3" Jiffy pot question

It's almost time for the little ones to be moved out of their 3" Jiffy pots, they say you can plant the whole pot into a larger pot (I'm thinking 1gal for now). I know it's popular to cut the bottom out in order to let the roots be free, but I'm considering removing the entire pot to allow the roots free growth instead of directing them downward. My thought process is that the pots themselves might be too difficult for the seedlings roots to push through, effectively making all the nutrients laterally unavailable. Does anyone have experience with them? (1 and 2 are my special girls, I know they're silly)

Thanks in advance.
-Sage

When I used these in the past I tore off the bottom half of them. I don't know if it made any difference. If I were to use them now, I would plant the whole thing. It would be less shock to the roots and help maintain a nice dense center root ball.

Hi Sage,
I love the little peat pots. Much better then peat pucks or rockwool. What you have to remember is that once you bury them...the peat will stay moist and will be easy for roots to penetrate. Been using them for twenty years. I do tear off the bottom just because it's something you can do with no trauma. If you insist in removing them from the pp...you will traumatize roots needlessly and would be better off using pucks.
JD

Those are designed to be planted directly into soil.

The whole idea of peat pots is that you can plant them in soil and forget about them when the plants "outgrow" the peat pots. If you're going to tear them apart, well, I doubt that will do much harm but you might as well grow them in Styrofoam cups and then break the cups apart when you transplant.

Thank you all for your replies to my inquiry! I will do a little experiment when I up-pot by attempting to match seedlings with another that is growing similarly in size and vigor and compare how removing the bottom vs leaving the full pit complete affects their growth.

I greatly appreciate the wealth of experience found here on this site and hope to contribute as much as I've learned through browsing and questioning.