I was thinking the same. I do 1000 gallons outdoor Id like to hear some one say it's over kill lol
is a 15 gallon smart pot too big for an indoor indica grow?
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I was thinking the same. I do 1000 gallons outdoor Id like to hear some one say it's over kill lol
Will Ferrell
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No, not too big. I use 15 gal pots as well on my indoor. 1000 watt light is a must. I veg in a 3 gal pot for the first 2-3 months, then move them into 15 gal to veg at least another month, then flower. Topping and bending is a must for me too cause my grow room is less than 8' tall
Will Ferrell
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You might be right, I've been thinking I've been vegging too long. I've got one plant that's been vegging for about a year now in a 15 gal. I feel kinda stupid about it lol...
innerG
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Imagine the Sea of Green weight you could pull in that space over a whole year...
hyroot
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Depends on your style of growing. With bottled nutes 5-7 gallon is fine. But witb organic water only soil mix. Anywhere from 15 - 30 gal is what you want. Nothing less than 10 gal. I rock 10 gals in living soil. Now I plan on upping it to 15 gal geo pots. Oh by the way don't buy smart pots. They're garbage after 4-5 grows. Geo pots last much longer. If you want cheaper fabric pots. Root pouch are a little better quality than smart pot and much cheaper. But geo pots are the best fabric pots. Cheapest from growers house. Root pouch are on amazon.
Look into blumats for watering large pots too.
Look into blumats for watering large pots too.
Sloan West
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I thought organics would want the larger pot for all the life in it
Renegade_farmer
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Perfectly put. People always look at me like a crazy person for using 15gal pots...although Ive been researching the topic all night because over the last year I've been using botanicare kind, and a few of there supplements. I water twice with kind and then hit a special blend of organic bottled nutes to build microbes, add flavor, color and for yield sometimes instead of Moab I'll hit em with shit tons of bat guano(budswell), liquid bone meal, seaweed extract 1-1-16 and molasses. which is for all of the reasons above plus heavy yields it took years tweaking that recipe and I consider it a trade secret I highly recommend trying this. I think it compares to Moab I need to run a controlled experiment tho. Back to topic tho all these nutes and soil add up price wise and I've been considering running a light with 7gal and tupur instead of promix. I would use kind and a couple supplements of botanicare with Moab, mammoth p, and recharge. Drip did 6x a day. Last year my brother and I were shown ebb and flow with GH and rockwool (crops look amazing I can't smoke that shit) but what really caught my eye is how large and healthy the plants got in 6x6x4 cubes also the fact that rockwool is awesome for 2 people running 16k in flower. We've done 16k with 15s 4plants per light and it's 10x the work easily but we could also stay easily in our plant count. So the I've. Figured coco and 7g maybe even 5g pots with mostly synthetic nutes would match my 8oz+ plus plants i get in 15s all day. My main concern was the roots don't need empty space for salts to build or space in general. So the more root bound less medium the better with synthetic nutes that just need contact with the roots and science do all the work. So I've been researching container size read a lot of dumb dumb shit till this thread and was second guessing a proven method of 7+ years of experience between my mentor and I cuz everyone and thing was making it sound like 5gal was huge inside and 15s were for outdoor only lol 150 is small outside. During this stoned late night post and after reading this thread I'm firm that using 15s 4 per gavita works great and I'll probably keep spending extra to feed the soil with organics. My first 5 years was strictly organic with iguana juice and a killer soil mix the most in organic thing I'd ever use was azomite and greensand lol and I know for a fact you need at least 10-15 to grow organically we used 20s. I've noticed plants seem to just get as wide as the container very quickly or even in a rushed flower. No one wanted to pay for the heady organic so I switched to the kind with some organics. Mainly cuz of cost and it's just easy/less work, plants will go down hill quick organically if u don't transplant on time, slower veg time too but my yields were close to two per. So yea 15gal pots kind and that love for the plant. Might start using those halo spray feeders for kind and in between rez changes hand water my organics. Check out @coloradoorganics on IG and @Renegade_farmer. Thanks for reading sorry it was so long. You guys helped and hopefully I did too