not to sure on that but i would have thought deeper is better since your main taproot is going to want to keep going downwards and your other roots would be spliting from that
I think mortiis11 is right, you can grow in a wide, shallow container, but you'll do better with a deeper container.
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Having depth in generally better. However I recently was watching a bit of that Jorge Cerventas DVD and he was saying that plants placed in these rectangular pots that were far wider than they were deep made the plant grow more outwardly and bushy with less height....was news to me
he speaks the truth i read it in high times a few months back good if you've got closet space horizontally but not vertically i just think of the above-ground part of the plant as a rough mirror of the root system the deeper the roots go, the taller the plant is i wont claim it as a fact, but it makes sense
thanks for all the info guys i'll look up the pot being wider making the plant grow outwards which would be a good help cuz im trying to keep it as small as possible height wise
Depends on the kind of depths and widths you are talking about. A container five feet across and one inch deep? No, won't work. But as long as it has some amount of depth to it then you should be OK.
Yeah, the mirror image thing is kinda how I always thought of it, I just never heard it put into words until now.