Grow Mediums 5gallons or 7 gallons, help me for choosing

[Grisbi]

hello everybody?
hope you are doing well?
would love to know you thought about this:
setup : autoflow with supersoil ( flo organic supersoil) and blumat toft top dripping with nice led
im gonna order 8 rain science grow bag, but i hesitate beetween 5 or 7 gallons????
what is the best choice to get better result/yield ?
thank you guyz

 

[Proph]

hello everybody?
hope you are doing well?
would love to know you thought about this:
setup : autoflow with supersoil ( flo organic supersoil) and blumat toft top dripping with nice led
im gonna order 8 rain science grow bag, but i hesitate beetween 5 or 7 gallons????
what is the best choice to get better result/yield ?
thank you guyz

Bigger is better for organic grows.. Results/yield depend more on the grower than they do the size of the pot or grow bag..

 

[hecno]

I use 27 litre , 6 gallon - your roots will travel , but 7 gallon is a bit big , There is real no need for it .

 

[Grisbi]

Hello @hecno , thank you for the advise, rain science grow bag, only does 5 or 7 gallons, i might choose their 7 gallons

 

[Tom Bombadil]

I'm using "#7" cloth pots which are more like a true 5 gallon ime and the cloth pots sold as #5 are around 3 gallons.. Some strains can take advantage of larger volumes of soil than others. With some strains the extra soil will be a waste..I've done as small as a 1 gallon nursery pot which is basically 3/4 gallon and the plant was on the smaller side compared to what im used to. I think rain science uses actual gallons though, not trade gallons or "#5" or "#7" which is misleading to many.
GL

 

[jdm61]

#5 plastic nursery pot is like 3.6 gallons IIRC. I don't think that the numbers correlate to gallons capacity.

I'm using "#7" cloth pots which are more like a true 5 gallon ime and the cloth pots sold as #5 are around 3 gallons.. Some strains can take advantage of larger volumes of soil than others. With some strains the extra soil will be a waste..I've done as small as a 1 gallon nursery pot which is basically 3/4 gallon and the plant was on the smaller side compared to what im used to. I think rain science uses actual gallons though, not trade gallons or "#5" or "#7" which is misleading to many.
GL

 

[Tom Bombadil]

#5 plastic nursery pot is like 3.6 gallons IIRC. I don't think that the numbers correlate to gallons capacity.

I think a #5 nursery pot is 5 trade gallons. A trade gallon is 3/4 of a us gallon. So a #5 nursery pot would be 5 US gallons x .75... about 3.75 US gallons if I am not mistaken.

 

[WildBill]

Bigger is better for organic grows.. Results/yield depend more on the grower than they do the size of the pot or grow bag..

hello everybody?
hope you are doing well?
would love to know you thought about this:
setup : autoflow with supersoil ( flo organic supersoil) and blumat toft top dripping with nice led
im gonna order 8 rain science grow bag, but i hesitate beetween 5 or 7 gallons????
what is the best choice to get better result/yield ?
thank you guyz

After reading a fair bit about the Rain Science bags, I would go with the 7gal.
I think I'm gonna buy a few for my next run. You might want to buy some yucca to help prevent your media getting hydrophobic in places with Rain Science tending to dry out quicker.
hecno
Proph

Since my media is not quite where I want it yet, Either one of you guys see a problem with a little sprinkling with it on each watering? I add just enough to be able to whip up a little froth with a little bamboo stick.

 

[jdm61]

I think a #5 nursery pot is 5 trade gallons. A trade gallon is 3/4 of a us gallon. So a #5 nursery pot would be 5 US gallons x .75... about 3.75 US gallons if I am not mistaken.

Trade gallon? That’s like the old “builders acre“ Which was actually about .85 acres. LOL I actually saw number saying 3.7 but I wasn’t sure about that.

 

[olbobcat]

Trade gallon? That’s like the old “builders acre“ Which was actually about .85 acres. LOL I actually saw number saying 3.7 but I wasn’t sure about that.

Believe me, having raised plants to sell in the past there is no standard pot. The distributor that I ordered from had 15 to 20 different size gallon pots alone. A trade gallon means any size other than a full gallon. I think the smallest was .62 gallons. They also have charts that tell you how many pots you can fill based on bales and cubic yard . When you are potting up 500 to 1000 plants you want to save soil when you can. I used to buy full-gallon pots which are pretty close to a small 2 gallon trade pot. I was surprised the other day when I filled 4 3gal cloth pots with 1 bag of biobizz lite mix I was thinking there is no way these are 3 gal or 12ltr, but it all fit in. I use mostly 5 gal pots with 7gal for plants that I am told will get big and 3gal for the little guys. Outside 15gal on autos.