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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Michael D on May 04, 2009, 14:15

Title: Root trainer pots
Post by: Michael D on May 04, 2009, 14:15

Hi all      does anyone know where i could buy trainer pots that open up, and can be reused again.   Thanks  Michael

Title: Re: Root trainer pots
Post by: MoreWhisky on May 04, 2009, 14:19

good question i been to 2 places today seeing if they have any of these..........

Title: Re: Root trainer pots
Post by: lsp12 on May 04, 2009, 14:52

Not sure if this will help but I know that you can get some via Sarah Raven's online shop- got mine from Wyevale - they sell online as well if there is not one near you...
Laurence

Title: Re: Root trainer pots
Post by: Hawkins on May 04, 2009, 15:26

this is the online company for them

www.rootrainers.co.uk

Title: Re: Root trainer pots
Post by: birmancats on May 04, 2009, 15:38

I, in the spirit of Richy's Paper pots have made my own.  If you get a 1.5litre plastic bottle with as straight and smooth a side as possible.  (harrogate mineral water in my case) Cut the top and bottom off to give you as long a length as you can.  Slit it down the side and then it will curl up on itself to give you a tube of any diameter you want.  Bit of sellotape to hold it. 

When the plants are ready, slit the sellotape and uncurl the tube.  Quick wash and ready to be recurled next year.  I favour these to toilet roll middles as they don't rot.  If you're really cute you can make them to the diameter of your dibber which means even less root disturbance. 

 :) :)

Title: Re: Root trainer pots
Post by: DIGGER on May 04, 2009, 15:38

http://www.simpsonsseeds.co.uk/shop/Root_Trainers.html

or

toilet roll inners

Title: Re: Root trainer pots
Post by: Kristen on May 04, 2009, 16:37

My paper pots are 2" diameter and 8" deep - much deeper than the root trainer pots that I have seen, which I think are way too shallow to do much good!

Title: Re: Root trainer pots
Post by: Babstreefern on May 04, 2009, 16:46

Luckily, I inherited mine from the last allotmenteer.  But I did spot them in my local Garden Centre in Ashton-under-Lyne.

Title: Re: Root trainer pots
Post by: goose on May 04, 2009, 17:28

I tried the biodegradable root trainers before i learned how to make the paper pots.  they were useless!!! i have had better success with the paper ones...and better still, their free!! :D

Title: Re: Root trainer pots
Post by: Chappers on May 04, 2009, 17:36

Plenty of 2nd hand ones on Ebay !!

Chappers

Title: Re: Root trainer pots
Post by: Ropster on May 04, 2009, 17:54

yes I got some off fleabay but they are expensive even second hand, I use RPP's now
(Richy's Paper Pots)