Good idea Luke! I will do that. I will use BV in one pot, Fafard 3B in another, and my own mix in another, but they will all be in the same size pot. I'm glad I posted this question! Fo the other trees, I will have 3 different pot sizes. They are 30 gal, 25 gal and 27 gal. The base diameter where my lathe will go is 15in, 13in and 14in respectively for each pot. Why am I doing this? I'm spending too much time moving trees to flat surfaces to make sure all the roots are watered thoroughly. I've got an irrigation system built and it works well but I changed some of my pots to self watering. My trees look so much better being watered from the bottom. I bought some pots from Walmart and some I'm converting to SWP. Some of my trees are so root bound that I'm spending a lot of time getting water to those roots. This is only happening on a few of my older trees but still as we get older, time is a very important thing! So, I've decided to jump in and start repotting those that I know won't produce anymore figs like Desert King and a few others. Some, are in tiny 10 gallon pots and I have to water them 2 and 3 times a day. These trees are full of figs adn I don't want to loose them. They have to be repotted up now!
I'm getting ready to travel out of town next week and I don't want to impose on my son to come over and water my trees. But with 104 temperatures, I'll take what I can get! So, I got to do something. I called Bill and talked to him about his method. Bill said he sets his pH at 7.8 or 7.9. I said wow! In another post, I asked forum members what pH did they set their trees at. I did not get much of a response. I found that to be interesting. I was surprised to hear that a few forum friends don't test the pH of their figs! Go Figure! I do and all I can say is my figs are around 7. I had one Kadota years ago that I got from a nursery in Vegas. The pH of that tree was 6.5. It was the healthiest of my trees. That was 2 years ago. I lost that tree to a hard freeze that same winter. But the figs on that tree were amazing!
JD, I'll post some pics this evening of my pots, tools used and all. Bill said his pots are 3/4in thick plastic pots. I would like to have some of his pots but $75 bucks for one pot is too expensive for me. Most of my pots come from Big Lots. I only paid $7.50 ea for these pots and they are 25g. They come with 4 holes in them, but I seal them up using a penny, super glue and Zip Kicker spray. For Father's Day, my son got me a gift card from Lowes. I used it to buy 5 of their largest and lightest pots. This Fall I will be testing my own soil recipe for a 30 gallon hypertufa pot. I would like to use th