Standard Plant Container Sizes

These container sizes range from 1 2 3 and 5 to 7 10 15 on up to 20 or higher.

Standard plant container sizes.

Until recently customers looked for quart containers 1 5 and 10. The cost of purchasing a landscape plant varies with the size of the pot the plant is in. While they normally only hold 3 quarts. In general the larger the is the larger the pot and thus the larger the plant will be.

The plant pot sizes for landscapes. Container sizes pennsylvania state regulations require us to use the word container to describe our pots vs. Plant pot size guide. The gallon nursery containers or 1 pots are the most common nursery pot sizes used in the industry.

There are no standard pot sizes it s chaos so we have chosen to use. 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. What is 1 pot size. The majority of plants sold online by jacksons nurseries come potted in pots of various sizes.

Indiana department of natural resources division of forestry. 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. 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. The traditional use of gallon as this term is not a true measure of volume.

The chart provides the technical specifications for our containers but essentially for our customers container gallon. 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.