Fabric Pot Growing

Through scientific studies and through our own grows, we’ve found that growing anything long-term should be in a fabric pot. The benefit of fabric pots is that it creates a fibrous root zone that eliminates root circling, which often plagues plastic or ceramic containers. The fabric allows airflow so that roots are air-pruned when they reach the edge of the fabric container. Air pruning causes the plant to send more roots from its center reaching out toward the edge. In contrast, when a plant grows in a plastic or ceramic container, its roots hit the boundary of the pot and grow along its side. They aren’t pruned at all. This causes the roots to keep growing around themselves, which will result in death sooner rather than later. We have trees that have been grown for years in fabric pots which no signs of slowing down.