Quote Originally Posted by oldmac
I don't subscribe to that 1'/gal theory, unless you are growing in a soil with organic material and nutrients built in.

IMHO if you are using liquid nutes, in a medium devoid of nutrients (like pro-mix), the size of the pot does not really matter. As long as the plant gets what it needs to grow, it will grow as big as you let it. I've grown and flowered 4'-5' plants in 4" square pots and if you looked at them from stem up, you could not tell they where in itty-bitty pots.

Now I don't really reccomend that big in such a small pot because it causes other problems. Like needing a watering at least once a day or more and when they get that big they want to fall over 'cause their feet are so small, get very top heavy you know.

(I can hear nashing of teeth, and an angry mob headed to thier keyboards)
I agree about pot size. I keep my mothers in 1 gal. pots in a peat/perlite based soil mix. I root trim and repot once a year, flush about every 8 weeks. Sure I would like them in larger pots but increasing pot size causes my back to get crabby-er.

Blooming plants go into 1.5 gal hempy containers, in perlite and vermiculite, with regular nutes. When the containers are dry, they weigh almost nothing.

My very first grow was soil based, in 3 gal. containers, and I grew way too many plants at once. I swore if I ever got through that I would never do it again. The containers were almost impossible for me to lift or even move when wet.

I've toyed with doing a thread on the topic for others that may be falling apart like me ... I may get inspired, who knows.

You have quite the operation there mac. Hats off to you.