Did a search,but didn't find the answer...or was by then cross-eyed and didn't realize I had.LOL
I've got 6 brugs in the ground and 6 in 10 inch pots. Got the pots at Wal-Mart for $1.97. Last weekend I met a very nice lady who has 3 in the same pots,but larger..think the price sticker said $4.97 so maybe 14 or 16 inch pots. She said she had just left them outside over the winter and they looked great. Her house is also in Fountain so weather should be the same. How long will mine be happy in the 10 inchers? and what size in the end should they go in? I'll probably just leave them in pots instead of putting them in the ground. There is a nursery not far that sells pots for 50 cents a gallon...so 10 gal. or 15? I want my brugs to be happy,but I don't want the pots so big that I can't move them around.
Size of pot question
Ginger, I started out with five gallon pots and soon found out that they weren't big enough. I still have a couple in that size pot, but I have to water more frequently. Most of mine are now in 20 gallon size. I'm guessing that they probably have about 15 or 16 gallons of soilless mix in them and I still have a couple that I have to water at least twice a day. We have been lucky in Iowa this year to not have horrible heat as years past, so my watering is down to twice a day. If one gets watered, they all get watered.
Thanks Brugie...oddly one of the ones in the ground needs the most water of them all.
Now I know there is no such a thing as a dumb question,so I have another "lack of experience" question. How will I know when my brugs in pots need to jump into larger pots? The ones I'm using don't have holes in the bottom so I can't look for roots peeking out...they have an attached saucer type thing.
If your brugs are needing water more than once a day, I would move them up to the size you want them to stay in for a year or two. After that, you will have to remove them from the pots and cut back the roots by one third and also some of the top growth so it won't be so hard for the smaller rootball to maintain the top growth. Usually, this is done when you get ready to put them out in the spring in my zone. Try to find pots that are wide at the bottom. They are more likely to hold the plants upright in a wind.