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habitat_gardener · April 22, 2016

My blueberry plants are still in pots, and it doesn't look like I will find a place to plant them in the ground, so I'm looking into fabric pots.

I think the black plastic pots get too hot, so I've planted a couple of them in double pots, with a layer of mulch in-between the pots. If you are growing in fabric pots, do they also get too hot?

I was thinking I could handle 10 or maybe 15g fabric pots. I will want to move them around under the trees, to follow the sun.

As far as I know, pine bark/ pine fines are not available here. I wonder if more peat would be an ok substitute.

April 22, 2016	#11
habitat_gardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: California Central Valley Posts: 2,540	My blueberry plants are still in pots, and it doesn't look like I will find a place to plant them in the ground, so I'm looking into fabric pots. I think the black plastic pots get too hot, so I've planted a couple of them in double pots, with a layer of mulch in-between the pots. If you are growing in fabric pots, do they also get too hot? I was thinking I could handle 10 or maybe 15g fabric pots. I will want to move them around under the trees, to follow the sun. As far as I know, pine bark/ pine fines are not available here. I wonder if more peat would be an ok substitute.