Help with planting in pots for outdoor grow.

[doctorfeelgood]

I only have 20 gallon pots for my Auto Pounder, Trans Siberian and Auto Diesel; are these two big for autoflowers or can I use them? I am using a mix of mushroom compost, peat moss, earthworm castings, cow manure, blood meal, bone meal, garden lime, perlite, humic acid and Jobe's 4-4-4 plus beneficial microbes. I could go pick up some nursery pots but the hydro store is about an hour away from my house.

 

[namvet25]

Welcome to AFN.Twenty gal pots are a little overkill,usually 3 to 5 gal are the norm.If thats all you have and you have enough soil mix they will work.Just keep in mind you will be using more fertilizer and water and therefore cost more for nutes.

 

[doctorfeelgood]

Thanks for the reply, namvet25. I went on a trip around the farm and found ten #3 pots lying around in various places so we are all good. This is my first time growing autoflowers and thus far I am really surprised by their aggressive growth. I wanted to try planting two plants per twenty gallon container but I didn't want to risk them fighting over root space. Working with two photo-period plants in one pot has never given me issues, just unsure with the autos. Not that it matters now since the girls are sitting pretty in the #3's. It could be an interesting experiment in the future though.

 

[kushaddict]

Out of curiosity.....how much of a 20 gal pot would the roots end up taking for one autoflower?

 

[Grow-Da-Herb]

Wow! Twenty gallon pots! Somebody wants to grow some trees up in there! I'd be going 3 to 4 healthy bushy indica plants in each of those! :thumbs:

 

[doctorfeelgood]

KushAddict- I have no idea. My guess would be around six gallons worth.

Grow-Da-Herb - I usually grow two photo-period plants per twenty gallon pot and they grow into 10ft shrubs. I currently have three 20 gallon pots with two California Hash clones in them right now.

 

[X]

I wanted to try planting two plants per twenty gallon container but I didn't want to risk them fighting over root space.

This is the preferred method of one of our breeders, who is also one of our most experienced growers, though he keeps a fairly low profile so far as posting his grows.

 

[Mr Piggy]

You could always plunk a few in one of the twenties and have a party pot. You don't have to drive all the way to the nursery to get pots, look around your place and see what you have on hand. I've used fabric shopping bags from safeway, boxes, random buckets, milk crates lined with landscaping fabric, burlap sacks with the top rolled half way down. At some point I'd like to grow shit in an old toilet and jack's cleaner in a mop bucket. Who doesn't like literal translations, eh Ramona?