What size pant to what size pot

Can someone tell me is there a general rule for size pot for a size tree/plant? (brug)
I've noticed that most of the brugs I see in pots on this site are in small pots compared to the size plant. I've noticed that mine quickly out grow the pots I put them in. Or am I re potting to soon? I'd like to keep some in pots this summer but don't know what size I should use for the size of the plant? How much growth should I expect from a plant in one growing season? I know they all can vary but generally.

When rootbound, repot to the next size. :-)
I usually stop at 7 gallons. I don't have too much space, so it makes sense for me. It also is kind of nice to have smaller, Bonsai type trees made into standards. They're easier to work with when pollinating, and they're within nose reach...love sticking my honker into a Bruggie on a cool evening. :-)

Gosh, Florida must be so full of brugs for I am noticing so many people from there now. Do you all see them all over as you drive around?

I do not think there is a general rule, Gardangirl. Brugs are so tolerant of so many conditions and if you adapt your watering and fertilizing to the size you want to keep them in, I would think they will do OK for you. I do think the bigger the pot, the easier on you. I bet Gordo is very responsible with her plants and tends them much more than I do. A 5 gallon pot would drive me nuts to keep watered. The ones I have kept in a 5 gallon for any length of time, just do not look good. But I do not fertilize and water them as much as they would need in that size. Though I have had them in small pots, even 1 gallon, and they will grow roots out the drainage holes and root deep in the ground and then they grow just great in small pots. I may grow a lot that way this year, truly my way, the lazy man's way. LOL No dug holes or big pots needed, less fertilizer and less watering.

Here it does depend on the time of year for me. In spring thru half of the summer I pot up faster and pot with a heavy soil. The bigger the pot the bigger they grow it seems. I was surprised to read on here last year how many people put even 4 inch potted brugs right into 25 gallon pots with great success. I would think you would not want to do this too late in the season or you will court rot. The only reason I do not try it myself is I do not have the room to have too many in big pots at one time. Towards the end of the season I tend not to repot or to repot up to a smaller size because I get so much rain in the winter and this is the time when my brugs are not drinking much or growing much so I want them in something that drains fast and keeps less wet.

Here I go from a 16 ounce red cup to a gallon to 5 gallon to 15 gallon, usually in 1 season. I can go bigger with an aggressive brug but usually do not. And by the end of the summer they are so rootbound in the 15 gallon, they drive me nuts watering them. My brugs usually will be standing between 6 ft and 8 ft tall by the end of the summer if I was good to them. Then in the beginning of the second season if the brug is a special one, I will put it in a 25 to 30 gallon pot. From then on I root prune in early spring to refresh the soil for they are so rootbound I would be watering daily. They go back into the same pot. Some I keep in the 15 gallon size or even smaller but they do not do as well as the bigger potted ones for me, no doubt because I am not good at watering and fertilizing as much as I should.

Kell what you see around mostly in many gardens are they generic,unidentifiable frosty types. I guess that's what landscapers can get their hands on in qty. Occasionally I might see a CG type over the top of a fence but not too often. Then again most people don't have a clue as to what I have hidden behind my wooden fence. The only brug that shows out to the street is Isabella....they must think I'm a conformist around here. They have no idea I'm a rebel WITH a cause.

I am like Liz when it comes to repotting. I will usually stop at 7 gallons unless It's
something really special. I will just allow many of my brugs to root themselves into the ground (because I'm too lazy). I can only do that because they can remain outside year round.

Yes.. I know... everything I have is in too small a pot. usually about 5-10 gallon..with most at the 5 gal level.. Ihave to keep them light and small enough to go through a 16" opening to the roof.. they are too big for the circular stairway in height..
Kell I do have some POT ENVY [ are you near Humbolt Co. ] I sure woud like to see them with so much room to strech out..although many do get the pleasure of spending the summer in a 22' long... x 1' x 1' planter... they root out to the side there real well... but are cut back to afoot or so from the stem in the fall to squeeze into their 5 gal home..
maybe in my next reincarnation I'll have some plant room .. but they do so well with whatever it is you might be offering... such an easy and forgiving Love..
Gordon

I agree Gordon, they are like puppy dogs, keep coming back for more and so grateful for some extra care. I am shocked yours are mostly in 5 gallon pots Gordon, they look so big and lush and on the roof they have no where to sneak their roots!! I am in Alameda County, a bit southeast of Humboldt, about 4 hours + drive. I am right outside of San Francisco. So not much room here either.
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One of the troubles I have here is I get no rain from May to November so I have to do all the watering by hand and no humidity here either. I was shocked when I would be at my Mom's house in New Jersey. I rarely had to water at all. I would pot up a flower garden outside her back door for she was in a wheelchair and couldn't get out but loved to look at flowers. She rarely had to worry about watering between the humidity and the rain. It was great. The plants loved it too, just grew like crazy and bloomed and bloomed. I bought tropical hibiscus trees (the real fancy ones no less) there from Home Depot (SHOCK!!) and they loved living there.

Gary, even if you are going to take your plants in for winter you can let them root through the bottom holes sitting on top of your soil I discovered. You just lop off the roots! They will survive! If it is a huge discrepancy, just trim the canopy a lot. And no more digging holes. So easy!! LOL I have a 12 foot huge tree in the back that is in a 1 gallon pot but rooted down thru the holes. The roots are so funny for they are much thinner as they get thru the holes then immediately swell up as they go into the dirt below the pot. I'd take a picture but it is directly behind the hoophouse and I do not think I can fit back there. Also it is probably half dead now. Woe is me.

Around here we have double white, Charles Grimaldi, white suavs and many Frosties too planted all over. Though as I drive around now they are all so frosted brown! So are the huge hibiscus. All so brown!

From seed I've gone from a group planting to a 4 inch pot, to a 1 gallon pot, to a 5 gallon pot, to as big as I can get, as long as it's light weight and at a good price. I like those fiberglass pots they have at Costco right now.