to all soil growers, what size pot do you veg in?

jijiandfarmgang said:

I know exactly what you mean, don't worry Vostok is a stupid jerk.

I wouldn't start off with anything larger than a gallon, and only transplant once.

Also his advice was wrong or at least misguided. Heard that gallon a month thing from Jorge Cervantes,who is also full of misguided info. Like said above there are to many variables its hard to say. I've seen 10 gallon pots packed solid with roots in 3 months. I think the best way to judge is look at your past grow, do they look root bound, does it from a solid root block when you harvest? Decide from there.

- Jiji

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I appreciate your response, sadly this forum gets splattered sometimes with ugly things...
Ahh, but i'm not worried, I've been doing this for long enough to know people can be weird for weird reasons, i'm sure he has his own. I don't fault him, I just don't wish to spend any more time with him. A lot of my time at my shop I must deal with aggressive people, and i'd like to believe i'm good at dealing with it. I've seen/read enough to know that not only does vostok indeed, know a bit about cannabis, he does. But also that he is un-friendly... at best. I sincerely wish him happiness in some form. I REALLY love the ignore feature, it's as if they are totally invisible, a priceless feature. My time is VERY precious, between my girlfriend, shop, dog, hobbies, and cannabis, I really don't have the time for aggression, especially mis-guided, or perhaps unguided? I digress.
Anyways, The rule of thumb that always works for me is 2 gallons per foot of growth, obviously if you are LST's or SCROG you'd need more, but use your head, it's not hard. If you have an enormous Indica, and it's only four feet high, but it's five feet wide, then account that into it, obviously.
Like I said, when learning or trying new soil/growing methods/containers, a post-harvest inspection of the root-ball is valuable, you can see what worked and what didn't, if you need more room, or more aeration for the soil, more drainage for the container, so on. Once you dial it in, then you can graduate to re-using your soil or even the no-till method, if desired. I find a good bit of satisfaction on re-using soil, but i'm a lil weird like that.
Oh, side-note, I find it hilarious that he mentions your "trophy points" as a source of whether or not you are reputable or not. That kills me.... If he wants to say that, hell, he and I have the same amount of trophy points and I did mine in almost a third of the amount of posts. Honestly I feel like a douche even mentioning that kinda stuff, sorta childish.

I also think that some plants send out the seekers to the boundaries then shoot off suckers/feeders. Most higher level plants send the seekers out to reach their boundary, either a container or aggression from another plant species (aggressive species have stay away chemicals in roots that release into dirt that inhibiting growth of other neighboring plants, especially root growth). Once they reach their boundary they start to fill in the area within their boundary with suckers/feeders. When you transplant it releases the seekers to find new boundary and restart the process to fill in its new home. (transplant shock, some take it better than others)


That is why bonsai works, its the science behind it and why you have to trim the roots routinely, once root growth stops the plant ages and dies without a trim. Don't trim the roots for a year and you get a dwarf tree, two years and the tree stops growth, three years and the tree dies. Depending on variety. If you want the tree to grow you transplant to a larger boundary after a trim and let it grow to desired size. then pull it, trim the roots, and repot/train so it ages to its new size.

Growing under 1000s....I start in 6 inch cups transplant every 14-20 days..... transplant twice.... end up in 2.5 gallon potters and get 4-5 oz per plant

6 inch for 2 weeks...8 inch potter for 2-3 weeks... 10 inch for 2 weeks.... cut the lights

colonuggs- You flower right after second transplant?

Usually 2 weeks after second transplant ....sometimes 10 days... close to 2 months of veg

Some of my strains I cant grow more than 6-7 weeks of veg cause they wanna triple in size during onset of flower