Mesh Training pots

Cquinn

Does anyone know where to buy the training pots with mesh sides? Has anyone used them?

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jonesboy1983

Sounds kind of like pond baskets that some people use for their training pots or grow boxes.

Graydon

Sure. Pond baskets or plain old kitchen colanders. If you go the colander route get the good ones, the cheap ones have a tendency to break down in the sun and fall apart an unexpected times. These are the ones I use.

I use a ton of them, I will be switched over to colanders next spring. The pond baskets are like cubes, to tall or not squat enough for me.

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lagunamadre

I tried a few collanders as pictured by Graydon, the ones with rounded sides and a small bottom areas. Didn't like them because on windy days, they blew over easily. They also break easily. I recently purchased about a dozen collanders from Wal-Mart for less than $4.00 each, that measure 9x12, and 3" deep. Of course they are for smaller trees, but they seem to hold up good.
Larry

Vonsgardens

I bought 360 colanders from an online discount source for $300 delivered. Google- colander-plastic-wholesale. Had to register on the site (there were three or four that were similar). You can pay $4 each, but I buy these, use akadama based soil and still save more than $2.50 per pot- if they break after a couple of years I slip pot them.

Lots o luck,
John

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clrosner

If you really have an exceptional tree (above ground) and wish to develop roots check with Vance Wood. He is a member of this forum, and does sell the most beautifully designed and built wooden grow box. There is mesh on four sides as well as on the bottom....

Here on the forum, Vance has explained (his patented grow box) how roots grow toward the outer edge (where there is mesh), and since roots do not like light they back bud (develop more hairs toward the trunk). I have used his growbox on a Boxwood, and the plethora of roots was astounding!

No doubt you will have to research his article.

During the winter I buried the whole pot and I took the first picture where the roots had grown through the mesh.

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CRZY_Canuck

Is it the "ramification" of the roots that make a mesh pot favorable?

Vance Wood

In a word: YES.

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Graydon

Sure I suppose. More for me is the free drainage I get. More drainage = more aeration to the roots.

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