my grow space is only able to hold 4 plants in 3gal grow bags. its a pretty tight fit using the bags too.

what i want to know is with coco are u able to use smaller pots and still get decent yields. i heard on another forum that unlike soil u can use smaller pots (like 2gals) and still have good sized plants. in the future when i find a strain that i like i will do a perpetual grow wit clones, when i get to that point i probably will only b growing 2 plants @ a time doing a scrog

also with coco is it easy for roots to get rootbound, i know that sounds like a dumbass question. but i want to end up using the smallest sized pot possible without having shitty yields. what sized pots do u coco growers finish flowering in?

[NPK]

Aizan, you could grow some good-sized plants in two-gallon pots: going forward, that's what I'm going to use for flowering. I'm flowering my first round of coco ladies (Odyssey, seen below) in one-gallon pots and at just over 30 days can see already that the yields are WAY ahead of where the same strain was last time I chopped in 3.5 gallon pots of soil. When it comes to pot size (and yield!), it's just a whole 'nother medium. You can get away with much smaller pots in coco than you could with soil.



Still, I do wish I'd transplanted into two-gallon pots before flowering, because the plants are getting so heavy that they kept tipping over until I weighed 'em down with river stones! The one-gallon pots don't provide enough weight/stability.

ok coo just wanted some reassurance that with coco u can go smaller

and theres the proof wow those are in 1 gals thas hot!!!

[NPK]

I know, it's nuts. There's no way plants this size would make it in one-gallon pots of soil, they'd be so totally rootbound. Coco is a miracle medium!

let me ask u this do u know the reason y it works out that way

im curious

[gaiusmarius]

it really depends on how you feed the coco. regular daily feeding allows for less root volume. with a drip feed you can use incredibly small amounts of coco and still get plants like this. even with only a few days of veg phase on the slabs.



if on the other hand you only water it once every few days, then you will need a pot just as big as in earth ideally speaking that is. treat it like hydro and it can do with an incredibly small amount of root space.

[NPK]

Yeah, I've been hand-watering the plants every day. At this point they'd probably keel over if I didn't. I'd like to get 'em on a three- or four-times-daily feeding regimen, but that's going to have to wait until I get things automated.

Originally Posted by gaiusmarius

it really depends on how you feed the coco. regular daily feeding allows for less root volume. with a drip feed you can use incredibly small amounts of coco and still get plants like this. even with only a few days of veg phase on the slabs.

so is a drip system a must then, i plan on and hand watering until i figure out if i can even do a drip setup in my cab and thats a big if

but i'll do some searches n c if i can find something about drip systems

[gaiusmarius]

no a drip feed is not a must, you can hand water them daily if you want. you will still be able to use smaller pots, then with earth.

ok cool thanx for yall's help

cant wait to start my second grow lol im still on my first using soil