Seedling pot sizes....

Was just wondering if it is bad to start your seedlings out in the bucket they will be flowering in? Is it bad to take your germinated seed and put it in a 5 gallon bucket?

Thanks

put them into plastc cups first and wait for the roots to grow and then transplant into the 5gal......if you have already put into bucket it is no big deal i made the same mistake just make sure not to over water.

oh ya and make sure to put wholes on the bottom of the plastic cup similar to how containers have them

Shouldn't be any problem. Definitely less stress from transplanting. I would plant directly into my 10 gal. containers except that I like to get early jump start in 3" coconut cups with heat mat around the middle of March, then to 10 gal tubs, cups and all, in mid April.
Good luck & good grow.......BB

Immaking what is your reasoning behind putting them into the cups?

it is so the roots will grow strong and that they become root bound meaning when you transplant you will see the roots wraping around the soil that is in contact with the inside of the cups.

immaking3 said:

it is so the roots will grow strong and that they become root bound meaning when you transplant you will see the roots wraping around the soil that is in contact with the inside of the cups.

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And causing your plant to become root bound has what advantage? I have always considered a root bound plant to be a STRESSED plant, and there is no room in my garden for stressed plants.....BB

Couldn't agree with you more Burger Boss. I've never heard of root bound being a good situation for any grow.

Hmm those nugs are very purple kalen.. Too purple

StaySmokin206 said:

Hmm those nugs are very purple kalen.. Too purple

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Hmmmm... Are you suggesting Photoshop? or a very sick plant?....or what?........BB

i up pot several times before flower and never have a problem with stress. i start my clones in plastic dixie cups then move them into 1.5g pots as soon as i see roots then up to 3g to 5g then into 18g before i turn them.

y do you think ppl use dixie cups to start or rock wool so the roots get a good strong system first dont any of you use clones

For thousands of years, Cannabis has managed to root itself in ONE go! No transplanting, up-potting, etc.
Now if you genius's think you have improved the cultivation of cannabis by jerking it around with the constant uprooting and inherent stress that goes with THAT process, HEY! good luck!!!! BB

i was just going to ask this same question...im gonna put my germinated blue mystic seed directly into my 3 gallon smart pot...so this wont be problem then??
thanks!

Nope. The larger container will play tricks with your eyes and make you think your plant is tinyand not growing though

hahah ok but as long as it really is growing then im ok with the optical illusion! thanks for the input!

oh but also how deep should i put my germinated seed into the soil? and don't i put the sprout out of the seed facing down? thanks!

Burger Boss said:

For thousands of years, Cannabis has managed to root itself in ONE go! No transplanting, up-potting, etc.
Now if you genius's think you have improved the cultivation of cannabis by jerking it around with the constant uprooting and inherent stress that goes with THAT process, HEY! good luck!!!! BB

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I agree with you to a certain Point I grow out doors and i know that a plant can easily reach 4 to 6 ft in the ground with circumfrence of about the same. A 5 gal bucket is far from that. so if you transplant 2 times then you can kinda control the way your roots grow, and prevent getting root bound. If you put a seed in a 5 gallon pot and let it go you will be well root bounded by the time you even go in to flower. I know from experiance. i just up sized pots today for the 3rd time. and im showing no signs of stress or droopage. it also gives you a chance to see what your roots are doing and if they are healthy or not.

immaking3 said:

y do you think ppl use dixie cups to start or rock wool so the roots get a good strong system first dont any of you use clones

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I never repot …. never. I pick whatever size pots I will use for a grow and my plants always start out in that size pot is and they remain in it their entire lives.

One thing some people fail to consider is for many years feminized beans did not exist, and for many years not even professionally made breeder beans, and growers had to pop as many beans as they could fit under their lights so make sure they ended up with enough females. To increase how many plants could be put under light, smaller pot sizes were used. Repotting would only be done if absolutely needed and as males and any possible unwanted-phenotype females were culled it opened up space under lights and the remaining plants were repotted into larger pot sizes. But the need to begin a grow with as many plants as possible was as much of a reason to begin with small pots as anything.

At our nursery, a pot-in-pot nursery, naturally we always try to have each type of tree and bush we sell in stock in various different sizes/stages of growth. To do that we will start out small trees and bushes that we know will not be large enough to fill that size group need for a number of years. We begin them in the size pot they will be planned to be sold in and will only up-pot if they do not sell before needing a larger pot. Many are pots in the 25 to 50 gallon size. We found that when started that way they grew larger faster and healthier than when we started them in small pots and each season up-potted them to a larger sized pot.

I see the same results in my home gardening hobby.

I mainly grow autos and have heard that they seem to do best when planted directly into their final resting place. They have such a short life span, there's not much time to be messing around.

With regular seeds, I like to plant them in small pots first. Then transplant one time into their final pot. I like having more control of the watering during the seedling stage of the plant. That's easier to do when it's in a small pot/cup.

BurgerBoss has a point about the ability of cannabis to grow successfully on its own for thousands of years without transplanting. However, MAN has successfully been able to tweak aspects of the growing process to improve the end result. Couldn't transplanting be one of those aspects? Same as fertilizers? Or adjusting light schedules? Or breeding?