after set of threes leaves?

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614cloudn9ne865

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What size container should I transplant into after the sets of three leaves are grown? I've looked around online a lot and can't really find a straight answer.
 
GoldenGanja13

GoldenGanja13

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From Growers Bible.
Plant age Container size
0-3 weeks root cube
2-6 weeks 4 inch pot
6-8 weeks 2 gal pot
2-3 months 3 gal pot
3-8 months 5 gal pot
6-18 months 10 gal pot (mother)
 
GoldenGanja13

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I veg for 3 months so I use a 3gallon , then I repot in fresh FF soil into a 5 gallon for flower. If I could I would have a room Full of 10 gallon pots with the primest mothers.
 
DownOnWax

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GoldenGanja13 said:
I veg for 3 months so I use a 3gallon , then I repot in fresh FF soil into a 5 gallon for flower. If I could I would have a room Full of 10 gallon pots with the primest mothers.
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I don't doubt that a 10 gallon planter would do some good but that is rather large in my opinion.

I am a Home Depot, Homers Bucket all around guy myself :)
 
Brick Top

Brick Top

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DownOnWax said:
For a mother it's not but......

DAMN a 10 gallon planter?

Wow, that would take up waaaayyyy toooo much room!
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Almost never will I grow in less than 7-gallon pots, though very seldom I will use 5-gallon pots, and when growing outside on my deck I use 15-gallon pots and larger, though only one larger sized pot is normally used.

I also go right from a germed seed into the largest sized pot that I will be using. I found that my plants grow better overall because they never reach a rootbound stage. Once a plant’s roots begin to circle a pot the plant is under stress and that is something to avoid if possible. You also eliminate the chance of either or both root damage or above soil plant damage.

That is maybe the one thing when it comes to growing that I do not follow the book on. I always used to but after seeing how at our nursery tiny seedling trees were planted in pot that were anywhere from 15-gallon to 50-gallon size, depending on to what caliper size they would be grown before being sold, and how well they grew and how little effort there was to take care of them using that system I tried it with my plants and after doing it once I have not gone back again.
 
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614cloudn9ne865

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Brick Top said:
Almost never will I grow in less than 7-gallon pots, though very seldom I will use 5-gallon pots, and when growing outside on my deck I use 15-gallon pots and larger, though only one larger sized pot is normally used.

I also go right from a germed seed into the largest sized pot that I will be using. I found that my plants grow better overall because they never reach a rootbound stage. Once a plant’s roots begin to circle a pot the plant is under stress and that is something to avoid if possible. You also eliminate the chance of either or both root damage or above soil plant damage.

That is maybe the one thing when it comes to growing that I do not follow the book on. I always used to but after seeing how at our nursery tiny seedling trees were planted in pot that were anywhere from 15-gallon to 50-gallon size, depending on to what caliper size they would be grown before being sold, and how well they grew and how little effort there was to take care of them using that system I tried it with my plants and after doing it once I have not gone back again.
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See I was wondering about that myself. I've got a couple people I know that just started the germed seed in 5 gallons and theirs are really strong and healthy but everything online says start out small so I figured I would try it.
 
Brick Top

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614cloudn9ne865 said:
See I was wondering about that myself. I've got a couple people I know that just started the germed seed in 5 gallons and theirs are really strong and healthy but everything online says start out small so I figured I would try it.
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Historically plants, and trees and bushes that begin their lives in pots, have been started in small pots and could be crammed together closely and taken care of easily and upcanning them and repotting them seemed like the thing to do and it does work so it became the norm, the standard way to do it.

Also when growing pot many people begin with enough seedlings that they cannot put them in large pots initially because they do not have the lighting to cover a large enough area.

As the plants grow any runts and slackers are removed and plants are repotted and the larger pots then fit in the area because there are less of them.

Later the males, if not growing feminized beans, are removed and more space is opened up and once again that is filled by fewer plants in larger pots.

But with feminized beans being available there is less of a need for the average grower, the home consumer, to begin with as many seedlings to end up with enough females to make their harvest so there is less need to start out small and then go larger and larger.

If someone is a commercial grower it would be different but again for the home consumption grower there is a reduced need for as many seedlings to begin with.

If you think about it a while people that grow hydro are in a way using a large pot, though it is not a pot and it is not soil, but the similarity is that the plant’s roots are never confined or obstructed and that is part of why hydro grown plants grow so well. It is not the biggest reason but it is one of the various different reasons. So if plants respond to it in that system of growth why wouldn’t plants respond to it in a different system of growth? The answer is they do respond to it.

The one change I plann to make, if I do not switch to Aero or hydro like I have been thinking about doing, is to use root pruning pots. Plants/trees/bushes grow faster and stonger in them so pot plants should too, so if I stick with soil I will be making the change.
 
GoldenGanja13

GoldenGanja13

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Brick Top said:
Almost never will I grow in less than 7-gallon pots, though very seldom I will use 5-gallon pots, and when growing outside on my deck I use 15-gallon pots and larger, though only one larger sized pot is normally used.

I also go right from a germed seed into the largest sized pot that I will be using. I found that my plants grow better overall because they never reach a rootbound stage. Once a plant’s roots begin to circle a pot the plant is under stress and that is something to avoid if possible. You also eliminate the chance of either or both root damage or above soil plant damage.

That is maybe the one thing when it comes to growing that I do not follow the book on. I always used to but after seeing how at our nursery tiny seedling trees were planted in pot that were anywhere from 15-gallon to 50-gallon size, depending on to what caliper size they would be grown before being sold, and how well they grew and how little effort there was to take care of them using that system I tried it with my plants and after doing it once I have not gone back again.
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I dig what your saying, but I am in soil and I want to have the benifit of fresh FF after 3 months. Thats why I transplant into a 5 gallon after 3 months and do the 12/12.
 
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