I have been trying to work out how much soil a plant pot holds. This post is to help me remember without writing on a scrap of paper and then losing it.
I sell seeds and bare rooted plants, and have started to sell some plants in pots at garage sales and things like that. This increases the costs to me as I have to buy pots as well as soil. For this reason I need to know how much the pot costs as well as how much the soil costs that they hold, so I can know if this is financially viable.
While there are shorter pots or taller pots of the same diameter that will change the volume, I have found the following to give me a ballpark idea of how much soil each pot holds:
Plugs (5cmx5cmx5cm) - 0.125L
50mm pot - 0.15L
70mm tall pot - 0.3L
75mm pot - 0.35L
100mm pot - 0.5L (0.46L-0.55L)
140mm pot - 1.55L
150mm pot - 1.7L
200mm pot - 4.3L
That is actually a really good thing to know because buying the right about of potting mix is important when it is a 40 Min round trip to the nursery!
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