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Originally Posted by oakshadows
Will try the five gallon bucket way and see what it does for us. Which plants do you think flower the soonest. Also which ones are candidates for fruiting in containers, biggest pot size to be 25 gallon?
Thanks
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Are you moving it indoors for periods of sub-freezing weather? If so, you probably have a maximum height requirement too.
If we were growing in the tropics, then "soonest to bloom" would make sense. But in subtropical environments like yours and mine, there are interruptions to the growing period -- kind of like a stop light on the boulevard that forces most of the traffic to travel from start to finish in the same amount of time.
If I were in your location, I would grow Dwarf Namwah for flavor and remove pups on a regular basis so that the corm would focus on servicing the main stalk and the fruit. I would use a 25-gallon pot from the beginning and expect fruit in 2-3 years. I would also expect that by growing in a pot, the size and quantity of the fruit would be diminished as compared to growing in the ground.