Has anyone used this with soil as medium ?
GROW BAGS HYDROPONICS CONTAINER POT POLY PLASTIC B&W
GROW BAGS HYDROPONICS CONTAINER POT POLY PLASTIC B&W
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Anyone with experience with Poly pot ?
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They seem to work well.
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/44561-going-to-use-grow-bags-this-season/
Hope so! I just bought a bunch at the local hydro store for 30 cents each, and will be using them this year.
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/44561-going-to-use-grow-bags-this-season/
Hope so! I just bought a bunch at the local hydro store for 30 cents each, and will be using them this year.
Yeah, they are really cheap and thats why they are interesting. However, I see that most of them are for use with pebbles. So I think it might be to little air and to moist in them with soil?
You can use them with either soil or coco or hydronton (clay pepples).
Joshuap2000 said:
So you have personal experience with the use of poly bags? Please share...
i use the 10 gallon bags from htg. they are great but most definatly only last one season in the sun.
big plants WILL tip them over... i put mine ontop of small masonry blocks so they drain...
what else? you can lift them easily by just gripping the plastic around the rim...
but by the end of fall...you have to move them very carfully, or you will be left with two fistfuls of plastic when you try the same. they most definatly get brittle in the sun.
i use them with peatlite.
big plants WILL tip them over... i put mine ontop of small masonry blocks so they drain...
what else? you can lift them easily by just gripping the plastic around the rim...
but by the end of fall...you have to move them very carfully, or you will be left with two fistfuls of plastic when you try the same. they most definatly get brittle in the sun.
i use them with peatlite.
If they last one summer and do the job why not. They cost just 32cent a piece and can be recycled after the end of the season.
You don't have any extra holes in them for airing, just lifting them up to allow excess water to drain ?
You don't have any extra holes in them for airing, just lifting them up to allow excess water to drain ?
they have plenty of holes on the bottom for drainage. IMO the fabric pot thing is entirely too wasteful for my stye of growing.
fabric pots can consume like 3x the amount of water than impermeable ones do in my climate at least. i can guarantee you they do not yield results commensurate with their cost and water usage.
there are no holes for handles. i just grab a hand full of plastic and lift them. i have them on blocks because the area they are in teds to accumulate as much as 2" of standing water in a good storm, and i dont want the fertilizer charge to get washed out of the peatlite.
32 cents does not sound right for the 10 gallon bags. i remember them being like 15-20 bucks for a pack of 25.
fabric pots can consume like 3x the amount of water than impermeable ones do in my climate at least. i can guarantee you they do not yield results commensurate with their cost and water usage.
there are no holes for handles. i just grab a hand full of plastic and lift them. i have them on blocks because the area they are in teds to accumulate as much as 2" of standing water in a good storm, and i dont want the fertilizer charge to get washed out of the peatlite.
32 cents does not sound right for the 10 gallon bags. i remember them being like 15-20 bucks for a pack of 25.
Its for 100 of them. Ok, thanks for the useful info!
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I used fifty 5 gallon ones 2 years ago and they worked well and they are reall cheap.
Well, I ordered 100 of them, $30 for the lot. Why not