Airpots, Smartpots, Reg pots....

[Ski]

For use with coco, your suggestions?

 

[Diesel dreams]

Try all three to see which one fits your garden... Every one is different even with the same equipment.. God luck..

 

[L-Immortal]

in coco I would venture to say just go with the regular pots, and you will be fine. After a few runs toss in a couple of the others for comparison b4 spending all that dough on the specialty pots. I have used all of them and indoors coc is regular pots. Moms benefit from the airpots and the like. Outdoors in soil however I have noticed quite the benefit from airpots. Basically if your gonna be in the pots for less that 5months in coco I say regular

 

[MrGreenWeed]

Whether coco or soil or other, regular pots are always the best choice for indoors. I've used the hard plastic air-prune pots, the fabric smart pots and various knock-offs of them and they have no advantages over basic pots from my experience. I will say for whatever reason square pots seem to allow more root growth then round pots but not in a big way. The size of the pot is probably the most important thing, also it's better to have opaque pots, less light going through the better.

 

[Chunkypigs]

I've tried everything but the plastic grow bags...I like the root structure when you use the fabric style smart pots, it's easier to work out the roots when you are recycling. I wash the pots in the washing machine then reuse. I wash out and flush my coco, fortify it and refill and go. I like the Gen hydro coco pressed cup that's about the size of a small soup bowl to root clones or for seedlings. they airprune like a smartpot and are reuseable. it keeps a baby for the first 2 weeks or so in a compact space. I'm trying out 3 gallon size this time around with a couple of weeks veg and some lst-ing...

roots pots can be found for less than what a plastic bucket costs, they are not pretty or very uniform but for 2 bucks WTF!

 

[Funion]

I like airpots. When I combine airpots, coco, and blumats I can use a smaller containers and get large container results. I use 2 gallon airpots.

 

[FreedomFightr]

I will say Smartpots hands down. I switched to Smartpots and will never go back to plastic pots. Sometimes I will run out of smartpots and have to use 1 or 2 plastic pots and they are always at least 20% smaller than the others.
Plastic pots can lead to Root Bound since the roots keeps circling around the pot.
Smartpots help Airprune your root system, They also help with heat issue's.

 

[FreedomFightr]

Also with smartpots you can run half the size you would use for a plastic pot. I have grown tree's out of a #1 smartpot.

 

[jackmayoffer]

Pots suck go with beds re use Coco for at least 7 runs.. If I had to do pots I would go smart pots..start in 1 go to 3 or 5.

 

[Maj.Cottonmouth]

I am about to finish my first round using coco and smart pots worked very well for me, trees in 3's. Video of current grow below.

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[Ski]

Thanks for the input, I knew I just had to wait a little while to get some feedback.

 

[Izoc666]

I would say air pot because it will prune the roots without stop the growth...if you still stick with regular pot...thers have spin off that paint inside of the pot before you put the coco in there..the spin off chemcial will prune the roots too..but the spin off is expensive so go with air pots ! Smartpot is good benefit as well...if you re going to upcan from smart pot you will hurt the roots like you have to yank the root off from the fabric...and it will be good idea to plant in the smartpot as final home till harvest. Thats my two cent, buddy.

Happy growing and peace

 

[Harry Gypsna]

Large pond planters would be a good alternative to airpots I reckon.... One of the 1st things on my list when I am finally rid of workmen in my gaff.

 

[LuciferianSahdu]

my next grow will be either grow bags(most likely 5-7 gallon size rolled down nice n wide so plants bush properly) with tons of holes punched in them (not for root pruning but just for greater air circultion), or ill be running some type of smart pot, i want to water to run off in a KISS method daily but when plants become mature n closer to root bound i want to water by submerging in water untill the bubbles stop rising to the surface then remove n drain and really 100 percent saturate n re oxygenate my medium. i want my grows to be idealy watered complety in the most efficient way, u need something abouve a standard pot to acheive whats avaible i believe, im just trimming the fat like the rest of us one grow at a time untill we get it just right.

 

[Chunkypigs]

Nice Vid Major!

PS. the airpots pissed out the sides every time I hand watered them, Funions use of blumats with them might be the way to go to eliminate that feature of the airpot. I think they are wonderful to look at and really jazz up the look of a garden. the rootballs look awesome when you unroll the pot after cropping it. Plastic pots are a pisser to clean and the airpots really sucked to clean out so I only ran them once.

 

[SRGB]

Ski:

Airpots, Smartpots, Reg pots....
For use with coco, your suggestions?

Perhaps you might consider this alternative:

www.icmag.com/ic/forumdisplay.php?f=65725

Best,
/SRGB/