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Greenhouse Megastore has the bags at a reasonable price, I have never tried them. I have purchased shade cloth and greenhouse plastic from there and they are very reasonable. They also have pots if you want to look through them.

@floral_uk I am putting a screen mesh on top of the drain hole at the bottom of the container, to keep the soil from falling out of the pot.

The drain holes are on the side of the pot, not the bottom as is traditionally done. I circled in green the two drain holes on the side of this 5-gallon pot.

When I fit a mesh into the bottom of the container, it folds in on itself and creates large spaces around the outside the mesh. Soil falls into that and can then leak down the side of the pot. It is also just a pain to work with.

I've used smaller Orchid Pots like that, haven't experienced any mix falling out.

Sorry, if maybe I missed something, but what's wrong w/ buying ordinary, traditional nursery pots w/ holes in the bottom?

@karens my nursery sells plastic pots with the holes on the side. I was hoping to find a cheap mail-order source for a good quality plastic pot online because I want to get a larger number of plants going and do not want to spend hundreds of dollars on pots for them.

Have you asked your own nursery if they can recommend any others w/ the style pot you seek? Maybe they might have suggestions.

Have you tried other nurseries beyond your own immediate area? Does it have to be a nursery?

Have you tried Big Box Stores? I seem to recall Home Depot had oodles of them in different types & styles.

Maybe you need to try this on a smaller scale first?

I have the 1gal brown root pouch and the gray root pouch bags. I have a bunch of holly cuttings in the brown ones and had perennials in the gray ones. The roots still grow out of the bottom, fyi. I use them with 511 and honestly I dont like handling them because the sides of the bags move and the medium moves around (unlike a solid mass of peat). They work but the plants dont slide out easily like a plastic pot and they dry out faster. There were no circling roots growing up the sides so they do work as as advertised.

@karens So what you describe would take three hours of my time. Posting here took 10 minutes, and a link to an Amazon product would take me another five minutes. What you perceive as the "simpler" path is the more difficult one, from my perspective.

Yes, I did ask the nursery if they had another product and they did not.

Sorry your time is at such a premium, but it is YOUR project after all.

I'm just thinking out loud since you don't seem to be getting many answers here.

Not if the nursery had other pots. Did you ask the nursery if they could recommend other nurseries?

Did you even try to Google a Big Box Store as suggested?

@karens It is okay if the question does not get discussed. Sometimes that happens.

I was hoping to get a discussion going because the key aspect to my question is to find a product that is robust enough to hold very heavy soil such as the gritty mix. That could easily overweight the container and exceed its specifications. So I was just hoping to find someone with experience of specific products that she knows works with this heavy soil.

Of course I can find plastic nursery pots on the search engine of Home Depot or at any nursery. Reading those product descriptions will give me no clue that the pot is built to handle a heavy load. I could find better made plastic pots, but then I am looking at $5 to $10 per pot, versus under $2 per pot for commodity nursery pots. So I am looking for a sweet spot of value, with a price close to a commodity nursery pot, but with a stronger design that can handle heavy soil.

Right. I misunderstood ‘screening’. I thought you meant shading. I do think you are making this very complicated. You can grow seeds or cuttings in pretty much any pot. You don’t need to spend money buying something fancy. You could just use a bit of scrunched up cooking foil or a piece of broken clay flower pot, traditional style. I’m also wondering why, if these pots are for rooting, 10 gallon pots are needed.

Floral,

If you're willing, pls enable your Message thing on Houzz, accessible thru you Houzz Profile. TIA.

You can avoid screens and use bark, rocks, perlite whatever over those holds and immediately put your soil mix to cover the bottom inch or two. After that it stay put. Any standard nursery pot will hold the weight of gritty mix. You may not be able to move the larger ones without distorting or flexing them. They will hold though. I have done up to 7 gallons. For real sturdy ones you will have to shell out good money. No way out of it.

10 gallon for rooting? Are you looking for wide but short pots? Look for Anderson flats then. But the size is limited though.

I bought a bunch of Opulence brand black fabric grow pots in several assorted sizes ranging from 1 gallon to 10 gallons on Amazon when I dug up my entire garden in NYC and moved the 50 hostas and half-dozen heucheras to Baltimore. I filled them with a 2:1 mixture of Kellogg's container soil and coir to lighten them. The plants have been doing fabulously. These pots come with sturdy handles. The manufacturer says you can reuse the pots and wash them between occupants.

@floral_uk Examples of what I want to root:

* A 30-pound stem of a large cactus that is six feet long

* 20 or more smaller plants of a specific variety, which for the efficiency of space I want to plant together in a single larger container while they grow.

* I walk around trimming some Senecio Vitalis "Blue Chalk Fingers" and at the end of that, I have 30 cut stems. I want to grow those out, and it is just easier for me to stick 30 stems into one larger pot to let them root than to hassle with 30 small pots.

@esther-b Please post a link to the Opulence pots.

When you start to get beyond 5 gallons, this style of fabric pot starts to look pretty tough.

Westes, it looks like Opulent Systems grow bags are "currently unavailable" on Amazon, but these Vivosun bags look like a decent substitute. They seem to be highly rated:

https://www.amazon.com/VIVOSUN-5-Pack-Thickened-Nonwoven-Handles/dp/B00TF9E6XE/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=vivosun&qid=1593748457&s=lawn-garden&sr=1-2