Best pots for autos

[Digitalsc4rz]

What's the best pots for autos? At the moment I have plastic 11litre pots. I've heard the fabric pots are better?

 

[St. Tom]

What's the best pots for autos? At the moment I have plastic 11litre pots. I've heard the fabric pots are better?

you can grow them in whatever you have my friend i use both cloth or fabric are meant to help with the roots

 

[Digitalsc4rz]

Yeah that's what I heard going to try it. See if it works better than plastic

you can grow them in whatever you have my friend i use both cloth or fabric are meant to help with the roots

 

[Dabber]

@Rain Science grow bags are worth a look for sure

 

[Dabber]

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[Sleeper143]

I use 11L or 17L fabric pots. Cost about £12 for 3 on amazon: PLANT !T 11L 3gals Square Base Dirt Pot without Handle Amazon product

 

[Groff]

Here is my take on it, having done almost everything in these past 10 years as a grower. From DWC/RDWC, coco, soil, top feed, bottom feed, run-to-waste, mapito, organic etc ... I think the only I've never done is NFT and aeroponics.

- Round plastic pots - tried and tested, they work

- Root pruning air-pots. Love the performance but hate using them. Difficult to water, loads of leaking through the openings. Hate the mess they make. It is impossible to give a good drench and typically that ends up making the grower underwater to avoid the mess

- Fabric - horrible when using coco/mapito and hydro nutes. Major salt build-up on the fabric that is near impossible to clean and burns roots. Also, easy to attract negative fungal activity, unless you have a rigid inter-crop cleaning/sterilisation procedure. Hard to give a good drench without water shooting out the sides just like air-pots. Never tried using organics though, may try it one day when doing outdoor, never indoors. Reason is, I freak out moving plants around/training. Feel like l disrupt the soil/root system too much as the fabric pot is not rigid

- Squared pots - What I am using currently and liking the best. I can bring plant closer together (as opposed to round pots) and easier to train them indoors. The root bound argument doesn't convince me at all. I feel no decline in performance compared to round pots.

Depends on your setup I would say. I am definitely partial to fabric pots for obvious reasons, just that indoors managing a tight spot needing to move plants around and training them, I'm not a huge fan. However, there are lots of dudes and dudettes out there who are happy training plants with fabric pots. I've been known to try it too, but snapped some branches when attempting to move plants around.

My 0.02c
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[automan2]

Over the 15 years of growing in nothing over 1 gal pot, I've experienced about the same as Groff...
My collection in includes round plastic pots from 2 ltr-1 gal.....fabric I gal.....and airpots 1 gal.
Aipots are definitely hard to care for as watering properly is doable but timestaking. Pot soaking is possible but a damn mess.
Fabric is my fav although a weak arm gives me trouble in handling and usually damages me or the plant. But I understand their popularity.
SOOOOO...the majority of my plants are in 2 ltr plastic pots for ease of handling.

 

[Mizzo81]

I believe in @Rain Science bags over conventional fabric pots and airpots. But this round I’m using the square plastic pots that came with the autopots but I’ll be rearranging some 3 gal round bags to fit the square base of the 2 easy 2 grow system.

 

[PotDaddy]

I grow in 5 gal hempy buckets. I like the cloth bags but got alge on the bottoms which was a PIA. I keep looking at autopots but I am staying with the hempys for another round.

I have seen monsters grown in all shapes and sized containers.

just do what works best for you,