r/macrogrowery • u/cannasseurnorth2 • 19d ago

UCL maxxing

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u/baloothedog1 19d ago

Damn dude those pots are absolutely massive for your plant size.

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u/dougeyyyy 19d ago

The plants are actually in 7 gallons. By harvest time, roots are wrapped.

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u/tech_23 19d ago

Do you think other people who use 1-2 gallon pots for plants this size are doing something wrong?

You seem to really be going against-the-grain here and I'm wondering what your reasoning is. The extra media (and labor) costs must be significant to run the 7's.

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u/dougeyyyy 18d ago

Never said anyone is doing anything wrong. We have way more success with 7 gallons vs smaller pots and lots of irrigation events. I'd estimate we lose about 30-40% yield if we were to go smaller pots and crop steer.

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u/tech_23 18d ago

Well, I didn’t say you said everyone else was doing something wrong.

My point was more that when you look around commercial indoor cannabis, small-volume coco/rockwool with automated drip and multiple irrigation events per day is extremely common. There’s a reason the industry moved in that direction: less media, less handling/transplant labor and much tighter control over the root zone.

I used to run 3–7 gallon pots and hand water in warehouses a decade ago. It works. But if the extra media itself really gave a 30–40% yield advantage, I’d expect commercial growers to have converged on larger containers, not largely moved the opposite direction.