Container/Room Size

Hello there! Canadian here - posting for the first time on this board.

I have a question in regards to containers and room size. I am noticing that most veg rooms are significantly smaller than flower rooms. I've also read that plants tend to do most root growth in veg. If so, then why are the veg rooms so much smaller? If most root growth happens during veg then shouldn't the container size be the same, which would take up the same amount of space?

Thanks and I apologize in advance if this is a stupid question.

Preferable container size for most people is based off of holding an amount of growing medium that dries quickly enough to prevent root rot and other maladies caused by prolonged sogginess. For example, you could successfully grow from seed to finish in a 10gal pot, but you would have to water and feed perfectly. It would be very easy to overwater at the start because of limited(basically zero) root mass. Also, if you were to over feed at any point in the first couple of months, you would be caught between needing to flush , but having to soak your medium to the point that it may take weeks to dry; likely suffering the above bad news for the roots.
Yet another reason is that with most soils, it's a good idea to wet the entire medium as you plant/transplant. A seedling or small clone in a 10gal full of moist soil would be fighting an uphill battle to get oxygen to its roots.

Okay, so I understand that I will have to transfer the plants at some point throughout the cycle, but I am wondering what stage they will be transferred into the final container.

For example purposes, my final container size is a 5 gallon bucket.

Suspect said:

Okay, so I understand that I will have to transfer the plants at some point throughout the cycle, but I am wondering what stage they will be transferred into the final container.

For example purposes, my final container size is a 5 gallon bucket.

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I think most would agree that you should start in a fairly small container, about the size of a keg cup. You could go directly from that to 5gal and just go easy on the watering/feeding for a few weeks. Or you could go to a half-gallon'ish sized pot 2-3weeks after the cup and then on to the 5gal in another 2-3weeks. The second method would allow more room for error in its watering/feeding. I don't have much experience with keg-cup to 5gal transplanting results, so I hope someone who does will chime in here...

After 2-3 weeks would still be the veg cycle, so I'd have the plants in 5 gallon containers during veg, correct?

Now back to the room size. If that is correct, then wouldn't my veg room have to be the same size as the flower room since they will both have plants in 5 gallon buckets?

Sorry if this is confusing.

Suspect said:

Okay, so I understand that I will have to transfer the plants at some point throughout the cycle, but I am wondering what stage they will be transferred into the final container.

For example purposes, my final container size is a 5 gallon bucket.

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Let me take this one.
I run water only organic soils that I build......I still used the same up potting method when I ran synthetics..

How I do it is like this.
The plant goes from the starter cube or rooted clone to a Solo cup with "seedling mix soil" - for simplicity I use Potters Gold. That is a 30 day available pre-made organic soil. When the roots begin to curl at the bottom of the cup, I transplant to 1 gallons with my veg soil. When the plant begins to show need for more nutrition or the plant has roots starting to fill the bottom of the pot. I up pot to a 2 gallon pot...This will carry me to the point where my plants are at the size I wish to up pot to the final bloom soil.
I up pot to 5 gallon pots with the bloom mix soil and let them sit about 10 days for the roots to grow into the new soil. They are then moved into the bloom room and actually start bloom at 11/13 (I don't like 12/12 for several reasons)....All I have to do is water them-no nutrients.

If you feed with synthetics.....You can, in time, learn to do big plants in smaller pots but, it's all in the feeding....Bigger roots mean bigger buds! This is true but, cheating with smaller pots and specific nutrients and specific mixing and application can easily break the 1 zip per gallon of pot size rule.....That is something you have to learn, as how I did it, may not work for you..

Starting a seedling in a big pot can be done but a lot of care has to be taken on how much/often you feed and water to get the best results......FAR easier to up pot and avoid problems with mistakes...