hello, i was thinking, to maximise the amount of compost i can give to the plants, would it be feasable to just have one massive pot for them all?

What i am proposing is to get a 50 litre tub, which fits perfectly in my room and drill drainage holes in the bottom. Then transplant the plants in a few days before flower. This would allow for much more compost, much more root space and therefore better nutrient uptake to the plants.
Also it would do away with the need for loads of saucers and fannying about when watering, as i could make a base from the lid to drain water to.
Does anybody think this will work? has anybody done it before?

Thanks guys,

bob

No reason why not - only problem is that once it's in there full of plants and compost, unless you're the incredible hulk that's where they stay if you get any problems

Also if you have different strains that need more or less nutes etc than the others then you're screwed.

Hi Mate,



You could do that with a load of smaller pots too.
Just stand them on a layer of capillary matting in a single tray and the matting will equalise the water content of each rootball.

If 1 goes tits up then theres a chance ALL will too.....

RAZ

hi mate, im going to be using the same strain, Pot of Gold, hoping to have no problems this time!!



true, but this way i wil be able to give my plants twice the amount of compost they had originally!



True, but still worth a try ill post up with pics when im ready to do it...

i do it the same way as vrg suggest's, but if you want to do huge container's you just have to be careful that the soil doesn't become waterlogged and anorobic. im not sure if he still does, but soma used to use big containers aswell, he had some articles in red-eye explaining what you needed to do, it's probably on the net somewhere sirbob...

cheers Sr, what i plan on doing i having the plants in their usual pots, then repotting them into the big tub, so they dont have a huge jump in soil amount. hopefully if i drill enough holes in the bottom and make sure the soil gets fairly dry then i can keep it healthy wit some soil secrets.

Ive found the red eye webiste, but i cant download any magazines yet, "coming soon"

Thought he was growing in big bags in that article suppose its the same pricipal tho , yeah give it a go bob mate could be the start of a new trend

i read an article in one of the mags and the guy had them in mfo boxes (ex squaddie, rectangle 3x2) on wheelie casters so that he could move them around easily. i think he lined them with plastic/something and he grew loads in each container. the only downer that the article mentioned and has been mentioned here, is that if root rot (i don't really know what it is, but i can guess) gets in all your peas are f*$ked but the guy who grew this way wasn't growing for pers
best of luck with all your grows lawless, you write some da posts and your smoke looks fine

sorry sirbob credit to both of you lmao and all other peeps who inspire the rest of us

i grown in 25ltr pot wiv2ak clones to a pot wiv no trouble at all (only two pots mind)
put in layers of hydroton pebs or perlite, say 1" maybe more thick, one or two of em (i used1 but my tub was half size), was trying to prevent waterloggin.
i'm gonna give them hydroton a go in the smaller 16Ltr pots i got, gonna put a 2cm layer in the JI.
Will the air in there be ok?
will there be some air exchange?
sorry to highjack your thread mate but its interestin
YDL