Clear pots/standard pots

Is there any reason WHY you should/should not use clear see through pots for container growing, ie when you can see the roots growing, so therefore the roots are exposed to light ??

Just curious, as last year grew my tomatoes in the greenhouse in large pots some black some clear (the sort you get with fifty fat balls for birds)

Unfortuanatley I did not keep a record, for certain, and they were different varieties of tomato plant, Gardeners delight, Alicante, and Money Maker
all were equally prolific but the large tomatoes (alicante ?) in the clear pots did not ripen

I was late putting them in, but would exposure of the roots to light have an effect ?

Jack McHammocklashing

 

Yes, the roots would not like it. But wouldn't their response be to grow inward, so they were never exposed to the light at the sides of the pot? Roots never grow towards a light space, only into dark spaces. Don't they?

 

I just thought they didn't sell clear pots because they don't look as good as coloured ones?

 

Oo, thats a good one Jack

I'm going off for a treetreetree & a Drink to have a think about that one

 

I think the 'official' reason is that the roots don't like to be exposed to light.

I think in reality though, it is a good idea. You can keep the clear pots in something so that normally, there is no exposure to light, but you can easily lift the clear pot out for a quick visual inspection without disturbing the roots.

 

Nope haven't the foggiest, but that was a damn good treetreetree.

 

Just curious, as I only started last year, and really did not have any pots just old bird fat ball drums, and old white emulsion paint drums (clean ones)
This year I am planting into bottomless morrisons flower buckets direct on top of the rich soil within my greenhouse,

Oh and just twelve plants this year :-)
Last year my six down one side did OK apart from the green alicante which I pulled out and ditched in Sept
The 18 Toms plus six peppers my boss gave me, basically choked to death on the other side :o

Jack McH (Less is More)