used big and small pots for my indoor grows but I find 10L pots to be just the right size. Curious as to what you guys use and why?

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Either 11L or 18L pots of coco.

Hard plastic square pots.

I’ve tried air pots, fabric pots, round pots, troughs etc.

I find the square plastic pots to work best for my situation.

I used to grow with 11ltr plastics then went to 15ltr plastics then on to 5gal cloth pots.

I still use plastics in veg but drill holes in the bottom quarter to help air prune so when I pot up to cloth there isn't much root circling.

In flower 5gal cloth pots give a nice size plant per 2x2 space. (obviously depends on veg time)

Guess it depends on how many plants per X area you like to grow with.

I use whatever I can grab from the nursery recycle bin. I look for #3 pots but I will use #2 to #5

I am on a constant strain hunt. I flower in pint pots up to 5 gallon depending on the reason for the run. Right now I have 2 seed tables going running 1 gallon pots because I don't need a lot of this strains seeds.

6.5 liter square 'bato' brand filled with 100% perlite.

Depends on what medium you're growing them in. I grow in 100% coco with blumats and use three gallon pots. I can grow trees. You'd need bigger pots if growing in soil.

This plant was growing in 3 pints / 1.4 liters of 100% coco. Four feet tall. And that was just a plant I stuck in the greenhouse and basically forgot about. Usually watering after it had completely wilted.

I start with either solo cups or plastic coffee containers with plenty of drainage holes for clones and seedlings then end up in 5 gallon (16 quart) pots. Inside I have fabric pots and outside are in plastic, so I can bring them inside if needed easily and I feel the fabric dries faster. The 3' tall plants I try for seem to like the size.

I use soil and it depends if im using air pots i use 15 litres if regular plastic pots up to 35 litre pots

xtsho said:

Depends on what medium you're growing them in. I grow in 100% coco with blumats and use three gallon pots. I can grow trees. You'd need bigger pots if growing in soil.

This plant was growing in 3 pints / 1.4 liters of 100% coco. Four feet tall. And that was just a plant I stuck in the greenhouse and basically forgot about. Usually watering after it had completely wilted.

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Wow that's a big plant for such a small pot. How many weeks veg is that?

I clone in rapid root plugs, then I plug them into 3" x 3" rockwool cubes. From there I transplant to 1, 3, 5, and my flowering pots are 7gal full of rockwool. Putting plants in containers too big and not gradually transplanting, causes over watering and slow root growth.

VILEPLUME said:

Wow that's a big plant for such a small pot. How many weeks veg is that?

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I don't know exactly how long. Between two and three months from sprouting. It came up on it's own after I filled some pots with coco and had them on a shelf in the greenhouse. The coco came from a pot where I grew a plant I made seeds with so it was just a seed that fell into the coco on it's own. The poor plant had a rough life. It would dry out completely and wilt before I watered it. I have since chopped it down because it turned out to be a male and I didn't need it for pollen. But you can grow big plants in small containers of coco.

I flower in 3 or 7 gallon smart pots depending on which flower space she's in.