Seedfork said:There are several advantages to the double pots, they can be of the same size or smaller for the inner pot. If the inner pot is just a little larger, that will work also. If the two pots are the exact same I like to put just a little soil in the bottom of the outer pot, it helps with drainage. If the inner pot is way smaller than the outer pot, I like to place soil around it and keep the top of the smaller pot about even with the larger one and make it look like the plant is actually growing in a large pot. It seem when small plants put directly into large pots don't seem to do well for me. When they outgrow the smaller pot, roots coming out the bottom or just showing enough top growth, I will move them up in pot size to the same as the outer pot.
The following applies when the outer pot is buried in the soil: some of these benefits would apply to some extent with double pots to a limited degree even if not buried in the ground.
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