More Nutrients = Less Root Growth?

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flexy123

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When you up-pot a plant, you obviously want the plant to fill out the bigger pots with roots.

My question is whether giving the full strength of nutes after up-potting would slow down or hinder root growth - which would suggest that one shouldn't give full strength (or only little nutes) after up-potting, to stimulate root growth first?

This logic comes from the fact that we don't feed seedlings and very young plants, for the same reason. We only water them to have them establish roots.

Anyone knows more there? What do you when you up-potted plants? You just keep your normal nute schedule? Or do you add root stim or similar?

Related: After germination, I repotted all my plants into Hydro (Hempie buckets) with their small rockwoll cubes. Some of the plants are already bigger, like 6-8", but a couple are still very small, like 1.5". Since I put them into the Hydro buckets (Perlite/Vermiculite) I give them "light strength" nutes (floranova bloom) as suggested on the bottle for "early growth". My thinking is...should I possibly give the tiny plants only water so they grow their roots faster?

Thanks!
 
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THE KONASSURE

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I give them a root grow type stuff and half to full strength veg nutes if its a clone or a big`en

if its a seedling I`m potting up then normally just something to reduce the stress

I like bennies and mycor and such when potting up too

Normally then like to feed full the next watering to get the coco set up for the plant, but you have to watch out as when your watering a pot with a plant not fully rooted into it yet its easy to cause salt build ups and such if you over feed the untapped soil
 
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bryan oconner

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my answer to your question . fuck no . temps play a role in root growth as well suggest you look into that . i use temps in the 85f range and ill tell you roots will grow very slow compared to under 75f
 
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