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bandaids · 05-10-2022, 08:33 PM

Hi! Lancelot is correct about the grow bags breaking down with time as well as algae growing on one side. But that hasn’t stopped me.

I use them and like them. I have 2 bay leaf trees each in 7 gallon bags, 2 cherimoyas in 10 gallon and 20 gallon bags, 3 (dwarf) veinte cohol bananas grouped in a 25 gallon bag, figs and kiwi also growing in them and bird of paradise (orange ones) in a 25 gallon bag. So far, my mulberry keikis love them (both in 7 gallons) as well as a couple rubber trees and tupidanthus (20 gallon bags) and two 7 gallon bags each containing Australian fern trees 2 years of age and a few arabica coffee plants one year new to me that seem to enjoy their bags. One other plant that I have in a 10 gallon grow bag is a cluster of 4 passion fruit vines. The passion fruit gave me flowers & fruit the first year in its bag!

All my plants thrive well in the bags so far and I have had some of them in the grow bags since 2011 without having to change any so far. I have tried growing citrus trees using grow bags but they don’t do well for some reason so all my citrus are in ground with exception to calamansi. The calamansi seem to do well in grow bags for me. Oh, and a dwarf kaffir lime tree and a pomegranate is doing well in a 5 gallon grow bag.

I’m not a professional — I am an amateur trying to grow things here and there. I am sure I have missed a few plants that I have growing but that should give you an idea of what is able to thrive in them. So if I can do it, I think you can as well. Just use the same soil as you would in a conventional pot for each type plant.

05-10-2022, 08:33 PM	#3 (permalink)
bandaids Location: So.Cal, Zone 10b Find me on the map! Zone: 10b Name: Elize Join Date: Jul 2021 Posts: 25 BananaBucks : 1,901 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Thanks" 56 Times Was Thanked 12 Times in 7 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 25 Times	Re: Fabric grow bag advice Hi! Lancelot is correct about the grow bags breaking down with time as well as algae growing on one side. But that hasn’t stopped me. I use them and like them. I have 2 bay leaf trees each in 7 gallon bags, 2 cherimoyas in 10 gallon and 20 gallon bags, 3 (dwarf) veinte cohol bananas grouped in a 25 gallon bag, figs and kiwi also growing in them and bird of paradise (orange ones) in a 25 gallon bag. So far, my mulberry keikis love them (both in 7 gallons) as well as a couple rubber trees and tupidanthus (20 gallon bags) and two 7 gallon bags each containing Australian fern trees 2 years of age and a few arabica coffee plants one year new to me that seem to enjoy their bags. One other plant that I have in a 10 gallon grow bag is a cluster of 4 passion fruit vines. The passion fruit gave me flowers & fruit the first year in its bag! All my plants thrive well in the bags so far and I have had some of them in the grow bags since 2011 without having to change any so far. I have tried growing citrus trees using grow bags but they don’t do well for some reason so all my citrus are in ground with exception to calamansi. The calamansi seem to do well in grow bags for me. Oh, and a dwarf kaffir lime tree and a pomegranate is doing well in a 5 gallon grow bag. I’m not a professional — I am an amateur trying to grow things here and there. I am sure I have missed a few plants that I have growing but that should give you an idea of what is able to thrive in them. So if I can do it, I think you can as well. Just use the same soil as you would in a conventional pot for each type plant.