One man thrash is another man fortune. I would love to find such size. Talking about treasure a few day ago, I found 2 14-15 gallon containers. Bottom have minor damage, but usable. Yesterday found 3.2 gallon in perfect condition. Looking to up pot avocado or put mandarin seedling in the big pots.
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last week i picked up about 40 nursery pots from a garage sale from 10 gal to 3 gal. for $5. lucky find.
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I ended up cutting two 15g bags per @Gkight suggestion to transplant (so much easier than my first attempt to get tree out of bag). I had planned on reusing the bags and donât want to trash the scraps. Makes me concerned about the 10 other bags I have to transplant out of this fall and donât want to waste. Thinking about using them for the internet-famous snail seedling rolls or sewing tubes for use in crates. Anyone reused this fabric?
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If youâre determined to reuse them (depending how you cut them) you could probably stitch them back with some fishing line. As any thread would decompose too fast. Just a thought as Iâve never tried that but I donât see how it couldnât work well enough if they arenât being moved constantly.
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Good point about thread. I wonât remake them whole. I threw them in the wash and cut them into scraps to use for something smaller. FYI they (root pouches) wash and dry well.
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forgot to circle back on this but i ended up 3d printing some clips to hold the felt flaps down around the top of the crates:
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Iâve done this. Once a potted rootstock has grown a year or more I cut it off at the soil line and stack another pot or container with the bottom removed on top. As the new sprouts grow taller I add soil mix or wood chips. Once they are a a year or two old I saw the top container off, pop out the rooted shoots, separate them, and plant them or pot them to size up more or to be grafted.
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picked up a few of these at home depot for $5 each. used one to pot up my nanner. will use the rest down the road when needed for trees. grab em while theyre hot!
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I trialed 10 of them this year and grew fingerling potatoes in themâŚ
I have trialed 2 as muck buckets⌠hauling things to and fro.
5 will go towards new blueberry plants⌠and the rest will probably be for annuals going forward.
Really glad i got these!
I did a trial of 5 gallon buckets for my dollar store annuals in old spent used potting soils. Success.
I see the buckets lasting well over a decade and probably the muck tubs also. Alot of enjoyment for me for the $.
News to me-- is that they make muck dollies/muck trucks.
Im not there yet with them⌠but i do admit the potato tubs were extremely heavy and im not sure i will do that again⌠but it was fun.
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wish you would show us pictures of your adventures but all you do is tease 
thats awesome they have carts for the tubs! might come in handy because i had to get help after uppotting that banana and i hadnt even watered it in yet 
make sure to check all of the ones youre willing to commute to. if the closest one to you doesnt have them on clearance because not all of the ones around me had them or had them marked down.
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Yep, I bought a muck bucket cart a few years ago. I real lifesaver at times to haul around a muck bucket. Are the muck buckets that are on sale the 21 gallon versions?
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yep
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Those are nice sized muck buckets. I will check my local HD and see if they have them on sale like this. Seems like I can always use them or know others that can use them.
TY.
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Does anyone have a brand/online retail recommendation for taller 10g and 15g pots? I have been using pro cals from hydro pros and while I love how durable they are, the 10 and 15âs are wide and squat and I need something shaped taller and narrow for citrus that will overwinter inside.
Check with A.M.Leonard, they are in Ohio. They have a website and have a LOT of products.
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Just wanted to add an updated report on using homemade felt liners inside black nursery pots:
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as I said before, the felt helped to keep soil moist for plants that need constant moisture.
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DID root prune! This is despite being kept wet, and totally unexpected. I up potted a sugar shack button bush today that had a felt liner around the sides, but not the bottom. The sides looked beautiful with just tips of roots at most to see, and the bottom had dense matted roots. Sorry to say I did not have my phone out with me.
So, it does seems to be an option worth pursuing for plants that like moisture/wet feet.-
Looking for creative ideas for under container indoors. Ideally, Iâll have 1-2 somethings holding multiple containers. (Not interested in the cheap saucers that crack and wonât hold up to kids or dog bumping into them or stepping on the edge.) A friend came up with shoe tray and washing machine tray - great ideas. Shoe trays are cheap and could hold multiple 3g containers. Washing machine tray is brilliant, but once you go over standard size they get expensive. Unfortunately, standard is too small for multiple 10g containers, which is what I am buying for. Anyone found some great, cheap trays?
Adding that someone also suggested car mats to me, but I think that will be too expensive unless used.
Adding (again) other things weâve come up with- discounted cargo mats and dog crate replacement trays. My initial want was DE mat (theyâre made for shower mats and we use one for dish drying rack) but thatâs cost prohibitive.
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You probably wonât want my first resource, but I have used dollar store deep metal trays for big pots that wonât fit. Mold them around the pot and if they arenât moved a bunch they last pretty well. (Make sure when you shape them the water holds, since they can puncture or crack when doing it. Can be sharp.
I have also used dollar store giant plastic plates. While they donât hold much water at all, they still save your floor. Careful when setting down the pot because the plate could crack. (My pot was heavy and I couldnât control the descent enough, and the corner of the pot hit first.)
I have also gone to thrift shops and look for pie tins, big trays, big plates that wonât be good for cooking. Money very well spent. (Only broke one piece of a giant glass? Crystal? plate⌠Did not think to test⌠and still using that. Just taped the chunk of missing space with electric tape!)
Last and most recent, which I just found last week: clearance rack oil pans. Big, deep, plastic. Wonât hurt anyone to step on!
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I had a neighbor who was a janitor at a local school. He brought home multiple heavy duty plastic 5x5âish x maybe 4" deep pallets that produce was brought in on. The school just throws them away. Make some phone calls.
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