@BcDigger
Here's what I did: I grew out the plant until it was a foot and half tall in a small pot, and then I placed the root ball at the bottom of the bucket, burry a foot of the stripped stalk, so that a good 6 inches of plant is sticking out of the dirt. I observed that doing it this way establishing the plant, making a sturdy stalk and large 5 gallon root mass. Once weather is permitting, and that six inches grows two feet, you gotta get that large root mass two to three feet in the ground (where roots belong.)