MJtheIndicator
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Did I say the wrong thing?
Is it ok to put seedlings straight into 5 gal buckets?
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jcurtis912
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Hey makes no difference to me. You can keep doing it that way. Try it once, you will be amazed. Or keep growing the same way and get average yields.
And let me tell you, I'm only speaking from education and experience. Undergrad in Environmental Science, Masters in Plant Pathology, and 2 years employed with the Dept of Agriculture. I grow all types of plants for a living.
Walter9999
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Everyone on the Internet has all the qualifications / nonsense you claim to have...I get it you're a legend...my yields over the last 25 years have been just fine...g/l
Illicithunter
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Why would growing in a cup be any different than a pot?
tstick
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I grow in soil and I do prefer to repot many times from Dixie cup to 5 gallon garden containers. I grow in a small tent, so that process produces plenty of weight for my personal use. I get about 3 harvests per year and that's actually a lot more than I can use. I'll just say that I've now got a lot of curing jars full of long-cured goodness on hand. 
Illicithunter
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Yea I got a 5x5 1000 watt tent. It's well ventilated so I should have a nice yield as well. I'm gonna trade up my pots so I can really get the max.I grow in soil and I do prefer to repot many times from Dixie cup to 5 gallon garden containers. I grow in a small tent, so that process produces plenty of weight for my personal use. I get about 3 harvests per year and that's actually a lot more than I can use. I'll just say that I've now got a lot of curing jars full of long-cured goodness on hand.
tropicalcannabispatient
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All that shit about the pot size is bullshit. The real reason for starting in party cups is nothing else than for quantity purposes only. Because if u know what u doing it is the same thing starting in party cups or start them in 10 gal pots. The reason behind this is that u can have more plants at the same time instead of having 10 seedlings in 5 gallon pots that will take all the space. Thats why we use party cups. For convenience, amount of plants, room etc. Is nothing else than that. They will grow good anywhere if u know wt u doing IMO. HAPPY GROWING!!
MJtheIndicator
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Although we accept transplanting from plugs, to solo to 1 gal to 5 gal or greater and so forth, each step in the transplant cycle equals stress factor and recovery, this taxes a plants secondary metabolites. Therefor they are expending more energy on survival rather than unfettered growth.
You never ever want to put a small plant in a large container. You always want to "pot up". I recommend 3 pot chanes per grow.
Start 6" contianer. Then 1-2 gallon and then final finishing containers.
The reason is that you need a good root mass to grow to the container walls to absorb the nutrients and water from the entire pot. If you have a small plant in a large container and feed, then the nutrients will continuously accumulate because the roots cant reach it. This leads to most common over fert problems. You always want the roots to fill out our contiainers, then pot up. You will have the best results and maximum root growth.
You can put in large containers I just wouldnt do it. You will never get a good wet/dry cycle doing this. You want them to have to dry out every few days. Putting plants in too large a container is counterproductive and will not provide best environment for the roots over time you will get issues.
Transplant stress is bullshit. Idk who came up with that. Unless you are breaking and tearing the root ball/mass and really damaging the roots. Transplanting between containers shouldnt do anything when done correctly. I transplant during bloom sometimes with absolutely 0 issues.