For those who transplant - do I go straight from cell pack to my finishing 3gal pot?

Autodoctor

Autodoctor

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I don’t see the point on transplanting autos they grow and flower so quick. I don’t see the point of 3gln pots either unless growing in coco. I found it affects the yield to much to be doing in less than 5gln of me trying it on my last grow.
Some don’t like putting small plants in big pots but it’s my preference
Mine start in seedling starter pots for a few days and straight into 5gln.
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twentyeight.threefive

twentyeight.threefive

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ZookieBoy said:
With photos you can transplant and pot up as much as you like. But huge rule with autos is you don’t want to create any kind of shock to the root zone, being they are only going to veg/flower for around 8 weeks. You are essentially losing yield and growth that you cannot make up for so with auto you always want to plant directly into your final pot :) 3 gallon pots are found to be best because they won’t outgrow the pot before harvest
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This is terrible advice. Please don't listen to this.
 
twentyeight.threefive

twentyeight.threefive

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Autodoctor said:
I don’t see the point on transplanting autos they grow and flower so quick. I don’t see the point of 3gln pots either unless growing in coco. I found it affects the yield to much to be doing in less than 5gln of me trying it on my last grow.
Some don’t like putting small plants in big pots but it’s my preference
Mine start in seedling starter pots for a few days and straight into 5gln.
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Up potting allows the plant to form a full root ball.
 
Dorian2

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I'm growing Auto's right now. 3G pots. They've been transplanted, topped, LST'd still are being trained at end of week 1 flower. The 2 big ones have been defoliated multiple times as well. Shorty is 19 days old. It's also my first Organic grow with straight tap water so far. A bit droopy because they were just watered.

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ZookieBoy

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twentyeight.threefive said:
This is terrible advice. Please don't listen to this.
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So what’s your transplant scedule for a 8 week auto flower ?? would love to see the yeilds on those MONSTERS. If you know anything about AUTOFLOWERS like the guy was asking about you’d know that they have a short life span of around 8-10 weeks and yes creating a strong and healthy root ball and creating that rhizosphere is of upmost importance. Like I said or any auto flower expert will tell you… you do not want to stress or shock the plant with multiple transplants .. I’m pretty sure anyone with common sense that clicks for them. Because those few days it takes the plant to recover from the stress you are losing valuable days that your plant could / should be in full health and thriving :)) thanks for the dumb opinion though. Maybe give me a reasonable argument against what I’m saying if your going to be rude and tell people to not listen to me when clearly people shouldn’t listen to you with kind of ignorance ✌
 
ZookieBoy

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twentyeight.threefive said:
Up potting allows the plant to form a full root ball.
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Can tell you’re a new grower. You have good photo knowledge and basic botany down. Up potting is great and is can be very beneficial obviously do whatever you want but take what I’ve said into consideration if your going to transplant I would really try and get to that final pot and with as little transplanting and stress as possible for AUTOFLOWERS that is seems like a lot of people are talking about transplanting AUTOS in these treads like they are photos and don’t seem to realize the effect that has on your overall crop and yield … just saying..
 
twentyeight.threefive

twentyeight.threefive

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ZookieBoy said:
So what’s your transplant scedule for a 8 week auto flower ?? would love to see the yeilds on those MONSTERS. If you know anything about AUTOFLOWERS like the guy was asking about you’d know that they have a short life span of around 8-10 weeks and yes creating a strong and healthy root ball and creating that rhizosphere is of upmost importance. Like I said or any auto flower expert will tell you… you do not want to stress or shock the plant with multiple transplants .. I’m pretty sure anyone with common sense that clicks for them. Because those few days it takes the plant to recover from the stress you are losing valuable days that your plant could / should be in full health and thriving :)) thanks for the dumb opinion though. Maybe give me a reasonable argument against what I’m saying if your going to be rude and tell people to not listen to me when clearly people shouldn’t listen to you with kind of ignorance ✌
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Here let me share my tiny transplanted autoflowers I just posted in another thread.

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ZookieBoy

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Bottom one looks better. Quality of bud is great too obviously a million ways to skin the cat. Obviously if your not doing anything detrimental to your plant it’s going to be ok. Clearly you have training down my dude obviously is genetics as well but I will say even though you have great top sites and colas the actual size of your buds aren’t that large … I’ll tell you right know it’s because of stress..
 
twentyeight.threefive

twentyeight.threefive

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ZookieBoy said:
but I will say even though you have great top sites and colas the actual size of your buds aren’t that large …
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Yeah, tiny... Bud size and shape are determined by strain and genetics. The bottom plants foxtailed from light stress. Bumped up my light to 700w when I should have left it lower. Then again foxtails aren't detrimental to quality only bag appeal.

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ZookieBoy

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Do you want me to suck your balls or something ? Lol like I said your doing great bro there’s a million ways to do it. I’m just simply telling you that transplant shock and stress does effect yield of AUTOFLOWERS :) so take that as you will
 
ZookieBoy

ZookieBoy

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twentyeight.threefive said:
No thank you. A simple "I was wrong" would suffice.
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Hahaha sign of a bad grower not willing to learn or listen and spouting ignorance. Like all you say is it forms a better root ball like your big brain bro. Can create just as good if not a better root ball with proper watering techniques and less transplant shock . Listen to who you want. But there’s a pretty simple right and wrong answer here. Not to say you can’t do it like joe here and transplant a bunch and grow a good auto flowers. Mr.growit has done a side by side grow and guess which one did obviously better.. take from it what you will.
 
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