New grower, what size of pots should i use?

I am currently growing my first time and i have 1 month old plants in 4 inch pots, can anyone please tell me how big i should go for my pots? my plants are 6-10 inches in height and already have root shoots growing out the bottom of the pot drain holes the only things is i dont wanna transplant into a smaller then i need pot @!!


can anyone please tell me if I should go straight to 5 gallon, or work my way up with a 2,3,4 gallon in between the 5???? please help??

its better to go straight to the final pot. repotting a plant will cause stress no matter what. it can cause more or less stress depending on how well you can transplant from one to another. anybody who knows what theyre talking about is going to say go for the biggest pot that you can handle. meaning if you have enough room for a 5 gallon container then by all means use that.

throw them into 3 or 5 gallon pots, which ever you wanna finish them up in

Depends what size you want them to get. Are they indoor or outdoor? Personally for outdoor I would put them in 15 litre pots and go from there? Also are you a soil grower or hydro?

Im from a background fo indoor/hydro and outdoor/soil!!!! 2 very different methods of growing

well since your obviously growing in soil i would just put them in the biggest pot u can fit in ur grow room.....the less you gotta transplant the better...

What size pot?

Many people say 1 gallon per month

others say

1 gallon per foot

I don't worry about stressing my plants when I transplant because of my method.

I go from Party Cup -> 1 gallon -> 3/5 gallons or more if going outside.

To prepare your target pot, fill with soil and put a pot exactly like the one the plant is in, in the middle so when you pull out the pot it will leave a whole the exact size of pot you are transplanting FROM.

This way you do not disturb the roots or stress the plant. You can either water or not depending on how the root ball feels.

Good Luck

it matters what you're set up is too.

no need to use a 5 gallon pot if you're growing with a few cfls. also how many plants are there under ur light(s)?

theres a lot of variables. if you're using a few cfls you dont need a pot bigger than 1 gal (imo).

if your planning on moving them outside into the ground i reccomend choosing tall containers so that the plant grows deep roots and then when you put it into the ground those roots will go deeper and be able to get groundwater faster..

for indoor i would say start them in a smallish party cup siza container, let it get rootbound before you transplant into a bigger container and when you do break up the roots a bit so they will grow outwards (if need be, depending on how root bound it is) being rootbound is a good thing it means your plant will grow faster and be able to use more water, up to a certain point when it is completley root bound then it slows growth... who ever said start in your max size container is wrong... when the plant grows the roots reach out the side of the container and to the bottom thats why your seeing roots at the bottom, if you do start with your max size container and dont start with a smaller one you risk not getting as good of a root system as you could have if you did what i mentioned..

as for the exact size you should choose... its all up to you, the bigger the pot the bigger the plant will be and the more water it will need indoors, you need to figure out what space you have yo work with and how many plants

I disagree with almost every previous post. Plants planted in pots have roots that tend to grow to "hug" the container. This causes a swirling of roots on the edges of the pots and a big mass of unused soil in the center.Sure you can grow a bud in a 5 gal container from seed BUT you will get the most use of your soil by starting in s small pot, and transplanting into incrementally larger pots.

I am growing indoor, with soil in tall pots, just transplanted my 1mo old plants into 2g, do u think this will be big enough even through flowering with a CFL grow.