Question on pot size for SOG

[Admortis]

I am a little over a year working with my sog and have been having pretty good results. My questions is this; does anyone know what size pots a commercial grow uses for a SOG? I currently use 5" square pots and have been getting good results but was just curious if there is an advantage to stepping up to one gallon pots. Any thoughts?

 

[vitamin_green_inc]

Its all about your space and the genetics. Some strains like having big root systems, some don't need as big. Is this a true 12/12 from seed SOG? Or cutting clones, rooting, throwing them into 12/12?

 

[Mr.Moniker]

Its all about your space and the genetics. Some strains like having big root systems, some don't need as big. Is this a true 12/12 from seed SOG? Or cutting clones, rooting, throwing them into 12/12?

Perfectly said. Seeds of the same strain can vary wildly because they have differant phenotypes, so perfect pot size is differant for EVERY seed.

If your running clones though, once you get to know the strain you can figure out pot size by experimenting with it.

I like 1gallon or 3 gallon grow bags. They're cheap and they're always taller than they are wide, meaning you can fit more in the same space as a normal rigid 3gallon pot from Lowe's or whatever

 

[hyroot]

commercial grows don't really do sog. They run 10-15 gallon pots indoor and 60-300 gallon pots in green houses and outdoor

 

[bullwinkle60]

My preference is 3 gallon Smart Pots. They work well with any strain.

 

[spek9]

2L Coke bottles, with 8 in each delivery tray going from clone to flower works damned slick. The trays make perpetual very easy, as you just lift in whole racks of eight at once with no hassle.

-spek

 

[Admortis]

Its all about your space and the genetics. Some strains like having big root systems, some don't need as big. Is this a true 12/12 from seed SOG? Or cutting clones, rooting, throwing them into 12/12?

I take clones from mother and in 2-3 weeks they have a nice root system. I have been using the 5" square pots and my clones go right into a 12/12 cycle on flood tables. With the 5" pots I can fit 12 plants into each table or 6 one gallon pots. The system works and works well with the 5" pots so I was just curious if stepping the up to the 1 gallon pots would provide any benefits? IE: less plants but same or better yield (I get around a quarter pound every other week).

 

[vitamin_green_inc]

Tbh, if you aren't sure about switching, but you seem to have a perpetual going? Then why not just test it? In the space where you normally put 2 clones, put 1 in a 1 gallon pot. All the factors SHOULD be the same, clones, same enviorment, same Nutes/medium....so you should be able to perfectly judge for yourself if the yield is worth it.

Experiment! Its the spice of lifeeee

 

[ULEN]

I ran 2 gallon pots with good results. Watering could have been a bigger issue with 1 gallon pots since the mediun dried up pretty fast.

 

[Admortis]

Thanks for the input guys, now this brings me to a new question. Currently I use a rockwool clay pellet combination. Clones start in the rockwool starter plugs and once rooted I place them into the larger 3" cubes. The cubes are then placed into the 5" square pots with clay pellets to finish filling the pot. When using a flood table do I really need to provide the rockwool? The reason I ask is I am building a cloning machine to improve the quality of the clones. I am thinking I could use the 2" net pots filled with clay pellets with a foam collar for support until the clones are fully rooted. My tables flood every three hours so do you think the clay pellets alone will retain enough moisture?

 

[Thecouchlock]

commercial grows don't really do sog. They run 10-15 gallon pots indoor and 60-300 gallon pots in green houses and outdoor

Hate to break it to you but that is incorrect.

1 gal pots 48 in a 4x8 tray. Not mine but an established commercial growers I used to work for. Each plant went up to 4 feet tall and each tray yields about 3 lbs. With vertical lighting so its 8 trays and 5 lights 3 lbs per tray.

 

[Beanz420]

Hate to break it to you but that is incorrect.

1 gal pots 48 in a 4x8 tray. Not mine but an established commercial growers I used to work for. Each plant went up to 4 feet tall and each tray yields about 3 lbs. With vertical lighting so its 8 trays and 5 lights 3 lbs per tray.

Did you lollipop so it grew one nice cola?

 

[GemuGrows]

As big of pots as you can fit.

 

[Demetrius Powell]

commercial grows don't really do sog. They run 10-15 gallon pots indoor and 60-300 gallon pots in green houses and outdoor

That's a lie most commercial grows are sog

 

[VillageAnt]

2L Coke bottles, with 8 in each delivery tray going from clone to flower works damned slick. The trays make perpetual very easy, as you just lift in whole racks of eight at once with no hassle.

-spek

I know this is old, but I have the perfect solution for this. I grow with 2-liters also. However, I put them in 5" PVC fence post troughs that are 9ft long. I simply cut one of the long sides of the PVC fence post, leaving about a half inch on each side of the cut so the 2-liters fit in there snuggly.

If you're packing them in tight together like I do, you don't even need to paint them. There's no light getting down there. The troughs are perfect for this. I have them in groups of four, 9 ft long, tilted at a 2-inch slope along the 9ft. I use the 2-liter bottles as hempy buckets with 3-1 perlite-vermiculite. When I water them, the drainage flows to the one end of the trough and drains into another piece of 5 inch PVC fence post sitting perpendicular to the four troughs, just underneath them at the very end. Then, from there into a 1/2 inch PVC line that goes outside the house, through the wall.