Cloth Pots

[kevinn]

This is my 1st time using cloth pots (5 gal). With standard pots, when watering a just let the run-off sit in the drip trays (adds some much need humidity) because the roots are up out of it. With the cloth pots, should I shop vac out the drain trays after watering as pots and roots will be sitting in it.

 

[SubmarineGirl]

This is my 1st time using cloth pots (5 gal). With standard pots, when watering a just let the run-off sit in the drip trays (adds some much need humidity) because the roots are up out of it. With the cloth pots, should I shop vac out the drain trays after watering as pots and roots will be sitting in it.

The cloth pots will leach it all up. Do you still have a drip pan?
edit. I see yes you do. I do the same water till a little runoff then stop. Pans are dry in a few hours

 

[jeffwix]

So I use 5 or 7 gallon cloth pots all the time...I am organic, but if you use salts they will leach into the fabric...hard to get out and clean...but I never water to get runoff as it is organic soils being topdressed...which brings up a problem I noticed on my first couple of runs years ago is that you have deep dry pockets usually under the rootball...I remedy this by putting 2 or 3 Dixie cups of water in the pan and letting them wick it right up, then water normally from the top and that does the trick.