Standard Plant Container Sizes

The gallon nursery containers or 1 pots are the most common nursery pot sizes used in the industry.

Standard plant container sizes. Most pot sizes are referred to by their volume capacity in litres with the exception of pots that are smaller than 1 litre which are usually refereed to by the diameter of the top of the pot. For instance the standard establishes common techniques for a measuring plants b specifying and stating the size of plants c determining the proper relationship between height and caliper or height and width and d determining whether a root ball or container is large enough for a particular size plant. These container sizes range from 1 2 3 and 5 to 7 10 15 on up to 20 or higher. Until recently customers looked for quart containers 1 5 and 10.

Plant containers sizes and descriptions by phil bergman. This standard provides some consistency in terminology for both buyers and sellers of plant material by using what are called trade sizes but even so there is a range in container volumes for a given trade size. A volume in pints or gallons which is how most pots are sold b the likely diameter of pots with the correct volume if you place a ruler across the widest part on top of the pot you get the diameter and c the minimum soil depth for plants that are fussy about it. Indiana department of natural resources division of forestry.

There are no standard pot sizes it s chaos so we have chosen to use. The cost of purchasing a landscape plant varies with the size of the pot the plant is in. American standard for nursery stock ansi z60 1 2004 approved may 12 2004. This article helps explain the different pot container sizes that we use at our nursery in encinitas california they are different than what nurseries use on the east coast or different areas outside of california.

While they normally only hold 3 quarts. The plant pot sizes for landscapes. What is 1 pot size. In general the larger the is the larger the pot and thus the larger the plant will be.

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