Growing in the bigger pot!

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Blackrosegarden

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I always lst and scrog 6 plants in my small cabinet, 2x4x5, Due to an unfortunate accident handling seedlings I was left with 3! after much thought I've gone with the 3! so I've upped the pot size 12L to 30L and obviously all now will have extra room, I must say before we go any further I have never grown in such large pots before! my question is regarding veg in these bigger pots.. I always veg my usual 6 for 3 weeks, Should I just veg for 3-weeks with the bigger pots? obviously a 3-week veg in a pot that size will give me the bigger plant, but exactly how much bigger? really don't won't to be hitting the lights with this one but want to maximise the 3, thinking maybe some hard scrogging work on this grow to be key. your thoughts and input much appreciated
 
MtRainDog

MtRainDog

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Blackrosegarden said:
I always lst and scrog 6 plants in my small cabinet, 2x4x5, Due to an unfortunate accident handling seedlings I was left with 3! after much thought I've gone with the 3! so I've upped the pot size 12L to 30L and obviously all now will have extra room, I must say before we go any further I have never grown in such large pots before! my question is regarding veg in these bigger pots.. I always veg my usual 6 for 3 weeks, Should I just veg for 3-weeks with the bigger pots? obviously a 3-week veg in a pot that size will give me the bigger plant, but exactly how much bigger? really don't won't to be hitting the lights with this one but want to maximise the 3, thinking maybe some hard scrogging work on this grow to be key. your thoughts and input much appreciated
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I'm thinking you'll want a longer veg time to take advantage of all the extra root space. Keep em low and well trained. I'd give them a 2-3 month veg in a pot that size maybe
 
crimsonecho

crimsonecho

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i veg from clones for 2 weeks in 75l pots and flip. since you are vertically challenged i’d just go by feeling.

train them, keep them short and when the canopy looks like it did when you had 6 plants, flip. you can only be sure by doing it and if its a mistake correct next run.
 
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Blackrosegarden

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crimsonecho said:
i veg from clones for 2 weeks in 75l pots and flip. since you are vertically challenged i’d just go by feeling.

train them, keep them short and when the canopy looks like it did when you had 6 plants, flip. you can only be sure by doing it and if its a mistake correct next run.
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Thanks..tbh I'm really curious if I can achieve somewhere near same results with the bigger plant,
 
BonesBuds

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Blackrosegarden said:
I always lst and scrog 6 plants in my small cabinet, 2x4x5, Due to an unfortunate accident handling seedlings I was left with 3! after much thought I've gone with the 3! so I've upped the pot size 12L to 30L and obviously all now will have extra room, I must say before we go any further I have never grown in such large pots before! my question is regarding veg in these bigger pots.. I always veg my usual 6 for 3 weeks, Should I just veg for 3-weeks with the bigger pots? obviously a 3-week veg in a pot that size will give me the bigger plant, but exactly how much bigger? really don't won't to be hitting the lights with this one but want to maximise the 3, thinking maybe some hard scrogging work on this grow to be key. your thoughts and input much appreciated
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With pots that big you should increase your veg time to give your roots more time to expand. Bigger your roots the larger your plants ultimately become.
 
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Blackrosegarden

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BonesBuds said:
With pots that big you should increase your veg time to give your roots more time to expand. Bigger your roots the larger your plants ultimately become.
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Absolutely and the taller they try and become..it's just the height that's always my problem...veg time with my 6 in the 12L pots was always around the 3 week mark give it take a day! With this being a considerably larger pot but only 3 plants, it's thrown me out a bit as regards to veg timing, expected size difference with extra space and larger pot ect. So all things considered I'll probably be flipping sooner rather than later
 
MtRainDog

MtRainDog

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I think the other way to look at it is 3x 7 gallon pots are kinda overkill in that space, and not necessary for a short veg time if that's what you're after.

3x 5 gallon pots would've done you just fine, and saved a fair bit of dirt for next round.
 
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