Fabric Pot Benefits and Geopot Product Line Up
Channel: hydro select
Date: 04/10/2015

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With GeoTransplanter some of the big benefits of fabric pots is basically is called air-root pruning.

When your roots reach the edge of the container, normally with the plastic pot, they kind of hit the edge of the container, they start wrapping around. Your plant becomes root-bound, as well as the fact there are a couple of little tiny holes at the bottom, so the drainage is pretty terrible almost with plastic pots.

With this, your roots actually try to grow through the edge of the fabric. They expose the tip. They just basically make the tip of the root out there and they get exposed to air. Since your roots can’t live in air alone, it basically prunes them for you. So each time they hit the edge of the container, they just divide and divide and divide and divide and eventually you have these root systems are just really nice and healthy and just incredibly full of extra roots.
So we have a variety of containers. This is the original Geopot 5-gallon size. What you’re going to see is this is a little bit more rigid than some of the other fabric pots on the market. She stands up by itself pretty well. Really nice and easy to fill with soil; you don’t have to kind of have to have your arm in there and be trying to put a bag over your shoulder and all that stuff. Quadruple stitches in marine grade, designed for sails for sailboats, totally going to be able to withstand all the environment. 


We also have the G-Lite. It’s about 30 percent less in costs. You can see it’s a little bit of a thinner fabric.

You just want to wash them a little bit with Oxyclean. Kind of gets rids of any pathogens or anything like that, but it’s not going to kill off all of your soil biology a few years you know foreign or something like that.

Yeah. Then we have the brand-new model, one of my personal favorites. This is the called the SquatPot.  It doesn’t have the handles, unfortunately. Yeah. They’re really nice for larger sizes as well, so like when you’re growing from cuttings, your roots really don’t go much further down than a foot and a half anyways, so our 200-gallon models are 16.5 inches deep. Our 400-gallon models are 17.5 inches deep, so it’s a more efficient use of your root space basically. It’s going to be a lot wider. It helps kind of control your plant’s height and makes sure you’re not wasting a bunch of your plant’s energy on vertical growth when you could be doing much more horizontal growth and a lot more exposed flower tips, kind of pick out a lot more.

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