Grow Mediums Using fabric pots in autopot?

[milkmann]

Hello all, has anyone used fabric pots in the autopot before and if so, how was it? I'm planning on using some cut-down 8L fabric pots to replace the 15L autopots. I feel the plants are more dense when grown in the smaller autopots and flower quicker, but would be great for the roots to be unrestricted.

Anyone's advice with that would be great

Thanks!

 

[Tony21]

Hey man, I have been thinking the same, you way is way cheaper than my way haha, I have been eyeing this system http://www.easyfeed.co.uk/index.php/systems/xl-30ltr-systems/4-pot-xl-30ltr-easy-feed-system-detail

Of course it will work

 

[Tony21]

I forgot, I think you are right about the pot size and flowering, smaller is a little faster.
I grow in 25 L Autopots for the main plants, but I also have 4 and 8 l hanging baskets, and Aquafarms, Airpots, with the same strain, the small pots finish faster.
Here is some Ak420's, all at day 62, first the basket plants

And the big plants

The big one usually take a couple weeks longer, around 85-95 days. Of course the yield is much higher from the big pots, 3 or 4 times as much usually. The 4 l pots is normally 50 - 75 g.
The last picture that plant will get big, and I think close to 100 days for that one to finish. She's 125 cm tall and growing 4-5 cm 3very day now.

 

[Ozone69]

I wonder if the medium drying faster or just differently than with the stock plastic pots would affect how things did?

There is something similar to, albeit without the automation Autopots out there called Octopots and they use fabric sided pots. Very pricy, though. Dunno that I've ever read anyone actually growing with 'em. Just something that someone pops up every now and then asking about how they do or if anyone has used 'em type thing.

 

[lunarman]

I forgot, I think you are right about the pot size and flowering, smaller is a little faster.
I grow in 25 L Autopots for the main plants, but I also have 4 and 8 l hanging baskets, and Aquafarms, Airpots, with the same strain, the small pots finish faster.
Here is some Ak420's, all at day 62, first the basket plants View attachment 849881 View attachment 849882
And the big plantsView attachment 849883 View attachment 849884
The big one usually take a couple weeks longer, around 85-95 days. Of course the yield is much higher from the big pots, 3 or 4 times as much usually. The 4 l pots is normally 50 - 75 g.
The last picture that plant will get big, and I think close to 100 days for that one to finish. She's 125 cm tall and growing 4-5 cm 3very day now.

sweet looking garden man. Healthy. Big. All good.

 

[lunarman]

Hello all, has anyone used fabric pots in the autopot before and if so, how was it? I'm planning on using some cut-down 8L fabric pots to replace the 15L autopots. I feel the plants are more dense when grown in the smaller autopots and flower quicker, but would be great for the roots to be unrestricted.

Anyone's advice with that would be great

Thanks!

Air domes in the equation or not?

 

[milkmann]

Air domes in the equation or not?

no airdomes

 

[milkmann]

I forgot, I think you are right about the pot size and flowering, smaller is a little faster.
I grow in 25 L Autopots for the main plants, but I also have 4 and 8 l hanging baskets, and Aquafarms, Airpots, with the same strain, the small pots finish faster.
Here is some Ak420's, all at day 62, first the basket plants View attachment 849881 View attachment 849882
And the big plantsView attachment 849883 View attachment 849884
The big one usually take a couple weeks longer, around 85-95 days. Of course the yield is much higher from the big pots, 3 or 4 times as much usually. The 4 l pots is normally 50 - 75 g.
The last picture that plant will get big, and I think close to 100 days for that one to finish. She's 125 cm tall and growing 4-5 cm 3very day now.

looks lovely. u would be very happy with 50-75g from a 4L pot. I don't think I'll be getting that with my 15L autopot! I'm not a very good grower lol

 

[kushedy]

I've used the 10lt easy feed fabric pots in my autopot system for about a year. They are a tad bigger than the plastic pots but you can squish them into a standard autopot tray.
Worked well. I have literally just switched back to using the standard 15lt plastic pots as the fabric pots were a major pain in the rear to clean up after each grow.

 

[jelly0]

I've been thinking about doing something like this too I got the idea from this picture I found on a blog

I know on the autopots site they sell an aquavalve kit called "easy2go," seems like all you need to get is a reservoir. Looks like a really cheap way to get into autopots, I may just try it out. But anyways it seems like it has been done before with good results!