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cme4oil
Senior Member - 1K
posted: May. 27, 2012 @ 4:06p
don't expect any great results with these.. I have tried them and seen several other people that have tried them as well. While you will get some tomatoes, they will be pretty small but you can get 20-30 tomatoes.
Normsfidget
Member
posted: May. 27, 2012 @ 5:09p
They actually work very well for me with the mini type tomatoes-like the cherry tomatoes, etc. The one important thing to remember is tomatoes need TONS of water. I water mine twice a day-3 quarts of water each time. It helps to put in 1 quart, wait for it to stop dripping, then add the second quart-wait for it to stop again-then add the third. It is alot of work-but if you dont have alot of room-and want to avoid blossom rot, and other diseases-it works quite nicely.
Danzilla
Broke Member
posted: May. 27, 2012 @ 6:14p
They're there at $2.50 like all the time. Bought one there 5 months ago at $2.50 (-20%). These work, but are kind of a pain. Unless you have serious reasons for needing to hang plants, your better off nine times out of ten just planting in a pot. Like Lormsfidget mentioned, they need extra watering. While most of my potted plants can go three days between watering (usually water every other day), the hanging planter starts to dry out and wilt after less two sometimes. I can only imagine it'll be much worse come July-August.
Colie
Happy Member
posted: May. 27, 2012 @ 7:41p
I was wandering if anyone had tried growing house plants in these containers. They seem like a natural for some types of foliage plants
Normsfidget
Member
posted: May. 28, 2012 @ 11:07p
Colie said: I was wandering if anyone had tried growing house plants in these containers. They seem like a natural for some types of foliage plants
I imagine it may work very well-It would make it easier if you could somehow hang it in a shower-or outside when you neeed to water-or-you could alsways stick an open umbrella under it to catch the water when it drips out...
careh
Senior Member
posted: May. 28, 2012 @ 11:17p
I thought this would be great as I do not have a garden area to put tomato plants in.
These things weigh a LOT by the time you add the earth - then the water. I had to hang mine off a 2 X 4 screwed to the top of my back yard fence. The tomato plant did well - until a strong wind came along and twisted the plant right off.
I tossed it out and this year plan to try a large pot with a metal cage to allow the Tomato plant to grow up in.
Colie
Happy Member
posted: May. 29, 2012 @ 8:50a
Normsfidget said: Colie said: I was wandering if anyone had tried growing house plants in these containers. They seem like a natural for some types of foliage plants
I imagine it may work very well-It would make it easier if you could somehow hang it in a shower-or outside when you neeed to water-or-you could alsways stick an open umbrella under it to catch the water when it drips out...
I was thinking more of outside use in the Summer. I guess they would present a runoff problem if used indoors.
They are very heavy and I don't know if I would trust them on a Shepard's hook during a windstorm. They do come with heavy duty screw in hooks for hanging from an overhead structure and the attachment lines are made of stranded wire.
this is a one seasoner planter. i hung mine where i get a lot of sun and it dried out the bag. after the planting season, the bag tore to where i can't use it anymore.
better to spend $ on a plastic container and with some strings, make your own upsidedown planter.
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