Yields

Has anybody used a 5-6 gallon bucket for planting? if so how big was your yield,im transplanting my plants into 5-6 gallon buckets,its time and i want to make sure my plants grow bigger

A lot of ppl use 5-6 gal buckets. There are to many things to consider when it comes to yield to tell how much you will get from just the pot size. To get big plants you need a long veg period. A plant will double if not triple in height after you start to flower. So if you veg until it is about 2 ft tall, it will finish around 5 or 6 feet.

Just my opinion...

cph said:

A lot of ppl use 5-6 gal buckets. There are to many things to consider when it comes to yield to tell how much you will get from just the pot size. To get big plants you need a long veg period. A plant will double if not triple in height after you start to flower. So if you veg until it is about 2 ft tall, it will finish around 5 or 6 feet.

Just my opinion...

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Yep.
You'll wanna have at least 60 days veg time in a 5 gal bucket to use it's full potential. Depending on where you're at, it may be too late to start them outdoors now.

I think cph is right.

If you remove all limitations and the size of your plant will be determined by the time/size she reaches in vegetation.

That is not to say a large pot will not improve yield or size.

The larger the root system the more hormones = bigger plant IF it is not being limited by another bottleneck.

Think in bottlenecks

Thats just my take of things.

6 gallons are average size i believe?

I used a 55 liter sized pot filled with Coco - Its the largest ive dared and ive found that the potential size of the plants increases greatly.

Regardless , vegetation time is very long , the plants are near "immovable" throughout the whole operation, the management is hardwork , although large yields the system is inefficient in terms of g/w/m2.

Tree's are fun to grow though