smokinrav

My idea is to make a planter with a false bottom that can be completly removed. This way transplanting would simply be a matter of setting your old planter in the new, larger one.

I have tons of plastic planters around, mostly plastic and in several different sizes. I cut off the bottm two inches of my larger ones and throw away the top. Now I cut off the bottom of a slightly smaller container and set the remainder of it in the larger cut away, like a teacup in a saucer. Four equally spaced holes in the rim of the "saucer" can be used to attach it to the planter body, using two strings run across the top and over.
I realize this would not exactly be aesthetically pleasing, but would the plant extend its roots down into the larger planter simply by placing it on top of the new medium?

robyoung

I used to grow all my dope in the bush in the Australian outback.
Without doubt, one of the driest and harshest eniroments u can imagine to grow a plant.

My main method toplanting, was to cut the bottom out of a large pot bought at the supermarket, about 5 galon size.

I would dig a hole in the ground, and bury the pot up toit's edges.
I would fill the pot with the best composted soil I could manage, then put in the plant, around 1 foot tall or so.

I grew heaps of crops in that style, usually averaging around 7 or 8 oz.

When I pulled them up, after harvesting, the roots where well down past the botom of where the pot ought to have been.

I used to do it with the idea nmind of stopping other plants roots invading my plant space, but it was benificial in all sorts of ways, one ws that all the water I poured on the plants, soaked down in a straight line, and it sent the plant's roots down after the water line.

I hope this bit of prattle helps u in some way towards what u are working on.

rob

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