Silly Question About Growboxes

htb

where can I get 'em? Do people build their own?

At REBS I saw that one vendor had most of their trees in smallish growboxes, and I was thinking to myself, "Self, you need some of those".

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Jay

Well your discussion with 'self' was correct. They are home built. Most people use scrap wood or some buy the wood. Try and keep the box low 4-6 inches and big 1 1/2 to 2 feet square. The tree will have the positive of a large growing area without the depth. The box should have good drainage and possible a little leg thing to keep it off the ground. There have been many threads on this issue, one or two with how to's. Go to the search here and put in grow box.

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doody

Here are a couple of links that will help.

http://forum.bonsaitalk.com/showthr...ight=grow+boxes

http://forum.bonsaitalk.com/showthr...14&threadid=925

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htb

thanks guys-

for some reason I was having problems searching (getting no results) but now it seems fine. Dunno....

treenut

I get all the timber I need (and some) from business's in my area.
They normally have heaps of old pallets or packing crates lying around and are only too glad to give them away so as they don't have to dump them.Just take a drive around and check out your local industrial area and you will see piles of them lying around.

Jose_Alberto

YOU NEED SOME BOXES... It's a fact, if you have not much space in the ground, the boxes work almost as well as the ground (well, not that well, but pretty fine) well, I buy mines. See, nearby my home there is a market where sellers use wooden boxes to transportate avocado, so I buy them really cheap for $0.12 almost a gift... so, you could look at those boxes where those delicious Californian grapes are transportated, and save them from the trash, that would be for free...

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htb

as for pallets, there are all sorts of makeshift trucks that drive around picking 'em up, so they're a bit rare in these parts. There's a place that pays $5 ea for them just down the street from my office. One fell off truck the other day, almost hitting me on my way into work- I suppose I should have saved it!