Questing About Transplanting Plants

Hey everyone! This is my first post here, and I am a newbie grower aha. I am on my way to start growing, but before I start I want to make sure I know how to avoid every possible mistake. I am curious about transplanting plants though. I read online that transplanting plants is very stressful to the plant and so I thought to myself, well, if you can avoid transplanting it then your good right? What would happen if I were to simply put my germinated seed into a pot large of enough of to contain a full sized plant? Thanks for taking the time to read this, and I'm sorry if this sounds like a ridiculous question, but like I said before, I am a newbie grower and have never grown a plant in my life. Stay medicated!

It's acctually recommended to stage up from smaller to larger pots as the plant gets larger. Transplanting isnt stressfull really at all, unless you drop it, water it with cold water and slap it around a lot. But we don't do that when we transplant do we? I like to just slide the root mass out of the current pot and gently slip it into its new pot gently and add soil. The plant hardly even knows its being transplanted. The roots will just keep growing. I always see my biggest growth spurts when transplanted.

its best to start small and transplant anything you ever grow even vegetables cause if you start at the big pot that youre going to end at youre just wasting water and giving more space for bacteria to grow. you want to start small and get bigger pots as the plant grows so that they stretch to fill an entire pot then you put it in a bigger pot and it stretches to do it again an so on and so fourth. plus transplanting is sort of a low/high(depending how smooth the transplant is) stress training method that everybody does because it does boost growth after transplant

I usually follow the rules of thumb as described above, however I planted 13 germinated seeds into solo cups, and 1 into a 1 gallon smart pot. They are only just starting their second set of leaves and the one in the 1 gallon smart pot is twice as big and the stem is twice as thick, so I've been re-thinking my strategy recently. Used the same seed starter peat mix offset with about 30% perlite in all.

I dont know much but starting in smaller pots definitely saves alotta space in the beginning. Not sure if thats a concern of yours

Thanks a bunch for answering my questions guys. I guess what I'll do is start off with smaller pots like suggested above. However when I start to gain more experience with growing, I might do some tests of my own like roidrage152 to see what the differences would be in bud production, because that's what it's all about lol.

Transplanting doesnt stress your plant....most of time it will be benificial for the plant

I can leave my plant out of the potter for a day or 2 no problem....you just have to know what your doin

colonuggs, how tall is the plant and what size is the pot?

the reason for transplanting from 1-3-7 gallon containers is simple.

roots like to spread as far and wide as they can, as quickly as they can. if you plant into a large container, the roots will quickly sprawl out and reach the edges of the pot where they either wrap, or grow downward. doesnt sound too bad right, a big ol root mass? well the drawback is exactly what makes it appealing. the roots will spread far and wide, reaching out to the edges of its container. the interior of the container is almost void of roots because all their growth was in the length of the roots, not overall surface area.

now if you were to plant into a 1 gallon container, the roots would reach the sides faster and realize that there are no nutrients in that direction and concentrate growth on the inside of the root wad. after you transplant, there is a well developed ball of roots (im not saying rootbound these girls FYI thats bad lol) that is in the center of the new pot. the roots are taking advantage of more of the soil because there is no void in the center, and they grow outward in every direction.

hope that makes sense

Ccoastal

I applaud your explanation

Once you understand your strain you can grow monsters in small potters.....you dont need to transplant...

...this is in a 6 inch party cup it weighed 42 g dry

mmm bushes

Ccoastal

holy bushels batman!

That's some serious pants, colonuggs.

da rockwilder said:

Thanks a bunch for answering my questions guys. I guess what I'll do is start off with smaller pots like suggested above. However when I start to gain more experience with growing, I might do some tests of my own like roidrage152 to see what the differences would be in bud production, because that's what it's all about lol.

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that plant is stretching more because the roots are probably growing longer than the ones in the cups, so i believe that would cause the plant to stretch more, however if you do plant into a 1 gallon off the hop (which is ok... its not that big of a pot really), make SURE you have awesome drainage (above poster said he had 30% perlite... definitely good drainage there) because as your roots will be very small and have basically no mass (root mass to soil is KEY), they will not wick a lot of water from the pot... causing the medium to become saturated for too long and make it hard for your roots to grow... and your roots will spread far apart rather that balling up like you would want them too. if your roots cannot breath... they will not grow and nor will your plant. You want your pots to dry up, and the quicker you can get that root ball going (i.e. with a smaller pot then transplanting to a bigger one) the faster they will drink your pots dry and get the proper air they need. not to mention you will save yourself loads of money in soil, tons of space in your veg room, and 0 plant stress

colonuggs said:

Once you understand your strain you can grow monsters in small potters.....you dont need to transplant...

...this is in a 6 inch party cup it weighed 42 g dry

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I LOVE this post because he is so right. The quicker your pot dries up... the more frequently you'll be watering it... which means you'll be feeding it more frequently... which means it's actually eating more often and its very beneficial to your nuggets Well done thanks for the pics!!!

Red solo cup, I fill you up, Let grow a party, Lets grow a party
That is fucking crazy dude getting more than an oz out of a damn solo cup!

How often were you watering?

i like transplanting for another reason...it gives me the chance to inspect the root system. see if there are any dry spots, dead roots or anything else that doesn't belong. plus if it's a tad rootbound i can prune off the encircling roots that are on the bottom of the pot. root pruning stimulates growth. but i gotta stress, if you're gonna uplift a plant at least soak the whole rootball in a bucket of water before you upcan it. then add premoistened soil and tamp in as you go. there has to be good contact between roots and soil. then water in and you're done. ezpz.

colonuggs said:

Once you understand your strain you can grow monsters in small potters.....you dont need to transplant...

...this is in a 6 inch party cup it weighed 42 g dry

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Sooo. What your saying is..you cant do this to any strain???
what strain is that any way???...that is pretty amazing