Pot size for a 5x5 tent?

Hey everyone

I am planning my first grow indoors and currently have picked up a 5x5 tent,HLG scorpion Diablo, and a 6” in-line fan with filter. I am now trying to figure out the right size pot/number of plants.
My hope is to treat it closer to a 4x4 tent and not pack it full so I have some room for peripherals.
I was leaning towards 4x plants in 5 gallon smart pots, but wanted to get some opinions here before pulling the trigger on the pots. I haven’t decided on photos or autos yet, and still need to figure out what soil/nutes I’ll be using.

Happy to hear any advice or suggestions y’all may have. I’m hoping to go for something low maintenance/easy rather than trying to completely maximize yield for my first couple of grows.
Thanks!

I've done 6 in a 4x4... Was stupid, 5gallon

4 would be good with lots of room to spread out

BobThe420Builder said:

I've done 6 in a 4x4... Was stupid, 5gallon

4 would be good with lots of room to spread out

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Thanks for the input. Do you think 5 gallon pots will be big enough if I decide to go photos? Or with only 4 should I be looking at the 7 gallons?

Do you have any soil recommendations? Im currently leaning towards something like kind soil or foxfarm soil

Fox farm is good people geow dank with it. Beware of Mag deficiencies and you will obviously need to feed it a after few weeks.

I've never gone over 5g, impossible to move.

Had a Promix HP GG4 give me 10+ oz in a 3g fabric


I personally don't like and soil with nutes like Fox Farm, you have no control over anything

I love Promix HP, it's a blank canvas,but isn't a pain like coco with the constant watering. I hate Coco...like reallllllly hate it...lol

Or DWC, that's easy a d get HUGE plants


I run GH flora trio mainly in both,I've done Mega Crop, liked it, just not good in a rezz

Hokie_fan99 said:

Thanks for the input. Do you think 5 gallon pots will be big enough if I decide to go photos? Or with only 4 should I be looking at the 7 gallons?

Do you have any soil recommendations? Im currently leaning towards something like kind soil or foxfarm soil

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4X 5 Gallon pots should be plenty for a 4x4 canopy.

BobThe420Builder said:

... I love Promix HP, it's a blank canvas ...

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Make that two ... HP is great - nothing in it to fry young root systems. Makes a great germination and cloning medium.

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I use 4 x 7 gallon pots in my 4x4, get 4 days between waterings.

The smaller the pot you go let more watering you'll have to do.

Hokie_fan99 said:

currently have picked up a 5x5 tent,HLG scorpion Diablo,

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Let us know how you like the Diablo, I like the design, lights over the plants.

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If I was using 320(s), then 4 (5) gallons is what I would do, running 2 under each 320, but if I was using a scorpion Diablo, I would at least bump my final pots up to 7 gallons, as that light will cover 4 (7) gallon pots really well!

Depends on the substrate. With coco I wouldn't go over 3 gallons, it takes to much time to dry out.

I'm running 3 gal geo fabric pots In 5x5 tent. 9 plants, some standing at 6'. My only concern with fabric pots turned out to be humidity, and watering times but mostly humidity as watering can be corrected slightly with soil composition. At a nursery they have a dense compost mushroom mix, I added in 10% to pots, it makes the soil wayyy dense compared with this perlite soil mixes available which I leaned away from. I would only use this with fabric pots though cause the fans and surface area of the pots burn alot of humidity/water.The FFOF mix for when I transplanted and threw under flower. I didn't like the tree frog mix, lots of perilite! FFOF carried me through stretch and maybe more but I love to add more additives than I do actual base nutrients like a grow and bloom. One word of advice is fabric pots should have saucers as the water comes right out the sides for the first couple mins as the dry soil seems to repel it, even with yucca haha! Cheers!

Come on guys these are small pots!

10 gallon imo, is awesome and doable. I personally find 6 to be incredible in a 5x5, and have had 7 and 8 plants in a 5x5.

If running 5 or 7 gallon you can fit 9 easily in the 5x5.

In a 5x5 4 plants could be huge plants!

I use 2,3, or 5g pots in 4x4. Just depends how big I want them to get. 3g is fine for most IMO unless you're scrogging or trying to grow monsters

ComfortCreator said:

... In a 5x5 4 plants could be huge plants! ...

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Yeah ... they would be massive. But what an amazing show to see a 4 square foot plant progress through flowering. And it's not that hard to get big canopies. SCROG, manifold, supercrop ... 4 to 6 of those really big babes in a 5 x 5 would be ideal.