container-growing Potting up square........pots

[Englander]

Hi Guy's

How do you pot up ?

Personally I love square pots they fit beautifully in your trays big of small and are super efficient use of space.

I tend to go seed cell to 7cm then 9 cm then 11cm all square and I always repot in the corner of the pot like you see below.

I find it much quicker than trying to centralize which I often find leaves small missed hollow spaces, this never happens when you repot in the corner


I only repot to the centre when I move to round pots.


What do you do ?? Square or round for seedlings and corner or central potting up ?

 

[Bou]

Mainly square pots also, plants always centered (by habit)

 

[RobStar]

I always just go central. That means the back row of pots have enough room from the back wall or other row behind.
But......
I like the way you think

 

[Edmick]

Not having it centered would drive me crazy lol

 

[Grass Snake]

I like the corner idea. I’ll be doing this soon thanks.

 

[ahayastani]

Not having it centered would drive me crazy lol

Same here. I empty the container and replant the seedling if it¡s too much off-centered.

 

[Bou]

Same here. I empty the container and replant the seedling if it¡s too much off-centered.

 

[Grass Snake]

Planting off-centered gives it the bonsai effect. It’s a balance you guys wouldn’t understand

 

[DementedWelder]

The rule of thirds. I go slightly off centered in square pots too. Old photography habits die hard.

 

[The Hot Pepper]

Center it you serial killer!

 

[Englander]

Wow who'd have thought it would be such a controversial subject

But when repotting lot's of seedlings it saves so much time work smarter not harder

And next repotting I go the other corner and finally centralize in my final pot's which are round

 

[Downriver]

What a concept! I be likin' it! I'm wondering about root development, though. Do the roots in the corner have any problems developing, being so "confined", or do they develop with the same vigor as the roots toward the center of the pot?

 

[Englander]

Does this answer your question..........

Hurtberry potted and repotted in the corner this pic was when it was about to move from 9cm pot to 11cm pot.

I'd say the root's don't seem to mind