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darkdestruction420
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sure, go for it.
VV Cephei
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How early are you in flower, what day?
I've transplanted within the first few days of flower before without any real stress. Ideally though you'd want to transplant and have them taken to the new pot size before flower, but you should be ok. If you think that they're going to get rootbound and you just begun flower, then I'd go ahead and transplant them. Just be careful and try to be gentle with them, and it should only cause minimal stress, if any.
I've transplanted within the first few days of flower before without any real stress. Ideally though you'd want to transplant and have them taken to the new pot size before flower, but you should be ok. If you think that they're going to get rootbound and you just begun flower, then I'd go ahead and transplant them. Just be careful and try to be gentle with them, and it should only cause minimal stress, if any.
VV Cephei
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I can't recall offhand, but the more I think about it, I'm pretty sure I've seen threads before where people regularly increased their pot size even during flower.
The only thing in your case that I'd be concerned about is that if you're 2 wks into 12/12, then you're probably still in the middle of the stretch, and I'd just be concerned about possibly stressing or stunting them during that phase. I'd like to hear a few more opinions, but I'd even consider waiting 4 or 5 days, or whenever the stretch is done, and then do the transplant.
But either way, if you think they'll get rootbound and will affect the health of the plant or your yield, then I'd transplant them into the 5 gal.
The only thing in your case that I'd be concerned about is that if you're 2 wks into 12/12, then you're probably still in the middle of the stretch, and I'd just be concerned about possibly stressing or stunting them during that phase. I'd like to hear a few more opinions, but I'd even consider waiting 4 or 5 days, or whenever the stretch is done, and then do the transplant.
But either way, if you think they'll get rootbound and will affect the health of the plant or your yield, then I'd transplant them into the 5 gal.
greensister
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Rootbound is not a myth. The biggest problem with rootbound plants is that roots dont hold water for shit. You HAVE to have a way to keep the roots moist. My last grow, and most successful, i had up to 5 plants in a 3 gallon pot and when i transplanted a couple of them to 5 gallon pots, they were utterly root bound and within a few weeks, new roots filled up the new space. If the roots were allowed to grow without any restrictions all of my plants would have been twice as big.
Yes you can pretty much transplant at any point in time during the plant's life. Sometimes, you may add a little strees to your girl's life but during flower, stress isn't always a bad thing. I saw something about root binding and oh no, what to do. Let me tell you this... if you get a male in with your females, what are you going to do? Tear him out right? All you have to do is cut roots, at their furthest point that you can. The whole damn root ball. It doesn't matter. I have seen a huge root ball, like the size of a damned football, with 3 plants intertwined. Just cut the roots closest to where the tangles start near the plant, but far enough away that you still have roots ya know. That's it. Don't be scaredHey everyone, Nike617 here. Just wondering if you can transplant early in flower. I kinda need to transplant these girls from 3 gallons to 5 gallons it looks like they are out growing them thanks in advance.