Are Grow Bags Good Outdoors?

Thanks but, I mix my own been working on it for 4 years now. Still adjusting it every year. Around $100 does about 30 to 35 gallons depending on the amount of perlite used.

30-35 gallons is like 4 cubic feet, thats damned expensive. 1 cubic foot is 7.48 US Gallons. $100 for 4 cubic feet? I don't wanna tell you what to do with your super soil, but thats a little too rich for my blood. I hope it grows bud that makes you trip balls like frying your brains out on 3 tabs of acid. Quick estimate, i need more than 380 gallons of soil. That would be like 1000 dollars for soil alone. Whats in your mix, if you don't mind me asking? Is it gnome farts and pixie dust? Haha, no, i don't mean to be rude, but that seems a little expensive to me. Is it a typo?

View attachment 1304646This was in a 4 gallon buckete was around 9 foot or so.
No typo. I kept track of everthing that I spent this year on the grow. Microsoft office Excel is great for stuff like that. Yup it was a crazy high number. That's my hobby I experiment and keep looking for more better. Thats why I need to find good cheap GROW BAGS. After spending a small fourtune on 50 5 gallon bucketes. Most of my plants were root bound before sept. Having to water twice a day, sometime three a day on a couple of them.
Yeah it does the job. My strawberrys love it as well. The left over soil goes to them.
The one I grew last year were putting life long smokers to sleep. I even had trouble smoking more than a joint an hour. It's the taste also seems more pronounced. That's not like me. Thinking about going back to that years mix. I keep adding to the mix every year. I think I am going back to last years mix. I think it had alot of rock phosphate in it. Made it really heavy to carry threw the woods/mountain. I deleted to things this year from the mix and adding something new. Going to be using composed leafs instead of peat moss thisa year to save money. I might be doing something next to a swamp. Might use some of that soil as well.

What are you putting in it that makes it so expensive? Paying $100 for 35 gallons is pretty steep.

In the last couple years just about everything that ESPOMA has for sale plus some others. Haven't stayed with the same mix yet. Keep adding to it or taking away. Havent had any nute problems yet. Just started out with the basic soiless mix that I been posting around this forum and grew from there. This years had to much nitrogen in it the leaves stayed green without changing to a lighter shade af green at the end of it's life. Haven't fine tuned it, yet. With this you just add water and grow perfect for gorrilla growing. The price of the soil is why I go threw the trouble and bring it back for my own garden.

sometimes in hot areas, black bags can overheat the soil. i like the white sided ones. the fabric bags are cooler at any color. a black bag can heat up the roots about 20 degrees in the direct sun. if the roots get over 120 degrees f, it will kill them. i once used a digital laser thermometer on my bags,and saw 136 degrees! it was a big bag, and the temp was cool in the middle, but the outer inch or so was cooked. it matters if that outer few inches is a large percentage of the total volume of soil. camo pots are cool, because they are made of fabric, and are camo! they come in pretty large sizes too.

Yeah a lot of the people I know who use grow bags or plastic containers paint them white or rig up some shade cloth around the container to keep the root ball cooler.

Yeah, I think shade cloth is the name of the game when it comes to pots like 30-45 gallons too. Gotta keep those pots cool

Thats a great idea. Shade Cloths. Never thought of that. That's why they call it dope. That might help on keeping the soil moist longer. No matter what time I get done with work I have to water the ladies. Unless it's been raining. Gotta come up with something to keep the container shaded.

painINda@ss said:

Thats a great idea. Shade Cloths. Never thought of that. That's why they call it dope. That might help on keeping the soil moist longer. No matter what time I get done with work I have to water the ladies. Unless it's been raining. Gotta come up with something to keep the container shaded.

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You can also use some mulch or a layer of straw on top of the soil about an inch or 2 thick to help keep the soil moist longer.