nurseries using Rootmaker pots
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Has anyone used Potlicker liners by Rootmaker inside containers?
Comments (2)Thanks, I'm reading all about Al's mixes and because I have a disability I need to see what I can do to simplify things as much as possible. I have had caregivers help me with root pruning my boxwood topiaries this year, but it's a heavy duty job. If I change to gritty mix next spring I don't know if it will be possible to keep up with all of that labor in the years to come. Plus, I think the root pruning process of their product is probably a great asset to encouraging the growth of lateral roots. But I haven't seen any place online that sells them. (I buy almost everything online because I don't drive.) I'll probably just contact the company, but I was curious why more people don't seem to know about this here in the container forum?...See MoreCan I use black nursery pots?
Comments (3)I used milk jugs and salad containers for a long time until it just got too messy having that many containers. I now use a low tunnel made from thick painters plastic and pvc pipe. Sometimes I plant directly in the ground or but mostly in well waterer pots. I think it takes less time to set up and can be dual purposes and used to extend crops in the fall. You just need to be careful when you plant...My first year all my tomatoes ended up sprouting in December and died....See MoreTaproots and DeePots and RootMakers, Oh My!
Comments (13)Oddly enough, I bought one from Logee's around 2009. It turned up toes and died almost immediately. I suppose I should have contacted them about a replacement but it was a really difficult time in my life. My dad had just died after I had been caretaking him for about 2 years, I was working on a doctorate, and I had a crapload of medical problems of my own that resulted in total disability within the year. Which, of course, took about THREE years to get the gubmint to acknowledge. So I had no income at all for about 3 years, then about 1/5th of my pre-disability income to live on. Since then, being on disability, the Logee's prices were exorbitant when compared to my income. I got the seed for these SUPER cheap, once I finally found someone who could get them to me while they were still fresh and viable. That alone took 6 or 7 years. These poor plants went for 3 months or more, along about xmas of 2016, without being watered once, during a bad period for my health. They all survived that, though the ones in the Growstone mixture survived it better. Since then I have not been up to schlepping them outside every time the temp gets above 50F as I did in my previous residence - which it does the majority of the winter here, but then they have to be schlepped back in again because it drops to below freezing again over night. Don't have the energy to move 20+ plants in and out all fall/winter/spring as I was doing initially. Also unlike my previous residence, I don't have grow lights set up here to keep them under over winter. So they just get whatever light comes in through the (floor length, so that helps) windows, which don't even face due south here (I had a south facing patio door and built-in window ledge that got GREAT light where I was before and a grow light set up). And it is later in the spring - nearly summer here - before the night time temps are reliably above 50F. So they are getting WAY less light than they were before. And yet - except for a handful that were still in the gritty-ish mix - they continue to grow and thrive. They ARE tough plants. I have a weird too-small-for-a-room, too big for a closet "room" that I'm going to turn into a plant room this winter. It's about 4.5' x 6'. Then I'll just keep them under lights again over the winter. Well, fall through late spring given how long it stays cold at night here at this elevation. When I finally move from here - I expect to move clear across the country as early as this spring, or next (if this spring, I WON'T be turning that room into a plant room) - I'm going to have a tough time giving ANY of them up, but tough as they are, I doubt they would survive a 3 or 4 day trip in the back of a moving van. I'm going to have to leave most of them behind....See MoreNo branching on tree seedlings grown in Rootmaker pots
Comments (34)I decided to pot-up the seedlings because some of them in Rootmaker and in standard pots had roots showing at the bottom. As shown in the photo below, the two trees in the Rootmaker pots lack the larger white roots seen in the standard pots and appear to have more small fibrous roots. Prior to transplanting from the standard pots, I untangled the larger roots at the bottom and spread them out, thus increasing the overall length of the root ball about 3 fold. In conclusion, I will not use Rootmaker pots for two reasons: No or only a few branches compared to trees grown in standard pots. Smaller root system. The larger white roots seen at the bottom of the standard pot, when untangled, turned out to be rather long. I believe that these long roots will give rise to fine roots and root hairs. And in the end, the root system in the standard pot will be more developed than that in the Rootmaker pot. By the way, this experiment was continued by transplanting trees from Rootmaker pots into 1 gal. Rootmaker pots http://rootmaker.com/retail/21 and trees in standard pots into 1 gallon nursery pots https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0095ZD6M0/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1. All pots were painted white to minimize root damage from high temperature due to solar heating....See Morestrobiculate
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