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

[Proph]

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.

A little yucca never hurt anyone, lol. That's fine to do. I dont know if I'd use it with every watering, but adding it here and there won't hurt.

 

[jdm61]

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.

From what I have seen, even some of the higher end bags can run kind of weird. From what I’ve seen, the 2 gallon rain so I had to bag is actually 1.7 but the 3 gallon is like 3.2 I currently have a single 3 gallon or a been using for a couple of grows. I like it. Are used bio biz light mix for the first grow and really like that, but that bag got contaminated when my garage got flooded during the hurricane

 

[Grisbi]

helly guyz,
absolutly fantastic to read you and learn
so im going for the 7 gallons definilty, and didnt understood everything ( sorry for my english, doing my best)
so with rain science bad, humidity go threw the bag and get dry faster?
what about that yucca storry? didnt get it @WildBill

 

[WildBill]

helly guyz,
absolutly fantastic to read you and learn
so im going for the 7 gallons definilty, and didnt understood everything ( sorry for my english, doing my best)
so with rain science bad, humidity go threw the bag and get dry faster?
what about that yucca storry? didnt get it @WildBill

Yucca helps prevent your media from developing dry pockets in your media. It's a natural surfactant.. I use Raw .It’s a water-soluble very fine powder.

 

[Grisbi]

Yucca helps prevent your media from developing dry pockets in your media. It's a natural surfactant.. I use Raw .It’s a water-soluble very fine powder.

ahhhhh okk, i was thinking about yucca plant ahahahaah, was telling me :" what this dude is speaking about...planting yucca close to my lovely autoweed !!!

ok for the yucca power @WildBill , can you tell me the pourcentage of yucca powder in the final supersoil mix i have to put in?
thank you for the knowledge sharing love it

 

[WildBill]

ahhhhh okk, i was thinking about yucca plant ahahahaah, was telling me :" what this dude is speaking about...planting yucca close to my lovely autoweed !!!

ok for the yucca power @WildBill , can you tell me the pourcentage of yucca powder in the final supersoil mix i have to put in?
thank you for the knowledge sharing love it

The best way to describe the amount when building my mix on this current batch is a light salting after each full layering of amendments I added. I mainly rely on it with watering. It did make a very good difference in this grow. Not really needed if you start running sips like Earthboxes.
I think I saw a recommendation on Build a soil, but not for sure. A little goes a very long way.
I can't get the link to show up properly for some damn reason. Just search on Amazon for RAW Yucca ......RAW is the brand name.
I bought the 2oz

 

[Grisbi]

thank you @WildBill , i will add that yucca powder with my futur lightmix /perlite + 10% flo organic +10% activated charcoal
i hope that will be perfect.