While you can use a 2-gallon pot, Jerolmack says a 4-gallon pot is better long-term. One ginger plant can produce 5 pounds of ginger or more. However, it probably won't yield that much your first ...

expect to divide the rhizomes regularly to keep the plant from overcrowding its pot. If you're transplanting a ginger lily purchased at your local nursery, prepare a hole twice as wide as the ...