Outdoor more pots or bigger pots

I can't decide for this upcoming season if I should do more plants in 10 gallon smart pots or less plants but bigger pots. Im doing a few strains but ATM I only have my gorilla glue beans and I'm going to start them early indoors and mainline all of my plants before they go outdoor. Oh and I'm using coco
 

ruby fruit

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I can't decide for this upcoming season if I should do more plants in 10 gallon smart pots or less plants but bigger pots. Im doing a few strains but ATM I only have my gorilla glue beans and I'm going to start them early indoors and mainline all of my plants before they go outdoor. Oh and I'm using coco
Why are you starting them early and considering 10 gallons ?
 
Ruby fruit I already have quite a few 10 gallon smart pots laying around so I'd figure I'd use those.

Yeah I agree with you chemphlegm I think I'll meet halfway and do a couple big ones and however many 10 gallons I can fill up with the rest of the coco
 

Sir72

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I would do all big or most big and some smaller. With big plants even the smallest buds are a decent size, that's not the case with smaller plants. Ur big plants should big 30 gallons minimum.
 

Lara vanhousen

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I only run straight coco outside. 65 is the bare bare minimum I would go 100s seem to be solid going to be using alot of 150s and 200s this year with a semi early start 10 gallons are for shit that got an extremely late start. 100s are for my clones that aren't started early.
 

Lara vanhousen

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It's only my opinion but if you run 10 gallons full season I'm guessing your going to be feeding like 5x a day? I'm in a hot area in 10 gallons if your pumps randomly fail you might be fucked. The bigger pots give you a small advantage of a little more time between waterings. Not sure what your water situation is but seems like coco outside you really need to focus on the water budget vs nute budget
 

Sir Napsalot

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I grew outdoors in 10gal pots and fed once a day, but that was in organic planting mix, not coco.

The advantage of portability afforded by 10gal pots is also something to consider
 
For water I'm setting up a grav fed drip system (still doing some designing on that)
I only have about a 10'x10' area this year for my outdoor. Water budget won't be an issue it's more the coco I'm worried about going over budget. Laravanhousen what coco do you use I was thinking of going with botanicare because I've heard it has little to no salts and doesn't need to washed
 

Lara vanhousen

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I grew outdoors in 10gal pots and fed once a day, but that was in organic planting mix, not coco.

The advantage of portability afforded by 10gal pots is also something to consider
Train the fuck out of a 65 to be narrow and long you can still bring it inside through a door and into a room
 

Lara vanhousen

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For water I'm setting up a grav fed drip system (still doing some designing on that)
I only have about a 10'x10' area this year for my outdoor. Water budget won't be an issue it's more the coco I'm worried about going over budget. Laravanhousen what coco do you use I was thinking of going with botanicare because I've heard it has little to no salts and doesn't need to washed
If your working with a 10 x 10 seems like it would be more productive to light dep if you have the time. I've been using Botanicare inside. Used to use royal gold but my store stopped carrying it... only used It because it was cheaper. In the summer in nor cal I use coco by the yard from a landscape supply and mixed with bagged.
 
If your working with a 10 x 10 seems like it would be more productive to light dep if you have the time. I've been using Botanicare inside. Used to use royal gold but my store stopped carrying it... only used It because it was cheaper. In the summer in nor cal I use coco by the yard from a landscape supply and mixed with bagged.
Where at in nor-cal anywhere near Chico or farther up? Also with do you transplant up into the 65 or start them in it?
 

Sir Napsalot

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Train the fuck out of a 65 to be narrow and long you can still bring it inside through a door and into a room
My right arm and shoulder are permanently damaged from a motorcycle crash and my strength is very limited- I don't want or need my plants to get huge in order to fulfill my needs, but I do hear what you're saying my friend. :)
 
My right arm and shoulder are permanently damaged from a motorcycle crash and my strength is very limited- I don't want or need my plants to get huge in order to fulfill my needs, but I do hear what you're saying my friend. :)
Yeah this last season I did 10 gallon smart pots and ffof and I'd have to wait for them to dry out before I could move them
 

Indacouch

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I do my giant plants and then I do rows of smaller plants that I train the fuck out of ......my smaller
Plants are equivalent to about 5by5 in smart pots and spaced nice so I can walk between them and tend them easy ......and it's usually always all OG kush that I do this with .....over the years I've dialed in growing this strain this way and we all know it's not a super yeilder or anything but the real deal OGK makes up for that with potency no problem .........so depending on your reasoning do some giants for aww factor and yeild and then set up a plot for your plants you don't plan on going huge on ......but don't start as earlier as your talking with that small of pots .....GL

I had a little experimental garden aside from my others this year with a few strains I don't usually do ....but it got neglected since I was busy with my other grows .....here's a pic image.jpg
Nothing amazing simply because I didn't put the time into these I did my other grows .....still pulled great smoke and lots of it ....but I would have done better if I had more time to tend this lil experiment .....GL OP
 
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I do my giant plants and then I do rows of smaller plants that I train the fuck out of ......my smaller
Plants are equivalent to about 5by5 in smart pots and spaced nice so I can walk between them and tend them easy ......and it's usually always all OG kush that I do this with .....over the years I've dialed in growing this strain this way and we all know it's not a super yeilder or anything but the real deal OGK makes up for that with potency no problem .........so depending on your reasoning do some giants for aww factor and yeild and then set up a plot for your plants you don't plan on going huge on ......but don't start as earlier as your talking with that small of pots .....GL

I had a little experimental garden aside from my others this year with a few strains I don't usually do ....but it got neglected since I was busy with my other grows .....here's a pic View attachment 3861692
Nothing amazing simply because I didn't put the time into these I did my other grows .....still pulled great smoke and lots of it ....but I would have done better if I had more time to tend this lil experiment .....GL OP
Wow those are some beauts. I'm thinking of doing a few in 65 gallon smarts and the rest in 10 gallons definitely not starting the 10s early
 
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